Lopez titled the piece “Rise Up Bowdoin,” and there are clear musical references to the College alma mater, “Raise Songs to Bowdoin.” Lopez’s composition has been set to pictures in this video, a photomontage of images reflecting different aspects of the Bowdoin experience.
“It’s dedicated to the students of Bowdoin College and its extended family community with the hope of being together again. My vision was a journey from where we were after spring break—empty classrooms, empty fields, empty hallways—to coming together again. Be hopeful as you watch the campus slowly come back to life in this beautifully rendered video. At one point,” says Lopez, “you can hear a heartbeat in the music represented by a repeated note as we fill the fields, hallways, and classrooms with life again."
September 21, 2023Bowdoin will be staging its first bilingual main season production next year, a reimaginingof the seventeenth-century Spanish comedia classic, Valor, Outrage, and Woman, by Ana Caro de Mallén. Auditions are coming up, and you don’t have to be bilingual to take part.
