March
Jeffrey Turner
Tuesday, March 4, 7 p.m.
Sweet 'n' Low: Double-Bass Recital
Rubendall Recital Hall, Weiss Center for the Arts
Double-bassist Gabriel Katz joins with Jeffrey Turner, principal bassist of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, and pianist Jennifer Blyth to present an eclectic repertoire of works by Donovan Stokes, Francois Rabbath, Ernest Bloch, Max Bruch and Giovanni Bottesini.
Thursday, March 6, 7 p.m.
"Birth of Eve" by Judith Schaechter
The Jane L. and Robert H. Weiner Lecture in the Fine Arts
Rubendall Recital Hall, Weiss Center for the Arts
World-renowned stained-glass artist Judith Schaechter has works in the permanent collections of the Renwick Gallery (Washington, D.C.), the Victoria and Albert Museum (London) and the Museum of Art and Design (New York); she also is a recipient of Guggenheim, Pew and National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) fellowships. Schaechter will speak about her work, the importance of skill in art and the relationship between art and craft.
Learn more about the spring 2014 artists-in-residence.
Thursday, March 20, noon
Noonday Concert
Rubendall Recital Hall, Weiss Center for the Arts
This concert features students in Dickinson's performance-studies program.
Saturday, March 22, 7 p.m.
Faculty Recital: James Hontz, guitar
Rubendall Recital Hall, Weiss Center for the Arts
Dickinson contributing faculty member James Hontz presents a concert highlighting 500 years of music written for solo guitar. The program includes works by J.S. Bach, Napoléon Coste, Augustin Barrios Mangore, Francesco da Milano and more.
March 25-28
Residency: JACK Quartet
Artist-in-residence JACK Quartet joins the Dickinson community for master classes, workshops, lectures and roundtable discussions. For more information contact Stacy Rohrer at (717) 245-1568 or rohrers@dickinson.edu.
Learn more about the spring 2014 artists-in-residence.
JACK Quartet
Friday, March 28, 7 p.m.
Concert: JACK Quartet
Rubendall Recital Hall,
Weiss Center for the Arts
Artist-in-Residence JACK Quartet brings its "explosive virtuosity" (Boston Globe) to a concert that places Gregorian chant in dialogue with current works written for string quartet. The program was a featured concert at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2012.
Learn more about the spring 2014 artists-in-residence.
"The spaciousness of the works drew attention to the superb playing of the quartet and especially to its [glowing] sound."
-The New York Times
Sunday, March 30, 4 p.m.
Weiss Prize Concert: Night and Day
Rubendall Recital Hall, Weiss Center for the Arts
The Emil R. and Tamar Weiss Prize in the Creative Arts, established in 1986, is awarded annually to students majoring in English (creative-writing emphasis), theatre & dance, art & art history or music. This year's recipients, seniors Stephen Reale, Alexander Strenta and David Cochrane, present Night and Day, a concert featuring works composed by Reale and Strenta and conducted by Cochrane.