The Class of 1961 Legacy is alive and well.

--- As of May 31st, the book value of the fund is $841,116,65 and the market value is $1,140,243.13.

--- This fiscal year-to-date (July 1, 2013 through today) we have received 19 gifts totaling $37,973.33.

--- In addition, the shows that the Legacy Fund will support next year have been announced:

Anais MitchelL - July 24 - https://hop.dartmouth.edu/Online/anais_mitchell Moore Theater with MICHAEL CHORNEY

A storyteller of startling clarity and depth, this Vermont-raised singer-songwriter marries the intimately personal and the “big-picture” political in her insightful, acclaimed original songs. Joined by longtime collaborator Michael Chorney, she’ll draw from her five albums, including compellingly reworked traditional Celtic and British ballads—a foretaste of Mitchell’s August collaboration with New York Theatre Workshop to develop Hadestown, her folk opera based on the Orpheus myth.

“Absorbing narratives that pull the emotional rug out from under the listener. Pitchfork 

Funded in part by the Class of 1961 Legacy Fund

In addition to her July performance, Anais will be here for three weeks in August to workshop her folk opera, Hadestown, with the New York Theatre Workshop, the Theater Department, and Dartmouth students. Hadestown is based on the Orpheus myth.)

Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis - October 13 



Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis - October 13 
In the Spirit of Swing.

The mission of Jazz at Lincoln Center is to entertain, enrich and expand a global community for Jazz through performance, education and advocacy. We believe Jazz is a metaphor for Democracy. Because jazz is improvisational, it celebrates personal freedom and encourages individual expression. Because jazz is swinging, it dedicates that freedom to finding and maintaining common ground with others. Because jazz is rooted in the blues, it inspires us to face adversity with persistent optimism.

And

Terrence Blanchard Quintet/Ravi Coltrane Quartet---Double Bill - April 2

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 Terrance Blanchard Quintet

Ravi Coltrane 
Ravi Coltrane Quartet
featuring: David Virelles (piano) Dezron Douglas (bass) Kush Abadey (drums)



He may bear the name of jazz royalty, but saxophonist Ravi Coltrane, the son of the legendary John Coltrane and pianist Alice Coltrane, “blows an original and distinctly modern strain of jazz, distilling but never seeking to imitate his family’s adventurous improvising spirits.” (NPR) His latest Blue Note Records CD, "Spirit Fiction," produced by label mate and fellow saxophonist Joe Lovano features, "...an abundance of emotion and sensual detail, most of it expressed gently, with the confidence -- and authority -- of a veteran bandleader."




This is some set of artists.  Dartmouth is, I am sure, grateful for this first rate bill of some of the greatest musicians of our time.  All of them brought to the campus by the Class of 1961 Legacy.  

If anyone of the class is up there during the time that these extraordinary artist, send a report home.   
All of us should be very proud of our gift at work on the campus.

And our Legacy continues to give. 

Well done,

David Birney 
Oscar Arslanian

• Bela Fleck and Abigail Washburn on October 17th. With the exception of Tickets for Dartmouth Students, this performance is sold out.

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1axPbAGb2Q&feature=player_embedded
  

• Violinist Joshua Bell on January 18th,
  

• Bobby McFerrin’s “spirityouall gospel project” 
  on April 12th.
  
  Gentlemen, our Legacy has done some outstanding work, helping to bring world class artists and their extraordinary work to the HOP.  
  It seems clear that in its over a decade long support of the the American Traditionof performance at the Hop  The Class of ‘61 Legacy has in many ways helped to change the face of Dartmouth.  
  
  Congratulations.  We should, I think,  be very proud.
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  With thanks and all best wishes, 
  David Birney