Tegeder talks about first solo show

Last October, the new Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art opened its glass doors to the Hamilton community for the first time.  The Wellin’s inaugural exhibit, called “Affinity Atlas,” featured artists like Vik Muniz and Chris Doyle, who spoke at the museum last month.

Jon Fredric West joins Choir, Masterworks Chorale

On Tuesday, G. Roberts Kolb conducted the Hamilton College Choir, the Hamilton College and Community Masterworks Chorale, Symphoria and soloists Cynthia Hanna, Jon Fredric West and Mario Martìnez in a dramatic and dazzling performance Camille Saint-Saëns’ opera “Samson et Delila.”

F.I.L.M. to feature Nina Davenport

A filmmaker of the personal documentary school, Nina Davenport charts her pregnancy’s progress in First Comes Love.

Elinor Frey illuminates roots of solo cello

On Saturday, cellist Elinor Frey performed her program, “La voce del violoncello” (The Voice of the Violincello). In it, Frey explored the Italian origin of solo cello music made famous by J.S. Bach’s “6 Suites for Unaccompanied Cello,” written around 1720.

The challenging comedy of Bette and Boo

Christopher Durang’s bitterly funny comedy requires an audience that can not only sit through two hours of an American family falling apart, but laugh at the whole affair. Durang clearly mined his personal life for source material, so the approach can come off like humor-as-medicine…  except that the medicine is that vile, cherry-flavored variety. In other words, you must be brave to laugh at this stuff.

Arts in brief: jazz, choir, comedy and film

The Arts at Hamilton.

Inside the 24-Hour Film Festival

When the clock struck midnight on April 12th, I was a member of one of seven groups released from KJ 101 with the tasked with the challenge of creating a short film in 24 hours—in my case, a silent film.  Without any particular idea in mind, I walked around the South side of campus until 2 a.m., shooting what looked creepy and interesting. The arts buildings turn out to be pretty eerie at night and, reflecting on it, so is Schambach/List basement any time of day.  I thought it seemed a natural setting for a horror film. My co-creator, Michael Dyer ’16—who worked with me on my last 24-hour film in the fall—and I had talked over the idea of using captions to advance a separate dialogue than appeared on the screen.  Combining these, we went for the possibly novel genre of horror-comedy.

Highlights from the Festival

“Behind The Scenes”
Documentary

“The Search for Federalist #86”
Detective

“The Kirkland Spirit”
Silent film

“Pirate and the Timeless Crystal”
Action

Students perform original work in Opus I

In the busy Hamilton schedule, it can be hard enough to make art—much less find a locale to enjoy it. Dan Knishkowy ’13 and Anna Paikert ’13 took a stab at remedying the absence of such a space last Sunday night, providing student musicians and writers with an informal outlet for their original work. For a little over an hour and a quarter, eight students—each alternating between reading creative work and playing music, four writers and four musicians—took to the microphone in front of an audience several dozen strong.