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Du's 'jAAm' attracts large crowds

By Michael A> Posey | November 20, 1995

Dartmouth United's first event of the term, coined "The jAAm at the AAm," is being dubbed a success by many of those who attended. The event, held Saturday night from 11 to 3 at Cutter-Shabazz Hall, was said to have been attended by as many as 600 people. "Overall, it was an excellent, rockin' party that went on until the wee wee hours of the morning, with at least 600 people through the doors throughout the night," said Holly Eaton '98, a member of Femme Fatale and an attendee of the event. "It was a huge, diverse, mixed in-every-aspect crowd, and everyone seemed to be having a blast.

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DSO presents impressive interpretation of classics

By David Guerrerio | November 20, 1995

Under the baton of music director and conductor Anthony Princiotti, the Dartmouth Symphony Orchestra presented an enjoyable rendition of three popular works from the standard orchestral repertoire to a full house. Saturday evening's concert began with an appropriately simple performance of the overture to Mozart's "The Marriage of Figaro." The tone of the upper strings was clear, their touch was light and the performance was an energetic one. Perhaps too much so: Princiotti allowed the violin's momentum to take over, and by last section it had sped up considerably. The Violin Concerto in G Minor, by German composer Max Bruch, is among the more popular orchestral compositions for the instrument. Expressive melody takes precedence over virtuosic pyrotechnics, making the work both easily accessible for audiences and ideal material for young violinists. Patrick Kwon '96's performance of the violin solo was admirable in its technical precision. The rapid scales of the first movement were executed with agility and with mostly excellent intonation. The more lyrical second movement was equally skillful, and the finale's fiery gypsy character was handled with aplomb, though as with the Mozart, this enthusiasm caused an inappropriate accell-erando that the rest of the orchestra was not always prepared to follow. Throughout the course of the concerto, Kwon's technical mastery was beyond question. Even so, because the work's narrative is not one of technical accomplishment, but rather of lyric emotion, one wished he would have explored a more expressive realm of playing, especially in the use of greater dynamic contrasts to shape melodic lines. His level of playing is certainly high enough that he could afford the indulgence. The program concluded with Dvorak's Symphony No.

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WMPE presents rhythmic barrage

By Neil Desai | November 15, 1995

The beat and movement of African and South American rhythms generated plenty of energy and excitement during the World Music Percussion Ensemble's first performance of the term. The ensemble, titled "The Big Beat," performed beats from many countries, such as Cuba, Nigeria, Mali, Guinea, Ghana and Brazil. "The beat can only be as big as you make it," said ensemble director Hafiz Shabazz.

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WMPE features drummer from Mali

By Aditya Dutt | November 14, 1995

The World Music Percussion Ensemble, led by Hafiz Shabazz, will feature three guest artists playing alongside the 23-piece group tomorrow night in Spaulding Auditorium. The concert is billed as a combination of traditional and contemporary styles of drumming, according to Shabazz.

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'Romeo and Juliet' to open tonight

By David Guerrerio | November 14, 1995

"Romeo and Juliet" is undoubtedly the best-known of Shakespeare's plays. As with so many of Shakespeare's works, it has been reinterpreted in every age according to the prevailing tastes. The nineteenth century latched onto the ideal of romantic love presented in the young lovers' tale, immortalizing them in both opera and ballet. Through the twentieth century it has similarly inspired a plethora of films and even a musical. As such, it seems inevitable that the play be re-interpreted for the 1990s, this age of talk shows and e-mail, as a study of teen suicide. Special resonance will certainly be felt by members of the Dartmouth community, following so closely on the heels of the strange coincidence of three separate suicides which have been the source of much campus conversation and concern. One should not expect a true "updating" of the play, though.

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Nuestras Voces stages 'Shadow of a Man'

By Michael A> Posey | November 13, 1995

In a very serious and weighty production, Nuestras Voces staged the play "Shadow of a Man" by Cherie Moraga yesterday to an eager audience at Collis Common Ground. The play, directed by Maria Simental '97, is the first production done by the troupe this fall. Taking place in the Los Angeles home of the Rodriguez family, the play covers a period of about one year.

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Coast, Lake pay tribute to Hemphill

By Aditya Dutt | November 13, 1995

It seems as if saxophonist Oliver Lake has not lost a step since playing with Julius Hemphill in the World Saxophone Quartet. The turns of phrases in his playing are still filled with intensity, with urgency and with the emotional depth that characterized Hemphill's compositions.

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Lake, Brooks to play with Barbary Coast

By Aditya Dutt | November 10, 1995

Barbary Coast, the College's jazz ensemble, will host alto saxophonist Oliver Lake and drummer Cecil Brooks III for their first concert of the term this weekend. The concert, which is a tribute to the late saxophonist and composer Julius Hemphill, will feature Lake and Brooks playing Hemphill's compositions alongside the ensemble. Lake brings a blues-drenched sound to his playing, but has brought plenty of innovation to the blues-jazz genre, blending the traditional style of Charlie Paker with Ornette Coleman's avant-garde vision. Lake, however, is much more than a conventional mixture of be-bop and avant-garde.

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Trio to accompany film showing

By Amir Katz | November 10, 1995

The unique sound of the Alloy Orchestra will once again fill Spaulding Auditorium as it returns to Hanover tonight to accompany Dziga Vertov's silent masterpiece "The Man with the Movie Camera." This will be the third time that the Cambridge-based trio will be performing at Dartmouth, having appeared with "Metropolis" in 1994, and "Lonesome" this past January.

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Galleria purchased by New London Trust for $1.5M

By Alik Widge | November 9, 1995

The Galleria retail building on South Main Street, which has been nearly empty for the past two years, will receive a vital infusion of new business in the next few months. The building, which contains Hilde's Salon, 60 Minute Photo and the New London Trust, was recently purchased by New London Trust for $1.5 million, less than half what it cost to build in 1984.

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Literary scholar to speak on Bakhtin's life and works

By Aditya Dutt | November 8, 1995

Dartmouth's Montgomery Fellow for the Fall term and Russian intellectual Vyacheslav Ivanov will present a lecture on the life and writings of Mikhail Bakhtin in Sanborn today at 4 p.m. Bakhtin, a Russian philosopher and literary scholar, was called an "exceptional figure both for his human qualities and scholarly ideas" by Ivanov in a recent press release. According to Ivanov, Bhaktin's belief that genuine dialogue was essential to the health of a culture has particular meaning in the polarized politics of the times.

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Hare Krishna visit stirs controversy

By Aditya Dutt | November 7, 1995

A "cultural exhibition" hosted by Alpha Theta coed fraternity last Friday night raised concern among some members of the administration. The exhibition, which primarily involved a presentation by members of the Hare Krishna temple of Boston, was attended by approximately 80 students, according to Samson Popowitz '97, Alpha Theta's president. The program began with a the presentation, followed by a concert by a Hare Krishna punk-rock band, Gandiva.

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Wilson features diverse repertoire in concert

By Michael A> Posey | November 7, 1995

Featuring an eclectic repertoire ranging from lush-tender love songs to scouring roadhouse jazz, Cassandra Wilson, did not disappoint her audience last Friday in the Spaulding Auditorium of the Hopkins Center for the Performing Arts. Beginning with the title cover from her ninth and latest album "Blue Light 'Til Dawn," one of 1994's top selling jazz albums, Wilson ended and began with the same enthusiastic zeal which she sustained throughout the night. This love for music and jazz in particular was readily seen as Wilson stunned the crowd with her hearty, brazen voice.

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Blake, Shelton excel in 'Sacrificial Jones'

By Michael A> Posey | November 6, 1995

The Black Underground Theater captivated its audiences this weekend at the Bentley Theater in the Hopkins Center of Performing Arts with its presentation of a thought-provoking production entitled, "Sacrificial Jones." The play, written by J.R.

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Hop, WRC feature a forum on pornography

By Tom Jawetz | November 3, 1995

The Dartmouth Film Society's program "Hard Core: Cinema, Censorship and the Politicization of Sexuality" is a collection of clips from films which range from Edward Muybrige's attempts in the 1890s to break down human movement using split-second consecutive photographs of naked men and women walking, to today's shot-on-video pornos. The forum features Nina Hartley, who has acted and directed hard core pornography and has also taught a course at U.C.

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