Virtuose Musik for Solo Violin | Boris Blacher
Accompanied by 10 winds, percussion, timpani and harp, German composer Boris Blacher's Virtuose Musik was a solo violin piece influenced by the post-WWII anti-romanticism movement in classical music.

Sonata for Solo Harp | Alois Haba
A sonata by the influential Czech composer who pioneered microtonal music in spite of ongoing Nazi oppression and the banning of his music in Czechoslovakia during WWII.

Nun's priest's tale | Ross Lee Finney | 1965
Finney's Nun's Priest's Tale mixes a folksinger with electric guitar, honoring different storytelling traditions as it also takes its name from one of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.

Four e. e. cummings choruses: for male voices and piano | Vincent Persichetti | 1965
Persichetti was a lifetime lover of E. E. Cummings' poetry and set over dozens of his compositions to his poems. This particular composition uses a male chorus and piano.

Fibonacci- Mobile for String Quartet | Ernst Krenek | 1965
A string quartet and piano-four hands piece where elements are proportioned according to the Fibonacci sequence.

Music for viola and small band | William Sydeman | 1965
A composition by the avant-garde American composer who composed and taught about neotonal music.

Dartmouth Overture | Robert Russell Bennett | 1966
A piece composed for the Dartmouth College Band by American composer Robert Russell Bennett.

Concerto for oboe and strings | Easley Blackwood | 1966
An oboe concerto written by American composer Easley Blackwood, who specialized in microtonal tunings and unconventional rhythms.

Entrances: for woodwind quintet | Milko Kelemen | 1966
A wind quintet written by Croatian composer Milko Kelemen.

Contradizione | Grazyna Bacewicz | 1966
An exploration of musical contradiction in chamber orchestra.

Endecatode: per 14 instrumentie e percussione | Gian Francesco Malipiero | 1966
A composition of 11 short verses (hence, the strange but interesting Latin of "endeca"-tode, or eleven).

Musica da camera per 11 | Rudolf Maros | 1966
Chamber music by Czech composer Rudolf Maros, whose music took inspiration from the expressionism and dissonance of earlier Hungarian composers like Bartok.

Estri per quindici esecutori | Goffredo Petrassi | 1966
One of the most important Italian composers of the 20th century, Petrassi brought a distinct neoclassical style to his compositions and spearheaded an "Italian" revival in classical musical.

Trio per archi | Attila Bozay | 1967
Heavily influenced by Bartok, Attila Bozay was a Hungarian composer with an interest in nine and ten-tone systems.

Soli IV: trompeta si b, trombon, corno en fa | Carlos Chavez | 1967
Based on the principle of non-repetition, Soli IV is an atonal four-soloist piece composed by famous Mexican composer, Carlos Chavez.

Dartmouth Concerto | Zsolt Durk | 1967
In this concerto, the Hungarian composer layers the ensemble with John Masefield's contemplative poem, The Lemmings, which narrates how these creatures instinctively migrate towards their own deaths.

Concerto for clarinet and orchestra | Walter Piston | 1967
A single movement piece with four variations, Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra was commissioned for the Congregation of the Arts in 1967.

Cztery nowele na orkiestre kameralna (Four Novelettes for Chamber Orchestra) | Tadeusz Baird | 1967
A Polish composer, Tadeusz Baird founded the Warsaw Autumn in 1974. Four Novelettes gained massive international acclaim and was performed nearly 60 times in Europe during its first five years.

String Quartet no. 8: Dartmouth Quartet: opus 228 | Niels Viggo Bentzon | 1967
A prolific musician, Danish composer Niels Viggo Bentzon wrote his eighth string quartet in dedication to Dartmouth.

Concerto for flute and string orchestra, op. 233 | Easley Blackwood | 1968
Blackwood was an American composer interested in microtonal composing.

Augenblick erinnert (Instant remembered): for soprano voice | Ernst Krenek | 1968
Krenek dedicates this piece, Instant Remembered, to his former teacher Anton Webern, who was mistakenly shot in 1945 by an American soldier. The piece premiered at the fourth International Webern Festival, which was hosted by the Hop during the annual Congregation of the Arts in the summer.

Concerto Per Violoncello E Orchestra | Alberto Ginastera | 1968
Alberto Ginastera was an influential 20th-century Argentine composer, known for incorporating gauchesco (from gaucho: cowboy) elements in his works.

Chamber Symphony | Andrew Imbrie | 1968
The American composer's work, Chamber Symphony, consists of two parts: Fantasy, and Variations.

LEO Chamber Symphony | Roberto Gerhard | 1969
Written for the bicentennial anniversary of Dartmouth College by Spanish composer Roberto Gerhard.

Fantasia: for Violin and orchestra | Walter Piston | 1970
Composed for virtuosic Italian violinist Salvatore Accardo, Fantasia is a one-movement piece with five sections.

Quartet No. 3 | George Rochberg | 1972
One of the earliest works written in the then-revolutionary "collage" technique that has since been dubbed Neo-Romantic.

String Quartet No. 3 | Lukas Foss | 1974,

String Quartet Exercises, out of songs | Christian Wolff | 1974,

Quintet for Piano and Strings | George Rochberg | 1975,

String Quartet No. 3 | Francis Thorne | 1975,

String Quartet | Jon Appleton | 1976,

String Quartet, Homage | Lauren Levey | 1976,

String Quartet No. 6, Concord | George Rochberg | 1978,

String Quartet No. 5, Concord | George Rochberg | 1979,

String Quartet No. 3 | Jacob Druckman | 1981,

Quintet for 2 Violins, 2 Violas, and 2 Cellos | George Rochberg | 1982,

Opus 95 Revisited | Hugh Aitken | 1982,

Quintet for Strings | George Rochberg | 1982
See above notes on Rochberg.

Dartmouth Fantasy | Floyd Werle | 1985
First performed in Rollins Chapel by the Dartmouth Symphonic Wind Ensemble (DSWE), this composition went on to be the centerpiece of the DSWE's album, Ivy Echoes at Dartmouth.

Thresholds | Arthur jr Welwood | 1986
In the premiere performance of Thresholds, the DSWE hosted the Duke University Wind Symphony and performed in a winter concert known as "Focus on America."

The United States: a work constructed by David Gordon featuring the Pick-Up Company | David Gordon | 1988
The Seattle Times critic Carole Beers called the performance a "dazzling melting pot" where "swingers slouch out bluesy tunes about San Francisco, about Hollywood musicals, about all that makes up this enormously simple and enormously complicated land." David Gordon's amalgamation of "American" styles, from a touching note on Robert Frost to a text about Minnesota, has a huge archival website noting everyone who reviewed the piece and some fun photos in retrospect.

Callings | Gwyneth Walker | 1988
A wind ensemble piece composed by Vermont-based American composer and lifelong New England resident Gwyneth Walker.

Jubilate,  A Festive Overture | Allen Bonde | 1989
An upbeat wind ensemble piece. Later performances include a performance at the Kennedy Center Concert Hall and the recording in 2003 by the Moravian Philharmonic Orchestra.

Cajun | David Amram | 1990
In Amram's final movement of the American Dance Suite, a trio based on American musical and dance forms, he celebrates the Cajun music of Louisiana with a slip-jig titled "The Fox Hunt" and a waltz inspired by the Zydeco form of folk music.

Hampshire Harmony | Paul Moravec | 1992
A former teacher at Dartmouth College, Moravec composed Hampshire Harmony for a brass ensemble of two horns, three trumpets, two trombones and a tuba.

Hymnodic Delays | Ingram Marshall | 1996
A four-movement choral piece based around different traditional hymns, all using tape delay as a way to create echo around the harmonies.

Aeros | Pilobolus Dance Theatre | 1996
Commissioned for Pilobolus's 25th anniversary, Aeros is a choreographed comedy about a grounded space explorer on a strange new world---whether the aliens send them flying back to Earth or into the void of space at the end remains unknown.

NO (thing so powerful as) TRUTH | Dan Hurlin | 1996
A solo inspired by the life of former Manchester Union Leader publisher, William Loeb.

Let Evening Come, a song cycle | William Bolcom | 1996
A song cycle that draws on the poetry of Emily Dickinson, Maya Angelou and Jane Kenyon.

Untitled | Meg Stuart | 1997
An exploration of our contemporary body as a fragmented body. Stuart expanded her ongoing choreographic investigation in distortion, visual arts and psychological and body states, to the language of ballet.

Text-to-Speech | Mark Kuss | 1997
Using a mixture of text-to-speech and remixed sound bytes, Kuss weaves together Roosevelt's famous speech, "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself," only to turn it on its head with the current anxieties of Americans expressed through increasingly scrambled word paintings about modernity and technology.

Circles of Fire | George Rochberg | 1997
A piano album based on the concept that music and the mind come from a "universal, galactic" fire of order, chaos and asymmetry.

The Most Dangerous Room in the House | Susan Marshall | 1997
A surreal interpretative dance work that explores the dangers and everyday hazards of the home through a woman's inner life and anxieties about the safety of her child.

Harmonia | Elizabeth Brown | 1997
A piece written in inspiration of 25 years of co-education at Dartmouth. The three movements evoke the doors of opportunity, the hours spent studying, and finally, a dream sequence that Brown had.

JazzTrain | Donald Byrd | 1997
A three-movement performance dedicated to the history of jazz, dance and African-American culture. Byrd sets his choreography to legendary drummer Max Roach's performance, as well as an homage to different attitudes about dance across the decades.

(Kronos) String Quartet No. 2 | Ashot Zograbian | 1998
A piece written by the Armenian composer, who was known for his use of serialism and microtonality in his music.

vers la Flamme (Toward the Flame) | Martha Clarke | 1999
Set in the turn-of-the century late 1800s, Vers la flamme is a dance adaptation of five short stories by realist author Anton Chekhov. Accompanied by music by Alexander Scriabin, each story cycle explores themes of passion, infidelity and societal expectations.

Palm Trees-Pine Trees | Peter Garland | 1999
A composition for flute, cello, piano and two percussionists. Garland was known for combining influences from his time in Mexico and indigenous melodies with his compositions.

Thread | Belinda Reynolds | 1999
A composition for flute, cello, piano, marimba and percussion.

String Quartet #4 | Lee Hyla | 1999
A string quartet by American composer Lee Hyla.

Concerto for Marimba and Orchestra | Roshanne Etezady | 2000
A concerto for a virtuoso solo marimba by composer Roshanne Etezady, known for its syncopation and repetition.

Drawn to Death, a Three-Panel Opera | Art Spiegelman | 2000
An opera that explores the Cold War era censorship campaign against comic books and the medium's near-death due to a series of Congressional hearings attesting that comics were a "low art."

Capriccio for Trombone | Elena Roussanova Lucas | 2001

Happiness | Laurie Anderson | 2001
Using electronic and audovisual displays, Anderson tells a story about the strange and unexpected ways we pursue happiness--from tales of serving McDonald's in NYC to canoe trips to a somber confrontation of what it means to live in post-9/11 society.

Duo For Piano, Four Hands | Peter Child | 2001
A three-movement piano duo that consists of Roundabout, Poise and Varia.

Awakening at the Inn of the Birds | Michael Byron | 2001
In this composition for strings, Byron uses cacophony and repeating motifs to imitate the music of morning bird calls.

Bach Perspectives: Ten Composers React to the Art of the Fugue | Bruce Adolphe, David Horne, Sophia Gubaidulina, Steve Mackey, Wynton Marsalis, Nicholas Maw, Shulamit Ran, Chou Wen-Chung, Charles Wuorinen, Eric Zivian | 2001
Ten composers from the Brentano String Quartet write their own fugues in response to Bach's mammoth achievement, the Art of the Fugue.

Marquez | Ken Ueno | 2002
An exploration of how a story can simultaneously evoke the character's and the reader's memory. To do this, the composer plays on Marquez--both the author of the epic, 100 Years of Solitude, and the name of Ueno's elementary school.

Afterglow | Paul Koonce | 2002

O, Say a Sunset | Robin Holcomb | 2002
A staged song cycle about the life and letters of Rachel Carson, the environmentalist author who wrote Silent Spring as a "eulogy for disappearing songbirds" threatened by extinction.

Evening Song | Sweet Honey in the Rock/Toshi Reagon | 2003
In celebration of Sweet Honey in the Rock's 30th year anniversary, the all-female African American a cappella group joined with singer Bernice Reagon's daughter, musician Toshi Reagon, in a national tour of their greatest hits.

Oculus pro oculo totum orbem terrae caecet (An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind) | Alexandra DuBois | 2003
Dedicated to the devastation of the invasion of Iraq, DuBois' work draws on Mahatma Gandhi's maxim about violence, using themes of dawn, grief and the mourning dove to sonically create an atmosphere of impending sorrow. Part of the Under 30 Project, DuBois composed this piece while still in her twenties.

Concerto for Percussion Quartet and Orchestra | Katherine Alexander | 2003

Dave Murray | 2004

Savage Nursery | Erin Orr | 2004
By drawing on puppet-noir and Bunraku influences, Orr weaves a dark fairytale of a bird-woman looking after her nest.

The Sound | Robert Dick | 2004

Yunnan Revealed: Indigenous Music and Dance from China's Land of Clouds | Various traditional artists | 2004
A dance composition showcasing the ethnic diversity of Yunnan Province, bordering Tibet, Burma, Laos and Vietnam, and the dance and musical traditions of performers from Yi, Naxi, Wa, Dai and Hani heritage accompanied by strings, flutes and drums.

Ordinary Measures | John McGuire | 2005

(The) Pretty Road | Maria Schneider | 2005
Written for American jazz composer Maria Schneider's fifth album, Sky Blue, the work features an airy trumpet solo accompanied by piano and string orchestra.

Love Bleeds Radiant | Dan Visconti | 2005
As part of the Under 30 Project, Dan Visconti composed Love Bleeds Radiant, a piece that combines traditional string quartet with the crackling sound sampling of recording and other early sound technology. Strings Magazine described it as "a heartfelt tribute to the past that bumps flush, and sometimes violently, with the present."

Aquatica | Pilobolus Dance Theatre | 2005
In this performance--first premiered in front of a shark tank--dancers combine to evoke natural imagery of the deep ocean, be that a ship sailing the tides, or the waves themselves.

Memento Mori | Pilobolus Dance Theatre | 2006
A dance duet meant to explore a fascination with what it means to grow older, director Robby Barnett described it as "a look at life and how it needs to be cherished."

B'zyrk | Pilobolus Dance Theatre | 2007
Meant to reflect the fun and childlike color of a carnival, B'zyrk is a slapstick modern dance filled with bright costumes and the movement of a circus.

Fire and Ice | Andrea Clearfield | 2006
Composed for the bicentennial of the Dartmouth Handel Society, Fire and Ice is a choral piece set to Robert Frost's poem of the same name.

XOVER | Merce Cunningham
The title, XOVER, suggests dancers crossing over in dizzying movements through their series of duets and quartets.

Music for Rollins Chapel | Eric Richards | 2007
Titled Echoes of Light, the American composer created this piece specifically for Rollins Chapel at Dartmouth College.

You Can't get There From Here | Anne Galjour | 2007
A one-woman play that tackles the class divide in the Upper Valley.

I Went to the House but Did Not Enter | Heiner Goebbels | 2008
Drawing on the works of T.S. Eliot, Samuel Beckett and Maurice Blanchot, the theater work plays with space in its three tableaus by presenting liminal rooms that deny its audience entry.

Lanterna Magica | Pilobolus Dance Theatre | 2008
Described by Pilobolus as "a full company work that immerses us in the luminous spirit of the natural world," Lanterna Magica uses a bog setting to show how light inexorably draws in different beings in its "mysterious celebration of the supernatural."

Terra Nova: Sinfonia Antarctica | DJ Spooky (Paul Miller) | 2008
An acoustic portrait of a rapidly-changing continent threatened by the duress of climate change through a sound palette of the Antarctic and how it responds to the pressures of 21st-century life.

Now Playing | Paul Taylor | 2008
A dance performance based on old vaudeville, full of brash humor and absurdism.

Redline | Pilobolus Dance Theatre | 2009
A piece that explores "the beauty and futility of physical battles," Redline combines capoeira elements and an intense musical score to create a rush of energy.

Hapless Hooligan in "Still Moving" | Pilobolus Dance Theatre | 2010
In a collaboration with cartoonist Art Spiegelmann, the piece combines the Spiegelmann's still illustrations with dance choreography and silhouette theater in what the New York Times called "the defiance of categorization."

Three Theories | Karole Armitage Gone! | 2010
A dance piece inspired by Brian Greene's book on theoretical physics, The Elegant Universe, which discusses how the three "explanatory" theories of the universe fundamentally disagree.

Clouded Yellow | Michael Gordon | 2010
The composer draws on the movement of the Clouded Yellow butterfly migrations to compose a piece that imitates flapping wings and blurred sounds.

Fragments | Brentano String Quartet | 2010
In this project, the Brentano String Quartet juxtaposes past and present composers by taking "fragments" from unfinished opuses and joining them into new commissions.

The Great Flood | Bill Frisell | 2010
Documentary maker Bill Frisell draws attention to the devastating effect that the Mississippi River Flood of 1927 had on the displacement of sharecroppers in this still film, overlaid with guitar music by Bill Morrison.

Angel Reapers | Martha Clarke | 2010
A play about the life of Ann Lee, one of the founders of the Shaker movement, and the oppositional pulls of repression and ecstasy.

Tesla in New York | Jim Jarmusch Phil Kline | 2012
An opera about the rise and fall of Nikola Tesla, exploring his life which writer Phil Kline calls "half miracle, half wreckage."

Concerto for Santur and Violin | Colin Jacobsen Siamak Aghaei | 2013
A concerto with musical duo, Iranian santur player Siamak Aghaei and violinist Colin Jacobsen.

Another Night | Kyle Abraham | 2013
A contemporary jazz choreography, inspired by the jazz classic A Night in Tunisia by Dizzy Gillespie.

STEM Arts "Music and Biology" | Fay Wang | 2013
An interdisciplinary exploration of the relationship between microbial evolution and music.

Sextet for Winds and Piano - also known as "Jump Cut Rose" | Jason Moran | 2014
The jazz composer dabbles with contemporary classic compositions to create a wind quintet work where he also improvises interludes during the performance.

Poro Oyna: the Myth of the Aynu | Shadowlight Productions | 2014
A shadow theater project that tells the legend of Ainu Rakkur, the beloved demi-god who in Ainu storytelling restores order to the land of humans. Led by musicians OKI and a choral group MAREWREW.

Traces | Kareem Roustom | 2014
Drawing on pre-Islamic poetry, the Syrian composer creates a meditation on loss: both the loss of people and infrastructure as well the loss of a sense of place and connection that one has with a place.

Beyond Zero: 1914-1918 A new work for quartet with film | Kronos Quartet
A compilation of nitrate 35 mm WWI footage, accompanied by a haunting score played by the Kronos String Quartet.

Winter Morning Walks | Maria Schneider
A song cycle inspired by nine poems written by Pulitzer prize winning poet Ted Kooser.

STEM Arts | Tristan Perich | 2015
A musical composition that explores the relationship between mathematics, binary programming and music--both the intuitive way we create chords and the calculus behind those sound waves.

Layla and Majnun | Mark Morris Dance Group
A dance reimagining of the classic Persian story of tragic star-crossed lovers; Layla, married off to another, and Majnun, always seeking to reunite with her.

Untitled | Jia DaQun | 2017
The piece by Daqun, one of China's leading classical composers, is inspired by Chinese calligraphy and features 16-time Grammy-winner Yo-Yo Ma.

Giselle | Dada Masilo
A reimagining of Theophile Gautier's ballet, which readapts the tale of death and redemption to a more vengeful brush with the supernatural.

Feng Ya Song | Tan Dun
The piece Feng-Ya-Song (Ballad-Hymn-Ode) arose when any art not officially sanctioned by the Communist Party was deemed "spiritual pollution." Despite this, Feng-Ya-Song achieved incredible international recognition and has been seen as a bridge between different cultures since its first debut in 1982.

STEM Arts "Assembly" | Molly Heron | 2016
A STEM Arts project celebrating 150 years of the Thayer School of Engineering. Drawing on the love of "making and creating" that engineering and music share, Herron pioneered a musical composition produced with never-before-seen makeshift instruments that her students created.

Pepperland | Mark Morris Dance Group | 2017
Commissioned for the 50th anniversary of Sgt. Pepper at Liverpool, Pepperland is a tribute dance performance to the Beatles' music and enduring legacy.

STEM Arts "Understory" | Carla Kihlstedt | 2017
Described as a "requiem for trees that are no longer, the work is a STEM Arts initiative that combines environmental studies with Dartmouth's ancient sense of place and an a cappella children's choir.

Fly by Wire | Alarm Will Sound
A collaboration between contemporary music group Alarm will Sound and Dance Heginbotham, Fly By Wire is a jarring and inventive modern dance performance.

Fires of Varanasi | Ragamala Dance Company | 2019
Based on the Indian dance tradition of Bharatanatyam, Ragamala Dance reimagines the stage to the sacred site of Varanasi in a story of birth, death and honoring departed loved ones.

Caprices (digital) | John Heginbotham | 2020
During the height of the pandemic, Heginbotham collaborated with violin Colin Jacobsen to perform Paganini's 24 caprices to short, isolated video clips of different dance performers from their homes.

Dido Reimagined | Melinda Wagner | 2019
A modern reimagining of Purcell's opera, Dido & Aeneas, where a broken heart may not necessarily lead to death by the Pulitzer Prize-winning composer.

Tamboreño | Miquel del Aguila | 2020
A lively, rhythmic piece inspired by the carnival parades in composer Miguel del Aguila's home of Uruguay.

Train with no Midnight | Joseph Keckler |
A series of vignettes told through with much the same energy as late-night train stops; a mixture of pop and opera that bring the audience to a symbolic Crossroads.

Hazel Scott Project | Dance Theater of Harlem | 2020
A look back into Hazel Scott's extraordinary life as a musician and civil rights pioneer.

Breathe | Kojiro Umezaki | 2020
A composition by the Dartmouth alumnus commissioned for Johnny Gandelsman's This is America anthology that responds to the turbulent events of 2020.

Emergence | Amir El-Saffar | 2020
An experimental composition by Iraqi composer Amir el-Saffar, the piece places the musicians in the perimeter of the stage; semi-improvised each time and always adapting to the new venues.

Reconstruction: Still Working But the Devil May Be Inside | The TEAM | 2020
A collaboration between POC and white artists who move through American history together to grapple with the legacy of slavery.

Sun Centered | David Lang | 2020
A composition based on Galileo's blasphemous idea that the world was sun-centered, exploring the fragility of human existence.

Paradise | Acrobuffos | 2021
A work in progress, the piece tells the story of two scavengers trying to make sense of their own unusual surroundings in a story that is both comedy and parable.

Various | Mexican Repertoire Initiative
An ongoing initiative that aims to promote authentic new Mexican music.

We | Emily Coates and Manou Phuon | 2021
Combining drawing, movement, music and dance, Emily Coates and Manou Phuon encourage audiences to think about what it means to be a tree, and in the presence of them.

Herstory of the Universe @ Dartmouth | Richard Move | 2022
A site-specific dance work telling the story of Mother Nature, a "choreo-ecology" of history.

The Look of Love | Mark Morris Dance Group | 2022
A dance homage to the musical legacy of Burt Bacharach, a chart-topping pop music icon.

From the Ceremony That Never Was | Dana Lyn | 2023
Inspired by the paintings of Wiyot artist Rick Bartow, Dana Lyn set out to create a composition with the same title as his painting series.

Perhaps We'll Thank What Breaks Us | Carla Kihlstedt | 2022
A composition commissioned for Johnny Gandelsman's This is America anthology that responds to the turbulent events of 2020.

Body Language (Three Folk Dances for Violin) | Gabriel Kahane | 2022
A composition commissioned for Johnny Gandelsman's This is America anthology that responds to the turbulent events of 2020.

Flamenco Suite | Gonzalo Grau | 2022
A composition commissioned for Johnny Gandelsman's This is America anthology that responds to the turbulent events of 2020.