HANOVER, NH—The Dartmouth Symphony Orchestra closes its 2011-12 season with a lively program pairing a Prokofiev’s powerful Symphony No. 5 in B-flat Major, Op. 100 with an orchestral treatment of the musical West Side Story, on Saturday, May 26, at 8 pm, in the Hop’s Spaulding Auditorium. West Side Story composer Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990) [...]
HANOVER, NH—Who was Johannes Brahms? This 19th-century German composer, one of the “three B’s” (with Bach and Beethoven) who loom large in classical music, didn’t leave behind a messy paper trail, seeing to it that his correspondence with Clara Schumann (perhaps the woman he was closest to) was destroyed. Brahms did leave behind, however, [...]
HANOVER, NH—Inspired by their directors’ long-term friendship and collaboration, two dynamic Dartmouth ensembles unite to explore the connections between gospel and jazz in A Soulful Celebration: Gospel Meets Jazz, on Saturday, May 12, 8 pm, and Sunday, May 13, 2 pm, in the Hop’s Spaulding Auditorium. Featuring music from Ramsey Lewis’ award-winning gospel CD, [...]
HANOVER, NH—Timothy Reynish, a globe-trotting British wind ensemble conductor who’s helped transform that genre of music, leads the Dartmouth Wind Symphony in “British Invasion” on Saturday, May 5, at 8 pm in Spaulding Auditorium. The concert is made up of new and established compositions from the other side of the Atlantic, many of which [...]
HANOVER, NH—Ludwig van Beethoven wrested magnificent music out of a hard, lonely life in which he struggled for recognition and was plagued by premature deafness. By contrast, Franz Liszt, born 41 years later, enjoyed huge popular success and a plush life of the senses. These artists’ work are part of a rich, balanced program [...]
The internationally-acclaimed Momix dance company returns to the Hop with its signature illusionary style. The company will perform its latest work Botanica; a sumptuous multimedia immersion into the sights, sounds and rhythms of nature, as viewed through the whimsical imagination of company founder and Artistic Director Moses Pendleton ’71. Set to an eclectic score ranging [...]
NEW: Hear Sō Percussion members Adam Sliwinski and Eric Beach on New Hampshire Public Radio’s Word of Mouth, broadcast Thursday, April 19! HANOVER, NH—Sō Percussion—fresh, inspired leaders of a movement that’s brought percussion from the orchestra’s fringes to center stage—comes to the Hop for a concert on Friday, April 20, at 8 pm, in Spaulding [...]
Perhaps the one thing the Dartmouth Aires didn’t sing in their long tenure this past year in the NBC television competition Sing Off was a setting of a Robert Frost poem. That oversight will be corrected on Tuesday, May 1, at 7 pm, when the Aires open the Dartmouth Department of Music’s 34th annual [...]
HANOVER, NH—When the students of the Dartmouth Dance Theater Ensemble (DDTE) premiered their original work Undue Influence last May, they wondered—worried, even—how their peers, and the college as a whole, would react to this frank account of sexual assault in the college social environment. As it turned out, the show sparked just the sort [...]
HANOVER, NH—Four-time Grammy winner and MacArthur “genius” grantee Dawn Upshaw, a soprano whose vocal purity and creative courage have won the hearts of millions around the globe, joins the “vitality, elegance, playfulness and technical prowess” (San Francisco Chronicle) of the Australian Chamber Orchestra for a concert in the Hop’s Spaulding Auditorium on Wednesday, April 25, [...]
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