Author: Andrew Throdahl In recent years, a new breed of dramatic soprano has surfaced in the opera world. The factor that distinguishes these women from sopranos of the past is an "advertisability" - an at-times artificial resemblance to Hollywood starlets. Their voices have always struck me as incongruous ...
Author: John Patrick Allen Meet Middlebury College's newest performing student band - Yuzimi. With enough catchy tunes to please a drunken partygoer, enough real talent to please a musician and enough contagious energy to make an audience get up and dance, Yuzimi is ready to take a solid place in the ...
Author: Emily Temple Rabbit Habbits, the highly anticipated third album from notorious gypsy-jazz ringleaders Man Man comes out April 8 on Anti- Records. The boys have been playing many of the songs that appear on this album for months in their live shows, so the enthusiasm for the release is backed ...
Author: Grace Duggan Brain too fried to figure out what to do over break? Have no fear - The Campus has you covered. From the Whitney Biennial in New York City to Montreal's notorious White Party, our picks will get you your arts fix. New YorkHeaded to the Big Apple for a few days? Take a break from ...
Author: Colin Foss Audio produced by Radio Arts Middlebury.To find good theater, sometimes you only need to open up your European history books. Shakespeare knew this well enough, and some of his most often produced plays are historical in some sense. So, in true English fashion, modern poet-turned-playwright ...
Author: Melissa Marshall "Art is the soul of any culture," New Mexico-based artist Maya Torres said emphatically during one of her many interviews in the latest documentary from Middlebury College alumna and Board of Trustees Member Pamela Tanner Boll '78. But what happens when that culture is still ...
Author: Ashley Gamell syn·es·the·sia from the Greek (syn-) union, and (aesthesis) sensation; is the neurological mixing of the senses. A synesthete may, for example, hear colors, see sounds - and taste tactile sensations.The Principles of Maira KalmanBy Ashley Gamell"Washing dishes is the antidote ...
Author: Ariela Yomtovian Classical music danced through the hills of Vermont this past Friday night. On March 14, the music of the Florestan Trio swam right through an almost full house.At the Mahaney Center for the Arts (MCFA), students, faculty and residents of Middlebury came to enjoy the talent ...
Author: [no author name found] Audio produced by Radio Arts Middlebury.Art as accessible - that was the message of Kevin P. Mahaney's '84 speech during the dedication and 15th anniversary of the Center for the Arts. From live musical performances to theatre showcases to alumni panels, the weekend dedicated ...
Author: Jonathan King Audio produced by Radio Arts Middlebury.From delivering sizzling pianos solos at his jazz group's Mahaney Center for the Arts (CFA) Concert Hall appearance to energizing the Beaux-Arts Ball as director of the Sound Investment, music instructor Dick Forman provided the drive behind ...
Author: Andrew Throdahl The string trio is a notorious ensemble - notorious to write for, and difficult to pull off successfully in performance. The string trio repertoire is not as spectacular as the quartet repertoire, but the March 7 concert by the Albers Trio in the Mahaney Center for the Arts surpassed ...
Author: Robert McKay Artist-in-Resident in Dance Leyya Tawil presented two showings of her company's "Capital Life Tryptich" at the Mahaney Center for the Arts this weekend. Despite several standout moments and some mesmerizing bodies, the program failed to create or exploit dramatic tensions between ...
Author: Melissa Marshall Waking up Sunday morning, I opted for a pair of jeans and Columbia boots - careful to avoid tripping over my abandoned, imitation Manolos that had already caused me enough bodily harm for one weekend. As many fierce Middlebury females have done before me, I faced the ice-storm ...
Author: Emily Temple Stephen Malkmus has changed the face of music as we know it. Now, be advised, he started this process close to 20 years ago and, as far as I'm concerned, finished it about 10 years ago when a little band called Pavement met its demise. Malkmus formed his soon-to-be-legendary rock ...
Author: Maddie Oatman I can't get away from Haruki Murakami. So much so that when I recently went to check out another one of his books, I didn't even have to look up the call number - I already knew exactly where I would find his shelf in the library. Murakami, a Japanese fiction writer who is heavily ...
Author: [no author name found] From the dark deputy head in "Cinders" to the front-man for campus band The Easy Answers, Lucas Kavner '06.5 delivered acclaimed performances on both the musical and theatrical stage. The Middlebury Campus checks in with the man who won over Wright Theatre and pumped-up ...
Author: Andrew Throdahl The Tallis Scholars was formed in 1973 (incidentally, the same year that the Academy of Ancient Music and Musica Antiqua Köln, two other renowned early music ensembles, were founded) by extant director Peter Philips. The Scholars became famous 25 years ago for their technically ...