Author: Andrew Throdahl On Nov. 16 the Mahaney Center for the Arts Concert Hall was unusually full, making one wonder if the Claremont Trio's absurd advertising scheme had succeeded in luring curious listeners - or rather viewers. On their posters scattered around campus the three young women - violinist ...
Author: Eleanor Johnstone Although "The Heidi Chronicles" shook Wright Theater the weekend before campus emptied for break, its powerful performances and messages chased this reporter into the holiday and back to the press. Directed by Middlebury's Professor of Theater and Women's and Gender Studies ...
Author: [no author name found] Acting major? Art History major? Music major? What are you going to do with that? Every year the question is posed with a perplexed brow to thousands of students majoring in the arts. It is widely known that careers in the arts are notoriously difficult to break into and ...
Author: Jordan Nassar Fashion is just like anything else. Those who are into it are into it - and those who are not just don't care. We are too often thrown off by the combination two truths: that fashion deals with clothes, and that we all wear clothes. We end up thinking that because we all wear clothes, ...
Author: Ashley Gammel Nugent + Matteson Dance, an intimate and charismatic company consisting of its two title performers, Jennifer Nugent and Paul Matteson '00, graced Middlebury's dance theatre on Nov. 9 and 10 with a playful, concise evening program. Matteson, who graduated from Middlebury seven ...
Author: [no author name found] Audio produced by Radio Arts Middlebury.The College Orchestra, under the direction of Troy Peters, performed on Friday, Nov. 9 in the Mahaney CFA concert hall. The orchestra, which underwent a renaissance last year, performed the ambitious program of Borodin, Corigliano ...
Author: Emily Temple I'm going to break a tenet of journalism right off the bat and start with a disclaimer: I am no disc jockey. Okay, yes, I DJ for WRMC, but that's not what I'm talking about. And yes, sure, at home I pick all the music for my friends and myself when we're sitting around my living ...
Author: Melissa Marshall Audio produced by Radio Arts Middlebury.In one of the most harrowing performances since Julia Proctor's '06.5 portrayal of Morse in "One Flea Spare," Lilli Stein '11 thrust herself onto the blade of a knife in the final scenes of "The Zoo Story," to the shock and horror of the ...
Author: Colin Foss and Eleanor Johnstone Audio produced by Radio Arts Middlebury.On Nov. 15-17 the Middlebury stage will be graced by Wendy Wasserstein's "The Heidi Chronicles," a production directed by Professor of Theatre and Women's and Gender Studies Cheryl Faraone. The many related events that ...
Author: Colin Foss Audio produced by Radio Arts MiddleburyThis weekend, the Middlebury College Musical Players (MCMP) will be performing Stephen Sondheim's "Merrily We Roll Along" on the McCullough stage. This production marks for the Players an era of new-found enthusiasm for musical theatre on campus. ...
Author: Eleanor Johnstone "Courage begins with one voice." That was the line Jacquie Antonson '10 delivered to open "Manifesto for Another World," a play by Ariel Dorman and directed by Nerina Cocchi '10 that was performed in the Hepburn Zoo last weekend. As part of the fall symposium "Faces Behind ...
Author: Melissa Marshall "I wish I was special/But I'm a creep, I'm a weirdo/ What the hell am I doing here?/ I don't belong here." Thom Yorke's desperate confession became an anthem - and an airwave infection - for a generation. And, almost 15 years and eight full-length releases later, Radiohead ...
Author: Ashley Gamell & Maddie Oatman The coveted wall-space of New York's art museums is usually reserved for die-hard visual artists, those who have starved their way through art school in order to become fluent in the wordless language of shapes and colors. This Fall Break, however, we ran into ...
Author: Andrew Throdahl and Melissa Marshall Audio content produced by Radio Arts MiddleburyEmerson String QuartetWhen looking for a recording of any major string quartet, chances are you will come across one, if not more, recordings performed by the Emerson String Quartet, one of today's leading string ...
Author: [no author name found] "Aperture," the second show at the College's new Center Gallery in McCullough Student Center, opened Oct. 27th. The exhibition presents the work of three student photographers Emily Coles '09, Angela Evancie '09.5 Brian Korbelik '08 and was curated by Graduate Intern Stuart ...
Author: Melissa Marshall Dressed in a cozy fleece and exuding an even warmer demeanor, Kelsey Eichhorn '08 does not fit the picture of a hot shot director, but she has the credentials. Her film, "What I Do Has to be Great" won Best Documentary by a Student and Overall Best Student Film at this year's ...
Author: Andrew Throdahl Could it be possible that young concert pianists have so mastered technique that they have become oblivious to acceptable interpretation? The October 26th concert answered with a resounding, at times deafening, "yes" in response to this question. The concert, comprised of Bach-Busoni, ...