Song: “It Makes No Difference” by The Band (1975) It’s a song about lost love. The Band was popular in the 1960s and ’70s and this song was performed in a documentary about them by Martin Scorsese. Rick Danko was the lead vocalist on it. It’s one of my favorite vocal performances of...
Music: “St. Matthew’s Passion” by Johann Sebastian Bach (1727) I loved barbaric genres of all kinds. Like the ancient slaves herded on before Xerxes’s whips, modern man beats and wrecks his eardrums to prod himself to exertion and listens to depressing slop to heal his broken soul. I no longer listen to angry and depressing...
Freshman Yvonne Botha swims. Courtesy | Yvonne Botha Freshman Yvonne Botha traveled more than 8,000 miles from South Africa to southern Michigan to take advantage of both the academic and athletic opportunities in America that were unavailable in her native country. Botha is from Limpopo, South Africa, the northernmost province of a country known for...
Matthew Bengtson is a concert pianist, professor, and composer. He is an associate professor of music at the University of Michigan, and he is working on recording a second album with Sierra. John McLaughlin Williams is a Grammy Award winning composer and a concert violinist, pianist, and chamber musician. What was your musical background growing...
Hillsdale students in Israel for a Passages trip. Courtesy | Turner Callaghan Amid the Israel-Hamas War, six students traveled overseas with the tour guide company Passages to visit biblical sites and volunteer in the Jewish communities. “They tried to be very intentional about the safety of going to Israel,” said Jeffery “Chief” Rogers, associate dean...