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Theater department impresses with heart-wrenching 'Distance'

By A.J. Fox | November 22, 2005

"Soul-wrenching" isn't a word I like to throw around casually, but there is no adjective better suited to describe the two hours I spent in the Bentley Theatre on Sunday watching the theater department's production of Neil LaBute's "The Distance From Here." I walked into the theatre knowing nothing about the play, prepared for anything from melodrama to sidesplitting comedy.

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Prodigy works on new piece for Kronos

By Laura Romain | November 21, 2005

In January, Dan Visconti, 23, received a telephone call coveted by more than 300 emerging composers worldwide, notifying him that the "Kronos: Under 30 Project" had selected him to compose a piece for the acclaimed Kronos String Quartet to debut at Dartmouth's Hopkins Center for the Performing Arts. "I was so sure that it was a prank," Visconti recalled, "that I didn't bother to call back for an hour or so, until finally I thought better of my oft-unreliable gut feelings and returned the call." By the end of the day, Visconti had eagerly accepted the offer.

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Derek Trucks hits Lebanon Opera House

By Scott Muir | November 17, 2005

With his virtuoso slide guitar chops and uncanny ability to seamlessly fuse many diverse genres together to create his own style, Derek Trucks has been blowing audiences away since age 11, when he first appeared with the Allman Brothers Band.

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Friday Night Rock features 'bar band' The Hold Steady

By Erin McDonald | November 17, 2005

This Friday night in the Fuel club inside Collis, "bar band" indie rockers The Hold Steady will perform for a crowd of students eager to relax after a tough week of pre-Thanksgiving papers and enjoy the energy and charisma of up-tempo rock. Thanks to the funding of Programming Board and the organizational work of the Friday Night Rock committee, this New York City-based band, originally from Minnesota, promises to entertain students with what a Pitchfork reviewer described simply as a "harsh, emphatic beat." In 2004, The Hold Steady released their debut album, "Almost Killed Me", under the Frenchkiss Records label.

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Clooney assails national apathy in 'Good Night'

By A.J. Fox | November 14, 2005

Every once in a while, amidst the barrage of noisy, soulless Hollywood constructions that elbow their way into theatres every Friday, there emerges a film so perceptive and insightful that it magnetizes you to the screen for its entire running time.

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Dartmouth theater department ready to unveil 'Inishmaan'

By Laura Romain | November 9, 2005

An Irish melody drifts pleasantly over the dimly-lit stage in the Moore Theater at the Hopkins Center for the Arts, lending atmosphere to the theater department's recreation of a 1934 Irish village for its production of "The Cripple of Inishmaan." Through flourishes of convincingly accented banter, the dark comedy conveys a bleak yet undeniably humorous account of a town suffering from decaying interpersonal relationships and grappling with a clash between ignorance of the outside world and blind lust after a modern way of life.

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Director Lumet to be honored by DFS

By Chip Shaffer | November 3, 2005

Although Hanover, N.H., is not exactly the epicenter of the entertainment world, Dartmouth still manages to bring in great music and film to campus via the Hopkins Center with only the occasional disappointment (i.e.

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Dartmouth mainstay Pinkas readies tribute to Schumann, Loeffler

By Erin McDonald | November 1, 2005

On Tuesday at 7 p.m., a sound familiar to many of Dartmouth's music students will fill Spaulding Auditorium, as Dartmouth's resident pianist Sally Pinkas will perform her autumn recital along with guest musicians Steve Larson on viola and Thomas Gallant on oboe. Erma Gattie Mellinger, a member of Dartmouth's music faculty, was scheduled to lend her vocals to the concert, but unfortunately had to drop out due to a lingering illness. Pinkas has taught piano and chamber-music classes at Dartmouth since 1985; in the upcoming spring term, she plans on taking a group of Dartmouth students to London for the foreign study program in music.

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