Jazzman Leon Bates will spice up Gershwin menu
How do you begin to describe a paragon? "Brilliant, powerful, a virtuouso." "Elegant, interpretive, one of the great ones." Certainly these would be accurate.
How do you begin to describe a paragon? "Brilliant, powerful, a virtuouso." "Elegant, interpretive, one of the great ones." Certainly these would be accurate.
If there is a foot of snow on every inch of the 106 miles of road in the Hanover area, it would fill Webster Hall more than 250 times. Together, the College and the town of Hanover are charged with the task of plowing, shoveling, salting and sanding to keep the roads and sidewalks safe after a snowstorm. The town expects to use 1,700 tons of salt; 5,000 tons of sand; and spend more than $118,000 in snow removal efforts this year, Highway Superintendent Leo Hamill said. Last year the College spent over $400,000 to get rid of its share of the snow, according to John Gratiot, associate director of facilities, operations and management.
Subway, a popular national chain of sandwich shops, recently moved into the same building as Ben and Jerry's on Lebanon Street. Subway opened in the middle of December, Owner Jamie Parker said.
A Dartmouth classic reconvenes this Thursday at Webster Hall. The Chamber Singers' extravagant 'Feast of Song' opens tomorrow for an extended run, Jan.
The Studio Art Department has a renowned set of artists on display this month. Four new exhibits will open in the Hopkins Center exhibition area. The exhibits will include works of resident artist Pat Adams, Luciana Frigerio, Pat Kennan and Duncan Hewitt. Adams' exhibit, which opened yesterday in the Jaffe-Friede and Strauss Galleries, consists primarily of oils on linen and acrylics on paper. Adams graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of California at Berkeley in 1949 and was later awarded a Fulbright Scholarship for travel in France. She has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and has won the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters' Hassam purchase award four times. She will give a lecture in Loew Auditorium January 18 at 4:30 p.m.
The first solo exhibition of the works of James Gillray, an 18th century caricaturist, opened on Saturday at the Hood Museum of Art and focuses on his political caricatures. "James Gillray: Prints by the Eighteenth-Century Master of Caricature," was organized by Katherine Hart, curator of academic programming.
The Dartmouth Film Society honored John Michael Hayes, a Hollywood screenwriter and professor of Film Studies at the College in a tribute which included a sneak preview of his exciting new film, "Iron Will" in Spaulding Auditorium last Saturday. Hayes has long been regarded as one of the film industry's most talented and distinguished screenwriters, best known for his collaboration with Alfred Hitchcock in the 1950s on such films as "Rear Window" and "The Man Who Knew Too Much." Before his work with Hitchcock, Hayes had an extensive career writing for radio and screen and was known for the ability to adapt important plays and novels which were judged to be unfilmable. Hayes' work is known for its strong dialogue, character depth, classic structure, wit and humanity.
The Hanover Post Office recently expanded its facilities in order to accommodate the increasing population of the town and the demand for more post office boxes by College students. The $13,000 renovations, funded by the U.S.
John Michael Hayes, a Hollywood screenwriter and professor of film studies at the College, will be presented with the Dartmouth Film Award at a Dartmouth Film Society tribute in Spaulding Auditorium at 7:30 p.m.
If you could think of twenty movies you would really like to see this term what would they be? Well, the Dartmouth Film Society as usual tries to answer just that question and this term comes up with an unusually interesting selection, addressing provocative issues of race, sex, nationality and experience in a series named "Border Crossings." "Civilization is, and always has been, divided by a series of boundaries," claims the Film Society in it's description of the Winter term film calendar.
A spotlight parts the darkness, revealing a muscular female figure, black hair amuck and bared torso slick with what appears to be blood. "Were you a witness?" she intones throatily, then commences to sing, shriek, whisper, cackle, gasp and ululate, conjuring visions of a soul in hell.
While Dartmouth's football team proved to us all that you don't need an Ivy League crown to call a season successful, the league title certainly helped women's soccer. Best of luck to all the teams for the rest of the year.
Dartmouth's a capella groups typically perform in front of a standing-room only crowd during their concerts. Two acts, the Dartmouth Decibelles and the Dartmouth Aires, released albums earlier this term so groupies can listen to the musical talent of these groups in the comfort of their own rooms. Although both albums are well produced, the magic of a live performances -- a key ingredient to both groups' concerts -- can never be reproduced on tape, but all fans should definitely add these albums to their collections. Twenty-three songs appear on "Aires to the Throne," the latest album by the popular Dartmouth Aires.
Saturday evening the Barbary Coast jazz ensemble paid tribute to Sun Ra, the innovative pianist and composer who died this past May. Under the direction of Music Professor Don Glasgo, the ensemble rendered a selection of Ra's compositions with tremendous energy and conviction, captivating an audience of nearly 500. Improvisation and syncopation are two fundamentals of jazz that come out in Ra's work. Guest artists Micael Ray and Marshall Jackson, on trumpet and alto saxophone respectively, performed extraordinary solo passages rich in technical proficiency and the expressive possibilities of both instruments. Particularly memorable was "Discipline 27/ No.
Avant-garde performance artist Diamanda Galas will perform "Judgement Day," an emotionally charged, solo stage production about the AIDS epidemic, tonight in Spaulding Auditorium at 8 p.m. The classically trained singer and pianist uses everything from biblical passages to parodies of fundamentalist preachers in her criticism of how the disease is dealt with by many Americans. Shock is an integral part of Galas's shows.
Anyone who has crossed the Green alone at night and listened for the laughter and footsteps of past Dartmouth students in the rustling leaves should read Robert Graham's "The Dartmouth Story." The book, published in 1990, was given to incoming freshman at convocation, but is a good read for anyone that has spent time at the College. While leading the reader on a historical tour of the Dartmouth campus, Graham first explains the history of the College and then reveals interesting facts such as the origins of the College's name and motto, former functions of the Colleges' buildings and the stories behind campus traditions such as 4 o'clock tea at Sanborn Library. Graham discovered these hidden aspects of the College through fours years of intense research and 20 years of casual questioning. The author begins his proverbial tour at Dartmouth Row, which he refers to as the "crown jewel" of the campus.
It's about time for the final art history slide reviews, which are students last chance to see the hundreds of works of art that flashed by on the screen throughout the term.
Friday night's concert of the Dartmouth College Chamber Singers and Arcadia players at Rollins Chapel, presented a variety of musical styles with equally various successes. At the heart of the problem were the French chansons (songs), performed a Capella.
Women outline avenues of involvement as part of hunger awareness week
If you have passed through the Hopkins Center's front doors lately, you may have noticed the colorful weavings currently displayed in the rotunda.