Featuring two winners of the annual Concerto/Aria Competition, the Hillsdale College Symphony Orchestra will perform its first concert of the semester on Thursday. The concert will begin at 8 p.m. in Markel Auditorium. Ticket reservations should be made by contacting the Sage Center Box Office either by phone or email. The program includes Bedřich Smetana’s...
Category: Howard Hall of Music
Violins and virtuosos
Saint-Saëns wrote the piece for a virtuoso. The composer’s “Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso,” performed by junior Tova Forman in last month’s Concerto/Aria Competition, was meant to test the limits of both instrument and musician. Fingers fly across the strings, stunning the audience with swift, intricate bow strokes and dramatic shifts between fiery enthusiasm and tender...
Flute like a fiddle
When flutist Clara Fishlock auditioned for the 2018 Concerto/Aria Competition, she channeled the sound of bow hairs grating on strings rather than the hushed whispers floating from a flute. The junior history and French major drew her musical inspiration from the violin rather than the flute to preserve the heart of the piece, which she...
Orchestra performs ‘Reformation’
The Hillsdale College Symphony Orchestra opens its 67th season this weekend with a diverse repertoire featuring works from the 19th and 20th centuries, highlighted by Felix Mendelssohn’s “Symphony No. 5 in D major,” also known as the “Reformation” symphony. The Orchestra will perform on Saturday at 8 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m. in Markel...
Faculty duo performs piano and percussion
As campus says hello to autumn, faculty duo ReadyGO will reminisce on summer with a performance featuring “Makrokosmos III: Music for a Summer Evening” by avant-garde composer George Crumb. ReadyGO — comprised of teachers of music Stacey Jones-Garrison on percussion and Brad Blackham on piano — will be performing at 8 p.m. on Saturday in...