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SHIFT: 10 Days of transformative live arts and film

6/6/2019 by Rebecca Bailey Leave a Comment

Across the globe, humans struggle to find balance in our relationship with nature. How do we transform what has been a quest for dominance into a sustainable collaboration? The Hopkins Center for the Arts at Dartmouth College launches its second annual SHIFT festival, a 10-day suite of live, arts, film and discussions that explore the push and pull of that Human/Nature bond. Witness humans contend and cooperate with the forces of nature in a stage version of Moby-Dick, a spectacle of physical theater by Australian company Circa, and film screenings with special guests that probe the oceans … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Dance, Film, HopNews, Jazz, Music, Outreach & Arts Education, SHIFT, Summer 2019, Theater, Videos, Visiting Artists, Workshops Tagged With: Circa, Cory Henry, Dance Heginbotham, Gare St. Lazare, Inuksuit, Iris DeMent, John Heginbotham, John Luther Adams, Moby-Dick, SHIFT 2019, Tyondai Braxton

Who’s on stage this spring at the Hop?

3/20/2019 by Rebecca Bailey Leave a Comment

Even on the still-frigid Dartmouth campus there are signs of spring - at least in the form of mud, puddles and copious potholes. But cheerier signs will soon be arriving - along with a blooming array of events at the Hopkins Center for the Arts! Here's a quick preview of the live performance events coming this spring - and stay tuned for highlights of what's happening on Hop screens in film and HD video! Thursday, March 28 – Seth Parker Woods’s Thursday Night Live show is the first of several “Festival of New Music” events spread throughout this spring. Seth is a cellist, and he’ll play … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Dance, Dartmouth Student Events, Hop Ensembles, HopNews, Jazz, Music, Outreach & Arts Education, Spring 2019, Theater, Videos, Visiting Artists Tagged With: Camille A. Brown, Carla Kihlstedt, Circus, classical music, concert band, contemporary dance, dartmouth college wind ensemble, dartmouth dance ensemble, dartmouth symphony orchestra, English Concert, From the Top, Handel, Handel Society of Dartmouth College, jazz, jazzmeia horn, Jeremy Denk, John Heginbotham, Kennedy Center Theater for Young Audiences, Les Septs Doigts de la Main, Me Jane, Messiah, Mitsuko Uchida, nouveau cirque, Patinoire, Rebecca Stenn, Schubert, Semele, Seth Parker Woods, stem arts, theater, Understory

How “New Work for Goldberg Variations” came to be: Two choreographers sit down for a chat

1/3/2019 by Rebecca Bailey Leave a Comment

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6THanVbL-DI Before they actually knew each other as people, John Heginbotham and Pam Tanowitz knew each others' work as artists in New York's dance scene. Tanowitz admired Heginbotham's dancing in his years with the Mark Morris Dance Group; later, she cast him in one of her works, just as Heginbotham was winding down his dance career and launching his choreography career. Now Heginbotham divides his time between his internationally touring, New York-based company Dance Heginbotham and his position as Director of the Dartmouth Dance Ensemble - and Tanowitz is … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Dance, HopNews, Music, Videos, Visiting Artists, Winter 2019 Tagged With: Bach, Goldberg Variations, Jerome Robbins, John Heginbotham, New Work for Goldberg Variations, Pam Tanowitz, Simone Dinnerstein

Coming to OUR neighborhood: Officer Clemmons of “Mr. Rogers” fame

9/18/2018 by Rebecca Bailey Leave a Comment

He was so lovable as "Officer Clemmons" in PBS's Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood - a role he played for 25 years. But Francois Clemmons is, if anything, more lovable and vivid as himself: actor, professional opera singer, retired Middlebury music professor, mentor to hundreds of Middlebury singers, soon-to-be author and eloquent witness about what being black and gay in America has meant over the past 50 years. Clemmons will relate all that and more Saturday, September 22, in a discussion after the 7 pm screening of Won't You Be My Neighbor? in the Hop's Spaulding Auditorium. And, if you ask … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Fall 2018, Film, HopNews, Music, Videos Tagged With: documentary film, fall 2018, Francois Clemmons, Hop Film, Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood

Joyful, eclectic, inspirational: a Dartmouth College Gospel Choir playlist

4/13/2018 by Rebecca Bailey 1 Comment

What does the Dartmouth College Gospel Choir have in store for its upcoming concert on Sunday, April 29? Get ready for a dynamic mix of new and old-school inspirational music from diverse times and artists, both sacred and secular sources. Here's a taste of the songs that will be a part of this joyful, eclectic soul-and-body-moving afternoon. Born in 1964 in Hartford, Connecticut, Kurt Carr acted and danced as a teen but found himself down to sacred music. After earning a BFA in classical music from the University of Connecticut. He worked with gospel luminaries Andrae Crouch and the Rev. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Dartmouth Student Events, Hop Ensembles, Music, Spring 2018, Videos Tagged With: dartmouth college gospel choir, gospel, walt cunningham

Celebrating music’s life after death, May 5

4/11/2018 by Rebecca Bailey Leave a Comment

In his 28 years, Scott Smedinghoff gave a tremendous amount of music to the communities he lived in, including the Upper Valley, where he was a doctoral student in Dartmouth's Department of Mathematics. A May 5 concert by the Dartmouth College Wind Ensemble celebrates how music can live on after death, with a program that is dedicated to Smedinghoff and includes one of the last works written by a titan in wind band music. Titled For Scott, on Saturday, May 5, 8 pm, the concert features the world premiere of Shadowlight, by Cleveland- based composer Kevin Krumenauer, commissioned with a gift … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Hop Ensembles, Music, Spring 2018, Videos Tagged With: dartmouth college wind ensemble, dartmouth students, ensembles, Hop commission, hop ensembles, matthew m. marsit, music, news, orchestra, Scott Smedinghoff, Spring 2018, world premiere

Habanero, habanera, what’s the difference?

4/10/2018 by Rebecca Bailey 2 Comments

Afro-Cuban jazz sensation Daymé Arocena, performing at the Hop Thursday, April 12,  is the quintessential habanera - a female resident of Havana, which she sings about in "Me lleva la Habana (I come to Havana)": Habanera also refers to a 19th-century Cuban dance rhythm. Here's a classic habanera: The habanera infused early jazz - the first of many times American jazz would be saturated with Afro-Cuban musical elements - such as Scott Joplin's Solace … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Hop Ensembles, HopNews, Music, Spring 2018, Videos, Visiting Artists Tagged With: Afro Cuban, barbary coast jazz ensemble, cuba, Dayme Arocena, ensembles, hop ensembles, jazz, Latin music, music, Spring 2018, Taylor Ho Bynum, visiting artists, world music

Fretboard wizard jams with the DSO on Vivaldi

2/2/2018 by Rebecca Bailey Leave a Comment

  What do musicians do with free time? Go to music stores, of course, and play everything in sight. Which is what mandolinist Carlo Aonzo did in November 2016 in Carter Vintage Guitars in Nashville (see above), when the world-renowned mandolin "god" was passing through that city with his trio. If it be music, Aonzo can play it on his mandolin. He will demonstrate this at Dartmouth the week of February 5-10, where he will give a free public mini-concert on Tuesday, February 6, and perform on Friday, February 9, with the Dartmouth … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Hop Ensembles, HopNews, Music, Videos, Visiting Artists, Winter 2018 Tagged With: baroque music, Carlo Aonzo, dartmouth symphony orchestra, Filippo Ciabatti, hop ensembles, mandolin, music, visiting artists, Vivaldi, Winter 2018

Exit interviews: World Music Percussion Ensemble, October 25

10/30/2017 by Jules Wheaton ’19 Leave a Comment

The student and community musical group World Music Percussion Ensemble played in Spaulding Auditorium of the Hopkins Center for the Arts on Wednesday, October 25, with guest ensemble LADAMA. The groups collaborated to play a concert celebrating the cycle of the seasons. The performance was dynamic, high-energy and above all, fun. It was clear the audience was having a great time. I talked to a few audience members after the show who enthusiastically described their impressions. One of the students, a ‘20 majoring in biomedical engineering, described the show as upbeat and rich with … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Dartmouth Student Events, Fall 2017, Hop Ensembles, HopNews, Interviews, Videos, Visiting Artists Tagged With: ensembles, fall 2017, hop ensembles, Hop interns, interviews, LADAMA, music, news, visiting artists, world music, world music percussion ensemble

Can long-distance relationships work? With art, yes

9/28/2017 by Jules Wheaton ’19 Leave a Comment

One Sunday this summer I relinquished an afternoon by the river to see Michelangelo by Exhibition on Screen at the Loew Auditorium in the Black Family Visual Arts Center. A high-definition video exploration of the artist's work, the presentation turned out to be the next best thing to looking up at the Sistine Chapel ceiling or walking all the way around Pietà in St. Peter’s during a guided tour. My experience as an art history major so far has propelled me to explore what I study beyond the classroom. The film brought me closer to Michelangelo’s most important pieces than I think I ever could … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Fall 2017, HopNews, Photos, Videos Tagged With: art history, Black Family Visual Art Center, Claude Monet, event cinema, Exhibition on Screen, Hop interns, Impressionism, Loew Auditorium, visual art

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