Stewart preps to host
This Sunday, March 6, comedian Jon Stewart is set to host the 78th Academy Awards.
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This Sunday, March 6, comedian Jon Stewart is set to host the 78th Academy Awards.
This goofy comedy, set in early 1900s Germany, begins the day of the King's parade when the main character, Louise, suddenly and embarrassingly loses her underpants. A whirlwind of burlesque hilarity follows; several men pursue her, and her husband is too self-absorbed to notice the ensuing chaos. Martin proves to be astoundingly multi-talented in his refashioning of this German social commentary farce into a piece relevant and entertaining to a modern American audience.
This Tuesday night the Hopkins Center will be hosting Warabi-Za, a group of Japanese folk performers, to add international flavor to the otherwise Dartmouth-centered week of Winter Carnival. The performers vary the subjects of their shows among different regional traditions, and work closely with the artifacts and legends of the area of their focus in preparation for each new project. Tuesday night's show bears the special importance of being the troupe's last, as they will return to archival work on their heritage after this last visit.
Beyond catching the attention of the casual passerby, Langford '06 strives with "Living Art" to display to the average person who "doesn't know what an easel looks like" what lies within the artist's studio. Langford works in the space as part of the performance piece she has conceptualized and considers the work she produces within to be secondary to the message "Living Art" itself conveys.
At 8:00 p.m. this Saturday in Spaulding, the Dartmouth Symphony Orchestra will perform for the first time this year. The event seems perfectly timed, taking place on the weekend of that last push before Thanksgiving break, when stressed-out students could use an excuse to emerge from their routines at school and rejoin the outside world. Saturday's program promises to transport an audience of both the overly absorbed "paper-finisher-uppers" and those who will begin celebrating vacation early to a mindset far from Hanover. The concert, directed by Anthony Princiotti and featuring Peter Morgenstern '06 on the clarinet, will include Berlioz's "The Roman Carnival Overture," Weber's "Clarinet Concerto No. 2 in E-Flat" and Sibelius' "Symphony No. 2 in D Major," selections which will energize and provide a means of escape for those motivated by curiosity or cultural hunger to go someplace besides the frats or the stacks this weekend.
Brazilian bossa nova singer Virginia Rodrigues performed at the Hopkins Center on Friday night. Although Dartmouth students were sparse, Spaulding Auditorium was still filled with fans from the Hanover area. Fernando Ausin '06, one of the few students who attended, found that the concert showcased a "variety that didn't apply to the Hanover audience," unlike last spring's "unbelievable" Fado concert, which was the previous Brazilian music event on campus.
In a strangely appropriate turn of events, while the country struggles to rebuild New Orleans and its surroundings from the wrath of the hurricane that ruined it, Wynton Marsalis will play this Tuesday night at the Hopkins Center. The eeriness of this concert stems from the fact that Marsalis -- like the jazz music from which he has built his fame -- was born in New Orleans. Thus, almost as if to simultaneously commemorate and celebrate his native city's musical richness, Marsalis will play to a long-ago sold-out event on a campus that has already taken so much action to help soften the repercussions of Katrina. Marsalis' performance promises to be an upbeat continuation of the liveliness of Hanover during Homecoming and will likely be the highlight among the arts events on campus this year.
Vanessa Carlton played last night in Spaulding, in case you weren't aware and didn't notice the "frickin' huge" sign that the singer and pianist referred to in her introduction. The program was a mix of songs from her latest album "Harmonium," new songs she plans on including in her upcoming album and -- of course -- the obligatory "A Thousand Miles" that established the artist's fame.