A new year brings lots of new and exciting things to Hope’s campus, including a new art exhibit in the DePree Art Center Gallery. “Middle Grounds,” by Jonathan Clyde Frey, explores the idea of national identity and what that has come to mean in the United States. Frey, currently an assistant professor at Bucknell University,…
Jazz music has been inspiring Americans since its invention in the 20th century. It is no surprise then that the improvisational- based genre would make its way to Holland to inspire members of Hope College’s community. On Wednesday, Nov. 14, four of Hope’s six jazz groups hosted a concert in the recital hall at the…
Fall 2018 was supposed to be a normal semester for Hope’s music students. However, it has turned out to be anything but that. Over the summer, there were rumors of changes in the music department’s faculty, but it was not until students began arriving at the end of August that they realized exactly how much…
Nothing says “unity” quite like a rebellion. On Thursday following a long summer and semester of faculty changes and unanswered questions, dozens of students in the Hope College music department organized a rally to show support for their professors, several of whom have been suspended, investigated, demoted and asked not to return for the current…
The Hope College Dance department has several different dance companies, one of the biggest being the H2 Dance Company. Auditioned in the spring semester for the following year, the H2 Dance Company has been rehearsing since the beginning of school for their fall concert, which opened on Oct. 26 and ended on Nov. 2 at…
This past weekend, mysterious additions and disappearances were discovered in the Kruizenga Art Museum. None of these additions were scheduled, so workers quickly had to investigate the scene. On Oct. 27, all pieces in the museum appeared normal upon closing. Around midnight that night, surveillance images showed paintings from the Living Traditions collection mysteriously flying…
Every year around Halloween, people all over the country get in the spirit of the “spooky season” by playing tricks, staging scares and drinking lots of pumpkin spice lattes. Students on Hope College’s campus are no exception. Many students will decorate their dorms, dress up for parties and eat a little bit more candy than…
The Hope College Great Performance Series hosted its second group of the year on Friday night. As the clock reached 7:30 p.m., the John and Dede Howard Recital Hall came to life with the ethereal sound of Meng Su and Yameng Wang’s guitar playing. Known collectively as the Beijing Guitar Duo, Su and Wang have…
Ever since they were founded in 2011, Bryn Cohn & Artists have been performing all around the country, with their latest destination being the Knickerbocker Theatre downtown. Bryn Cohn is a nationally recognized dancemaker, writer and educator, as well as the founder of the group. Cohn graduated from the California Institute of the Arts with…
On Thursday morning, students in the music department were invited to hear a presentation by Dr. Margot Fassler, the Keough-Hesburgh Professor of Music History and Liturgy at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana. Dr. Fassler talked to students and faculty about her research on famous medieval composer Hildegard von Bingen, whom she…