Vocal students performed scenes from operettas, operas, and plays in the eighth annual Opera Workshop Oct. 25 and 26. “Each night, we sang to a full house and were rewarded with a standing ovation,” said Emily Douglass, co-director of the opera workshop and voice coordinator, opera director, and artist-teacher of music. “This warm response is...
After graduating from Hillsdale in 2017, Lost Mary band members Luke Martin and David Johnson rejected the nine-to-five teaching jobs they were offered and began walking the tracks with packed bags, hoping to hop a train. After walking for four days and seeing no trains, they discovered a crucial problem: Trains had not run on...
When everything from the cereal to the salad bar is fair game, students get creative in the dining hall. Having many meals’ worth of experience, they shared tricks to making Metz’s food in the Knorr Family Dining Room to their taste. Saga’s soft-serve ice cream machines are many students’ favorite, but some put a twist...
Voice faculty and students are bringing a bite-sized opera experience to campus with the annual opera workshop. The workshop will be at 7:30 p.m. on Oct. 25 and 26 in McNamara Rehearsal Hall at Howard Music Hall, with no tickets required. Student vocalists will perform scenes from various operas and musicals in the original languages,...
When was the last good Coldplay album? Throughout its 10 album discography, Coldplay has taken fans on a rollercoaster of sounds and styles, culminating recently in “Moon Music,” released Oct. 4, an upbeat but ultimately underwhelming album with more forgettable tracks than not. Since the 2014 hit “Sky Full of Stars,” the penultimate song of...