'S Wonderful

Celebrating 35 years of our organization

Join us for an evening of music, conversation, and connection as we mark three and a half decades of curiosity and learning, and toast the season with friends old and new.

'S Wonderful is a perfect chance to dress in your festive best! Cocktail attire encouraged.

Tuesday, December 8, 2026
4:30 PM - 7:00 PM
Hopkins Center for the Arts, Hanover, NH

This celebration is made possible by the generous gifts of every living past and present President of Osher at Dartmouth.

REGISTER

$35 - Osher at Dartmouth members

$50 - Guests

The evening...

4:30 PM

Gather and mingle with hors d'oeuvres from The Hanover Inn. A cash bar will be available at Top of the Hop.

5:45 PM

Pianist Dan Weiser takes the stage in Mac Morris Recital Hall for By George: The Life and Music of George Gershwin, which includes a concert of Gershwin favorites, performed on a Steinway.

The program...

By George: The Life and Music of George Gershwin

Daniel Weiser, the founder and Artistic Director of Classicopia, will present a special program to help celebrate 35 years of wonderful classes and events at the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Dartmouth. Dr. Weiser will explore the tragically short, but incredibly productive, life of America’s greatest composer. The son of Russian Jewish immigrants, Gershwin grew up in the rough, chaotic streets of New York and soaked up the melting pot around him to help formulate the new, brash sound of America. Combining elements of “Jewish” music with the “Blues” and “Ragtime” brought by recent black migrants from the South, Gershwin helped produce the new “Jazz” and “Broadway” sound that made New York City a new center for musical culture. Gershwin seamlessly moved between the “classical” and “popular” worlds to help reveal the continuum of these seemingly different idioms. Dr. Weiser will play favorites such as Rhapsody in Blue and An American in Paris, along with many of Gershwin’s iconic songs, including The Man I Love, I Got Rhythm, Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off, Love is Here to Stay, and many more. You won’t want to miss this toe-tapping show celebrating America’s greatest composer.

Dr. Daniel Weiser

Daniel Weiser, piano, has a Doctorate in Piano/Chamber Music from the Peabody Conservatory, where he studied with Samuel Sanders and Robert MacDonald and won the Richard Franko Goldman Prize for outstanding contribution to musical and educational life. He has performed on many great stages, including the Weill Recital Hall of Carnegie Hall, the National Gallery of Art in D.C., and on the Dame Myra Hess Concert Series in Chicago. He has also concertized around the world, including Israel, Thailand, Holland, and France, and was the 1996 U.S. Artistic Ambassador Abroad, for which he performed on an eleven-country tour of the Middle East and Asia. He has been on the music faculty of Dartmouth College and the prestigious St. Paul’s School in Concord, NH. Besides co-founding Classicopia, he founded and serves as Artistic Director for AmiciMusic, a similar type of chamber music organization based in Asheville, NC, Baltimore, MD, and Savannah, GA. He was also a founding member of the Adirondack Ensemble, which won a Chamber Music America award for inventive programming and outreach. He has participated in the New Hampshire Music Festival, Musicorda, and the Apple Hill Chamber Music Festival and has been the Music Director of the Da Corneta Opera Ensemble, the Opera North Young Artist program, and Opera New England. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Columbia University with a degree in American History, he also spent a year at Harvard Law School at the same time as President Obama. A native of Buffalo, NY, he currently lives in Savannah, GA, with his wife, Dr. Kisha Weiser, and their twin daughters, Rose and Sophie.