Although the Hillsdale College Choir and Chamber Choir typically perform with limited accompaniment, a variety of instrumentalists, from cellists and harpists to marimbas and an alto flute, will join them this weekend. Both choirs perform their annual spring concerts from 3-5 p.m. Sunday at College Baptist Church. String, percussion, brass, and woodwind instruments will accompany...
Category: Sage Center of the Arts
Pianist with perfect pitch
At 7:40 p.m. on a Saturday, junior Thomas Ryskamp was sitting in his bedroom when he got a phone call from a singer in distress. It was the fall of 2017, the evening of Sigma Alpha Iota’s concert, and junior Shiloh Carozza had no one to play piano alongside her. Things hadn’t worked out with...
Celebrating the last four years with ‘The Last Five’
On Thursday senior Glynis Gilio will fulfill her 10-year-long dream: to perform the musical “The Last Five Years.” Gilio’s passion for singing developed in middle school when she attended a fine arts camp in northern Michigan. During the those two summers she learned about Jason Robert Brown and his 2001 musical “The Last Five Years.”...
Jazz and Harry James
Students, faculty, and community members have the unique opportunity to hear big band jazz that’s straight from the middle of the last century this weekend. The Harry James Orchestra will be performing in the Searle Center at 8:00 p.m. on Saturday, along with several student jazz combos while audience members can listen, eat hor d’oeuvres,...
Seniors to tell stories through art
What do you get when students studying art, English, Latin, and math walk into a gallery? “Ars Poetica,” the poetic arts — a reference to the Horace poem. The senior art show featuring Katie Davenport, Madeline Greb, and Elsa Lagerquist begins Sunday with a reception from 6-8 p.m. featuring the artists, food, and music. Showcasing...