Category: Curricular Connections

Chinese pipa player Gao Hong and klezmer violiinist Steven Greenman were unexpectedly asked to improvise together at a folk music festival. That sparked a musical collaboration that will be showcased this Friday, January 15 in the Carleton Concert Hall.

The International Film Forum gears up again on Monday, January 4th with a 7:00 screening of THE GIRL IN THE WHITE COAT. Read on for full information on the entire winter schedule!

For almost half a Century Kassé Mady Diabaté has been recognized as one of West Africa’s finest singers. He is a descendant of the most distinguished griot family of the ancient Manding Empire, the Diabatés of Kéla; his name, alongside other griot legends Toumani Diabaté and Bassékou Kouyaté, is equivalent to musical royalty in Mali. Kassé Mady has played a part in the most innovative moments in Malian music over the past five decades, first in his own country and later with landmark international collaborations. More info…

Martha Jamsa, a flute instructor at Carleton College, will be performing a spring recital on Saturday, May 16, at 8:00PM in the Concert Hall. Both she and her musical colleagues, Mark Krusemeyer. Janean Hallwill, and Karen Madsen will be playing their favorite selections from Bach, Villa-Lobos, Rutter, and Liebermann. …

Through Carleton’s off-campus studies programs, students can experience enriching visits to countries all over the world such as Germany, Japan, Russia, New Zealand, India, and more. Students from a variety of programs have submitted photos documenting their travels abroad, which are now on display in the Gould Library until August 31, 2015. …

The Experimental Dance Board Spring Showcase is a Carleton organization choreographed and directed by student dancers.  This year’s spring performances will be on Friday May 8th and Saturday May 9th in the large Weitz Center for Creativity dance studio (Weitz 165). Doors open at 7:00 pm, and the show begins at 7:30 pm. The showcase is open to the public and no reservations are required. …

Before graduation, all students at Carleton are required to complete a Comprehensive Project, otherwise known as COMPS. As part of their COMPS projects, theater majors have the unique opportunity to direct and act in their own presentations of famous plays. An interview with Josh Davids ’15 details the hard work that senior theater majors put into their final projects. Josh will be performing An Iliad, a theatrical rendition of the Greek classic.

Nora Katz ’16 will be presenting a self-written musical play for her junior music recital on March 9–10 in the Weitz Center Theater. For the past two years, Katz has been working with her peers and mentors to prepare “Skylarks: The Jukebox Recital.” If you would like to learn more about what goes into writing and producing a play at Carleton, follow this article to read Nora’s first hand account of the play writing process.

The Carleton Orchestra, directed by Professor Hector Valdivia, will be performing its winter program Friday, March 6, at 8:00-9:30pm in the Concert Hall. The program will feature Robert Schumann’s Adagio and Allegro Brillante, Op. 13 b, and Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 1. To add to its exciting repertoire, the orchestra will also debut How to Build Fences and Gates, a composition by esteemed visiting professor Jeffrey Treviño. …

On Saturday, February 21, Carleton students currently enrolled in voice lessons will be presenting “German Liederabend”, which is an evening of German art song. This vocal recital will begin at 7:30pm in the Concert Hall. Each song will be performed in German and the concert features pieces from Franz Schubert, Robert Schumann, Johannes Brahms, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Richard Strauss, and Carl Bohm. The collection of pieces range from the Classical period to the Romantic period and into the twentieth century. …