As a musician, Luke Woltanski never fit into a category. His piano teacher once refused to teach him because he was too inventive during lessons. He admits playing “normal music” is difficult for him, but being unconventional has served him well so far. Woltanski, a freshman studying biology at Hillsdale College, independently recorded three albums...
Bob Dylan just won a Nobel Prize in literature. It’s exactly the kind of lifetime achievement award such an endlessly inventive and prolific artist as Dylan deserves. Of course, everyone is mad about it. In The New York Times, Anna North laments that the selection committee passed over “writers who have made significant innovations...
The Hillcats Faculty Jazz Ensemble will rock the Markel Auditorium with rock beats and electronic instruments as they perform a concert of jazz-fusion music this Friday, Oct. 28, at 8 p.m. With a program full of jazz blended with classical, funk, and rock elements, Lecturer in Music and saxophonist Jonathon Gewirtz said this concert...
This Saturday evening, the women of Sigma Alpha Iota will hold their fall concert, “A Little Night Music,” at 8 p.m. in the Howard Music Building’s McNamara Rehearsal Hall. The concert, expected to last about an hour and a half, will feature 14 acts. “A lot of the music is more geared toward night music...
Hillsdale College has a growing permanent art collection with no permanent home. This is a blot on the college’s liberal arts reputation that can only be resolved by building a gallery for the collection. Although the collection is not large, it includes a wide breadth of artworks from different times and cultures — everything...