Orchestra concerts are always team events. But at the Hillsdale College symphony orchestra’s two spring concerts, four virtuosos will get the chance to shine solo. Last Monday, the Music Department announced the winners of their annual concerto and aria competition. Out of the 23 hopefuls who auditioned, sophomore violinist Tova Forman and junior mezzo soprano...
Author: Andrew Egger (Andrew Egger)
Death of a Salesman
Brace yourself, theatergoers: This is a lot more “Mother Courage” than “The Drowsy Chaperone.” The Tower Players enraptured their audience in Markel Auditorium last night with their opening performance of Arthur Miller’s 1949 masterpiece “Death of a Salesman.” The play, which runs through Sunday, is one of the greatest and best-known works of American theater....
Bob Dylan’s Nobel Prize in Literature is right and noble
Bob Dylan just won a Nobel Prize in literature. It’s exactly the kind of lifetime achievement award such an endlessly inventive and prolific artist as Dylan deserves. Of course, everyone is mad about it. In The New York Times, Anna North laments that the selection committee passed over “writers who have made significant innovations...
City repairs roads near campus before winter hits
Hillsdale’s Department of Public Services has finished its autumn road maintenance projects on streets in the city and near Hillsdale College. Between Nov. 3 and Nov. 10, DPS crews and contractors repaired minor damage on Manning, River, Hillsdale, and West streets on both sides of Carleton Road to prevent conditions from worsening. They will also...
What’s next for Never Trumpers?
During the campaign season, we Never Trumpers said that Trump was a despicable man, that he did not truly hold conservative values, that he would lead our country in a deeply misguided direction, and that he could never beat Hillary Clinton. We were wrong about at least one of these things. Trump ended up defeating...