Author: Melissa Marshall "Art is the soul of any culture," New Mexico-based artist Maya Torres said emphatically during one of her many interviews in the latest documentary from Middlebury College alumna and Board of Trustees Member Pamela Tanner Boll '78. But what happens when that culture is still ...
Author: Ashley Gamell syn·es·the·sia from the Greek (syn-) union, and (aesthesis) sensation; is the neurological mixing of the senses. A synesthete may, for example, hear colors, see sounds - and taste tactile sensations.The Principles of Maira KalmanBy Ashley Gamell"Washing dishes is the antidote ...
Author: Ariela Yomtovian Classical music danced through the hills of Vermont this past Friday night. On March 14, the music of the Florestan Trio swam right through an almost full house.At the Mahaney Center for the Arts (MCFA), students, faculty and residents of Middlebury came to enjoy the talent ...
Author: [no author name found] Audio produced by Radio Arts Middlebury.Art as accessible - that was the message of Kevin P. Mahaney's '84 speech during the dedication and 15th anniversary of the Center for the Arts. From live musical performances to theatre showcases to alumni panels, the weekend dedicated ...
Author: Jonathan King Audio produced by Radio Arts Middlebury.From delivering sizzling pianos solos at his jazz group's Mahaney Center for the Arts (CFA) Concert Hall appearance to energizing the Beaux-Arts Ball as director of the Sound Investment, music instructor Dick Forman provided the drive behind ...
Author: Andrew Throdahl The string trio is a notorious ensemble - notorious to write for, and difficult to pull off successfully in performance. The string trio repertoire is not as spectacular as the quartet repertoire, but the March 7 concert by the Albers Trio in the Mahaney Center for the Arts surpassed ...
Author: Robert McKay Artist-in-Resident in Dance Leyya Tawil presented two showings of her company's "Capital Life Tryptich" at the Mahaney Center for the Arts this weekend. Despite several standout moments and some mesmerizing bodies, the program failed to create or exploit dramatic tensions between ...
Author: Melissa Marshall Waking up Sunday morning, I opted for a pair of jeans and Columbia boots - careful to avoid tripping over my abandoned, imitation Manolos that had already caused me enough bodily harm for one weekend. As many fierce Middlebury females have done before me, I faced the ice-storm ...
Author: Emily Temple Stephen Malkmus has changed the face of music as we know it. Now, be advised, he started this process close to 20 years ago and, as far as I'm concerned, finished it about 10 years ago when a little band called Pavement met its demise. Malkmus formed his soon-to-be-legendary rock ...
Author: Maddie Oatman I can't get away from Haruki Murakami. So much so that when I recently went to check out another one of his books, I didn't even have to look up the call number - I already knew exactly where I would find his shelf in the library. Murakami, a Japanese fiction writer who is heavily ...
Author: [no author name found] From the dark deputy head in "Cinders" to the front-man for campus band The Easy Answers, Lucas Kavner '06.5 delivered acclaimed performances on both the musical and theatrical stage. The Middlebury Campus checks in with the man who won over Wright Theatre and pumped-up ...
Author: Andrew Throdahl The Tallis Scholars was formed in 1973 (incidentally, the same year that the Academy of Ancient Music and Musica Antiqua Köln, two other renowned early music ensembles, were founded) by extant director Peter Philips. The Scholars became famous 25 years ago for their technically ...
Author: Melissa Marshall Students leaving the McCullough Social Space after a late-night dance party or prospectives taking a tour of the Student Center may be shocked to find themselves staring down the barrel of a gun. Aaron Gensler's '08 exhibit featuring eight photographs of students posing with ...
Author: Eleanor Johnstone Last week, Middlebury students checking their mailboxes found invitations to share their secrets à la PostSecret, a Maryland-based community art project that invites people to anonymously share private thoughts or moments - funny or serious - in an artistic fashion. Cards ...
Author: Melissa Marshall Bradford Cox of last year's lauded experimental psych-rock quintet Deerhunter has never been accused of conformity. A sufferer of Marfan syndrome - a genetic disorder of the connective tissue that gives him unnaturally long and spindly limbs - the front-man's stage performance ...
Author: Jason Gutierrez So here we are, three weeks into a new semester. The excitement of new classes has passed and the luster of this new semester has worn a bit. At this point, or if not now perhaps later on in the semester, I suspect a few of you might be sitting around one weekend night thinking ...
Author: Alexxa Gotthardt Rewind about a hundred years. The early 20th century was a time of political upheaval, economic uncertainty and also a whole lot of avant-garde artistic innovations. Art schools in Paris and New York were brimming with young pupils ready to take on the world with their wild ...
Author: Andrew Throdahl Emily Kim Goldsmith '08, winner of this year's Alan and Joyce Beucher Concerto Competition, will be playing the first movement of the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto in the College Orchestra concert on April 25. The Middlebury Campus caught up with the violinist on how she got started ...