By Sarah Hong ’21, Hop Arts Ambassador The Barbary Coast is Dartmouth’s student jazz ensemble. They will be performing this Saturday, February 24, at 8 pm in Spaulding Auditorium. I recently talked with Connor Quigley, a ’21 who plays the tenor saxophone, about his experiences in the Barbary Coast. Q: How did you get involved with the Barbary Coast Jazz Ensemble? A: When I was here visiting at Dimensions, I walked by the rehearsal room and saw a band playing there. I saw a poster on the wall that said Dexter Gordon plays with the Barbary Coast, and was, like, “My god, I have to play … [Read more...]
1984: The story of a story told on books, radios, stages and screens
Anindu Rentala '21, Hop Arts Ambassador The Dartmouth Department of Theater's 1984 is characterized by its mixed-media adaptation. Various video clips are woven throughout the play, including Bill Maher’s interview with Yale Professor Timothy Snyder and a video made by the cast, depicting the scene in which the character Winston is tortured. Created by director Peter Hackett, this adaptation uniquely contextualizes the play’s relevance in 2018, highlighting creeping bits of post-fact authoritarianism in America’s democratic-republic. The 1984 that recently played on Broadway was also a … [Read more...]
Two contrasting singer-songwriters in one evening
By Khia E. Hollyer '21, Hopkins Center Arts Amabassador Jose Gonzalez and his opening act, Bedouine, performed a great show at the Hop February 6. Both are alternative solo-guitarist-musicians; however, they command different sounds. Rich, sensual and dissonant notes characterize Bedouine’s music, composed of a dichotomy of light and strong guitar strokes and chords; and euphoric and cacophonic notes. Her persona is shy and awkward, yet charming. Abashed, humor-laced statements like, “They say I’m Joni Mitchell on Xanax,” and “Come at me, Dartmouth students,” tickle the audience. Her … [Read more...]
Musical rapture from two singer-songwriters
Music is a universal language. Attending the Jose Gonzalez show on February 6, I was struck by the universality of melody, harmony and percussion. I sat in a nearly full Spaulding. Students and locals sat mesmerized by sound. Bedouine, Azniv Korkeji, opened the night, her distinct voice accompanied by only a guitar. As the stage filled with fog and the audience listened attentively, Bedouine made an enormous space feel intimate, the poetic lyrics of her music complemented by her gentle manner of speaking and banter with the audience. Her album released in December of last year … [Read more...]
From Hitler and Stalin to Charlottesville and “alternative facts”: “1984” cast does its homework
Every theatrical production involves a lot of research, and the Dartmouth Department of Theater’s production of 1984 (February 16-25 in The Moore Theater) is no different. Theater professor Peter Hackett ’75 is directing an original adaptation of a radio play based on the famous novel, also incorporating passages from the 2017 New York Times #1 bestseller On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century, by historian Timothy Snyder. During rehearsals, students always have access to copies of both the novel and Snyder's book. The dramaturgy has involved more than books, however. In … [Read more...]
The new sound of East Asian winds, February 18
It's wonderful to hear fresh interpretations of well-known pieces of music, but it's also important to hear the music of the here and now. That's the emphasis of the Dartmouth College Wind Ensemble: music by living composers, as well as those older works that represent significant periods of change or development for the wind ensemble. The wind ensemble has gone a step further this season, bringing to its audiences the work of composers who are usually underrepresented in United States. In fall, the ensemble celebrated the great work of four outstanding women composers. This term, the wind … [Read more...]
Dartmouth jazz band plays with “super-group” jazz trio in students-only event February 8
This Thursday, the Barbary Coast Jazz Ensemble and a visiting trio, BassDrumBone, will be performing in the Top of the Hop. The event is free and the Top of the Hop bar will be serving free drinks (21+) all evening. This event is both a promotion of the new bar at the Top of the Hop as well as a chance for the Barbary Coast to perform and collaborate with a visiting artist outside of the group's regular concert, on February 24. BassDrumBone - Mark Helias, Gerry Hemingway and Ray Anderson - are a renowned jazz trio who have been playing together for over 40 years, since fall of 1977. They … [Read more...]
Return to the Land of the Living and a Return to Form
By Charles Chen ‘21, Dartmouth Film Society Critical pieces bemoaning Pixar’s apparently terminal decline are a dime a dozen these days. Where Pixar was once defined by an almost ruthless dedication to innovation and the eschewal of sequel-izing, now the animation studio can perhaps better be described with a single phrase: Toy Story 4. Or better yet, Disney. But Pixar’s newest release Coco (which was screened January 26 by Hopkins Center Film) is a stark reminder of what made Pixar an industry standard in the first place. It is a masterpiece in typical Pixar fashion, blending truly … [Read more...]
Dartmouth chorus and local high school students offer luminous choral program
The Handel Society of Dartmouth College presents a luminous program of choral music spanning three centuries, with the help of singers from three area high schools, on Tuesday, November 14, 7 pm, in Spaulding Auditorium of the Hopkins Center for the Arts at Dartmouth. The “town-gown” chorus, comprising about 100 singers and joined by a chamber orchestra and four visiting soloists, sings the Mozart Requiem as “completed” by Robert Levin, a Boston-based musicologist and pianist who last appeared at the Hop as accompanist for violinist Hilary Hahn. Animated by acute musical and historical … [Read more...]
New Kid in the Barbary Coast: From Lawrence Welk to Thelonius Monk
The Barbary Coast Jazz Ensemble is Dartmouth’s student jazz group; the members play their instruments and improvise surrounded by other lively musicians. Directed by the dynamic Taylor Ho Bynum, the ensemble recently performed with visiting quartet Del Sol. It performs its own program on Friday, November 3, 8 pm, in Spaulding Auditorium - exploring the music of such innovators as Duke Ellington, Mary Lou Williams, Sun Ra and Thelonious Monk. As the Hop's Audience Engagement department intern, I was interested in the connection between student life and being in an ensemble. I recently … [Read more...]
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