During Pizza Jam students perform with professional musicians. Courtesy | Sophia Bryant While snow covered the ground outside, pizza and jazz warmed McNamara Hall the night of Nov. 9 as students gathered to play or sing with professional jazz musicians at Pizza Jam. Trumpeter Fred Radke, bassist Paul Keller, pianist Terry Lower, and Adjunct Instructor...
Junior Nick Heide started playing jazz piano during middle school in Las Vegas. Now he skips campus weekly to play professional gigs in Ann Arbor, Detroit, and Toledo. “If you love something enough, everything kind of falls in place to make it happen,” Heide said. Heide’s first teacher played on the Las Vegas strip and...
Featuring original music by Hillsdale alumnus Ethan Graham ’25, “The Book of Will” explores how English playwright William Shakespeare lives on through his writings. The Tower Players will premiere the historic account of Shakespeare’s friends collecting his writings in “The Book of Will,” written by American playwright and screenwriter Lauren Gunderson, this week with performances...
How do you structure the creative writing class you teach here? Here we divide the class into two, the semester is 16 weeks approximately, and about eight weeks is craft. The point is to teach the students how to read creatively, as opposed to other kinds of reading. There’s reading for leisure: for instance, you...
Tilly Norwood is not a real person. Courtesy | Tilly Norwood Instagram Tilly Norwood looks like any other Hollywood hopeful. She’s pretty, slim, brunette, and age can’t touch her. Seriously. That’s because “she” is not human. Norwood is the first AI-generated actress being marketed to talent studios for film. Based on the handful of clips...