Three billboards hover above a country road outside Ebbing, Missouri, and an entire country’s social issues — race, rape, misogyny, poverty — cling to them like peeling paint. When I saw “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri” on a cold Midwestern night a few weeks ago, I didn’t move for ten minutes afterward, for shock. I...
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...
Channeling the Upper Peninsula stereotype centered on beer, guns, and lots of flannel, the Sauk Theatre’s most recent production “Escanaba in Da Moonlight” features Hillsdale College’s own admissions counselor, Matt Sauer ’16. “I had heard of the play before being a part of the production, when I had accidentally rented the movie during middle...
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...
While preparing for his art show, it’s not been unusual for senior Isaac Dell to be in the studio for 12 hours a day. Dell has been working many, many hours to get all of his pieces ready for his senior art exhibit. Dell’s artwork will be on display in the Daughtrey Gallery in the...