March
Friday, February 29, 8 p.m.
Saturday, March 1, 8 p.m.
Monday March 3, 8 p.m.
Tuesday, March 4, 8 p.m.
The Tempest
The Department of Theatre & Dance, with the Mermaid Players, presents William Shakespeare’s The Tempest. Shakespeare’s last major play is an intriguing mix of the comic, the romantic, thesentimental and the magical. Fred Morsell ’62 returns to campus as guest artist in the role of Prospero, along with a Dickinson student cast. In addition to decades of professional work in New York and regional theatre as well as television and film, Morsell has toured extensively performing the role of Frederick Douglas in a one-man show he researched and wrote. The Tempest will benefit from input by students enrolled in a special year-long course, taught by professors Todd Wronski and David Kranz, examining Shakespearean scholarship and production.
Mathers Theatre, Holland Union Building (HUB). $5; $3 for students
Saturday, March 1, 7 p.m.
Guest Artist Recital: Rita Sloan
Rita Sloan presents an evening of piano music, in both solo and chamber settings, culminating in the romantic and virtuosic masterwork, Mendelssohn’s Piano Trio in C Minor.
Rubendall Recital Hall, Weiss Center for the Arts. Free
Wednesday, March 5, 7 p.m.
The Jane L. and Robert H. Weiner Lecture in the Fine Arts:
Garth Clark—Lucio Fontana as Ceramist
Garth Clark is one of the preeminent authorities on modern and contemporary ceramic art. He is author, editor and contributor to 23 books and more than 100 monographs, essays and catalogs. Clark is the recipient of numerous awards and honors including: the Art Critics Award of the National Endowment of the Arts; the Art Book of the Year Award from the Art Libraries Society of North America; the Fellow of the Royal College of Art, London 1996; and Visionaries: Lifetime Achievement Award from the Museum of Arts and Design, New York, 1999.
Sponsored by the Department of Art & Art History.
Rubendall Recital Hall, Weiss Center for the Arts. Free
Thursday, March 6, noon
Noonday Concert
This concert features students in Dickinson College’s Performance Studies program.
Rubendall Recital Hall, Weiss Center for the Arts. Free
Tuesday, March 18, 8 p.m.
Faculty Recital: Jill Marchione, oboe and English horn
Jill Marchione, oboe and English horn, will be joined by Eun Ae Baik-Kim, piano, and Michal Schmidt, cello, for a program of 20th-century music. Spanning three continents, the program features works by Marcel Bitsch, Jose Vieira Brandáo, Benjamin Britten, Elliot Carter and Henri Tomasi.
Rubendall Recital Hall, Weiss Center for the Arts. Free
Thursday, March 20, 7 p.m.
Lecture: Memorial Mania—Issues of Commemoration and Affect in Contemporary America
Lecture by Erika Doss, professor and chair of the Department of American Studies at the University of Notre Dame. Memorial Mania focuses on the frenzy surrounding memorializing in contemporary America. Concentrating especially on 9/11 memorials, on war memorials and on issues such as fear, terror, security and tribute, this lecture considers how “memorial mania” has
altered the style and substance of America’s contemporary public sphere and assumptions of national identity. Sponsored by the Department of Art & Art History and The Clarke Forum for Contemporary Issues.
Great Room, The Stern Center. Free
Saturday, March 22, 7 p.m.
Faculty Recital: Mary Hannigan, flute, and Barry Hannigan, piano
Mary Hannigan, contributing faculty in flute, and Barry Hannigan, professor of piano at Bucknell University, will present a program featuring compositions that have been written for them, including Dark Zephyrs by Alexandra Pierce and Starry Messenger by Larry Nelson.
Rubendall Recital Hall, Weiss Center for the Arts. Free
Tuesday, March 25, 5 p.m.
Fresh Works
Fresh Works is an informal showing of new works in process by student choreographers creating work for the Dance Theatre Group Spring Concert and guest performance groups. It provides audience members the chance to see inside the creative process and give feedback on choreography as it takes form.
Mathers Theatre, Holland Union Building (HUB). Free
Thursday, March 27, 6:30 p.m.
Lecture: Dynasty and Destiny in an Architectural Context—The Augustan Experiment and the Hadrianic Effect
Lecture by John Pollini, professor of art history and history at the University of Southern California. Pollini’s research focuses on methodologies of classical art and archaeology, ancient history, classical philology, epigraphy and numismatics. In 2006 and 2007, he was awarded
a Guggenheim Fellowship, ACLS Fellowship, and was appointed the Whitehead Professor at the American School of Classical Studies in Athens. Sponsored by the departments of Art & Art History, Classical Studies and Archaeology.
Weiss Center for the Arts, Room 235. Free
Friday, March 28, 8 p.m.
Saturday, March 29, 8 p.m.
Senior Project
An original piece of theatre written, directed and performed by senior theatre arts
majors marks the opening of our spring season at The Cubiculo.
The Cubiculo, Carlisle Theatre, 44 W. High St., 2nd floor. Free
April
April 1–12
Plus/Minus: New Work by Moira Fratantuono ’05
Opening Reception: Tuesday, April 1, 5-7 p.m.
Moira Fratantuono will present an installation of work from the past year as the 2007 Art & Art History Post Baccalaureate Artist-in-Residence. Fratantuono has been influenced by such varied experiences as residing in Ho Chi Min City, Vietnam, to living and working on a central Pennsylvania organic farm. The exhibition will follow an exploration of the nebulous area between abstraction and representation through two-dimensional media.
Goodyear Gallery, Goodyear. Free
Gallery hours are Tuesday-Friday, 3-5 p.m., and Saturday, 2-5 p.m.
Concert: Thursday, April 3, 8:30 p.m.
Symposium: Schedule to be announced
New Mediterranean Symposium/Concert
A world music concert with the band Café Mira of France, Morocco and Italy. The music blends political dissent and virtuosity. The concert will be preceded at 7 p.m. by a culture jam, led by Mark LeVine, a leader of the new generation of scholars and analysts of the modern Middle East and Islam and an award-winning musician. A culture jam is a blend of artists, activists, scholars and audience participation in performance and dialogue. The symposium will address new ways of understanding diaspora and cultural exchange between Europe and Africa through discussions and performances by musicians, writers and cultural critics. Symposium schedule to be announced but will include authors LeVine, Tahar Lamri and Graziella Parati. Presented by The Clarke Forum for Contemporary Issues. Co-sponsors include the French, Italian and Music departments; the Dean of Students; the Multi-Organizational Board (MOB); Student Activities; and the Middle East Center of the University of Pennsylvania.
Concert: Anita Tuvin Schlechter (ATS) Auditorium. Free
Thursday, April 3, noon
Noonday Concert
This concert features students in Dickinson College’s Performance Studies program.
Rubendall Recital Hall, Weiss Center for the Arts. Free
Friday, April 4, 7 p.m.
Florestan Recital Project, Musical Artists-in-Residence:
Songs of the British Isles,The Land of Lost
Musical Artists-in-Residence Florestan Recital Project performs Songs of the British Isles, The
Land of Lost. The performance will feature settings of A. E. Housman’s earthy poems of unrequited love, fleeting youth, grief, death and patriotism, stemming from the soul of a troubled young man. These poems and the myriad songs they inspired have had lasting popularity precisely because of that which they lament: war. Artists perform settings by Britain’s greatest composers of the 20th century alongside world premiere songs by Ned Rorem, John Harbison and others. Joe Dan Harper, tenor; Anne Kissel Harper, piano; Alison d’Amato, piano; and guest artists to be announced.
Rubendall Recital Hall, Weiss Center for the Arts. Free
Sunday, April 6, 4 p.m.
Faculty Recital: Geoffrey Yeh, violin/viola
Geoffrey Yeh, visiting assistant professor of music, is joined by pianist Stella Hsu for a concert of masterworks in the violin/viola repertoire, including those of Mozart, Brahms, Debussy
and Ravel.
Rubendall Recital Hall, Weiss Center for the Arts. Free
April 11–July 3
The Dogon: Spiritual Forces in Action
Opening Reception: Friday, April 11, 4-5 p.m.
This exhibition provides insight into Dogon spirituality through a selection of wood carvings and cast bronze figures. This diverse group of objects from the 19th and 20th centuries includes masks, ceremonial staffs and fertility figures. The objects represent different aspects of Dogon life such as rituals, food production, social organization, identity, fertility and childbearing. This exhibition is curated by Anabella Atach ’08, under the direction of Phillip Earenfight.
The Trout Gallery, Weiss Center for the Arts. Free
Gallery hours are Tuesday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Friday, April 11, 8 p.m.
Saturday, April 12, 8 p.m.
The Weiss Prize: Sara Bookin-Weiner
Every year the Emil and Tamar Weiss Prize in the Creative Arts is awarded in support of a Dickinson senior’s artistic work. This spring, senior Sara Bookin-Weiner will lead an ensemble of actors in the development of an installation and experiential theatre piece based on perceptions of how global warming will manifest itself in the future.
The Cubiculo, Carlisle Theatre, 44 W. High St., 2nd floor. Free
Thursday, April 17, noon
Noonday Concert
This concert features students in Dickinson College’s Performance Studies program.
Rubendall Recital Hall, Weiss Center for the Arts. Free
Sunday, April 20, 4 p.m.
Dickinson College Jazz Ensemble and Symphonic Band
The Dickinson College Jazz Ensemble and Symphonic Band present an evening of Latino music. Guest artist Jason Price will be featured with the Dickinson Jazz Ensemble in the Gil Evans/Miles Davis masterpiece, Sketches of Spain. The Dickinson Symphonic Band will perform works by Aaron Copland, H. Owen Reed and Hector Villa-Lobos.
Carlisle Theatre, 44 W. High St. Free
April 25–July 3
Senior Studio Art Majors Exhibition
Opening Reception: Friday, April 25, 5-7 p.m.
The annual Senior Studio Art Majors Exhibition marks the culmination of a student’s artistic
career at Dickinson College. This exhibition features works by Christian Meade, Leann Leiter,
Tracy Meyer, Selwyn Ramp, Allison Reilly and Tyler Young, under the direction of Assistant
Professor Anthony Cervino.
The Trout Gallery, Weiss Center for the Arts. Free
Gallery hours are Tuesday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Friday, April 25, 8 p.m.
Saturday, April 26, 8 p.m.
Sunday, April 27, 2 p.m.
Dance Theatre Group Spring Concert
Student choreographers team up with the Dance Theatre Group (DTG), Dickinson’s student dance company, to present a program of dynamic new dance works. These compositions harness flights of imagination with concept and craft, painting rhythms, images and ideals on the stage with brushes of movement, light and sound. DTG is under the direction of Rachel Boggia, visiting assistant professor of dance at Dickinson College.
Mathers Theatre, Holland Union Building (HUB). Free
Sunday, April 27, 4 p.m.
Dickinson Orchestra, Choir and Collegium Concert
The Dickinson College Orchestra, Choir and Collegium join to present an abridged version of Bach’s St. Matthew’s Passion, with vocal soloists from Florestan Recital Project, Musical Artists-in-Residence at Dickinson. The concert also features the winner of the student concerto competition, who will perform with the orchestra.
First Lutheran Church, High and Bedford streets. Free
Tuesday, April 29, 8 p.m.
Chamber Music Concert
The concert will showcase students who have been working in chamber ensembles coached by music department faculty.
Rubendall Recital Hall, Weiss Center for the Arts. Free
May
Thursday, May 1, 7 p.m.
West Point Military Academy Band Concert
The United States Military Academy Band performs under the direction of Commander and Conductor Lieutenant Colonel Timothy J. Holtan.
Carlisle Theatre, 44 W. High St. Free