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...]
Seniors, Get Serious About Your Dartmouth Arts Bucket List!
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...]
