For the first time in Hillsdale history, the Hillsdale College Big Band competed in a Battle of the Bands against the Harry James Orchestra. On Wednesday, Nov. 10, students in the Big Band, directed by Chris McCourry, bonded with the professional musicians over their shared love of jazz music. “You could see how impressed the...
As a single man, few things get me excited for possible existential heartbreak. But one of those things is Taylor Swift’s new album “Red (Taylor’s Version).” I am a complete sucker for 2010s pop: Taylor Swift, Adele, and Katy Perry. You name it, I listened to it. For this reason, I keep my pop mix...
The Hillsdale College symphony orchestra will hold its winter performance on Nov. 20 and 21 in Christ Chapel, featuring faculty soloists Brad Blackham and Emily Douglass. Blackham, an artist-teacher of piano and director of keyboard studies for the college, will be performing Ravel’s “Piano Concerto in D Major (for the Left Hand.)” “It was commissioned...
The day before speaking at Hillsdale’s fall convocation, renowned poet Dana Gioia read a selection of his own works to a group of students and faculty. At the event, Gioia followed his poetry readings by answering questions from the audience and signing books, engaging in further discussion with the group. The event organizer, associate professor...
The new student-run magazine on campus first passed into readers’ hands in September. Its name? Simply, “The Magazine.” Senior Aidan Cyrus and junior Noah Hoonhout said that, while campus publications like the Collegian, Tower Light, and The Hillsdale Forum provide campus with news, literature, and intellectual essays, they saw room for a culture magazine that...