Theater, Music, and Dance

Topics included: [Experimental Theater] [Musical Events/Dance] [Musical Performers] [Plays]

Experimental Theatre

• Hallie Flanagan Directs Experimental Theatre
• Gives American Premiere of Each in His Own Way
• Hippolytus of Euripides Presented in Greek
• Experimental Theatre Presented the Svapnavasavadatta of Bhasa
• Mime Sequence and Other Plays Performed
• Hallie Flanagan Directs Summer Session
• American Premiere of No More Peace Given
• Esther Porter Power 1932 Directs Vassar's Folly
• Vassar's Folly Presented for 75th Anniversary
• Tarquin Opera Presented
• Les Mouches Presented
• American Premiere of Electre by Giraudoux Performed
• The Alchemist Presented for Renaissance Colloquium
• First Performance in America of To Damascus Held
• First American Performance of Amerika Presented
• The Masque of Comus Presented for Baroque Symposium
• Scenes from Don Carlos, Maria Stuart, and Die Jungfrau von Orleans Presented
• Production of The Cherry Orchard Honors Catherine Wolonsky
• Ibsen's A Doll House Presented for 100th Anniversary
• Experimental Theater presents Ibsen's A Doll House
• Experimental Theater presents Aug. Strindberg's Comedy Crimes and Crimes.
• Experimental Theater presents Thorton Wilder's The Skin of Our Teeth.
• Experimental Theater presented Ingmar Bergman's Smiles of a Summer's Night.
• Experimental Theater Honors Shakespeares' 400th Birthday with Pericles, Prince of Tyre
• Edward Albee's play Who's Afraid of Virginian Woolf? Presented

Musical Events/Dance

• Musical Soiree by Students
• Cecilia Society
• Jubilee Singers
• Vassar Musical
• Finch Plays Nightly
• Choir Organized
• Rutgers Glee Club Visited
• Walter Damrosch Plays with Students, Glee Club Formed
• Ritter Composes Cantata for 25th Anniversary
• Fritz Kreisler Gives Recital
• Choir Sings from Library Tower
• Concert Series by New York Philharmonic Society
• Society of American Singers Gives Two Operas
• Metropolitan Opera Box Given to Students and Faculty
• Students Given Three Boxes for Concerts by New York Philharmonic
• Cleveland Symphony Orchestra Gives Concert
• Glee Club Travels to Buffalo and Cleveland
• Barrere Ensemble Gives Concert
• Myra Hess, Pianist, Gives Concert
• Vassar College Choir Performs
• Wanda Landowska, Pianist, Gives Recital
• College Choir Gives Performance of Cantique de Paques and O Vos Omnes
• Arthur Honegger Gives Recital
• Vassar College Choir Makes New York Debut
• Mary Wigman Gives Recital
• Gregor Piatigorsky Gives Recital
• College Choir Performs Ralph Vaughan Williams' Magnificat
• Guiomar Novaes Gives Recital
• Pushkin Centennial Observed
• Vassar and Princeton Give Opera
• Lauritz Melchior Gives Concert
• Lotte Lehmann Gives Barbara Woods Morgan Concert
• Bela Bartok Gives Recital
• Tarquin Opera Presented
• Appalachian Spring Given by Martha Graham and Dance Company
• Festival of Choruses from Four Women's Colleges Held
• Francis Poulenc Gives Recital
• Rudolf Serkin Gives Fifth Barbara Woods Morgan Memorial Concert - 1950
• Vassar and Hamilton Choirs Heard Nationwide
• Centenary of Death of Robert Schumann Observed
• Calypso Dance Ends Anthropology Conference
• Joseph Szigeti Gives Three Recitals
• Concert Presented in Memory of E. Harold Geer
• Jose Limon and Company Gives Dance Concert
• Eileen Farrell Gives Barbara Woods Morgan Concert
• Collegium Musicum of University of Illinois Gives Program
• Christmas Concert Given by Choir and West Point
• Department of Music Presents Concert by Paganini Quartet
• Bruckner's Mass in E Minor Performed
• Benefit Performance of Il Trovatore Given
• Licia Albanese Concert Sponsored by Department of Italian
• Hudson Valley Philharmonic Orchestra Gives Concert
• The Philharmonic Chamber Music Concerts Gives Concert
• Joan Baez Gives Concert
• Metropolitan Opera performed Verdi's "Il Travotore"
• Vassar College Glee Club Give Concert at U.S. Naval Academy.
• The Lenox Quartet Gives Concert
• Ravi Shankar Gives Concert of Classical Hindusthani Music.
• The Boston Opera Group Performs "Command Performance"
• The Vassar College and Lehigh University Glee Club Give Concert
• The Budapest String Quartet Perform chamber music
• The Vassar College Choir and Colgate University Glee Club Give Concert
• Violinist, Alice Smiley, Sterling Hunkins, and Robert Guralnik Give Concert
• Pete Seeger Gives Concert
• The Riverside Chamber Singers Give Concert
• The Vassar College Choir and Wesleyan University Choral Society Give Concert
• The Aeolian Chamber Players Give Concert
• The Vassar College and Marshall College Glee Club Give Concert
• Pianist Robert Guralnick Gives Concert
• The Student Madrigal Choir of Muenster Gives Concert
• Claremont Quartet Gives Concert
• The Vassar College and Union College Glee Club Give Concert
• A bongo group from Lincoln Center Gives Concert
• The Lehigh University Glee Club and the Vassar Collge Choir Give Christmas Concert
• Polly Middleton and Hugette van Achere Give Concert
• The Bennington College Dance Group Gives Concert
• Philharmonic Chamber Music Concerts Performs "Facade"
• Albert Van Ackere Directs Two-act Opera
• The Hudson Valley Philharmonic String Quartet Honored President Blanding
• The Clarion Concerts Orchestra Gives Concert
• The Vassar College and Yale College Madrigal Group Gives Concert
• Arthur Burrows, baritone; Helen Boatwright, mezzo-soprano; and David Dodds, tenor Give Concert
• The Vassar College and Haverford College Glee Club and Madrigal Group Give Concert
• The New York String Trio Gives Concert
• Judy Collins Gives Concert
• "The G-Stringers" to Perform at Carnegie Hall
• The Kendrick Jug Band Give Concerts
• The Vassar College and Union College Madrigals Give Concert
• The Lucas Hoving Dance Company
• Merce Cunningham
• Barbara Woods Morgan Memorial Concert given by New York Chamber Soloists
• Arthur Weisberg, Contemporary Chamber Ensemble of Rutgers University.
• The Paris Rive Gauche (La Contrescarpe)
• The Guarneri String Quartet
• Manjusri Chaki-Sircar
• The Anna Sokolow Dance Company
• Fredonia State College Percussion Ensemble
• The Garvanas Trio
• The Hudson Valley Philharmonic
• The Early Music Quartet
• The Hudson Valley Philharmonic
• First Vassar Fine Arts Festival
• The Hungarian String Quartet
• The Cologne Chamber Orchestra
• The Barbara Woods Morgan Concert Performed by New York Chamber Soloists
• The Composers' Quartet Gives Concert
• Mother Earth Gives Concert
• The Festival Winds Give Concert
• Fusako Yoshida, Sumiko, Murashima, and Nobuko Shimazaki Give Concert
• Steven Lubin Gives Concert
• The Lyric Hexachord Give Concert
• Pete Seeger Gives Concert
• Anthony Newman Gives Concert

Musical Performers

Alphabetically

• Licia Albanese Gives Concert for Centennial - 1961
• Joan Baez Gives Concert - 1961
• Bela Bartok Gives Recital - 1940
• Helen Boatwright, mezzo-soprano; Arthur Burrows, baritone; and David Dodds, tenor Give Concert - 1964
• Arthur Burrows, baritone; Helen Boatwright, mezzo-soprano; and David Dodds, tenor Give Concert- 1964
• Pablo Casals - 1916
• Manjusri Chaki-Sircar- 1967
• Judy Collins Gives Concert- 1965
• Merce Cunningham- 1967
• David Dodds, tenor; Arthur Burrows, baritone; and Helen Boatwright, mezzo-soprano Give Concert - 1964
• Eileen Farrell Gives Barbara Woods Morgan Concert- 1960
• Robert Guralnik, Sterling Hunkins, and Alice Smiley Give Concert- 1962
• Pianist Robert Guralnick Gives Concert- 1963
• Myra Hess, Pianist, Gives Concert - 1923
• Arthur Honegger Gives Recital- 1929
• Sterling Hunkins, Alice Smiley, and Robert Guralnik Give Concert- 1962
• Wanda Landowska, Pianist, Gives Recital - 1925
• Lotte Lehmann Gives Barbara Woods Morgan Concert - 1938
• Steven Lubin Gives Concert - 1971
• Calvin Marsh Gives Concert - 1968
• Lauritz Melchior Gives Concert - 1938
• Howard Lebow Performed for the Contemporary Arts Conference- 1961
• Polly Middleton and Hugette van Achere Give Concert- 1964
• Darius Milhaud - 1923
• Sumiko Murashima, Fusako Yoshida, and Nobuko Shimazaki Give Concert - 1971
• Anthony Newman Gives Concert - 1971
• Guiomar Novaes Gives Recital - 1934
• Phil Ochs Gives Concert - 1968
• Tom Paxton Gives Concert - 1969
• Gregor Piatigorsky Gives Recital- 1932
• Francis Poulenc Gives Recital- 1950
• Pete Seeger Gives Concert - 1967- 1967
• Pete Seeger Gives Concert - 1962- 1962
• Pete Seeger Gives Concert - 1968- 1968
• Pete Seeger Gives Concert - 1971
• Rudolf Serkin Gives Fifth Barbara Woods Morgan Memorial Concert - 1950
• Ravi Shankar Gives Concert of Classical Hindusthani Music.- 1961
• Nobuko Shimazaki, Fusako Yoshida, Murashima, and Sumiko Give Concert - 1971
• Nina Simone Gives Concert - 1969
• Alice Smiley, Sterling Hunkins, and Robert Guralnik Give Concert- 1962
• Joseph Szigeti Gives Three Recitals- 1958
• Hugette van Achere and Polly Middleton Give Concert- 1964
• Fusako Yoshida, Sumiko Murashima, and Nobuko Shimazaki Give Concert - 1971
• Paul Zukofsky Gives Concert - 1966

Plays

• Philaletheis Founded
• Antigone Performed in Original Greek
• As You Like It Performed
• Philaletheis Presents The Birds
• Everyman Presented by Charles Frohman
• As You Like It and Much Ado About Nothing Performed by Everyman Company
• The Nativity Presented
• Women of Culture in Five Ages Presented at Founder's Day
• German Play Given
• Daddy Long Legs Performed
• Vassar Milestones Performed at 50th Anniversary
• Cervantes' Captivity and Man Who Cured His Wife of Talking and Shakespeare's Tempest Performed on Founder's Day
• Playwriting Class Gives First Production
• Vassar Dramatic Workshop Presents The Princess Marries the Page
• Founder's Day 1919 Includes Pageant
• Play by Edna St. Vincent Millay 1917 Performed
• Antigone Performed
• The Menaechmi of Plautus Presented
• Urfaust Presented by Philaletheis
• Classes in Latin Comedy Present Mostellaria of Plautus
• American Premiere of Each in His Own Way Given
• Hippolytus of Euripides Presented in Greek
• Experimental Theatre Presents the Svapnavasavadatta of Bhasa
• Mime Sequence and Other Plays Performed
• Dance of Death (Come Out into the Sun) Performed
• American Premiere of No More Peace Given
• Esther Porter Power 1932 Directs Vassar's Folly
• Vassar's Folly Presented for 75th Anniversary
• Les Mouches Presented by Experimental Theater
• Cervantes' Magic Show Performed
• American Premiere of Electre by Giraudoux Performed
• The Alchemist Presented for Renaissance Colloquium
• First Performance in America of To Damascus Held
• First American Performance of Amerika Presented
• The Masque of Comus Presented for Baroque Symposium
• Scenes from Don Carlos, Maria Stuart, and Die Jungfrau von Orleans Presented
• Production of The Cherry Orchard Honors Catherine Wolonsky
• Ibsen's A Doll House Presented for 100th Anniversary
• Portrait-Performance of Edna St. Vincent Millay Given
• Centennial Play, "Colors of the Day," Presented

Last updated February 6, 1999, by Jeremy R. Linden, '00.