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Who’s on stage this spring at the Hop?

3/20/2019 by Rebecca Bailey Leave a Comment

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...]

Filed Under: Dance, Dartmouth Student Events, Hop Ensembles, HopNews, Jazz, Music, Outreach & Arts Education, Spring 2019, Theater, Videos, Visiting Artists Tagged With: Camille A. Brown, Carla Kihlstedt, Circus, classical music, concert band, contemporary dance, dartmouth college wind ensemble, dartmouth dance ensemble, dartmouth symphony orchestra, English Concert, From the Top, Handel, Handel Society of Dartmouth College, jazz, jazzmeia horn, Jeremy Denk, John Heginbotham, Kennedy Center Theater for Young Audiences, Les Septs Doigts de la Main, Me Jane, Messiah, Mitsuko Uchida, nouveau cirque, Patinoire, Rebecca Stenn, Schubert, Semele, Seth Parker Woods, stem arts, theater, Understory

Voices of Dartmouth’s lost forests heard in new Hop-commissioned STEM Arts performance

3/10/2019 by Rebecca Bailey 2 Comments

Before the arrival of Europeans, the Abenaki land on which Dartmouth College stands was a virgin forest of majestic white pine trees. Now only remnants of that forest remain, in a riverside strip of land north of campus called Pine Park. Those lost trees’ presence—their reality as sensate individuals and as a linked community—will be evoked in Understory, an immersive, interactive work composed by adventurous young composer Carla Kihlstedt and performed by the Brooklyn Youth Chorus. The work premieres on Tuesday, April 16, 5:30 pm, in the Atrium of the Hood Museum of Art. The … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Dance, Dartmouth Theater, Music, Spring 2019, Visiting Artists Tagged With: Brooklyn Youth Chorus, Carla Kihlstedt, choral music, Environmental Studies, Native American, stem arts

Next phase in Hop’s innovative program linking new music and STEM subjects

7/11/2017 by Rebecca Bailey Leave a Comment

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...]

Filed Under: Arts Education, HopNews, Outreach & Arts Education, Videos, Visiting Artists Tagged With: Department of Biological Sciences, Department of Mathematics, Environmental Sciences Program, Fay Wang, Mellon grant, molly herron, music, stem arts, Thayer School of Engineering, Tristan Perich

Thayer-made musical instruments make their debut

5/15/2017 by Guest Contributor Leave a Comment

May 4 was the culmination of the third STEM Arts project by the Hopkins Center for the Arts, this one in partnership with Dartmouth's Thayer School of Engineering. Over a period of about 18 months, composer Molly Herron met with Thayer faculty and students, helped teach a Thayer course on designing and building new instruments, and composed a work using the instruments students in the course built. That piece, Assembly, was performed May 4 in a free concert in the Glycofi Atrium of the Thayer School's MacLean Center. Hop Programming Director Margaret Lawrence gives us a view of the project's … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Arts Education, HopNews, Music, Photos, Spring 2017, Visiting Artists Tagged With: Mellon grant, molly herron, music, photos, Spring 2017, stem arts, Thayer School of Engineering, visiting artists

May Day! A big week for new music!

4/24/2017 by Rebecca Bailey Leave a Comment

The first week of May, birds returning, frogs chorusing and buds swelling: what better time for new music at Dartmouth? Not only that, but free new music, involving Dartmouth students and faculty and internationally esteemed visiting artists. First up is the New Music Festival, on Tuesday, May 2, 7 pm, in the Hop’s Spaulding Auditorium. The concert features two ensembles expert in interpreting new and innovative work: Paris’ luminous Ensemble Itinéraire and New York’s International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) will perform new musical works by three Dartmouth student composers as well as … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Arts Education, Dartmouth Student Events, HopNews, Music, Outreach & Arts Education, Spring 2017, Visiting Artists Tagged With: Ashley Fure, Department of Music, Digital musics program, Mellon grant, molly herron, New Music Festival, stem arts, Thayer School of Engineering

What’s intriguing this spring: Hot tips from Hop interns

3/30/2017 by Rebecca Bailey Leave a Comment

Six Dartmouth seniors are beginning their third and final term as Hop Interns - terms in which they spent hours each week learning the ropes of various aspects of the Hop. So when they tell you what most interests them at the Hop this term, you best listen up. Here goes: Performance: Made in China by Wakka Wakka Productions Emily Neely: US-China relations get lots of press, especially these days—but a puppet show highlighting consumerism, human rights and American-Chinese relations? Definitely something different from the nightly news, and a highly relevant must-see! Catherine … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Arts Education, Dartmouth Student Events, Film, Hop Ensembles, HopNews, Music, Spring 2017, Theater, Visiting Artists Tagged With: Apollo's Fire, barbary coast jazz ensemble, dartmouth college gospel choir, dartmouth college wind ensemble, dartmouth film society, dartmouth students, Dorrance Dance, Get Out, Hidden Figures, hop ensembles, I am Not Your Negro, jazz, Made In China, molly herron, music, news, NT Live, outreach, Rosenscrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, Spring 2017, stem arts, The Blues Project, The Gloaming, The Nile Project, theater, Tickling Giants, Toshi Reagon, visiting artists, Wakka Wakka Productions, world music

NY premiere of “strangely captivating” Hop-commissioned, math-related music

3/20/2017 by Rebecca Bailey Leave a Comment

Music inspired by mathematics and introduced at Dartmouth got an enthusiastic reception in its New York premiere on Friday, March 17. Longitude by Tristan Perich, was performed by the American Contemporary Music Ensemble (ACME) at The Kitchen, in one of two evenings of Perich's music. Wrote New York Times music critic Anthony Tommasini, “ Longitude was written for a six-piece ensemble (violin, viola, cello, clarinet, piano and vibraphone) and two-channel one-bit noise. But the electronic ‘noise’ Mr. Perich has created is strangely captivating. As the performers (members of the excellent … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Dartmouth Student Events, HopNews, Music, Photos, Spring 2016, Visiting Artists, Workshops Tagged With: electronic music, Mathematics, Peter Winkler, spring 2016, Spring 2017, stem arts, Tristan Perich

Engineering inspiration: Thayer meets its composer

3/8/2016 by Rebecca Bailey Leave a Comment

Inspired by the ordinary sounds around us, Brooklyn-based composer Molly Herron has written for instruments ranging from full orchestra to flower pot. That flexible turn of mind makes her a good match for students and faculty in Dartmouth’s Thayer School of Engineering, with whom she’ll collaborate over the next year to create a new piece of music as the Hop’s next STEM Arts-commissioned composer. On February 23-25, Herron visited Thayer faculty and students as they made and tested things in the Thayer work spaces and laboratories, the first of several developmental residencies that will … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Dartmouth Student Events, HopNews, Music, Photos, Winter 2016 Tagged With: dartmouth students, molly herron, music, news, photos, stem arts, thayer, visiting artists, winter 2016

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