On Nov. 15, the brass chamber quintet Axiom Brass took the Wellin Hall stage. The music group integrated modern and old styles to create their own signature sound. The group of young, sharply-dressed men in Axiom Brass includes trumpet players Dorival Puccini, Jr. and Kris Hammond, Matthew Oliphant on horn, Kevin Harrison on tuba and Orin Larson on trombone. More ...
For the first Hamilton College Theatre Production of the academic year, Professor Carole Bellini-Sharp directed A Dream Play, originally written by August Strindberg and now adapted by Caryl Churchill. Written as a precursor to early 1900s dramatic movements, the play focuses on a series of events surrounding a young woman who comes from another world to experience what life is like, and if it is really as difficult as human beings make it out to be. More ...
Last Sunday, Nate Taylor ’11 performed a set of folk music in the Chapel. Sitting at the front of the altar, Taylor smiled as the last chords of the title cut rung out. More ...
On Saturday, Nov. 8 at 7:30 pm, the Brian Brooks Moving Company performed in Wellin Hall. The Company was brought to Hamilton through the Mohawk Valley Dance Partnership. The performance consisted of five dances, all choreographed by Brian Brook, and two of the five were performed by Brooks himself. All the dances utilized unique styles and each performance stressed how the dances, costumes, lightings, props and music came together to form a compelling experience. More ...
Wednesday night, Nov. 12, filmmakers Kim Dryden and Austin Smith visited Hamilton to present the Filipino Street Art Project, a transmedia project they have been collaborating on since 2012. Both graduates of Wake Forest University, Dryden grew up outside of Syracuse, while Smith was raised in the Filipino community outside San Francisco. The two fostered an interest in filmmaking; for Dryden went to graduate school for documentary filmmaking as Smith worked in Hollywood for a year. When Smith mentioned his distaste for working in Hollywood, Dryden explained, “documentaries are more fun anyways.” More ...
This week Hamilton College was visited by Frank Lentricchia, a famed literary critic, novelist and professor at Duke University. A Utica native and graduate of Utica College, Lentricchia began his career primarily as an academic, and has since turned toward producing creative work — most recently, crime fiction set in the city of Utica. More ...
Much Ado About Nothing is one of the Bard’s most brazenly entertaining works—a frothy confection that breeds guaranteed smiles. However, it is easy for a production of the play to become mired in the one-liners and gags, and fail to account for the humanity of the characters. More ...
This past summer, Bennett Glace ’16 worked with Professor Scott MacDonald to explore the history of a cinematic movement known as trash film. The result of his research can be seen in the ongoing film series “Another Man’s Treasure: An Exploration of ‘Trash’ Cinema.” The response to the series has been positive so far: according to Glace, “No one has run out screaming.” The Spectator sat down with Glace as he prepared to screen the final films of his series. More ...
The tragedy of Hamlet is well-trod territory for actors and directors alike. At a slim 95 minutes, The Tragicall Historie of Hamlet, playing now in the Chapel, does not reinvent the wheel when it comes to interpreting Shakespeare’s words. The production plays like a greatest hits of Hamlet, demonstrating the play’s capacity as an actor’s playground. More ...
Hamilton’s music department is known for providing students with an engaging and dynamic array of talented artists. Last Friday’s concert in Wellin Hall, headlined by 19-year-old pianist George Li, certainly upheld the stage’s reputation for excellence. His performance demonstrated an extraordinary level of technical and interpretive prowess for someone so young. Li’s younger brother, Andrew, joined his brother in the program and exhibited a similar level of stylistic ingenuity. More ...