March
March 4–March 28
Through the Lens: Studies in Photography
Opening Reception: Wednesday, March 4, 5-7 p.m.
Through a series of significant donations, The Trout Gallery has been building an important collection of photographs. This exhibition presents more than 50 photographs from the collection and is curated by Dickinson College senior art history majors: Tess Arntsen, Kristin Beach, Jennings Culver, Kendall Friedman, Elizabeth Grazioli, Flannery Peterson, Madelyn Priest, Sarah Quin, Kristen Rudy, Casey Schaffer, Lucy Stirn and Hana Thomson, 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.
March 17–April 4
Christian Meade ’08 and Selwyn Ramp ’08: (un)covered
Opening Reception: Tuesday, March 17, 5-7 p.m.
Through the use of photography and sculpture, the artists explore notions of perceived identity and change caused by the passage of time. Meade and Ramp, 2008-09 Dickinson College Art & Art History Post Baccalaureate Artists-in-Residence, will be available during the opening reception to discuss their work.
Goodyear Gallery, Goodyear Building. Free
Gallery Hours are Tuesday through Friday, 3 to 5 p.m.; Saturday, 2 to 5 p.m.
Thursday, March 19, noon
Noonday Concert
This concert features students in Dickinson College’s Performance Studies program.
Rubendall Recital Hall, Weiss Center for the Arts. Music Department Free
Friday, March 20, 7 p.m.
Florestan Recital Project, Musical Artists-in-Residence: Sacred and Profane
Florestan Recital Project: Joe Dan Harper, tenor; Anne Kissel Harper, piano; Aaron Engebreth, baritone; Alison d’Amato, piano.
From the middle ages to contemporary culture, composers and audiences have shared devotion to the divine and temptation to the torrid. Join Florestan Recital Project, Musical Artists-in-Residence at Dickinson College, for a musical homage to the sacred and profane, ranging from songs with anonymous medieval texts to two of Benjamin Britten’s most powerful cycles on religious and secular themes: The Holy Sonnets of John Donne and the caustic Songs and Proverbs of William Blake.
Rubendall Recital Hall, Weiss Center for the Arts. Music Department Free
Saturday, March 28, 7 p.m.
Recital: John Orfe and Sergio Pallottelli
Sergio Pallottelli, flute, and John Orfe, piano, perform music by Beethoven, LaMontaine, Orfe
and South American folksongs.
Rubendall Recital Hall, Weiss Center for the Arts. Music Department Free
April
Friday, April 3, 8 p.m.
Saturday, April 4, 8 p.m.
Monday, April 6, 8 p.m.
Tuesday, April 7, 8 p.m.
Mermaid Players: Machinal by Sophie Treadwell
Directed by Karen Lordi-Kirkham and presented by the Department of Theatre & Dance and the Mermaid Players, Machinal (French for “mechanical”) is a modern-era tragedy of isolation leading to murder that was a major hit when it opened on Broadway in 1928. Author Sophie Treadwell said the play was about “… a young woman, ready, eager for life, for love … but deadened, squeezed, crushed by the machine-like quality of the life surrounding her.” Loosely based on the sensational 1927 murder trial of Ruth Snyder, Machinal is a classic of expressionistic theatre that rails against the increasingly mechanized, industrial and inhuman world in a remarkably contemporary way.
“…a triumph of individual distinction, gleaming with intangible beauty…an illuminating, measured drama such as we are not likely to see again.”
— The New York Times, 1928
Mathers Theatre, Holland Union Building (HUB). $5; $3 for student advance purchase
Tuesday, April 7, 7:30 p.m.
Belfer Creative Writing Lectureship
Poetry reading: Cleopatra Mathis
Mathis was born and raised in Ruston, Louisiana, of Greek and Cherokee descent. Her first five books of poetry were published by Sheep Meadow Press. A sixth collection of poems, White Sea, was published by Sarabande Books in 2005. Her work has appeared in anthologies, textbooks, magazines and journals, including The New Yorker, Poetry, American Poetry Review, Tri-Quarterly, The Southern Review, The Georgia Review, The Made Thing: An Anthology of Contemporary Southern Poetry, The Extraordinary Tide: Poetry by American Women and The Practice of Poetry. Mathis has won numerous prizes and awards for her work. She is the Frederick Sessions Beebe Professor of the Art of Writing at Dartmouth College, where she has directed the Creative Writing Program since 1982. Sponsored by the Department of English.
Memorial Hall, Old West. Free
Thursday, April 9, 7:30 p.m.
Lecture: Venus in the House of Mars—Martial Imagery in Monteverdi’s “Madrigali Guerrieri et Amorosi” (1638)
Massimo Ossi, Indiana University
Massimo Ossi, associate professor and chair of musicology at Indiana University, has been published on the topics of seventeenth-century Italian music theory and aesthetics, Italian lyric poetry (1570-1650) and the late Italian madrigal. His articles have garnered awards from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Musicological Society, and he is the author of Divining the Oracle: Aspects of Monteverdi’s Seconda Prattica (Chicago, 2003). Co-sponsored by the Department of Medieval & Early Modern Studies.
Room 235, Weiss Center for the Arts. Music Department Free
Saturday, April 11, 7 p.m.
Violin Recital: Geoffrey Yeh
Participants: Geoffrey Yeh, violin; Stella Hsu, piano; Elisabeth Stimpert, clarinet.
Yeh returns to Dickinson to perform works from a variety of ethnic backgrounds and eras.
Rubendall Recital Hall, Weiss Center for the Arts. Music Department Free
Wednesday, April 15, 8 p.m.
Guest Artists Il Furioso: Battaglia d’amore: Songs by Castaldi, Caccini and late-Renaissance lute music
Gian Paolo Fagotto, tenor; Victor Coelho and David Dolata, lute and theorbo.
An international collaboration of musicians, Il Furioso specializes in virtuoso Renaissance and early Italian Baroque music for voices, lutes and harpsichord, rediscovered through research of Il Furioso lutenists and musicologists David Dolata and Victor Coelho.
Memorial Hall, Old West. Music Department Free
Thursday, April 16, noon
Noonday Concert
This concert features students in Dickinson College’s Performance Studies program.
Rubendall Recital Hall, Weiss Center for the Arts. Music Department Free
Friday, April 17, 7 p.m.
Dickinson College Symphonic Band and Jazz Band Concert
Dickinson College students will present an evening of music for winds, brass and percussion under the direction of Michael Clayville.
Carlisle Theatre, 44 W. High St. Music Department Free
Sunday, April 19, 4 p.m.
Dickinson Collegium Concert: Erato’s Delight—The Music and Poetry of Renaissance Italy
This program will explore the rich tradition of the madrigal, sixteenth-century secular love poetry set to music by the greatest composers of the era. The program is linked to Professor of Music Blake Wilson’s seminar on Renaissance music and poetics and is part of an interrelated group of special events, including public lectures by visiting scholars Anthony Cummings (Lafayette College) on February 12 and Massimo Ossi (Indiana University) on April 9 and a concert by the ensemble Il Furioso on April 15.
Memorial Hall, Old West. Music Department Free
Senior Studio Art Majors Exhibition: I April 10–April 25
Senior Studio Art Majors Exhibition: II May 1–July 11
Opening Receptions: Friday, April 10, 5-7 p.m. and Friday, May 1, 5-7 p.m.
The annual Senior Studio Art Majors Exhibitions mark the culmination of a student’s artistic career at Dickinson College. These exhibitions feature works by Marjorie Blann, Clare Cooper, Maxie Etess, Parry Grimm, Melissa Haimowitz, Tacincala Hidaka, Navajeet K.C., Judith Lopez, Joshua Salim, Kristan Saloky, Rachel Warren and Flannery Peterson, under the direction of Todd Arsenault, with Andrew Bale, Anthony Cervino, Ward Davenny and Barbara Diduk.
The Trout Gallery, Weiss Center for the Arts. Free
Gallery hours are Tuesday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Friday, April 24, 8 p.m.
Saturday, April 25, 8 p.m.
Sunday, April 26, 2 p.m.
Dance Theatre Group’s 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. This year’s choreographic collection
promises to be personal, political, poetic and profound. DTG is under the direction of Sarah Skaggs, director of dance at Dickinson College.
Mathers Theatre, Holland Union Building (HUB). $5; $3 for student advance purchase
Sunday, April 26, 4 p.m.
Dickinson Orchestra and Choir: Orff’s Carmina Burana
The Dickinson Orchestra and College Choir join forces in the stately Carlisle Theatre for this presentation of Carl Orff’s twentieth-century choral masterpiece, the Carmina Burana. A highly dramatic and theatrical work, the Carmina Burana features soloists Aaron Engebreth (baritone) and Elizabeth Weigle (soprano) of the Florestan Recital Project. The concert also features the winner of the student concerto competition.
Carlisle Theatre, 44 W. High St. Music Department Free
April 28–May 9
Annual Studio Students Exhibition
Opening Reception: Tuesday, April 28, 5-7 p.m.
Works from Dickinson’s various art studios—ceramics, painting, drawing, printmaking, photography, 3-D sculpture and welding—will be represented in this annual art party. Celebrate the end of the school year with beautiful art.
Goodyear Gallery, Goodyear Building. Free
Gallery Hours are Tuesday through Friday, 3 to 5 p.m.; Saturday, 2 to 5 p.m.
Tuesday, April 28, 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