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Frost Festival honors student plays

By Carolyn Collins | May 22, 1997

The 70th Annual Frost Play Festival returns to the stage tonight. The festival consists of a series of plays created entirely by Dartmouth students responsible for the writing, direction and performance of the works. "One Hundred Days" by Kyle Ancowitz '98, "The Perfect Woman" by Jo Weingarten '98 and "You Are Here" by Stefan Lanfer '97 are this year's winners of the Frost Play-writing Competition, which accepts one-act play submissions each winter term. The submitted scripts are further transformed by the interpretations of student directors and the personality and vitality which the student actors bring to the characters. Audiences usually enjoy the Frost productions not only for their consistently high quality, but for the experimental vigor not found in familiar dramas. This year, there are several factors to make the productions unique, other than the material itself.

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Professor Ted Levin brings musical world to classroom

By Edward Thomas | May 22, 1997

Music Professor Ted Levin is providing Dartmouth with a unique glance at the world of music and ethnomusicology -- a world that has motivated a fascinating life and has inspired all of his students. Levin's life has been characterized by extensive travel and diverse musical interests.

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Silent film 'Sadie' a success

By Arvid Nelson | May 19, 1997

As much as they would have liked to, the Hayes office, the censorship board of the 1920s, could not touch "Sadie Thompson," the 1928 silent film classic. The lack of sound was the very thing which saved the film from being cut to ribbons by the censorship boards of the 1920s -- and it was this sound that the Dartmouth Wind Symphony brought to the film on Friday in Spaulding Auditorium. In the original movie, lead actress Gloria Swanson was free to mouth off whatever she liked to her co-star Lionel Barrymore without fear of being censored.

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Morphine pioneers own style

By Arvid Nelson | May 6, 1997

Members of Boston-based Morphine play their own distinct kind of music, called "Low Rock," and they continue this trademarked technique in their latest effort, "Like Swimming." As a band, Morphine consists of only three instruments: a two-string slide bass, a baritone saxophone and a drum set.

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Gosepel Choir, X.ado unite in joint concert

By Joseph Peters | May 5, 1997

Speak of standard choral music, and most people visibly yawn. After all, few would willingly subject themselves to two hours of sitting still listening to songs in Latin or Italian or what have you, and even fewer would leave their rooms on a rainy Saturday to do so.

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Postmodernist 'Brazil' to play at Spaulding

By Ben Guaraldi | May 1, 1997

Revolutionary filmmakers Terry Gilliam and Tom Stoppard pooled their efforts in 1985 to create the renowned cinematic commentary on technology's impact in "Brazil," which is playing Sunday in Spaulding Auditorium. Stoppard, the accomplished British dramatist renowned for the post-modern plays "Arcadia" and "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead," has a deep love of talking on the same level as an intelligent audience--and as such has generally steered clear of the film world. Terry Gilliam, the post-modern animator for Monty Python (also credited with "Time Bandits," "The Fisher King" and "Twelve Monkeys") has a penchant for creating vivid images of his hilariously twisted vision of the world -- and has squeezed as much art as possible from Hollywood's commercial funds. "Brazil" is perhaps the most successful work of either artist. "8:49 p.m., Somewhere in the Twentieth Century," wafts over a beautiful cloudscape as "Brazil" opens.

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