With 40 students now participating in its jazz program, the music department hired a new trombone professor and vocal instructor this semester. “The program continues to grow and get better,” Director of Jazz Ensembles Chris McCourry said. The music department is allocating more time and resources to the jazz program. McCourry said he is confident...
The first annual Wombstock music festival will kick off Saturday. Located on the lawn of a local off-campus house named the Womb, at 36 E Fayette St., the festival plays off the legendary music festival Woodstock, and will feature music from local bands and musicians and those who hail from as far away as Chicago...
This past Fourth of July, I was driving with my brother through Oxon Hill in Prince George’s County, one of the last vestiges of Washington, D.C.’s old go-go culture, now dislocated by gentrification to southern Maryland. My brother kept commenting on the dinkiness of it all: the carryout soul-food restaurants, the clothes lines outside the...
With the construction of Christ Chapel, Hillsdale College is developing a sacred music program. The program will allow students to study the multi-denominational facets within sacred music, though the exact capacity of the program as a major, minor, or concentration has yet to be decided. Within the chapel, plans include new music services such as...
With just under a month until the unveiling of the Frederick Douglass statue, the sculpture’s mold is ready. The dedication ceremony for the project that was announced in 2014 will take place in Kresge Plaza on May 12, Chief Staff Officer Mike Harner said. Until then, the statue is being casted and will then travel...