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Tuesday, Dec 16, 2025

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Music department's Troy Peters says adieu

Author: Dana Walters Troy Peters, 14-year resident of Vermont and conductor of both the Middlebury College Orchestra and the Vermont Youth Orchestra, will be leaving this icy land at the end of the academic year to conduct the San Antonio Youth Orchestra in Texas.Orchestra members are already lamenting ...


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Spotlight on... Elizabeth Hirsch '11

Author: Emma Stanford Hirsch, along with Siobhan O'Malley '10 and Hilary Cunningham '12, won the 2009 Alan Carter Chamber Music Competition. Their trio of flute, bassoon and clarinet performed Monday April 13 in Le Chateau Grand Salon. Emma Stanford sat down with Hirsch to discuss the trio's success.The ...


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Jane Fine

Author: Ramona Richards If the students funneling past Johnson Memorial Building every day on their way to lunch were to venture inside, they would find a glass-doored, parquet-floored gallery. Often used to display student artwork, the gallery occasionally showcases the work of professors in the Studio ...


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Christian values

Author: Christian Morel I believe I left you last in the closet or, as I recall, the wardrobe. It is time to get dressed. However, before this can happen, we must first place a filter on our stylistic choices. This filter that I speak of will be sensitive to the amazing American media mainstream tool ...


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Graffiti rejuvenates drab Forest basement

Author: Dana Walters Usually the term "graffiti" denotes vandalism, ruin and wreckage. The pictures that coat the walls of subway stations and impoverished buildings might look beautiful and creative, but they still remain synonymous with destruction. Adding the term "art," to "graffiti" might therefore ...


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For the record

Author: Alex Blair I'm waiting for the day when noise pop breaks into the mainstream. It's going to happen. I can see it now. Miley Cyrus will pick up an electric guitar, plug it into a massive amp, and blow the heads off a bunch of screaming eight-year-olds with her roaring feedback (the Jonas Brothers ...


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Santigold

Author: Toren Hardee Santi White - widely known as Santogold and, more recently, as Santigold, due to a lawsuit filed by infomercial jeweler Santo V. Rigatuso a.k.a. Santo Gold - brought her fresh, energetic, contemporary pop to the Pepin Gymnasium on Saturday night. The performance, though brief, was ...


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Recognizing the power of the photo

Author: Mario Ariza Portrait photography is not just simple point and click. Its art goes beyond the framing of the photo, and the good portrait photographer has to be as psychologically cunning as he or she is bold. Angela Evancie's '09 black-and-white film portraits of members of the Middlebury College ...


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The Reel Critic

Author: Jason Gutierrez MOVIE: Revolutionary RoadDIRECTOR: Sam MendesSTARRING: Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate WinsletConfession time. I haven't seen "Revolutionary Road" since I first saw it during the first week of February (thanks, Middlebury College, for letting students get first crack at those seats ...


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Arabella Steinbacher

Author: Andrew Throdahl Over the past two years, I have occasionally found myself double-tasking at performing arts series concerts, working as the page-turner as well as the critic. The artists have never known about my agency with The Middlebury Campus - as far as they know I am just a fledgling dot-follower, ...


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Spotlight on... Justin Haythe '96

Author: Jason Gutierrez The Middlebury Campus: First, what attracted you to the novel ("Revolutionary Road" by Richard Yates)? Justin Haythe: I'd read the novel with a novelist's hat on first. Then I was approached by the BBC for an adaptation, and it is a very filmic book in certain ways. So I felt ...


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Senior theatre work issues play on power

Author: Emma Stanford Saturday's closing performance of "F*ckpigs and C*ckroaches" started slowly, as would-be audience members were escorted into Hepburn Zoo to find extra crannies to occupy. For some, this was their second or third time seeing the show since its opening on Thursday; they were drawn ...


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For the record

Author: Alex Blair U2, once again, is the biggest band in the world. In the first week of March, the boys from Ireland were featured on the cover of Rolling Stone, performed a five-day gig on Letterman and released their latest album, "No Line On The Horizon." The LP reached number one both in the U.K. ...


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Documentaries draw new genre lines

Author: Dana Walters While the label "animated documentary" might sound contradictory, almost to the point of seeming oxymoronic, Professor of Japanese Studies Carole Cavanaugh argues that it might embody the most honest version of the documentary genre yet. In her stimulating lecture, "Drawing on Truth: ...


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The Reel Critic

Author: Daniel Watson-Jones MOVIE: WatchmenDIRECTOR: Zack SnyderSTARRING: Malin Akerman and Billy CrudupFull disclosure: I am in love with "Watchmen" by Alan Moore. But while I worship the graphic novel as an unimpeachable literary feat, I wanted to be as unbiased as possible in my approach to a film ...


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Wit

Author: Michael Nevadomski This past weekend saw the amateur performance of Margaret Edson's Pulitzer Prize-winning drama, "Wit" (alternately spelled "W:t"). Based on the author's own hospital experiences, "Wit" explores the isolating effects of academia through the last months of the main character, ...


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'Revolutionary Road' screenwriter to speak at Midd

Author: [no author name found] Justin Haythe '96, who penned the screenplay of the film "Revolutionary Road," will host a discussion after the screening of the Academy Award-nominated and Golden Globe winning film "Revolutionary Road" this Sunday at 7:30 p.m. in Dana Auditorium. On Monday, March 16, ...




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