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 ...
Author: Melissa Marshall Students leaving the McCullough Social Space after a late-night dance party or prospectives taking a tour of the Student Center may be shocked to find themselves staring down the barrel of a gun. Aaron Gensler's '08 exhibit featuring eight photographs of students posing with ...
Author: Eleanor Johnstone Last week, Middlebury students checking their mailboxes found invitations to share their secrets à la PostSecret, a Maryland-based community art project that invites people to anonymously share private thoughts or moments - funny or serious - in an artistic fashion. Cards ...
Author: Melissa Marshall Bradford Cox of last year's lauded experimental psych-rock quintet Deerhunter has never been accused of conformity. A sufferer of Marfan syndrome - a genetic disorder of the connective tissue that gives him unnaturally long and spindly limbs - the front-man's stage performance ...
Author: Jason Gutierrez So here we are, three weeks into a new semester. The excitement of new classes has passed and the luster of this new semester has worn a bit. At this point, or if not now perhaps later on in the semester, I suspect a few of you might be sitting around one weekend night thinking ...
Author: Alexxa Gotthardt Rewind about a hundred years. The early 20th century was a time of political upheaval, economic uncertainty and also a whole lot of avant-garde artistic innovations. Art schools in Paris and New York were brimming with young pupils ready to take on the world with their wild ...
Author: Andrew Throdahl Emily Kim Goldsmith '08, winner of this year's Alan and Joyce Beucher Concerto Competition, will be playing the first movement of the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto in the College Orchestra concert on April 25. The Middlebury Campus caught up with the violinist on how she got started ...
Author: Andrew Throdahl Are snowmen and igloos the limits of snow's artistic horizons? Did you never think of a winged pig could be crafted from the harvest of winter? 2008's Winter Carnival witnessed the reinstitution of the Snow Sculpting Competition, enabling Middlebury students to see their wildest ...
Author: Andrew Throdahl The guitar has a comparable range, flexibility and variety of timbre to any other popular solo instrument. Why then, is its repertoire limited to every imaginable pop song, volumes of Spanish and Latin American music and a splattering of Baroque music? When push comes to shove, ...
Author: Emily Temple The Mountain Goats' John Darnielle is a musician's musician. If I had any doubts in my adoration for him and his projects, I would be reassured by the knowledge that I was in good company. All my other favorite bands like him too. A personal favorite reference: in "Girls Like Status,",a ...
Author: [no author name found] 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.A small group of bedraggled Middlebury constituents pulled up to the ...
Author: Melissa Marshall 91.1 FM WRMC has tuned-in to a new semester, and is living up to their mission statement of bringing original programming to the Champlain Valley. Online, in the car or in the dorms, dare to set the dial to this spring's most inventive shows. Alphabet SoupTime: Sunday 2 p.m. ...
Author: Eleanor Johnstone Last week's Day of Romance was uniquely celebrated on the Middlebury campus with Middlebury's annual student production of Eve Ensler's '95 "The Vagina Monologues," directed by Aaron Gensler '08 and Maegan Mishico '09. First compiled and written in 1996, the collection of ...
Author: Melissa Marshall A petite girl from Hong Kong and a tall boy raised just across the lake in Keene Valley, N.Y., Yina Ng '09 and Simon Thomas-Train '09 sit comfortably side-by-side, their physical differences only hinting at the powerful dynamics manifested in their duet "It Needs What You Don't ...
Author: [no author name found] Don't want to wear your prom dress to Winter Carnival? The Middlebury Campus heats up winter formal wear with festive fashion finds from Main Street. Whether you're feeling like a stylish sophisticate or a confident coquette, we've uncovered accessible accessories and ...
Author: Grace Duggan This Winter Term, Visiting Professor of Theatre Alex Draper '88 took a page from his own acting past - he chose to direct "St. Crispin's Day," a sharp and bitingly witty antiwar comedy in which he played Henry almost five years ago. On its most basic level, playwright Matt Pepper's ...