Arts & Culture
Spotlight on... The Middlebury Dance Program
By Middlebury Campus | May 1, 2007Author: Chi Zhang The Middlebury Dance Program was recently honored with an invitation to perform at the St. Mark's church in New York, as part of a series called "Academy Dances" sponsored by the Danspace Project. Danspace is one of the prime venues on the downtown dance scene and has been an instrumental ...
College Orchestra raises concert hall roof
By Middlebury Campus | May 1, 2007Author: Andrew Throdahl When Associate Professor of Music Greg Vitercik commented on the College orchestra's significant improvement since last year he did not hesitate to gloat. "We can do anything we want to now," said Vitercik. This certainly proved true at Thursday evening's concert in the Center ...
Beyond Backstage On the go with Guster
By Middlebury Campus | May 1, 2007Author: Mary Lane Late night beer, jamming out to tunes and philosophical conversation - sounds like a typical Friday night at Middlebury, right? Add a chart-topping, college-rock idol band to the mix and you have my past weekend. I spent Friday night hanging out with Guster and their road crew backstage ...
Innovative senior projects immerse audience in movement
By Middlebury Campus | May 1, 2007Author: Beth Connolly More than just dance, "Distance Between" was a full sensory experience combining music, video, found sound and colorful costumes with compositions in varied styles. "Distance Between," Louisa Irving's '07 senior project, drew an enthusiastic audience last Friday and Saturday nights ...
for the record Avett Brothers
By Middlebury Campus | May 1, 2007Author: Emily Temple I am not a fan of country. I don't like it at all, not even the watered-down-for-the-common-man versions. Even most bluegrass can grate on me, and such was my experience when I first heard the Avett Brothers. I guess it was "saw" as much as "heard." Two summers ago, I ran every ...
Junior Boys lacked musical maturity
By Middlebury Campus | April 24, 2007Author: Jordan Nassar Junior Boys? Are you sure? They look more like senior men. But beyond the fact that these older-than-everyone-thought electro-artists failed to draw much of a crowd, their concert at Higher Ground in Burlington left me disappointed, to say the least. If the venue hadn't had Magic ...
Eccentric performances energize Eleemosynary
By Middlebury Campus | April 24, 2007Author: Colin Foss You would think eccentricity is a trait that you learn, not inherit, but "Eleemosynary" offers a new take on the odd habits of your relatives. Maybe eccentricity is a choice, a deliberate life decision, made in order to cope better with a family beleaguered by their own intelligence ...
for the record Bright Eyes' Cassadaga
By Middlebury Campus | April 24, 2007Author: Melissa Marshall "From the roof of a friend's I watched an empire ending," quakes Conor Oberst's voice with a sense of foreshadowing on the April release, Cassadaga. As the driving force of Bright Eyes, Oberst's wavering vocals have transcended the confines of pop culture to become the voice ...
spotlight on Knef King
By Middlebury Campus | April 24, 2007Author: Melissa Marshall Knef King '08 has been hosting a WRMC hip-hop show, "Color Outside the Lines and Movemental Radio," with Des Jennings and Nora Sutton since he stepped foot on this campus. He has also been the Business Director and Hip-Hop Manager at WRMC since his sophomore year. In all his ...
The Reel Critic Reign over Me
By Middlebury Campus | April 24, 2007Author: Josh Wessler "Reign over Me" has Adam Sandler looking disheveled, with hair flowing over dark, deep-set eyes. An alcoholic's drawl lurks behind a thick New York accent. He appears like a rebellious adolescent though it's his most mature role to date. The film mixes the sad and funny into a story ...
Pulitzer Prize-winner visits Midd
By Middlebury Campus | April 24, 2007Author: Grace Duggan Jay Parini, D. E. Axinn Professor of English & Creative Writing, did not exaggerate by introducing Pulitzer Price-winning poet Phillip Levine last Thursday evening as a "permanent part of American literature." Levine, who was born in Detroit, Michigan in 1928, has written more ...
The Reel Critic The Lives of Others
By Middlebury Campus | April 17, 2007Author: Josh Wessler MOVIE
High energy level at Higher Ground Tokyo Police Club and Cold War Kids heat up stage
By Middlebury Campus | April 17, 2007Author: Ramona Richards You thought Cold War Kids were an indie rock band? Me too. But on April Fool's Day when the group played at Higher Ground in Burlington, they played surprisingly like a lounge act. The foursome produced a sound that was much jazzier than what can be heard on the Robbers & ...
Regally Blonde
April 17, 2007Author: Astri von Arbin Ahlander I was in Sweden over the break, experiencing what we have yet to see at Middlebury: spring. The temperature in Stockholm blew my travel buddy and me away with warm breezes and constant sunshine over the glittering water of what is appropriately called the Venice of the ...
For the Record CocoRosie
By Middlebury Campus | April 17, 2007Author: Emily Temple According to the jacket of the album, "The Adventures of Ghosthorse & Stillborn is a departure from the obscured blur of stained glass rÍve to a more self-exploitive memoir. Parts are dreamy and parts are savage, but, as with an opera where death represents a secret heaven, ...
Recommended Reading Kathryn and the Runaway Zoo
By Middlebury Campus | April 17, 2007Author: Bridget Cummings Dorman "A girl that talks to animals. A cramped zoo. All the zoo animals going down the Mississippi in a houseboat. Fantastic!" writes local Middlebury resident, Lisel Peters-deCourval. The twelve-year-old critic is describing William B. Catton's new book, "Kathryn and the Runaway ...
Women on the Verge
By Middlebury Campus | April 17, 2007Author: Colin Foss As three courageous, 19th-century women set off on a safari through "Terra Incognita," the rusty Hepburn Zoo became a lush jungle, an arctic tundra and finally the intersection of time and space. Exploring the romantic dreamworlds with big-eyes and even bigger characters, the pioneering ...
Mini Spotlight on... Ian Peach
By Middlebury Campus | April 17, 2007Author: Melissa Marshall Frequenters of the Gamut Room have Senior Ian Peach to thank for the recently added artistic ambience to the student-run space. Peach's contributions include under-developed photographs sporting super-imposed typed poetry and an innovative interpretation of the American Flag. ...
Quartet tugs on audience's heartstrings
By Middlebury Campus | April 17, 2007Author: Hannah Rommer The Takacs Quartet delighted the Middlebury community last Friday evening with its 19th campus performance since 1994. Playing the works of Debussy, Shostakovich and Brahms, the award-winning quartet delivered a varied program that displayed the talents of its individual players ...