Author: Alexandra Hay On Oct. 5, Mead Chapel was illuminated by François Clemmons, Twilight artist-in-residence, dressed in a bright gold jacket and enshrouded by the sound of his own glorious tenor voice, which was accompanied by Assistant in Music Cynthia Huard on the piano. The theme for this fifth ...
Author: Daniel Wolf Roda The Middlebury music and arts scene waits in anticipation for the upcoming second Annual "24 Hours of Peace" music and entertainment festival. The event will kick off this Friday evening in Pearson's lounge, migrate to the Gamut Room at 1 a.m. and then continue in front of McCullough ...
Author: Abbie Beane Someone paints a small, red dot on a white canvas — it's art. Someone blends a grapefruit and puts the purée into a shopping cart — it's art. Three people squirm around onstage wearing nothing but banana peels and salsa — it's art. Hence the reason why art and performance ...
Author: Erika Mercer "It's really liberating for me to cock my hip to one side and sneer sometimes." Uninhibited, notoriously hot-blooded and irresistibly charismatic, Ryan Adams has, in a span of two years, hypnotized the music world with his sound and persona. He's the eighth grade bully who picks ...
Author: [no author name found] The Vermont Symphony Orchestra (VSO) played at Middlebury College last Saturday rounding out its fourth concert of this fall's "Made in Vermont" Music Festival. The sold-out event at the Center for the Arts Concert Hall was well attended by parents who were on campus for ...
Author: Crystalyn Radcliffe Once in a while theater takes you to both extremes of the emotional continuum and back again. Bouncing between sorrow and delight, you are left anywhere but in between. When a joke can just as quickly become a dismal commentary on human nature, and a funny quirk turn to angry, ...
Author: Chase Kvasnak Dimiter Daphinoff's speech on Monday, titled "Shakespeare in the 21st Century," focused on the not-always-recognizable contemporary relevance of Shakespeare's almost five centuries-old works. Daphinoff said that "Hamlet's wonderful reflection on the waste of human life, compared ...
Author: Erika Mercer While Spoon has been busy stripping down to a sound that is spotlessly clean and decidedly minimalist, their music has been growing and advancing exponentially with the release of each album. They have reached an all-time high with their most recent release, "Kill the Moonlight," ...
Author: Liz Lathey Something happened last Thursday night at the Higher Ground in Winooski, Vt. Something happened between Robert and Marcus Randolph, Danyel Morgan and John Ginty. The musical chemistry between these four musicians, who together make up the Family Band, was undeniable as they played ...
Author: Abbie Beane The old farm of Conrad Ormsby remains an imposingly handsome panorama, just as it looked 60 years ago in the photographs taken by Fritz Henley. Henley was one of the nine photographers sent on assignment by the U.S. government to capture proof of a 1930s and '40s Vermont in need ...
Author: Chris Richards As the keynote speaker of this year's Clifford Symposium, "Art Matters: Visions for the Arts in the 21st Century," theater legend Edward Albee commanded a Mead Chapel audience to get into the trenches and fight against what the three-time Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright described ...
Author: Kate Prouty Memory playing tricks on you is not necessarily the worst thing in the world, unless maybe you can't remember why it is you walked into a room. But when material from a performance two years ago reinvents itself into an original dance piece, then it's somewhat of a mental blessing.All ...
Author: Liz Braunstein To the delight of many barefooted, grooving students who filled nearly half of the McCullough Social Space on Sept. 20, Strangefolk performed a two-hour show to promote their newly released live album, "Coast to Coast." Their set began with a rendition of the "Fat Albert" theme ...
Author: Neil Onsdorff It was a hazy, cloudy, overcast, intermittently rainy Saturday afternoon as Middlebury College football kicked off its 2002 season. As the sun started to break through towards the end of the second half the Panthers saw their 14-point lead disappear like parking on campus as the ...
Author: Erika Mercer It's strikingly fitting that Peter Bruntnell's two most recent albums, "Ends of the Earth" and "Normal for Bridgwater," were respectively released under the record labels Back Porch Records and Slow River Records. If you close your eyes and soak in either album, it would be easy ...
Author: [no author name found] Thursday, Sept. 19Keynote Address: Edward Albee: "The Playwright vs. The Theater," Introductory Remarks: President John M. McCardell, Jr., and Mel Gussow '55, New York Times critic and author. Mead Chapel, 8:00 p.m.Friday, Sept. 20Continental Breakfast, CFA, Lower Lobby, ...
Author: Kate Prouty Alex Poe, a senior theater major from Denver, Colo., will probably never be a starving artist. Not because he's not hungry, but because he's so hungry. About to graduate from Middlebury College, Poe has more than taken advantage of the College theater department.Working the intolerable ...
Author: Daniel Wolf Roda This past Friday my friend and I forewent the fresh Middlebury derriere to witness the opening show of Asian Man Records' second annual Plea for Peace / Take Action Tour (PFP/TAT) in Worcester, Mass., featuring the return of modern punk legend Jesse Michaels to the public stage.Michaels ...
Author: Erika Mercer Coldplay's music is like floating several hundred feet above the earth through a bright but hazy morning sky, feeling close to weightless. You're gazing down at the landscape below, which ranges from downy green pastures and quiet, level squares of farmland filled with grass-munching ...
Author: Abbie Beane If you were to climb the stairs of the Middlebury College Museum of Art today, you would find the daunting modernism of the Center for the Arts (CFA) contrasting a dusty, deteriorating barn house, your brand-new tennis shoes contrasting a pair of worn leather boots and an experience ...