Author: Sadie Hoagland Francois Clemmons, Twilight Artist-in-Residence and Choir Conductor, has brought much to the College community over the years. Many of us think of him for his spectacular renditions of American Negro Spirituals that routinely awe Mead Chapel's crowds. Yet many students may not ...
Author: Suzanne Mozes A uniquely egalitarian art exhibit opened Friday, Oct. 10 at the Firehouse Center for the Visual Arts in Burlington. Giving artists of all abilities an opportunity to display their work, "The Fourth Annual Firehouse Open" now showcases the first 50 artists that arrived at the Firehouse ...
Author: Edward Pickering Title: "Brideshead Revisited"Author: Evelyn WaughFirst published: 1945Celebrated for his satiric novels of the 1930s, English novelist Evelyn Waugh wrote "Brideshead Revisited" during the Second World War while recuperating from a minor parachuting injury. Waugh's fourth and ...
Author: Matthew Clark In his directorial debut, George Clooney has brought a lonely, lost man's fragmented world seamlessly together in "Confessions of a Dangerous Mind." Despite the chaos that is Chuck Barris's (Sam Rockwell) life as a TV producer and CIA hitman, the movie flows with the same smoothness ...
Author: Erika Mercer Please, just indulge me for a moment while I stick my tongue out at all those critics who've dared claim that Belle & Sebastian has sold out with their newest album, "Dear Catastrophe Waitress." Sorry to say, you've missed the point.When the band's first album, "Tigermilk," ...
Author: Laura Rockefeller This past weekend's "4play," a pleasing collage piece about relationships that Hepburn Zoo audiences have come to expect from the annual First-Year Show, had a refreshing twist this year - the whimsical short play "The Ugly Duckling" by A.A. Milne (of "Winnie the Pooh" fame).The ...
Author: Chris Grosso Americans love to expose the shortcomings of the U.S. political system, and they definitely enjoy a good, hearty laugh once in a while. What happens when one creatively combines the two? You get a political parody. That's the case only if the jokes are funny, though. Middlebury ...
Author: Sadie Hoagland Laced with the eloquence of renowned poet Charles Wright's own voice: I've always liked the view from my mother-in-law's house at night,Oil rigs off Long BeachLike floating lanterns out in the smog-dark Pacific,Stars in the eucalyptus,Lights of airplanes arriving from Asia, and ...
Author: Abbie Beane Once in a great while a fairly renowned band comes along that's not so self-important - and that's refreshing to see. A band that isn't so laden with recognition of its own talent that it can manage to float nicely between self-confidence and its audience while putting on a show. ...
Author: Abbie Beane Do you remember this old project? An ongoing performance work founded in 1990, performers dressed in costumes, inspired by pedestrian crossing signs, which appeared in public locations for impromptu performances as well as completely choreographed works for specific venues. We're ...
Author: Edward Pickering Robert Penn Warren, poet, novelist and critic is best known for his Pulitzer Prize winning novel, "All the King's Men." Based on the career of Louisiana politician Huey Long, the novel portrays idealistic characters corrupted by power. Highly dramatic, it proves an irresistible ...
Author: Chris Grosso The title of artist-in-residence projects an image of an individual who excels in a certain discipline. This honor suggests talent, creativity, passion and dedication. Middlebury College is fortunate to attract these artists and give them the opportunity to share their knowledge ...
Author: [no author name found] "In the beginning, there was curiosity," stated Brenda Dixon Gottschild in this weekend's performance of "Tongue Smell Color," and she was right - there certainly was an immense feeling of curiosity as audience members filled the Center for the Arts (CFA) Dance Studio ...
Author: Joya Scott Every summer, Middlebury College's Theater Department migrates south invading suburban Maryland with its particular brand of provocative drama. This yearly ritual spawns the Potomac Theatre Project (PTP), the alternative theater in residence at the Olney Theatre Center in Olney, ...
Author: Abbie Beane We've got sex, we've got beer, and we've got all species of hard liquor, but don't worry Mom and Dad, we also appreciate French impressionism and contour maps. So I guess that means there's still hope for us. This weekend I visited 86 dorm rooms inhabited by students of both sexes ...
Author: Abbie Beane "Art does not have to be restricted to stone, bronze or paint. It can utilize the materials and concepts of our times. For Michelangelo, marble was the contemporary material, and the human form was the contemporary subject of his time. If he [Michelangelo] were an artist working ...
Author: Suzanne Mozes Keeping the lights on a little bit longer, the Middlebury College Museum of Art presents its inaugural "Museum Unplugged" Thursday, Oct. 2 from 8 to 11 p.m. Caleb Elder '04 and the Bittersweet String Band, featuring Caleb Elder and Charlotte Carlson '05 on the fiddle, Alex Reiser ...
Author: Erika Mercer "I'm from Chicago, but now I live in the country in a barn." When Andrew Bird, with his tall melancholy stature and moody brown eyes, uttered this sentence from atop the stage at Higher Ground last Wednesday, the simple words sounded profound. Now, what he meant was that he grew ...
Author: Chris Grosso Beat-boxing, a relatively new hip-hop art form, rapidly emerged in the music industry right around the time that Rahzel popularized this style in the late 90s. His use of merely lips, cheeks, gums and throat to create fascinating rhythms has stretched the limits of vocal creativity. ...
Author: Karen Stahlheber Saturday night at the Vermont Symphony Orchestra (VSO), I was surrounded by people who knew a lot more about music than I did. The other students were mostly there to fulfill music class requirements or because of some past affiliation with music. They talked about their AP ...