Auditions are finished, the cast is decided, and the Hillsdale College theater department has released its final list of upcoming performances, including “The Trojan Women” and “Medea.” Both plays were written by the Greek playwright Euripides. With only four weeks until the premiere, preparations have already begun for “The Trojan Women,” with both new and...
The 25 soloists for this year’s production of Handel’s “Messiah” have been announced, and, for the first time since the piece was performed at Hillsdale College, no faculty will sing a solo. “In 2008 we had stronger vocalists and incorporated them in with the faculty,” Associate Professor of Music James Holleman said. “It was very...
It’s a disgusting, excellent work. Seldom do those two adjectives belong next to each other in a sentence, but it’s the best way to describe Nathan Harden’s new book “Sex and God at Yale.” It’s a curious combination — a memoir mixed with a devastatingly thorough exposé of the ongoing moral decay at Yale. In...
After twelve competitors braved their way through a night of auditions on Sept. 6., sophomore Carrie Blanton and freshman Dani Shillingstad were announced the newest vocalists in Hillsdale College’s Jazz Band. “Those two singers just gave me goosebumps,” Director of Jazz Studies and Trumpet Instructor Chris McCourry said. McCourry asked auditioners to sing “My Funny...
Up until a few weeks ago, someone would mention the words “teen singer” and immediately my mind would fill with Taylor Swift’s thin voice singing “Love Story,” or, worse, the grating strains of Rebecca Black’s Friday. But thanks to Jasmine “Birdy” Van den Bogaerde, a fifteen-year-old indie artist, my hope for talented youth is renewed....