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...]
Videos
Ensemble’s dance “numbers” add up to a great concert May 26 & 27
Let's look at the numbers on the spring 2017 concert by the Dartmouth Dance Ensemble (DDE), taking place on Friday and Saturday, May 26 and 27, 8 pm, in The Moore Theater of The Hopkins Center for the Arts at Dartmouth College: FOUR choreographers (including one Beyoncé collaborator); FIVE ensembles playing live music for the dancers, including 31 members of the Dartmouth College Wind Ensemble; NINETEEN dancers, a historic number for the Dance Ensemble! The dancers include undergraduates from all disciplines, graduate students and Dartmouth staff members. Dancers come with … [Read more...]
‘Musical conversations’: A shoutout from current Coasters
In this video by Jennie Evans '17, some current members of the Barbary Coast Jazz Ensemble say hi from inside their rehearsal room in the bowels of the Hop, where they're preparing for their October 22 concert. In the weeks to come, you'll be hearing from other Hop Ensembles as they get ready for their fall performances--vocal, symphonic and wind music of a gorgeous variety and high quality! https://youtu.be/d9LklvZrDp8 More on the Barbary Coast and its fall concert: In the mid-1970s, a young jazz-playing Dartmouth College library employee took the helm of what had been a … [Read more...]
‘Roaming your zip code’: MOTHERSTRUCK’s Staceyann Chin
Hop intern Jennie Evans '17 met up with poet/playwright/performer Staceyann Chin outside the Hanover Inn elevator shortly after Chin pulled in to Hanover for a three-day residency that includes a performance Wednesday, September 21, of her tour-de-force solo show Motherstruck! Chin's "roamings" during her residency include visiting a combined class of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies Senior Seminar, and Intro to LGBT Studies; talking with students in classes on contemporary theater practices and sex, gender and society; and sharing dinner and discussion with students and faculty at … [Read more...]
Dessert, discussion and dance party with FLEXN
By Emily Neely '17, Hop intern, Outreach and Arts Education Video by Jennie Evans '17, Hop intern, Audience Engagement Photos by Rob Strong '04 What better way to start off the year than with a dance party? House Professor Craig Sutton did just that (and more) at the kickoff event for School House this Monday. On the evening of September 12, nearly 200 people, students and staff alike, turned out for dessert, a discussion and the highlight of the evening: a chance to dance with members of the performing group FLEXN. https://youtu.be/5G8A4B5XklE The event began on a high … [Read more...]
Viral-worthy videos from the Coast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uWeRApWYR4 Clearly, these guys have fun. For a second year in a row, the seniors of the Barbary Coast Jazz Ensemble, working with a student videographer, have come up with a fun, irreverent video to spread the word about their annual Senior Feature Concert—this year on Thursday, May 19, 7 pm, in Spaulding Auditorium. Catch the fun as departing Coast seniors Kimberly Hassel, Moises Silva and Kathyrn Waychoff get silly in a digital landscape from the group's March music exchange to Cuba! Kudos to videographer Max von Hippel '19. And in case you missed it, … [Read more...]
Meet the Wind Ensemble’s featured seniors
Meet Steven Povich and Jacob Weiss, the two '16s who are featured in the Dartmouth College Wind Ensemble's May 7 performance, and hear some of the immersive, spine-tingling music the ensemble will play! Video by Jennifer Evans '17. … [Read more...]
Instant Expert: Rachmaninoff’s “All-Night Vigil”
Are you qualified to go hear the Dartmouth College Glee Club sing Rachmaninoff's All-Night Vigil (Sunday, May 1, at 1 pm, in Rollins Chapel)? Do you have ears? Bingo, you're qualified. But in case you'd like to know a little more before you go, here's an Instant Expert crib sheet written by Mallory Rutigliano '17, a musician and classical music advocate. “What am I Going to Hear?” Rachmaninoff’s All-Night Vigil is 15 movements of pure splendor. It is one of Rachmaninoff’s two religious pieces, similar to his fellow Russian, nearly contemporary composer and inspiration Pyotr Tchaikovsky … [Read more...]
Defining 20th-century choral work, May 1
HANOVER, NH—The Dartmouth College Glee Club focuses its spring concert on one of the defining choral works of the 20th century, Sergei Rachmaninoff’s All-Night Vigil. The concert takes place on Sunday, May 1, 2 pm, in Dartmouth’s Rollins Chapel. It’s a mark of the ensemble’s excellence that it is performing the entire work, and without guest vocalists—even for the transcendent solo parts and the deep, dark basso profundo notes, said Glee Club Director Louis Burkot. The group performed one movement of the work—the meltingly beautiful Bogoro Ditsye Dyevo ("Ave Maria")—during a December … [Read more...]
Edgar Allan Poe on his mysterious final journey…
Red-Eye to Havre de Grace: A surreal “action opera” examining the mysterious final days of Edgar Allan Poe told through eerie, enchanting songs and spellbinding acting (Apr 1 & 2). Video by Jennifer Evans ‘17 … [Read more...]
