Author: Andrew Throdahl Can opera function surrounded by popcorn, Pepsi and jeans? The Metropolitan Opera, managed by the entrepreneurial Peter Gelb, has no reservations about transmitting its productions to a few select multiplex movie theaters across the country, trimming the operatic experience of ...
Author: [no author name found] WORLD ART WITH A SIDE OF LOCAL FLAVORAs the College campus fashioned itself like a Van Gogh masterpiece in full autumn glory, The Middlebury College Musuem of Art also opened its doors for patrons to enjoy art of a more permanent kind. This Homecoming weekend, Middlebury ...
Author: Jessie Kissinger This past weekend, sixteen actors rallied together for a highly energetic and physically charged show full of kissing, dancing, chanting, yelling, wheezing, straddling teddy bears and even insect mating. It was all part of "Discover: Scenes of Unearthing," the 13th Annual First-Year ...
Author: Patrick D'Arcy Middlebury students gathered at nightfall in Mead Chapel on October 17th for a reading from Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Galway Kinnell as part of the College's Annual Clifford Symposium. In keeping with this year's theme of memory and place, Kinnell gave a reading of some of his ...
Author: Emma Stanford Last Monday, students at a packed Wright Memorial Theatre saw one of the decade's most popular and powerful books brought to vivid, wrenching life. Arian Moayed performed a concentration in under one hour of The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini's compelling book about love, guilt and ...
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 recent culture. Click on, check out and press play on these favorites - because there is a world outside "the bubble."The Line of Beauty Alan ...
Author: Melissa Marshall and Liya Gao Here are five creative young directors who have taken it upon themselves to realize their artistic conceptions in five upcoming all-student productions. The five plays range from the exploration of gender to the problems of philosophy to the palpable political climate, ...
Author: Jason Gutierrez MOVIE: Nick and Norah's Infinite PlaylistDIRECTOR: Alex HoldridgeSTARRING: Michael Cera and Kat DenningsIn 1989 a film called "The Wizard" was released in theaters. Starring Fred Savage and Christian Slater, the film had the most paper thin of plots in order to cover up the fact ...
Author: Grace Duggan Last Friday, a crowd gathered in the Dance Theatre in the Mahaney Center for the Arts to watch a performance by the women of Compas de Nicaragua (Friends of Nicaragua), a non-profit organization that works to promote cross-cultural exchanges. The quartet of women, down to three ...
Author: Melissa Marshall When reaching for a paper topic at the eleventh hour or as bravado of intellectual sensitivity, women - despite post-lapsarian ideology - are saving graces. Guaranteed to lend a level of provocation without waging a revolution, the subject of gender theory not only drenches ...
Author: Andrew Throdahl The Takacs (pronounced Tah-kash) String Quartet, composed of four personalities and their corresponding hairstyles, sounds more unified than ever. In 2005 Geraldine Walther (who sports a Carol Brady hairdo) replaced Roger Tapping as violist and now seems to have definitively ...
Author: Andrew Throdahl The strings of the Vermony Symphony Orchestra, under veteran conductor/violinist Jaime Laredo, stopped at the Mahaney Center for the Arts on Sept. 18 for their Made in Vermont Music Festival Tour. As far as how Vermont was made apparent during the concert, a white love seat cluttered ...
Author: Ilsa Shea and Grace Duggan "I'm Right, You're Wrong," a Big Action Performance Ensemble (Big APE) multimedia production performed twice this weekend in the Mahaney Center for the Arts, was an exposition and exaggeration of the vulnerable parts of us that we conceal and will away: mania, hysteria, ...
Author: Emily Temple When you really love a band, and I mean really love them, you wind up systematically and emphatically embracing everything about them. You learn their names and their children's names, their favorite colors and their children's favorite colors. You plaster pictures of them all over ...
Author: Jason Gutierrez As a film student, I see the recent advances in digital filmmaking technology as the greatest gift to independent film since the advent of the 16mm camera. Consumer DV cameras and affordable editing software mean that anyone and everyone has the ability to make a movie. "In Search ...
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 recent culture. Click on, check out and press play on these favorites - because there is a world outside "the bubble."Temporada de Patos(Mexico, ...
Author: Andrew Throdahl To say that pianist Vladimir Feltsman is an "old school" musician would not do him justice, since he seems to have novel ideas about music. Then again, his approach seems to be thoroughly traditional. His Sept. 19 program, which he performed in the Mahaney Center for the Arts ...
Author: Liya Gao Talib Kweli's performance at the Chip Kenyon '85 Arena on Saturday night to a fairly packed house was a pleasant surprise. When students first discovered that Blackalicious could not perform because of an injury, many were disappointed. Once MCAB announced that Kweli would replace Blackalicious, ...
Author: Melissa Marshall As noted in the pages of Plato, music has a palpable effect on the psyche. It broke the hearts of the Baroques, ravished the Romantics and moved the Modernists to verse. Even now, the epic tomes of John Williams manipulate moviegoers to invest in fictional characters, along ...
Author: Josh Wessler The subject of the film "Burn after Reading," by Ethan and Joel Coen, is the multitude of daily obsessions that seemingly subsume all of our lives. Overflowing with compulsive exercisers, serial adulterers, pathological masochists, paranoid conspiracy theorists, lonely internet-addicts ...