May 23 | 12:00 am
When Steve Martin and the Steep Canyon Rangers took the stage in front of an excited and sold-out crowd last night in Spaulding Auditorium, Martin remarked that it had always been his dream to play bluegrass music in Hanover, eliciting uproarious laughter. Martin’s quip set the tone for the rest of the show: a combination of bluegrass music and stand-up comedy.
More»May 23 | 12:00 am
Editor’s Note: This is the third installment in a four-part series profiling popular music concerts at Dartmouth over the last four decades. At the height of their popularity and before the release of their final album, The Clash performed a sold-out concert at Thompson Arena on April 19, 1984 to a “raucous” Dartmouth crowd comprised of students that had not seen a major concert since The Allman Brothers band in 1981, according to an article in The Dartmouth written by Nick Armington ’84.
More»May 22 | 12:00 am
Editor’s Note: This is the second installment in a four-part series profiling popular music concerts at Dartmouth over the last four decades. Improvisation and unity in sound and energy — that was what the Grateful Dead brought to Dartmouth for one Green Key weekend over 30 years ago.
May 22 | 12:00 am
Louise Erdrich ’76, who is the acclaimed writer of 13 novels and is in residence at the College as a Montgomery Fellow, will engage in a public conversation with Native American studies professor Bruce Duthu this afternoon to discuss the themes in her works and read from her recently published book “Shadow Tag.”
May 21 | 12:00 am
*Editor’s Note: This is the first installment in a four-part series profiling popular music concerts at Dartmouth over the last four decades.* On the eve of the Dartmouth-Harvard football game in 1974, Dartmouth students were introduced to Bruce Springsteen, an up-and-coming artist who only attracted a small, local following in his home state of New Jersey. Well known for performing summertime concerts on the Jersey Shore, Springsteen had only released two albums, “Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J.” and “The Wild, the Innocent and the E Street Shuffle,” before his Dartmouth performance.
May 21 | 12:00 am
Internationally renowned actor and scholar Baron Kelly stirred up campus discourse on racial identity with his production of Carlyle Brown’s “The African Company Presents Richard III” in Bentley Theater over the weekend.
May 17 | 12:00 am
Two alumni, Brendan Lynch-Salamon ’10 and Justin Lerman ’10, will be returning for Green Key weekend with their Los Angeles-based trio Warm Weather, which will perform on campus. The band, consisting of Lynch-Salamon, Lerman and Ryan Pollie, was formed in 2010, and last year it released its first EP, “Dances.”
May 17 | 12:00 am
Best Coast is one of those bands that doesn’t quite fall into a specific genre. It’s a little too poppy to be a full indie gig and a little too garage-rock to be pop. It’s this unique sound, however, that makes the Los Angeles-based Best Coast one of the better alternative bands with a female vocalist out there.
May 16 | 12:00 am
Tonight’s performance of “Vienna to Hollywood,” a project undertaken by soprano Melanie Henley Heyn and pianist Deirdre Brenner ’01, will showcase the personal and musical journey of a group of Jewish composers who fled Austria to Los Angeles just before the outbreak of World War II. The performance, which will take place in Faulkner Recital Hall in the Hopkins Center, is a part of the Vaughan Recital Series.
May 16 | 12:00 am
When I encounter a truly stunning sentence or thought-provoking phrase in a novel, I gently dog-ear whatever page I’m reading so I can later return to the passage and savor its syntax. When I closed the cover after finishing Toni Morrison’s new novel “Home,” I realized I had folded down almost every other page as I devoured the work in a single, one-hour sitting in Sanborn. As one might expect from a novel penned by the Nobel Prize-winning author of “Beloved,” “Song of Solomon” and “A Mercy,” Morrison’s “Home” is a stirring story encased in vivid prose and tender narration.
May 15 | 12:00 am
The exhibit for senior studio art majors, which features work completed by all 31 students, will host its opening reception this afternoon at 4:30 p.m. The exhibition, located in the Jaffe-Friede Gallery and Upper Jewett Corridor of the Hopkins Center, includes a range of steel sculptures, paintings, charcoal drawings, photography and collages, all of which discuss issues of identity, color contrasts and abstraction.