Under the glow of $4 Christmas lights hung by nails found in the lawn, nine young men recline in chairs scavenged from campus. Passing by, you’ll hear any music from Alicia Keys to Dropkick Murphys to XXXTentacion. After construction in Galloway Residence displaced the men who lived on the dorm’s fourth floor, the college gave...
Students claim they don’t have enough time to keep up music in college. Music Department Chairman James Holleman said he would disagree. Twenty-one years ago when he was first hired, only five percent of Hillsdale students participated in the music program. Now, more than 30 percent of students are involved in the music department. “When...
“There is something in the very form of reading — the shape of the action itself — that tends toward virtue.” So writes Karen Swallow Prior in her newest book published last month, “On Reading Well: Finding the Good Life Through Great Books,” speaking of the forming influence of literature in her life. “My deep...
Nobuntu, an a cappella group made up of women from Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, will share their beautiful voices with the community Oct. 10 at College Baptist Church. James Holleman, chair of the Hillsdale College Music Department, said the performance is part of the Professional Artist Series held by the Fine Arts Department. “It’s very unique to...
When Stanley Kubrick released “Barry Lyndon” in 1975, he shocked — and then disappointed — sci-fi-hungry audiences with a costume drama whose action seemed overshadowed by the director’s obsession with the tedious minutia of 18th-century English culture and custom. In his previous two films, “2001: A Space Odyssey” (1968) and “A Clockwork Orange” (1971), Kubrick...