Author: Andrew Throdahl Page-turning can be a stressful activity, especially when the page-turner is thrust on stage, score in hand, with an alien ensemble, expected to follow along despite being unfamiliar with the music. If the ensemble is good, all the worse for the page-turner, who must keep him ...
Author: Alexxa Gotthardt Artist in Residence Doctor Francois Scarborough Clemmons came to Middlebury 10 years ago with a powerful tenor voice and perhaps even more powerful personality. Clemmons grew up in Youngstown, Ohio. where he began his singing career in his church choir. He received his Bachelor ...
Author: Melissa Marshall Along with a chill in the air, mid-October also brings the tingle in your spine signifying the rise of witches, goblins and ghosts associated with the falling leaves. While your upcoming midterms may strike your heart with more fear than the supernatural of Halloween, there ...
Author: Alexxa Gotthardt This year, the College's Arts Council, a group of Middlebury alumni and parents who have positions and resources in the arts, is kicking of a three-year pilot program to fund student internships in the arts. The council will distribute the funding in $500 parcels for Winter ...
Author: Eleanor Johnston In one of the concluding events of last week's Clifford Symposium "Islam and Politics in a Changing World," Artist in Residence Leyya Tawil and violinist Mike Khoury presented their multi-dimensional exploration of Arab-American boundaries in the Mahaney Center for the Arts ...
Author: Jordan Nassar Work hard, play hard. That's what they say about us Middlebury students, right? While that may be astute, and kind of fun for the first year or so, I have a feeling that playing hard is not quite what all of us are looking for. You've heard it, you've probably even said it yourself ...
Author: Melissa Marshall As we slip out of seer-sucker and skirts and into corduroy and cable-knits, we also shrug off the sunshine-pop of summer and hit play on something more substantial. Maybe it's the shorter days, the crisper air or the falling leaves, but the autumn season lends itself to the ...
Author: Grace Duggan Here are four creative young directors who have taken it upon themselves to realize their artistic conceptions in three up coming all student productions. After last year's non-departmental theater successes, this year bodes well on the student front. The three plays range from ...
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Author: Justine Katzenbach Interview with the playwright, Rinde Eckert, is produced by Radio Arts Middlebury. For more radio news, tune in every Wednesday at 4:30 PM on 91.1 FM WRMC.Those unable to attend Wright Memorial Theatre on Oct. 8 for Rinde Eckert's production of "Horizon" missed out on a truly ...
Author: Eleanor Johnstone Audio produced by Radio Arts Middlebury.Theater people love to be hands-on. That is why you will find them hooting like monkeys and making odd faces at one another instead of staring at books for hours on end. Life-of-the-party aside, however, you will find that it takes many ...
Author: Ashley Gamell and Maddie Oatman Best of Bread Loaf:Part II Robert Cohen's New Novel Reviewed by Ashley GamellRobert Cohen is that gangly, profusely-bearded English professor who swoops impressively around the fringes of campus, looking like a bird of prey conspicuously native to New ...
Author: Ashley Gamell Jenna Levine '07.5 is Fine Arts major from Chicago. Levine spent the last academic year in London at Central Saint Martin's College exploring her interests in dance, photography, video, painting and other multimedia art. The Campus caught up with Levine to talk about life in London ...
Author: Emily Temple Syracuse University's Marshall Street area is about the size of the whole of downtown Middlebury, but dirty, like a real city. This summer, trying to get my cousin to his gig on time, I stopped to ask a studentish-looking loiterer leaning against the fence in what I was pretty sure ...
Author: Melissa Marshall Audio produced by Radio Arts Middlebury."But I adore him/And I implore him/ Saying I love none other/ But this ain't no style," rung out Regina Spektor's sultry voice, her voluptuous vocals captivating the sold-out audience at Pepin Gymnasium on Saturday evening. The opening ...
Author: Andrew Throdahl Saturday evening Middlebury College Music faculty members including cellist Dieuwke Davydov, violist Paul Reynolds and violinist Katherine Winterstein collaborated with fellow string players Kathy Andrew, Marcia Cassidy and John Dunlop on a free concert of Brahms' two gorgeous ...
Author: Melissa Marshall In a moment out of the college fantasy of every bohemian high school student this side of the Mississippi, I huddled in a tastefully lighted room filled with the scent of brewing tea and effortless conversation. Maybe it was the Gypsy Kings in the background, maybe it was the ...
Author: Kathryn Flagg The Middlebury Campus spoke with author and member of the Class of 1997 Emily Mitchell this week. Mitchell, whose dazzling first novel The Last Summer of the World was published this summer by W.W. Norton, spoke from her home in California about the novel, the Bread Loaf Writer's ...