October 2016
Saturday, Oct. 1, 7 p.m.
Amernet String Quartet
Rubendall Recital Hall, Weiss Center for the Arts
The Amernet String Quartet returns to campus for an evening of music featuring a work by Robert Pound.
"Intelligent ... immensely satisfying ... the quality of unjaded discovery came through so vividly." -The New York Times
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Michael Yoder, Joan of Arc, 2016.
Oct. 4-29
Opening Reception: Tuesday, Oct. 4, 5:30-7 p.m.
Michael Yoder: Kahn Project
Goodyear Gallery, Goodyear Building (Cedar Street entrance)
Gallery hours: Tuesday-Friday, 3-5 pm; Saturday, 2-5 p.m.
Philadelphia-based artist Michael Yoder will exhibit paintings and works on paper from his ongoing investigation of Louis Kahn's unrealized vision for Center City Philadelphia.
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Sunday, Oct. 9, 4 p.m.
Faculty Recital: Jonathan Hays
Rubendall Recital Hall, Weiss Center for the Arts
Visiting Instructor in Voice Jonathan Hays and guest pianist Rachelle Jonck perform a recital of French, Italian, German and American songs.
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Thursday, Oct. 20, noon
Noonday Concert
Rubendall Recital Hall, Weiss Center for the Arts
This concert features students in Dickinson's performance studies program.
Friday, Oct. 21, 7 p.m.
Faculty Recital: Douglas Buchanan
First Evangelical Lutheran Church, corner of Bedford and High streets
Contributing faculty member Douglas Buchanan presents his original composition Welkinharmonie for solo organ. Hailed for his "sense of creative imperative" (The Philadelphia Inquirer) and for music "filled with terrific orchestral color and weight, not to mention feeling," (The Baltimore Sun) Buchanan's compositions create a ritual space in which transformation and wonder are fostered.
Welkinharmonie, or "sky-sounds," is a concert-length work featuring poetry by the composer that enacts the mythic cycle of creation, preservation and destruction by exploring the boundaries between sound and sense.
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Thursday, Oct. 27, noon
Noonday Concert
Rubendall Recital Hall, Weiss Center for the Arts
This concert features students in Dickinson's performance studies program.
Friday, Oct. 28, 7 p.m.
An Evening With the Faculty Jazz Ensemble With Guest Tom Strohman, Saxophone
Social Hall, Holland Union BuildingThis concert features tunes from the Great American Songbook and jazz favorites in a relaxed and jazzy atmosphere.
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Oct. 28, 29, 31 and Nov. 1, 8 p.m.
Three Sisters by Anton Chekhov
Mathers Theatre, Holland Union Building
$7, or $5 with Student ID
The Prozorov sisters yearn to go to Moscow. But is it the distance of Moscow or the bland predictability of life in provincial Russia that challenges them the most? Chekhov is universally admired for his rich portraits of everyday people trying to make sense of everyday questions, and in this-one of his finest works-we see his eye for human detail in fine form. Filled with insight, humor, grit and melancholy, "The Three Sisters" earns its reputation as one of the most notable plays in modern drama.
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- Theatre & Dance Special Programs
- Theatre & Dance Season at a Glance
- "Fanciful, Unforgettable and Edgy" (spring 2016)
- "A Night at the Olive Garden" (fall 2015)
- Online Box Office
Oct. 28-Feb. 18
Reception: Friday, Oct. 28, 5-7 p.m.
José Guadalupe Posada: The Broadside in Early Twentieth-Century Mexico
José Guadalupe Posada (1852-1913) was one of Mexico's most influential political printmakers and cartoonists. He is best known for his satirical representations of calaveras (skeletons) in lively guises, which have become associated with the Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) celebrations. The works for this exhibition are generously on loan from David Sellers P '06. See associated lecture below.
Oct. 28, 4 p.m.
Lecture: José Guadalupe Posada and the Mexican Broadside
The Trout Gallery, Weiss Center for the Arts
This lecture, delivered by Trout Gallery guest-curator Diane Miliotes, will be held immediately before the opening reception to the related exhibition, José Guadalupe Posada: The Broadside in Early Twentieth-Century Mexico.
All events are open to the public and are free, unless otherwise noted. Events listed in the Calendar of Arts are subject to change. Please contact the appropriate department prior to an event to confirm that it will take place as listed.