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...]
The famous “Fifth” tops an all-Beethoven program, February 23
Perhaps the most recognized four-note phrase in all music is the opening of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony . That G-G-G-E flat sequence, along with the image of the composer with wild hair and blazing eyes, has come to stand not just for Beethoven but perhaps all of classical music. The Dartmouth Symphony Orchestra hopes to set that baggage aside and allow its audience to hear the Symphony with new ears as it performs it on Saturday, February 23, 8 pm, at Hopkins Center for the Arts, as part of an all-Beethoven program. Along with the Fifth, the program consists of the “Emperor” piano concerto … [Read more...]
October 11 event kicks off Bernstein 100th Birthday Bonanza at the Hop this fall
A prodigious and prolific conductor, educator, humanitarian and composer spanning classical music and Broadway, Leonard Bernstein was a larger than life genius who personified American music. Dartmouth plays its part in a worldwide celebration of the centennial of Bernstein’s birthday with a bonanza of musical events this fall at the Hopkins Center for the Arts. The fun starts Thursday, October 11, 9 pm, in the Top of the Hop, with “Dartmouth Opera Lab Sings Bernstein,” an evening of beguiling Bernstein opera, oratorio and musical theater sung by international opera star Daniel Belcher, … [Read more...]
New faces at the Hop: 2018-19 “Fellows” embed throughout the departments
Each fall brings to the Hop a fresh infusion of young talent and dedication to the Hop with the new Hop Fellows for that academic year. The Fellows full vital positions throughout the Hop, helping to shape and run programs while learning about arts administration and arts education from the inside. Meet three of the 2018-19 Fellows and hear the five fall Hop events most intrigues each of them! Steffi Colao, '19, from Ridgefield Conn,, and a geography major is the Hop Fellow in the START (Students Teaching in the Arts) program of the Hop's Department of Outreach and Arts Education. START … [Read more...]
’22s, come explore the arts at Dartmouth this Friday!
OK, members of the Dartmouth Class of 2022, want to know how can you can experience, create and support the arts at Dartmouth? Come to Exploring the Arts, Friday, September 7, noon to 1:30 pm, at Dartmouth's Hopkins Center for the Arts. First, food. We give you a free lunch, and you should eat it, because you're going to need your strength. Now for the exploration. At Exploring the Arts, you visit tables throughout the Hop to talk with people about the following: Hop visiting artists. Students pay only $10 to see world-class performers like Lea DeLaria, Youssou Ndour, Mitsuko … [Read more...]
Creativity – and technology – link two Hop Ensembles at opposite ends of the Hop
It began as a conversation over drinks last spring, between Dartmouth Dance Ensemble co-leader Rebecca Stenn and Dartmouth Symphony Orchestra Director Filippo Ciabatti. Wouldn't it be great to collaborate? they opined. OK, so what music would Ciabatti most like to perform? Without missing a beat (he is a conductor, after all), he named Petrushka, Igor Stravinsky's 1911 orchestral work Right away, Stenn and Ciabatti called DDE co-leader John Heginbotham, and three began hatching plans with others in the Hop. One big problem, however: no Hop theater could accommodate both a full … [Read more...]
Fretboard wizard jams with the DSO on Vivaldi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HiNEyI1PF6w 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...]
New Kid: Meet a first-year in the DSO
By Lex Kang '21 [Editor's note: The Dartmouth Symphony Orchestra performs its fall concert on Saturday, October 28, 8 pm, in Spaulding Auditorium.] Hanlin Wang, ’21, is one of the handful of talented young musicians that joined the Dartmouth Symphony Orchestra, commonly referred to as the DSO, as a freshman this fall term. Arts Ambassadors got to hear about his musical history and his personal involvement with the DSO and the arts on campus. When and how did you start music? What made you interested in music? I started playing the violin when I was five or six years old. I was too … [Read more...]
Meet a Hop intern: Caroline Filan ’18
Each fall, the Hop welcomes a new batch of Dartmouth student interns. For the next academic year, these six juniors and seniors will spend 10 hours a week embedded in various Hop departments, learning the ropes in production, marketing, educational outreach, box office, house management, graphic design and more, and taking on important responsibilities in those Hop arenas. We asked this year's interns to introduce themselves and tell us what Hop events they most look forward to this fall. Caroline Filan '18, from Alpharetta, GA, is majoring in biomedical engineering and minoring in … [Read more...]
Meet a Hop Intern: Maggie Baird ’18
Each fall, the Hop welcomes a new batch of Dartmouth student interns. For the next academic year, these six juniors and seniors will spend 10 hours a week embedded in various Hop departments, learning the ropes in production, marketing, educational outreach, box office, house management, graphic design and more, and taking on important responsibilities in those Hop arenas. We asked this year's interns to introduce themselves and tell us what Hop events they most look forward to this fall. Maggie Baird ‘18, from Charlottetown, PEI, Canada, is majoring in linguistics and minoring in … [Read more...]