First, let’s introduce the characters. There’s Red Dog, the loyal companion, and Black Damon, the trusty friend. There’s Mad Daddy, “with the shotgun full of history, / The horse and the flame, and the domino shoes.” And then there’s Lawrence Booth, self-styled hero, lover of nature, brilliant, boisterous, starry-eyed dreamer, and “bull’s-eye boy.” The setting is a 37-acre plot in...
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Weekend orchestra concerts take audience from the English seaside to Cuba
The Hillsdale College Symphony Orchestra will fill Markel Auditorium with the sounds of a Suffolk fishing town this weekend in its annual spring concert. The “Four Sea Interludes,” selections from the opera “Peter Grimes” by British composer Benjamin Britten, challenge musicians to bring the salty air of the sea and scenes of village living in a seaside hamlet to the...
A scene with a view
Renee Surprenant, Visiting Assistant Professor of Design and Technical Director in Theatre Arts, understands the importance of getting a change in scenery. This June, she will head to Italy to spend her fourth consecutive summer working as the set designer and internship coordinator for La Musica Lirica. La Musica Lirica is a five-week training program that sends about 50 opera...
Q&A: Concerto competition winners
Junior Rachelle Ferguson will perform Henri Vieuxtemps’ Violin Concerto No. 5, and Sophomore Gregory Farison will perform the second movement of Camille Saint-Saens’ Cello Concerto No. 2, at this weekend’s orchestra concerts. ~Compiled by Laura Williamson Rachelle Ferguson: What is your major? I’m an English and classics double major. How many years have you played the violin? I started taking...
