Author: Alexxa Gotthardt A career in the arts. The phrase is daunting on many levels. It is not often the ideal vision of parents for their child's future. The job market in curation, sculpture, painting, architecture or conservation is anything but concrete. And, finally, there is the issue of the ...
Author: Justine Katzenbach There is something positively wonderful about a night spent at the Hepburn Zoo. As students cram into corners of Middlebury College's own student-run black box theatre, they struggle for a view of the stage where their peers perform but a few feet in front of them. It is ...
Author: Melissa Marshall There is nothing in the world quite like a well-constructed, thoroughly thought-out, emotionally charged, memory-inducing mixed CD. A mixed CD composed with style, grace and just the right amount of daring has power enough to conjure the joy brought on by the first truly warm ...
Author: The Arts Editors The curtains opened to the class of 2010 for the first time at the Hepburn Zoo last weekend in the 11th annual First-Year Show I Gotta Change my Whole Friggen' Life. Directed by Professor of Theatre Richard Romagnoli, the evening was comprised of short ten to fifteen-minute ...
Author: Sara Jameson It is not often that a musician with such international renown as pianist Krystian Zimerman comes to Middlebury. Last Wednesday evening, however, the College's Center for the Arts Concert Hall was graced by one of the most talented pianists of our generation. In this concert, Zimerman ...
Author: Astri von Arbin Ahlander Halloween may be all done here, but in Sweden it hasn't even begun. Though I'm famously in favor of my Mothercountry, I must admit that the land of the midnight sun has failed me this time. When Sweden adopted Halloween as a holiday a couple of years back, it did so ...
Author: Myra Palmero Everett Beekin, which ran last weekend at Seeler Studio Theater under the direction of Professor of Theatre Douglas Sprigg, explored the powerful, complicated relationship that connects four generations of a dysfunctional Jewish family: the Foxs. While Sprigg's production used ...
Author: Melissa Marshall Las Vegas: shiny lights, scantily-clad women and excess. New Jersey: flat landscapes, industrial towns and weary diners. The Killers: part 80s new wave, part new-millennium post-punk and one hundred percent androgynous synth-rock for the suburbanite Caucasian masses. Bruce Springsteen: ...
Author: Maddie Oatman Charles A. Dana Professor of History of Art & Architecture Kirsten Hoving has been an important Art History scholar at Middlebury ever since she joined the faculty in 1983. Originally from Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, Hoving received her undergraduate degree at Ohio Wesleyan ...
Author: Kelsey Smith Thursday evening ushered in the beginning of another season for the Hepburn Zoo with a collection of provocative student productions directed by Rishabh Kayshap '08 and Leah Day '07.5 entitled Naked Slash Truth. The evening began with a selection of four short pieces, each directed ...
Author: Will Ceurvels The Florestan Trio is a chamber group for whom musical performance is as much intellectual as it is aesthetic. Take Susan Tomes, pianist and founding member, whose professional activities extend beyond the group to her regular contributions as a musical commentator for The Financial ...
Author: Emily Temple It's undeniable that music and fashion are inextricably linked. We are unable to help ourselves from making assumptions about those around us based on the clothes that they wear - not only assumptions about what kind of music they listen to, but also whether they have a lot of money, ...
Author: Justine Katzenbach Jordan Tirrell-Wysocki '08 has infiltrated the Middlebury College rock music scene with a new and unconventional sound - the fiddle. Tirrell-Wysocki, a joint Theatre and English major from Canterbury, N.H. has performed in folk concerts around New England since he was a child. ...
Author: Alexxa Gotthardt Countless ball point pens, pots of sumi ink, 47 feet of paper and draftsmanship extraordinaire fuse together in former Middlebury artist-in-residence Dawn Clements' Travels with Myra Hudson, the latest manifestation of the Art Now series on display at the Middlebury College ...
Author: Maddie Oatman The name Georgia O'Keeffe often evokes images of sensual flowers or desert vistas saturated with vibrant colors. The Shelburne Museum's exhibit of 25 O'Keeffe paintings, entitled Simple Beauty, touches upon some of these sumptuous floral abstracts, but also offers a unique perspective ...
Author: Josh Wessler MOVIE
Author: Melissa Marshall There is something horribly poetic about the autumn months. Maybe it's the clear October nights. Or perchance it's the crisp breeze, the "wind scurrying scarlet dry leaves like they were dust." But most likely (spoken like a true emo-child), autumn attributes its elegiac nature ...
Author: Justine Katzenbach Middlebury College community members gathered in Dana Auditorium on Sunday, Oct. 1 as Dan Smarg '05.5 debuted his feature length film, "Endzone." The completion of the film was a significant accomplishment for both Smarg and Middlebury actors Daniel Di Tomasso '06, Macleod ...
Author: [no author name found] This past Friday, Alexander Twilight Artist in Residence Dr. Francois S. Clemmons and Director of Choral Music Jeff Rehbach led a choir of community singers, students, faculty and staff in "A Celebration of American Song." The concert kicked off Fall Family Weekend, overflowing ...