Category: Culture

As I was beginning my eighth year learning the art of singing, my body forced me to stop. Every attempt at a deep breath ended in a sharp pain in the center of my chest.  It constantly felt like a little fat man was sitting in the center of my chest weighing me down so...

The set list for the spring semester Hillsdale College Opera Workshop has been released and the cast announced. “Carmen,” “Les Miserables,” and works by Gilbert and Sullivan are just a few examples of the pieces chosen for the production. Working alongside the music and theatre departments, the Opera Workshop appointed seven student directors who are...

In this December’s performance of Handel’s “Messiah,” the choir will host some visiting talent –– Nick Nestorak ‘11 is returning to campus this year to sing a solo. Nestorak said he first sang in the “Messiah” his sophomore year of college. “At the time it was really nerve-racking,” he said. “It was one of my...

The 25 soloists for this year’s production of Handel’s “Messiah” have been announced, and, for the first time since the piece was performed at Hillsdale College, no faculty will sing a solo. “In 2008 we had stronger vocalists and incorporated them in with the faculty,” Associate Professor of Music James Holleman said. “It was very...

What does it mean to live a good life? If you were being dragged 300-yards underwater toward a rocky shoreline known as “the boneyard” would you be able to answer that? It’s a question we don’t typically associate with surfing, but for Jay Moriarity, a 16-year-old big-wave surfer out of Santa Cruz and his mentor...