Author: Jessie Kissinger Last Friday William Hosley '77, executive director of the New Haven Museum, gave a lecture entitled "Robbins Battell: A Social Vision for Collecting Art," which focused on the art collections and art-related charity work of 19th-century New England philanthropists Elizabeth ...
Author: Dorothy Mitchell Tired of tombs and temples at the Middlebury College Museum of Art? Bored with the black-and-white photography in Johnson? On view at the Shelburne Museum (Rt. 7 North) until October 21 is an exhibit entitled "Mary Cassatt: Friends and Family." On display are drawings, prints, ...
Author: Ramona Richards The World Trade Center was not always revered. Completed in 1973 by Japanese architect Minoru Yamakasi, the buildings were criticized as monstrosities that obstructed the city skyline and blocked traffic in lower Manhattan. Perhaps the single most outrageous thing about the ...
Author: Andrew Throdahl Katherine Winterstein and Inessa Zaretsky executed the Phelpsian task of performing all ten Beethoven violin sonatas over the course of the weekend. Each sonata has its own distinct character and works to map Beethoven's stylistic evolutions, thus making a performance cycle ...
Author: [no author name found] From our bookshelves, iPods and laptops to your Thursday morning breakfast table, here are our recommendations for the best of pop culture. Click on, check out and press play on these favorites - because there is a world outside "the bubble.""After Dark"By: Haruki Murakami ...
Author: Emily Temple Welcome back to yet another year at Middlebury. After a summer away, everyone's happy to return to our beautiful and majestic home away from home - and, come to think of it, our home away from a lot of other things, too. Mom, Dad, Starbucks and non-shady hair salons are not to be ...
Author: Jessie Kissinger On Friday, Sept. 12, the Middlebury College Museum of Art was packed with people eager to see the museum's newest exhibit. Entitled "Artist and Ancestors: Masterworks of Chinese Classical Painting and Ancient Ritual Bronzes," its name is no exaggeration, as it includes pieces ...
Author: Jason Guitierrez Ben Stiller has always been hit and miss as an actor (hilarious in films like "Dodgeball" but does anyone remember 2003's "Duplex"? I didn't think so) and a director ("Reality Bites?" Not so much). So it is with his latest offering, the ninety-two million dollar war comedy "Tropic ...
Author: Alexxa Gotthardt Since this past spring, an air of mystery and anticipation has surrounded two buildings that recently became part of the College landscape - 51 Main and Old Stone Mill. This fall, through the combined efforts of the College's administration and its students, the once obscure ...
Author: Andrew Throdahl The Middlebury Campus spoke with Associate Professor of Music Peter Hamlin '73 to learn more about his creative work outside of the classroom. The Middlebury Campus: What have you been working on recently?Peter Hamlin: I just finished a set of three songs for a singer in Minnesota ...
Author: Melissa Marshall A fan from Córdoba, a lamp from Egypt, a wine bottle from France, a scarf from Ecuador, a rug from Sweden - while first-years scramble to assemble rooms as well-rounded as their applications, mine glows as diverse and glossy as a Middlebury pamphlet. Unfortunately, just as ...
Author: Duggan, Grace On July 26th the curtain went down the last time for yet another season of the Potomac Theatre Project (PTP), Middlebury College's collaborative summer theatre program that gives undergraduates an opportunity to work with professional actors. Originally based on Maryland and Washington, ...
Author: Andrew Throdahl Pianist Paul Lewis graced Middlebury with a complete cycle of Beethoven's piano sonatas throughout the 2005 and 2006 seasons, but the completion of the cycle certainly has not deterred Lewis from returning to Middlebury with different composers in his fingers. His performance ...
Author: Emily Temple It's the end of the year, and you know what that means. Well, among other things, it means that everybody you know is scrambling for all they're worth to finish the projects they've been working on all semester, all year, or - gulp - all of college. The number of plays, art shows, ...
On the surface, Fulton Professor of Humanities and Director of Literary Studies Stephen Donadio seems to fit right into the academic archetype. He looks just as you would expect a person to look who has been a professor for four decades, serves as the founding director of the College's Literary Studies ...
Author: Tristan Axelrod It has been a long time since I last attended a Middlebury College Musical Players (MCMP) show, and I must admit that this is because my prior experiences with the group as a participant and audience member were less than satisfactory. The Middlebury College Musical Players are ...
Author: Ashley Gamell and Maddie Oatman "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close"by Jonathan Safran Foer Review by Maddie OatmanIn "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close," Jonathan Safran Foer creates a remarkably convincing portrayal of nine-year-old Oskar Schell, a slightly annoying, lovable and ...
Author: Robert McKay "Jumpers," playwright Tom Stoppard's metaphysical circus show, went off like firecrackers across the Wright Memorial stage last weekend. It pitted Visiting Assistant Professor in Theatre Alex Draper '88, in the role of philosopher George Moore, against a horde of yellow-suited, ...
Author: [no author name found] Did the Cake performance fail to satisfy your concert craving? WRMC is hoping that three-times will charm with their triple-band line-up for the station's annual music festival, beginning at 8:30 P.M. in the ever-popular and pleasing Proctor Dining Hall. Don't feel like ...