January
January 23–July 11
25th Anniversary Celebration of Gifts to The Trout Gallery
Opening Reception: Friday, January 23, 5-7 p.m.
This exhibition showcases a number of remarkable gifts of art that have been made to The Trout Gallery during the course of its 25 years. Thanks to all the donors for their generosity and for joining in the celebration and strengthening the collections at The Trout Gallery.
The Trout Gallery, Weiss Center for the Arts. Free
Gallery hours are Tuesday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Friday, January 23, 7 p.m.
Faculty Brass Quintet
The Faculty Brass Quintet will feature performances by Steve Strawley, trumpet; Jeb Wallace, horn; Ron Axsom, trombone; Eric Henry, tuba; and a guest artist to be announced.
Rubendall Recital Hall, Weiss Center for the Arts. Free Music Department Free
February
Sunday, February 1, 4 p.m.
Guest Artists: Flying Forms
Participants: Marc Levine, baroque violin; Lara Hall, baroque violin; Poppy Walshaw, baroque cello; James W. Smith Jr., lute; Tami Morse, harpsichord; Dorothy Olsson and Mark Mindek, baroque dance.
Flying Forms will play works by Castello, Corelli, Geminiani, Bach and others in a potpourri of baroque chamber music for small and large ensembles. The performance will end with an exciting rendition of The Dalliances of Harlequino and Columbina, set to Capriccio Stravagante by Italian
composer Carlo Farina. This work, choreographed and danced by Dorothy Olsson and Mark Mindek, makes use of the unusual programmatic musical score, which includes imitations of hens cackling, cocks crowing, cats fighting and dogs barking. Costumes by Alice Standin.
“How refreshing to meet this youthful group that plays old music as if it were the newest, coolest thing going.”
— Southampton Press
Memorial Hall, Old West. Music Department Free
February 3–28
Kristopher Benedict: The Rat Retires From The World
Opening Reception: Tuesday, February 3, 5-7 p.m.
Kristopher Benedict is a Brooklyn, N.Y.-based artist and the first recipient of the Dickinson College Artist-in-Residence program. Benedict’s paintings look at the role of the individual in the contemporary urban setting and the changing relationship between public and private space.
Goodyear Gallery, Goodyear Building. Free
Gallery Hours are Tuesday through Friday, 3 to 5 p.m.; Saturday, 2 to 5 p.m.
Thursday, February 5, 7 p.m.
Dan Fishback: You Never Get To Make Out
Fishback, a New York City songwriter and performance artist, explores why life in the shadow of death and destruction is genuinely hilarious. As a folksinger and rock musician, he has toured Europe and North America in support of his full-length albums. As a speaker, he visits colleges across the country to talk about queer and Jewish identity formation. Sponsored by The Clarke Forum for Contemporary Issues, the Office of Institutional & Diversity Initiatives, Hillel and the Department of English.
Mathers Theatre, Holland Union Building. Free
Saturday, February 7, 7 p.m.
Florestan Recital Project, Musical Artists-in-Residence: A World of Italian Song
Participants: Joe Dan Harper, tenor; Jessica Bowers, mezzo-soprano; Diego Tornelli, piano; Alison d’Amato, piano.
Join Boston-based Florestan Recital Project for a virtuosic evening of Italian songs, featuring Franz Liszt’s Tre Sonetti di Petrarca, Benjamin Britten’s Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo, Ildebrando Pizzetti’s Cinque Liriche and Ottorino Respighi’s Antica poesia popolare armena.
Rubendall Recital Hall, Weiss Center for the Arts. Music Department Free
Monday, February 9, 7 p.m.
Jane L. and Robert H. Weiner Lecture in the Fine Arts Presents Anthony Goicolea
New York artist Anthony Goicolea will discuss his work in photography, video, drawing and sculpture. A first generation Cuban-American, Goicolea addresses the nature of identity through a study of gender, age and place. Goicolea has shown his work nationally and internationally and recently participated in group exhibitions at the Schirn Kunsthalle in Frankfurt, Germany,
and the North Carolina Museum of Art. Solo exhibitions have been held at Sandroni Rey in Los Angeles, ScheiblerMitte in Berlin and Postmasters in New York. Goicolea’s work is housed in numerous public collections including the Museum of Modern Art, The Whitney Museum of Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and the Museum of Contemporary Photography.
The annual Weiner Lecture is named for Robert H. and Jane L. Weiner, who established the program for visiting lectureships in the fine arts in 1984. Their children are graduates of Dickinson College. Each year, the Weiner lecture recognizes individual visual artists and art critics.
Rubendall Recital Hall, Weiss Center for the Arts. Free
CANCELLED - Thursday, February 12
Lecture: The Lion King: Pope Leo X, the Renaissance Papacy and Music
Anthony Cummings, professor of music at Lafayette College, will discuss the rich and highly politicized musical culture that surrounded the music-loving Medici pope, Leo the X. His forthcoming book on this topic is one of his many distinguished books and articles on the subject of Italian Renaissance musical culture, which include The Politicized Muse: Music for Medici Festivals, 1512-1537 and The Maecemas and the Madrigalist: Patrons, Patronage, and the Origins of the Italian Madrigal. Cummings received his M.F.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Princeton University and has served as dean of Tulane College, co-director of Italian Studies at Tulane University and dean
of admissions at Princeton University.
Room 235, Weiss Center for the Arts. Music Department Free
Sunday, February 15, 4 p.m.
Faculty Recital: English Song of the Renaissance and Twentieth Century
Joe Dan Harper of the Florestan Recital Project and James Hontz, contributing faculty in guitar at Dickinson College, will perform works by Dowland, Britten and Berkeley.
Rubendall Recital Hall, Weiss Center for the Arts. Music Department Free
Thursday, February 19, 8 p.m. — Talking With…
Friday, February 20, 8 p.m. — Sunday on the Rocks
Saturday, February 21, 2 p.m. — Sunday on the Rocks
Saturday, February 21, 8 p.m. — Talking With…
Senior Project at The Cubiculo
This year’s senior project presents two plays highlighting the talents of the senior theatre majors. The first, Talking With… by Jane Martin, has been performed around the world, winning the Best Foreign Play of the Year Award in Germany from Theatre Heute magazine. A study of love, loneliness and obsession, Talking With… mingles laughter and sadness as it addresses the value of and attitude towards eccentricity. The second piece, Sunday on the Rocks, by Teresa Rebeck, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2004, will be acted and directed by Dickinson College seniors. Rebeck said her plays are about “betrayal and treason and poor behavior. A lot of poor behavior.” Sunday on the Rocks begins with three house mates deciding to have scotch for breakfast. As they drink, joke and argue, it becomes clear how difficult it is to make a moral decision in an increasingly complex world.
“It’s rare to encounter a domestic comedy that speaks to an entire generation, but Sunday on the Rocks hits a raw nerve for today’s generation of Angry Young Women.”
— Boston Globe
In Talking With… Jane Martin’s “women can sing—often in voices that are authentic cries from the heartland…”
— Frank Rich, The New York Times
The Cubiculo, Carlisle Theatre, 44 W. High St., 2nd floor. Free
Friday, February 20, 4:30 p.m.
Cogan Fellow Presentation: Susan Stewart
McArthur and Guggenheim award recipient Susan Stewart ’73 will discuss her poetry and other works, and how Dickinson shaped her life as an artist and scholar.
Stern Center, Great Room. Free
Sunday, February 22, 4 p.m.
Faculty and Guest Recital: Something Old, Something New (premiere)
Participants: Blanka Bednarz, violin; Donovan Stokes, double bass; Jennifer Blyth, piano; Eun Ae Baik-Kim, piano.
Bednarz, assistant professor of music at Dickinson College, presents a recital with fellow faculty members Blyth and Baik-Kim. Guest Artist Donovan Stokes performs in a double role, composer and bassist. The program includes a premiere of his duo Damaged for violin and double bass with orchestra (piano reduction). Also included in the program are Giovanni Bottesini’s Gran Duo Concertante, a violin sonata by Ralf Yusuf Gawlick and the Sonata in A Major for Violin and Piano,
Op. 13 by Gabriel Faure.
“Bednarz’s control was remarkable... She played with great facility, perfectly in pitch...with imploring sweetness... The playing was magnificently accomplished, and exhibited a fundamental comprehension of the ethnicity in the music...”
— Dayle Van der Sande
Rubendall Recital Hall, Weiss Center for the Arts. Music Department Free
Saturday, February 28, 7 p.m.
Schoenberg Wind Quintet
Dickinson Faculty Wind Quintet: Mary Hannigan, flute; Jill Marchione, oboe; Elisabeth Stimpert, clarinet; Jeb Wallace, horn; Kimberly Buchar-Kelley, bassoon.
Experience a rare performance of Arnold Schoenberg’s highly influential Wind Quintet, Op. 26. Amy Wlodarski, assistant professor of music at Dickinson College, will discuss the significance of this work, in which Schoenberg first put forth his revolutionary dodecaphonic (12-tone) system of composition.
Rubendall Recital Hall, Weiss Center for the Arts. Music Department Free