The Jack H. Miller center and those who graced its lustrous concert hall experienced something entirely new on Friday, November 22. Hope College’s wind ensemble, directed by Dr. Southard, performed two never before heard pieces commissioned by the Music Department. These were “Vendetta” and “Summertime Echoes,” written by Josh Trentadue and Justin Rito, respectively. Between…
With the newest and latest release of the third episode of Disney+’s Star Wars spin-off show, “The Mandalorian,” the effects of the rose-colored glasses are off from the November 12 premier of the streaming service. When the first episode of the Mandalorian was released, many critics were excited for the show; they called it a…
When Wang Guangyi first started to capture the contradictions between China’s communist political system and its capitalist economic system in a series of paintings and prints that he titled the Great Criticism, he knew that his art could land him in prison or even cost him his life. The Chinese government of the 1990s and…
It’s rare to find one’s passion at a young age and to stick with it, but for Katie Tracy (’22), that was just the case. “When I was two, I would stand at the door of my sister’s dance classes and do their warmups with them so then my mom was like ‘Oh she’d be…
HOLLAND – The Department of Theatre at Hope College will present “The Shakers of Mount Lebanon Will Hold a Peace Conference This Month” by Arlene Hutton on Friday-Sunday, Nov. 15-17, and Thursday-Saturday, Nov. 21-23, in the DeWitt Center main theatre as part of a new consortium committed to developing new plays dedicated to peace and…
In November of 1960, three sisters and a wrecked jeep were found at the bottom of a 150-foot cliff in the northern region of the Dominican Republic. Although the official newspaper reported that their deaths were an accident, nobody was fooled. Throughout the Dominican, the people knew these young women as Las Mariposas, the Butterflies,…
Necessary conversations are difficult to have. There’s rarely a good way to bring up the topic and when we finally approach discussion, can be difficult to put into words what we mean to say. This past Saturday, the Hope College Department of Theatre performed its closing night of Smokefall, a play by Noah Haidle. The…
On Friday, October 18 the Dimnent Chapel was filled with echoes from Music of Japan, a concert that incorporated a variety of different sounds and consisted of music almost entirely written by Japanese composers. It began in dramatic fashion. Ken Koshio, a professional player of traditional Japanese percussion called taiko, walked into the middle of…
For their second event this semester, The Great Performance Series invited Cuarteto Latinamericano to the stage, playing alongside the artist Jiji. One may think that a Latin American classical quartet and a South Korean guitarist wouldn’t blend smoothly. However, once the music began, one quickly understands the genius of the combination. The two created an…
The Jack Ridl Visiting Writers Series had its first event for the 2019 season the week before fall break, and it has had lasting effects on the writing community on campus. I, along with many others, was extremely touched by this event, which explored beauty, trauma and the links that tie them together. This event…