Master class with Emerson String Quartet featured in the Dartmouth Now.
News & Events
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Professor Steve Swayne writes in the Pacific Standard about the potential phasing out of football programs resulting in more funding for language acquisition and arts education.
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Cross-Lab Initiatives
Bregman Media Labs is an interdisciplinary collective of faculty, staff, and students at Dartmouth College working in Music, Film and Media, Architecture, Computer Science, Neuroscience, and other disciplines.
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Sound American issue includes interviews with Christian Wolff, Sally Pinkas and Larry Polansky and much more. Read the entire issue on the Sound American website.
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The Dartmouth
Jumping straight from tuning to playing, bassist John Clayton treated an audience of a dozen students, music professors and community members to an original movement spliced with excerpts of a Koussevitzky concerto during his recent Hop Garage performance. (read more...)
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The Strasbourg Rosace (Rose) is a stained-glass window at the entrance of the Strasbourg Cathedral in Strasbourg, France. This particular window structure was designed and built under the supervision of Erwin von Steinbach, who was among three builders who guided the project to a completed state. The Strasbourg Rose is a notable masterwork within the cathedral, and exhibits stunning symmetrical grace, consisting of carefully proportioned transitions of darkness and light. Stone provides a...
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This story was originally published in the Dartmouth College Fund’s fall 2014 issue of “From the GREEN.”
Kate Huffer ’15, a neuroscience and biological chemistry major from Green Bay, Wis., is a student conductor of Dartmouth Youth Winds, a program that brings local middle school students to the Hop to make music with undergraduate members of the...
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Two-hundred-seventy staff members were honored at the Service Awards Banquet on June 17 for their combined service of more than 4,765 years to Dartmouth College. Hosted by the Office of Human Resources, the annual event recognizes staff members who have worked at the College for 10 to more than 45 consecutive years. This year’s festivities included a reception, dinner, music, and a...
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The Dartmouth Professor Talks: Steve Swayne is the Jacob H. Strauss 1922 Professor of Music and chair of Dartmouth’s music department. The author of two books, with two more in the works, Professor Swayne talks to Dartmouth Now about stretching the boundaries of musicology, the morality of...
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In an opinion piece for The Atlantic, Professor Steve Swayne says that while songs can help dementia patients recall memories, it is important to realize that music may also invoke false memories and confusion. “For someone suffering from dementia, we have no easy way of knowing whether she is genuinely recalling a song and how the recall challenges her present situation, which is decidedly not that earlier time and...
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