Photos by Rob Strong International reggae music star, humanitarian activist and Grammy nominee Rocky Dawuni brought a powerhouse voice and warm, generous persona to Hanover when he performed Wednesday afternoon, August 9, as the last of three live performers in this summer's Free For All series. (One final event is scheduled: a free showing of the classic film Bedknobs and Broomsticks on August 16.) Timing was everything: the day's sunny weather turned iffy mid-afternoon as clouds moved in and smart phones predicted showers. Shower it did--but lightly, starting at about 5 pm and stopping … [Read more...]
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Cuban band plus visiting educators step up the salsa at free outdoor concert
Photos by Rob Strong It was an unbeatable combination: Septeto Santiaguero, playing classic Cuban dance music, and Mexican educators on the Dartmouth campus as participants in the Inter-American Partnership for Education (IAPE), an intensive workshop on English language instruction run by Dartmouth's Rassias Center. Fluent in salsa and other Latin dance styles, the young IAPE participants helped turn Septeto's July 26 free outdoor concert on the Dartmouth Green into an all-ages, all-dance-abilities party. Let's hope for the same perfect weather and great vibe on Wednesday, August 9, when … [Read more...]
New Barbary Coast Director Voted a DownBeat “Rising Star”
Concurrent with becoming the next director of Dartmouth's Barbary Coast Jazz Ensemble, Taylor Ho Bynum has won in the 2017 "Rising Star, Trumpet" category in the 65th Annual Critics Poll in DownBeat magazine. The awards are announced in the magazine’s August issue, now on newsstands. The award recipients were selected by the 155 international jazz critics who voted in the annual poll. In the same issue, Bynum was also mentioned in Phillip Lutz's article about trumpeter (and past Barbary Coast guest artist) Don Cherry, just named to the DownBeat Critics Poll Hall of Fame: "Cherry's global … [Read more...]
Next phase in Hop’s innovative program linking new music and STEM subjects
How do STEM fields—science, technology, engineering and mathematics—inspire music, and vice versa? This question is at the heart of STEM Arts, a groundbreaking program by the Hopkins Center for the Arts in which innovative young composers “embed” among STEM subject faculty and students and, from that experience, create a new musical work, premiered at Dartmouth. Now in its fourth year, STEM Arts projects have brought together three emerging composers with Dartmouth researchers and students: Fay Wang (2013-14) and the Dartmouth Department of Biological Sciences; Tristan Perich (2015-16) and … [Read more...]
Three species collaborate in world premiere on the Dartmouth Green
Photos by Rob Strong Sheepdog trials occur rain or shine, and so, in that spirit, the world premiere of Doggie Hamlet took place Thursday, June 29, on the Dartmouth Green, despite skies that went from threatening to pouring. Hardy audience members with raincoats, boots and umbrellas thronged the perimeter of the fenced-in area on the north half of the Green that was the stage for this unusual work by world-renowned choreographer Ann Carlson. All ages also enjoyed a "Sheep Station" of wool-related activities offered elsewhere on the Green, with the help of the Dartmouth Office of … [Read more...]
Who’s coming to the Hop in 2017-18?
(June, 30, 2017) The Hopkins Center for the Arts at Dartmouth College today revealed its 2017-2018 series of Visiting Performing Artists—an exciting, diverse line-up of internationally known artists whose work celebrates cultural migration, the Global South and the power of song, among other qualities. All events are now on the Hop website. Artists cover all realms of music plus choice dance and theater companies; and include household names like Yo-Yo Ma, Wynton Marsalis and Leslie Odom, Jr.; well established, widely acclaimed ensembles like the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet, Pink … [Read more...]
Summer on the Hop screens: Vietnam, world change, swing dance and more
Summer on-screen events at the Hop include the latest from filmmaker Ken Burns, three films tied to a probing community education program, a chance to get hooked on swing dance, and a screen version of one of the definitive works of 20th-century theater. On Thursday, July 13, 7 pm, in Spaulding Auditorium, Burns and co-director Lynn Novick will present a sneak preview from their now-finished series The Vietnam War, giving Hop audiences a first look before its fall 2017 PBS premiere. Structured chronologically, this groundbreaking 360-degree narrative is built around interviews and personal … [Read more...]
New Barbary Coast Director Announced
Cornetist, composer, band leader, writer and educator Taylor Ho Bynum—“one of the most exciting figures in jazz's new power generation” (Time Out Chicago)—will be the next director of the Barbary Coast Jazz Ensemble, Dartmouth’s student jazz group. Bynum succeeds Don Glasgo, who retired this spring after directing the Coast for 40 years. The Barbary Coast is one of nine ensembles overseen by Dartmouth’s Hopkins Center for the Arts. “The search committee did a superb job,” said Mary Lou Aleskie, Howard L. Gilman Director of the Hopkins Center. “We’re so excited to be bringing on … [Read more...]
From sheep to (Virginia) Woolf, from zydeco to Peter Pan: summer at the Hop begins June 29!
HANOVER, NH—Summer 2017 offers ample pickings at the Hopkins Center for the Arts at Dartmouth College, with five free performances on the Dartmouth Green, concerts by folk legend John Prine and rising star Rhiannon Giddens, and screen offerings include an edgy film series and a sneak preview by documentary filmmaker Ken Burns. In addition is the Summer 2017 crop of new and developing theatrical works offered throughout the summer through the Dartmouth Department of Theater, including an August series involving the New York Theatre Workshop. Thursday, June 29, 4:30 & 7 pm, … [Read more...]
“Impeccable” Latin jazz trio joins percussion ensemble, May 24
The Hopkins Center for the Arts at Dartmouth College presents “The Voice of Latin Spring,” a concert by the World Music Percussion Ensemble (WMPE) and its guest artists La Voz de Tres, featuring the Chilean vocalist Natalia Bernal. The concert takes place Wednesday, May 24, 7 pm, in Spaulding Auditorium, and tickets are $10. Expect an upbeat mix of music from many traditions filtered through a Afro-Latin aesthetic—including Stevie Wonder, Cal Tjader, Charanga Cakewalk, Irakere, Milton Nascimento and La Voz de Tres originals. WMPE and La Voz will each play some selections on their own and … [Read more...]
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