• Multi-talented theatre artist Bill Irwin comes to Carleton on Monday, February 26. Arts@Carleton will host ‘An Evening with Bill Irwin’ at 7:30 p.m. in the Weitz Center Theater. Bill Irwin is an…

  • Prepare to embark on a captivating musical journey with the Moussa Diallo Trio, a multi-award-winning ensemble that seamlessly blends African and Western influences to create an electrifying and poetic performance.…

  • This week Carleton College plays host to Vijay Iyer, under the auspices of the Ward Lucas Lectureship in the Arts. Hosted by the Department of Music in collaboration with the…

  • The International Film Forum resumes its program of bringing films from around the globe to Carleton on Monday, January 15 with CONCERNING VIOLENCE, a 2014 documentary by Goran Olsson. Narrated…

  • The Perlman Teaching Museum celebrates the opening of its Winter Term show, TOWARDS A WARM EMBRACE, with an artist talk and reception Thursday, January 11. The talk by artists Ezra…

  • Artist Reception for NORTH installation Friday, November 10

    7 November 2023

    A reception honoring the artists behind the multi-media installation NORTH, currently on view in the Hamlin Creative Space, will be held Friday, November 10 from 5:30 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. in the Mar G Commons, directly outside the exhibition space.  All are welcome to join and meet the artists and experience the installation again – or for the first time! – before it closes on November 15.

    NORTH was created by composer Mary Ellen Childs in collaboration with Zeitgeist (the Twin Cities’ premier new-music ensemble), painter Lindsy Halleckson, and videographers Tamara Ober and Caitlin Hammel.

    The Hamlin Creative Space is located in the lower level of the Music Wing of the Weitz Center for Creativity.

  • Learn about the kora, a west African instrument Tuesday October 31 at noon

    30 October 2023

    The kora is a stringed instrument used extensively in West Africa. A kora typically has 21 strings, which are played by plucking with the fingers. It combines features of the lute and harp.

    On Tuesday, October 31 at noon, join kora artist Sophie Lukacs for an intimate musical event in Kracum Performance Hall.  Hailing from Montreal by way of Budapest, Sophie Lukacs is a kora player, singer-songwriter, and one of the only women in the world to play the 21-string Mandingue instrument. She has forged a distinct style, drawing inspiration from her training in classical violin, seven years of study in Mali with kora virtuoso Toumani Diabaté, and her roots in Hungarian folk music. Sophie’s music is rooted in love, empathy, and vulnerability, creating an intimate connection with listeners. Her debut album was released in spring 2023, and features the legendary Habib Koité.

    This event is free and open to all.

  • The Weitz Center will be abuzz this weekend with a full slate of performances and exhibitions. The Fall term Theater production, ORLANDO, under the direction of Jeanne Willcoxson, will open…

  • Musical smorgasbord this Friday!

    11 October 2023

    On Friday, October 13, Kracum Performance Hall showcases the multitude of talented students who perform as part of the College’s many – and varied – musical ensembles.  In one action-packed hour, this is a chance to get a taste of the Carleton Orchestra, the Symphony Band, our award-winning Chinese Music Ensemble, the Carleton Choirs, a variety of groups from the Jazz Area, and even some solo acts!

    Concert begins at 7:00 p.m., Friday October 13 in Kracum Performance Hall in the Weitz Center for Creativity.  No tickets required, and the event is free and open to all.

  • Medieval music superstars SEQUENTIA visit Carleton; concert Friday, October 6

    5 October 2023

    Renowned medieval music ensemble SEQUENTIA is in residence at Carleton this week.  Five international women singers and director Benjamin Bagby are rehearsing, engaging with History classes, and conducting a vocal masterclass.  The residency culminates Friday, October 6 at 7:30 p.m. in Kracum Performance Hall with the concert Mystical Voices of Medieval Germany:  Hildegard von Bingen.  The concert is free and open to all.

    Sequentia is one of the world’s most respected and innovative ensembles for medieval music. It is an international group of singers and instrumentalists – united in Paris under the direction of the legendary performer and teacher Benjamin Bagby – dedicated to the performance and recording of Western European music from the period before 1300. The size and disposition of the ensemble is determined by the repertoire being performed, and ranges between an instrumental/vocal duo to a large vocal ensemble. Based on meticulous and original research, intensive rehearsal and long gestation, Sequentia’s virtuosic performances are compelling, surprising in their immediacy, and strike the listener with a timeless emotional connection to our own past musical cultures.

    In this concert, Sequentia presents Hildegard of Bingen’s spiritual songs celebrating the saints, the angels, apostles, martyrs, prophets and patriarchs, but most essentially the Virgin Mary, all originally sung in her abbey church on the River Rhine, the Rupertsberg.

    They also perform pieces not ascribed to Hildegard, but which come from her traditions of nearby 12th-century German convents, including a surprising later resonance from a 13th-century Bavarian cloister, where echoes of Hildegard’s musical language can still be heard giving voice to timeless texts of human desire from the Songs of Songs, with its powerful imagery so essential in the spiritual universe of contemplative monastic life.

    As a special offering, Sequentia will present the climactic scene from Hildegard’s rarely-heard music-drama, Ordo Virtutum, in which the Devil tries to wrest an errant soul from the protection of the embodied virtues.