On Friday Nov. 3 in Mead Memorial Chapel, the world-famous a cappella group, The King’s Singers, returned to Middlebury after their first performance in 2015. Marking the beginning of their 50th anniversary world tour, the Grammy Award-winning group filled the chapel with beautiful harmonies and melodies ...
On Friday, Nov. 7, rapper and internet star Cupcakke performed a lively show hosted by WRMC in the Pit in Johnson Memorial Building. The 20-year-old performer from Chicago is known for her sexually-explicit and sex-positive songs such as “Deepthroat” and “Vagina” which have both gone viral on ...
On Wednesday Nov. 1, Robert Siegel of National Public Radio (NPR) graced the Wilson Hall stage to reflect on his legendary career in broadcast journalism and remark on changes in the field over the last forty years. Siegel’s first foray into the world of radio was in 1968 when he provided in-depth ...
Seldom would a character release the four-letter expletive “f–ck” five consecutive times on stage without drawing a stunned silence from the audience. Such is the language of the play “Glengarry Glen Ross” by David Mamet. The Middlebury Department of Theatre and Dance put on the play, directed ...
Currently on display in the Middlebury College Museum of Art until Dec. 10 is “Land and Lens: Photographers Envision the Environment.” A selection of 71 images, “Land and Lens” draws heavily from the museum’s own rich collection of photographs that spans multiple centuries and includes work ...
In 1968, Philip K. Dick asked us to ponder a question: do androids dream of electric sheep? His novel about what makes the human experience so human inspired director Ridley Scott to bring his vision to the big screen with “Blade Runner” (1982). It subsequently took Scott five attempts to tell Rick ...
Literatures and cultures librarian Katrina Spencer is liaison to the Anderson Freeman Center, the Arabic department, the French department, the Gender Sexuality & Feminist Studies (GSFS Program), the Language Schools, Linguistics and the Spanish & Portuguese departments. These affiliations are ...
Amid the reunions, career talks and campus tree tours of Fall Family Weekend, a storytelling event called Cocoon brought capacity levels of parents, students and community members to Robison Concert Hall on the evening of Saturday Oct. 14. One would be hard-pressed, as co-organizer Jocelyn Zemach ’18 ...
Two homicidal bridesmaids drinking away jealousy at their best friend’s wedding. Manic office drones trying their best to recapture the creative dreams that brought them to New York City. Two people falling in love over years of meeting in a pizza parlor. These diverse stories and more were brought ...
Question: You have an electric guitar and electric banjo (but can only use one at a time), no percussion nor bass and a hauntingly talented vocalist. How do you create a memorable performance? Tuesday night, Fawn, a morphine folk duo hailing from South Bend, Indiana, answered that question in the Gamut ...
In her Monday, Oct. 16 talk, entitled “Musical Witness and Holocaust Representation,”, author and Associate Professor of Music at Dickinson College Amy Lynn Wlodarski ’97 discussed the film score for Alain Resnais’s work, “Nuit et brouillard”/“Night and Fog,” and the concept of a secondary ...
Literatures and cultures librarian Katrina Spencer is liaison to the Anderson Freeman Center, the Arabic department, the French department, the Gender Sexuality & Feminist Studies (GSFS Program), the Language Schools, Linguistics and the Spanish & Portuguese departments. These affiliations are ...
On Saturday, Oct. 7, the Danish String Quartet played Bela Bartok’s First String Quartet, Sz. 40 Op. 7, Beethoven’s Seventh String Quartet, Op. 59 No. 1, subtitled “Razumovsky” for their Russian patron, and a collection of folk tunes arranged by the quartet. They encored a piece by a contemporary ...
“Drive It Like It’s Stolen” is the new EP from hip-hop trio Injury Reserve, which consists of vocalists Stepa Groggs and Ritchie With a T and producer Parker Corey. The EP is the group’s third major project after their first two albums, 2015’s “Live From the Dentist Office” and 2016’s ...
For those who do not know, Dolci is a student run restaurant that hosts dinners at Atwater Dining Hall three Fridays a month. Each meal usually features several courses with a theme; from vegan, to meat lovers, to Italian or Chinese. The food is a refreshing break from the usual dining hall menus, and ...
Professor Emeritus of Music Emory Fanning celebrated his 50 years at Middlebury on Sunday, Oct. 1 with the sparkling musical tones of an organ recital. The program began with Concerto No. 1 in G Major by Johann Ernst, one of wsix concertos transcribed by J.S. Bach for the organ in his earlier years. ...
Literatures and cultures librarian Katrina Spencer is liaison to the Anderson Freeman Center, the Arabic department, the French department, the Gender Sexuality & Feminist Studies (GSFS Program), the Language Schools, Linguistics and the Spanish & Portuguese departments. These affiliations are ...
Soovin Kim will come to the Kevin P. Mahaney ’84 Center for the Arts’ Robison Hall on Friday, Oct. 13 to perform an all-Bach program, which will include Bach’s E major partita, G minor sonata and A minor sonata for solo violin. Kim gained recognition in Vermont when, at age 10, he became the youngest-ever ...
On Sunday, Oct. 1, the Town Hall Theater hosted “I Rise,” a performance fundraising-awareness event for WomenSafe in collaboration with MiddSafe and the college Department of Theater and Dance. The goal of the event was to raise money and awareness about the struggles of domestic violence within ...
This past summer was the first time since 1893 that eight or more major hurricanes formed in a row in the Atlantic. This hurricane season was also the only season on record with three hurricanes with an Accumulated Cyclone Energy (ACE) — a scientific measure of the strength of the hurricane — over ...