OK, Dartmouth seniors: time to get serious about that bucket list! With your last term on campus about to begin, you have precious little time to cram in those essential experiences. Help is at hand--especially for those bucket list items relating to the Hop and the arts. From Friday, February 17, through Saturday, February 25, the Hopkins Center presents Senior Spectacular, eight days of fun events in the arts, especially for '17s! With funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Hop Student Engagement Team Interns Cynthia Tan ’17 and Mallory Rutigliano ’17 organized this series to … [Read more...]
Chamber music inspiration from the Danish String Quartet
By Betty Kim '20 As I gain more experience playing in quartets, I realize just how difficult it is to produce a unified, sonorous sound between four different people. Great musical ensembles have it down to a science: it’s not enough to just have the correct intonation, since a seemingly perfect line can be disruptive if it doesn’t blend well with the three other instruments’ sounds. Silences a millisecond shorter than what’s ideal might sound too hurried; a millisecond longer might sound like a gaping abyss. A breath before a beat might change the trajectory of your bow by just a little bit, … [Read more...]
A midterm de-stress break with Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra
By Danielle Fang '20 Midterms were finally over and, though they would be making a reappearance in a couple short weeks, I was ready to relax. So on Friday, October 14, I made my way to the Hop to see the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra; nothing like two hours of classical music to de-stress a college student. Before the concert started, a few of the orchestra members were kind enough meet and mingle with a group of students, including the principal violin and artistic director of the orchestra, Kyu-Young Kim, and the composer of one of the pieces to be performed that night, George … [Read more...]
Hop interns tell you what not to miss this fall – Part 2!
As promised, the three other new Hop interns share their recommendations for what NOT to miss this fall! To see what the other four interns recommend go here! Jennie Evans '17, Audience Engagement intern and English major, recommends the following: La La Land (September 17): I saw this film musical in Los Angeles this January, and it blew me away with not only beautiful music and set design but a wonderful plot that captured the beauty and sadness of Hollywood. I'm very excited to watch it again as part of Telluride at Dartmouth, a great experience overall. Motherstruck! … [Read more...]
Ciabatti takes helm of Dartmouth Symphony Orchestra
The Hopkins Center for the Arts today announced that Filippo Ciabatti, who has served this year as guest conductor of the Dartmouth Symphony Orchestra, will be the DSO’s new director. “I couldn’t be more delighted in appointing Filippo Ciabatti as our DSO conductor,” said Hop Interim Director Marga Rahmann. “He has brought extraordinary energy and musicianship to the symphony, and I greatly appreciated his steadfast, approachable demeanor during a very competitive national search. On a personal note, he has the warmest but most incisive sense of humor, which I believe our students and … [Read more...]
An Italian inspiration and experience: the DSO’s winter concert
The vibrations from the bass drum rumbled through my chest as the orchestra marched toward Rome on the Appian Way. On Saturday, Feb. 27, the Dartmouth Symphony Orchestra gave a light, programmatic winter concert with an Italian flair and also featured Dartmouth senior and music and engineering double major Autumn Chuang ’16 as a soloist. The orchestra began with the festive and energetic Symphony No. 4 (Op. 90 “Italian”) by Mendelssohn. The first theme of the allegro vivace movement was crisply captured by the violins as a lightness carried through the four movements. Though it might have … [Read more...]
