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Glee Club performs an adaptation of ecclesiastical poems

February 5, 2012

Courtesy of the Hopkins Center Spaulding Auditorium shook with the resounding opening notes of the medieval monastic song "O Fortuna" on Saturday as the Dartmouth College Glee Club performed Carl Orff's "Carmina Burana" and Aaron Copland's "Old American Songs," which were accompanied by three professional soloists and a guest orchestra. The first half of the program, "Old American Songs," featured two soloists baritone Evan Ross '13 and soprano Amber Dewey '12 performing lively folk music, including the minstrel song "The Boatman's Dance" and the children's song "I Bought Me a Cat." These songs serve as sharp contrasts to the powerful "Carmina Burana" that followed. "The American Songs' were written around the same time, but they have a completely different feel with routes in folk music," conductor Louis Burkot said. "Carmina Burana," translated as "Songs of Benediktbeuren," is an hour-long collection of 12th-century ecclesiastical poems set to music, Burkot said. "The American songs are in English," Burkot said.

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Alumni theater group brings play workshop to campus

By Varun Bhuchar | February 5, 2012

Bentley's Nose, a new theater group formed by Dartmouth alumni, will come to the Hopkins Center this week to perform their play "The Reluctant Lesbian." Throughout the week, Bentley's Nose will work with senior theater majors in a series of workshops that aim to forge alumni and student connections while bridging the gap between graduation and a career in the professional theater world, according to Kate Mulley '05 and Matt Cohn '08, the founders of Bentley's Nose. The workshop organized by Bentley's Nose at Dartmouth will begin on Feb.

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Hop initiates summer piano project

February 1, 2012

This summer, the Hopkins Center will introduce a new public art project called "Hands on Pianos," which will kick off a celebration of the Hopkins Center's 50th anniversary by placing dozens of hand-decorated, donated pianos in unexpected places around the College's campus and the Upper Valley.

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Now Playing in Hanover: "The Artist"

By The Dartmouth Arts Staff | January 29, 2012

Shot completely in black and white, Michel Hazanavicius's silent film "The Artist" depicts the advent of talking films from the perspective of two diverse actors, the silent superstar George Valentin (Jean Dujardin) and talkie upstart Peppy Miller (Berenice Bejo). The most powerful actor in Hollywood when the story begins in 1927, George extends his largesse to offer Peppy a supporting role in one of his silent films.

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‘Fault in Our Stars' offers alternative look into teen angst

By Shannon Draucker | January 24, 2012

There is nothing quite like the experience of reading a novel so enthralling that it propels you to stay up all night furiously flipping through its pages, preoccupies you throughout the school day and motivates you to rush back to your dorm room and neglect your homework until you have devoured every last word.

Dartmouth professor David Newsam, on guitar, performed with vocalist Jenni Cook and other musicians in Rollins Chapel this weekend.
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Newsam performs with Chamberworks at Rollins Chapel

January 22, 2012

Courtesy of musicmanage.org To the universal acclaim of its audience, "David Newsam and Friends" performed on the intimate, stained glass-illuminated stage of Rollins Chapel on Sunday in a concert that featured a series of duets and collaborations inspired by Latin American influences. The concert began with a short introduction of the program by David Newsam, a music professor at the College and a professional guitarist.

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