This weekend offers the gamut of classical indulgence, from the sublime brilliance of world-renowned pianist Dubravka Tomsic to the aural majesty of Middlebury’s own student orchestra to a comprehensive lecture by Professor Paul Nelson on the entire 95-year history of the Performing Arts Series. Come ...
For over a decade, the College has annually celebrated Irish music and dance in honor of St. Patrick’s Day. This year saw a continuation of this tradition with some notable changes. Affiliate Artists Timothy Cummings, Pete Sutherland and Dominique Dodge joined with alumnus Caleb Elder ’04 and ...
Nobel Laureate Carol Greider gave a lecture last week on how she helped solve one of molecular biology’s fundamental mysteries: why are germ cell lines immortal? In the 1960s, biologist Leonard Hayflick noticed that adult human cells in a Petri dish can only divide 40 to 60 times until they stop ...
Over the past couple weeks, the brutal conditions of the slowly receding winter have caused leaks to occur at the Kevin P. Mahaney ’84 Center for the Arts (MCA), which has played an integral role on campus since its construction in 1992. The affected area is located above the Middlebury College Museum ...
A musical collaborative of East African artists drawn from eleven countries touching the world’s longest river will visit the College Mar. 30 through Apr. 3. The Nile Project uses music to raise awareness for the Nile Basin’s sustainability challenges. During four days of residency activities including ...
It opens with a view of sand. Dark tan and flashing in the sun’s rays — this is clearly the desert. The camera pulls up and shows heatwaves emanating from the sparkling sand, and behind a hill the large sun beats down on the land. The yellow sky is striped with clouds. The camera then pans over ...
Joel Potrykus’ Buzzard is a comedy about the kind of adults who have toy lightsaber battles in their parents’ basements, and it is surely the most unsettling movie ever made to feature such a scene. Its hero is a man named Marty who appreciates the comforts of frozen-pizza sandwiches stuffed with ...
Myriad voices filled the lofty ceilings of the Kevin P. Mahaney ’84 Center for the Arts (MCA) Concert Hall this past Saturday, as the College’s annual “Songs and Arias” performance began. Seven vocal students sang in the event, performing a mix of solo songs and duets. The show started about ...
A few days before Sola was to be performed at the Middlebury College Dance Theatre this past weekend, I received an email from the box office stating that the Friday night show would be an abbreviated version of the full concert. I wondered what their apology was really for — and considered that if ...
This Saturday, two French/Catalan sisters, a Swede and a Scot cross the puddle to give the College one of the most vibrant and impassioned quartet performances of the millennia. The Elias String Quarter has risen like a meteor through the chamber music universe and into our own Performing Arts Series. Too ...
I did not realize the brilliance of Neil Gaiman’s writing until, attempting to recommend his novel Neverwhere to a friend, I realized what a difficult time I had describing the plot. This was not because the book was difficult to understand or fractured into excess subplots; to the contrary, it is ...
Child of Light is a platformer role-playing game that takes place in the fantastical world of Lemuria. You play as the young girl Aurora, an Austrian princess who wakes up to find herself in a strange world with even stranger creatures. Over the course of the game, you meet the different characters ...
Though the announcement did not come as a surprise to many, the Middlebury College Activities Board (MCAB) sent out an all-student email on Tuesday, Feb. 24 confirming that rapper and auto-tune extraordinaire T-Pain will headline this year’s spring concert on Saturday, April 18 in the Chip Kenyon ...
The Middlebury College Orchestra has experienced its fair share of ups and downs since its inauguration one hundred years ago. Most recently, low student participation led to the cancellation of orchestra in the spring of 2014. This past fall, however, conductor Andrew Massey rebuilt the group, filling ...
On Tuesday, Feb. 24, Middlebury students brought the stage to life with performances of literary works from the New England Review (NER). This was a night to unify the author with the actor, to revitalize prose through the age-old tradition of spoken word. The event was titled “NER Out Loud,” and ...
This year’s class of ’88 lecture series speaker Hugh Taylor addressed the question, “Will Stem Cells Stop the Biologic Clock?” The Yale School of Medicine physician-scientist and editor-in-chief of the Reproductive Sciences journal interspersed the story of his stem cell biology research with ...
Forty-six years ago, an unknown four-man rock band out of London cut and released their eponymous debut album. Thirty-eight years later and one member down, they played what is widely believed to be their final show in 2006 to a crowd of eighteen thousand lucky fans out of the twenty million that applied. ...
Last year, the College’s geology department unveiled a new Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM), a high performance machine capable of advanced imaging and analysis at very fine levels. The machine boasts an impressive array of features that include three-dimensional imaging as well as the chemical ...
It’s hard to shake the nagging paradox that seems to be spray-painted all over the upstairs gallery space at the Middlebury College Museum of Art’s Street Art Exhibit. Even if your experience with street art as a form of socio-political discourse is minimal, it is likely you have either heard of ...
What exactly do professors do when they teach? Are they communicating some aspect of their experience — sharing some of their knowledge or perspective with students? Or are they laying bare their personal investigative process and human experience for all to see? The dance department this week presents ...