“There’s nothing formal about what I’m going to do,” fiddler Bruce Molsky told an expectant audience, inviting concertgoers to the front to dance. While nobody took him up on his offer, his announcement set a casual tone for the performance. (yes, that meant foot-tapping and knee-slapping were allowed and encouraged!) More ...
Award-winning author Jennifer Pashley visited Hamilton College this past Tuesday to teach creative writing students about how to make their crafts, well, pure like meth. More ...
“You have to experiment,” said Professor Michael “Doc” Woods. Last Wednesday, Woods experimented with mixing jazz and chamber music by playing his own compositions in the annual Jazz Kick-Off Concert, which this year was entitled “Chaymbuh Flav.” More ...
“We write the story of our own lives as it happens, just feel it and go,” Nathan Livingston ’14 explained mid-song during his performance in the Chapel on Monday. The performance, entitled “Song Silhouettes,” represented the culmination of Livingston’s Emerson Foundation project and explored the power of improvisation through the raw energy of live performance. More ...
Deanna Perez ’14 proved in her sculpture exhibition on Monday that books tell more than the stories recorded in their pages. She spent the summer working on an Emerson Foundation project titled “The Life of a Book: From the Bindery to the Pedestal.” In her finished compilation of sculptures, Perez portrayed both the birth and death of books in two art pieces made up of old Hamilton College and Utica Library books. More ...
William Shakespeare often found enlightened settings in wooded areas for many of his farces. Thus it was fitting to witness Hamilton College’s rendition of The Merry Wives of Windsor in the outdoors. More ...
This fall, Wellin Museum continues to play host to its inaugural exhibition, “Case Histories.” The exhibit displays artifacts from all around the world in chronological order. Susanna White, the curator of the exhibit, explained, “[‘Case Histories’] was inspired by the Common Reading, Evocative Objects by Sherry Turkle and the museum’s own mission to be a place of interdisciplinary object-based learning.” More ...
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. More ...
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.” More ...
A filmmaker of the personal documentary school, Nina Davenport charts her pregnancy’s progress in First Comes Love. More ...