It’s no secret that Hillsdale College knows how to put on a show. Every year, an impressive assortment of musicians trek to campus, braving the backwater to wow the college and community with eye-popping showmanship and technical skill. But while Hillsdale’s flashiest musical moments may belong to the Aaron Carters and Broadway’s Next Hit Musicals of the world, some of...
Culture
Alumna interns at Image
Mindi Popovich ’15 lived an English major’s dream this summer as an intern at Image Journal in Seattle, Washington. The recent Hillsdale College graduate and Pratt, Kansas, native worked as an administrative intern at the literary journal which Gregory Wolfe ’80 founded in 1989. Popovich first met Wolfe, publisher and editor of the journal; his wife and Image Executive Editor...
Q&A: Turtle Island Quartet — Grammy-winning chamber group visits Hillsdale Sept. 12
The innovative Turtle Island Quartet has been blending a classical chamber esthetic with contemporary American music styles since 1985, and has twice won the Grammy Award for Best Classical Crossover Album. This Saturday, they will be performing the program “Jelly, Rags & Monk,” a collection of rag and jazz selections. Founding member violinist David Balakrishnan sat down with the Collegian...
Remembering Jeffrey Tangeman ’88
Jeffrey Paul Tangeman ’88, Hillsdale College alumnus and a successful stage director, died on Aug. 14 at age 49 from an apparent heart attack. He was at his home in York, Pennsylvania, and found by a close friend. Tangeman is survived by his parents Robert and Mary Suzanne, as well as friend Suzanne Carlson. Tangeman was born in 1965 in...
