Audience members swing dance to jazz played by the Harry James Orchestra. Courtesy | Anna Northcutt More than 900 people filled Hillsdale College’s Searle Center for an evening of jazz, swing dancing, cocktails, desserts and a performance by the Harry James Orchestra Nov. 15. Fred Radke, conductor of the Harry James Orchestra, and Hillsdale’s artist in residence, led and played...
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Tower Dancers to perform student choreography
Juniors Moriah Mitchell and Jillian Golden in an April production of “The Wild Wild West.” Courtesy | Michael Besom Almost 20 dancers are performing in about a dozen student-choreographed works at the Tower Dancers’ Informal Showing Nov. 23. The performance will feature a wide variety of music, according to junior and Tower Dancer Mercy Franzonello. “There is going to be...
Pulitzer Prize winner talks process and prose
The Visiting Writer’s Program hosted Pulitzer Prize–winning author Hernan Diaz this week, with numerous events with students and faculty culminating in a lecture and book signing Nov. 18. Diaz read from and discussed his novel “Trust,” which was released in 2022 and awarded the 2022 Kirkus Prize for Fiction and the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. The novel follows the...
‘Frankenstein’ revives the classic
The poster for Frankenstein Courtesy | IMDb Director Guillermo del Toro’s latest creature feature delivers a thrilling, philosophical, and stylized take on Mary Shelley’s classic story “Frankenstein.” “Frankenstein” hit select theaters on Oct. 17 before its Nov. 7 release on Netflix, debuting with an 85% critics’ score and a 95% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes. The movie follows the book’s...
