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Classical violinist Sarah Chang discusses music, early life

By Sophia Siu | February 3, 2016

World-renowned classical violinist Sarah Chang started playing the violin when she was four-years-old. At age six, she auditioned for and was accepted to the Pre-College Division of the Juilliard School in New York City, which played a major role in her musical development. By the time she was eight, she had debuted with the New York Philharmonic and quickly became known internationally.

Dress rehearsal of Mad Love, produced by Northern Stage in White River Junction, Vermont on Tuesday, January 26, 2016. Copyright 2016 Rob Strong
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New play 'Mad Love' inspired by Dartmouth dating culture

By Katherine Schreiber | February 2, 2016

On Saturday the new play “Mad Love” (2016) premiered at the Barrette Center for the Arts, Northern Stage’s new theater in White River Junction, Vermont. Written by Marisa Smith and directed by Maggie Burrows, the comedy follows the lives and romantic pursuits of four young adults living in New York City. The comedy follows Sloane Hudson, a young Dartmouth graduate who has decided to take control of her life after a traumatic incident in a college fraternity. Sloane, who has given up on love and marriage, decides that she wants to have a baby through artificial insemination instead of settling down. However, when she asks Brandon, the man she is casually dating, to be her sperm donor, she finds that he has a different attitude towards love and romance.

Daniel Shanker '16 and Drew Zwetchkenbaum '16 partnered to write the musical "Legally Drew," showing in March.
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Shanker and Zwetchkenbaum to resurrect 'Legally Drew'

By Will Tackett | February 1, 2016

Daniel Shanker ’16 and Drew Zwetchkenbaum ’16’s musical, “Legally Drew,” got its title from a joke about Zwetchkenbaum’s first name, though he wasn’t involved with the conception of the play. \nThe pair wrote four more songs their freshman fall, Fall 2012. Over winter break, Zwetchkenbaum and Shanker worked on the musical individually and completed it during winter term before staging the musical Spring 2013. Now, the pair plan to bring the show back for another round.

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"Anomalisa" (2015) enlightens the everyday

By Andrew Kingsley | January 31, 2016

After three years of intense craftsmanship, Charlie Kaufman returns with his unique blend of cerebral revelry and metaphysical, sympathetic protagonists in his 2015 film “Anomalisa.” After his meta-cinematic, surrealist style reached its apotheosis in “Synecdoche, New York”(2008), Kaufman tempers his typically impenetrable psychosomatics to create the most accessible and haunting film of his illustrious career.

Madeline Killen talks about what it's like to be a gallery attendant.
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Confessions of a gallery attendant

By Madeline Killen | January 31, 2016

You wonder about us every time you head to Hinman to pick up the basic life necessities you ordered off of Amazon because CVS is basically in a different country. You make uncomfortable eye contact with us while you’re fast-walking towards the tender queso wrap that you’ve been dreaming about since breakfast. You’re dying to know what our job actually consists of, who we are and whether or not we just saw you checking out your reflection in the glass. So today, in an unprecedented step, I will bridge the gap between the mysterious elite glass box-sitters and the general Dartmouth public: I am a Hopkins Center for the Arts gallery attendant and these are my confessions.

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Spike Lee’s ‘Chi-Raq’ sparkles but fails to deliver

By Joyce Lee | January 27, 2016

Furious, messy, urgent, crass and often heart-wrenching, Spike Lee’s “Chi-Raq”(2015) (“Chi” as in Chicago, “Raq” as in Iraq) is a controversial satire that comments with sloppy yet biting rhythmic prose on race, sex and gun violence in Chicago’s South Side.

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Book Review: ‘Of Gods, Royals and Superman’ (2015)

By Madeline Killen | January 26, 2016

Alumnus Tom Maremaa ’67’s most recent novel, “Of Gods, Royals and Superman” (2015), might hit a little close to home for some of his fellow sons and daughters of Dartmouth — it follows Christopher Reed, president of the fictional fraternity Quad Alpha, after his expulsion from the College on account of his brotherhood’s especially creative methods of ensuring their new members’ loyalty, a practice colloquially referred to as “hazing.” The Dean of the College tells Reed that he has six months to “do something great” if he wants to stand a chance of graduating with the rest of his class — so off he goes to “save starving children,” a phrase tossed around by probably every single character to whom he explains his situation.

Members of Half the City opened for Casual Thursday in the fall term.
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New student band, Half the City, performs on campus

By Sophia Siu | January 25, 2016

Since forming in the fall, student band Half the City has played in a number of campus events including BarHop, Thetaroo and Friday Night Rock last week. The band primarily plays covers of songs from a wide-range of genres, including funk, pop-rock, gospel and hip-hop. The founding Half the City members include Latika Sridhar ’16 on lead vocals, Brendan Barth ’17 on the saxophone, Daniel Shanker ’16 and Ted Owens ’16 on the guitar, Moises Silva ’16 on the drums and Josh Cetron ’16 on the bass. Half the City brought in trumpet player Kathryn Waychoff ’16 this winter to fill in for Barth while he is abroad in New Zealand.

Stephen Hough (right) leads a piano master class with student Andrew Liu in Faulkner Auditorium at the Hopkins Center for the Arts in Hanover, New Hampshire on Friday, January 22, 2016. Copyright 2016 Rob Strong
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Pianist Stephen Hough performs, teaches master class

By Nalini Ramanathan | January 24, 2016

Last week renowned British concert pianist, writer and composer Stephen Hough visited Dartmouth. In addition to performing a concert at the Hopkins Center for the Arts on Saturday, Hough taught a piano master class and attended a dinner and discussion the day before.

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The Harlequins perform musical revue in Bentley Theater

By Will Tackett | January 24, 2016

This past Saturday an ensemble of students known as The Harlequins performed a self-produced musical revue in the Bentley Theater. Aptly titled “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Bentley” (a reference to the Stephen Sondheim musical “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum”), the revue was an intimate affair in which the cast, solo or in pairs, sang selected numbers from classic musicals such as “Grease” (1971), “Sweeney Todd” (1979) and “Seussical: The Musical”(2000).

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'Joy' (2015) is too busy to find its core, features usual suspects

By Andrew Kingsley | January 24, 2016

David O. Russell returns with his usual suspects — Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper, who co-starred in “Silver Linings Playbook” (2012) and “American Hustle” (2013) — for another hyperactive, improvisational dramedy in “Joy” (2015). The film is loosely based on the real life story of Joy Mangano, the New Yorker mom turned inventor and entrepreneur known for her household designs such as the self-wringing Miracle Mop and no-slip Huggable Hangers.

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Pianist Stephen Hough performs, teaches master class

By Nalini Ramanathan | January 21, 2016

Last week renowned British concert pianist, writer and composer Stephen Hough visited Dartmouth. In addition to performing a concert at the Hopkins Center for the Arts on Saturday, Hough taught a piano master class and attended a dinner and discussion the day before.

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Masilo’s ‘Swan Lake’ tackles HIV/AIDS crisis, stigmas

By Joyce Lee | January 20, 2016

HIV/AIDS and Tchaikovsky’s “Swan Lake” (1875-76) hardly seem like two topics that go hand in hand. However, a discussion panel held at the Rockefeller Center on Tuesday, “Global Perspectives on HIV/AIDS,” was presented in conjunction with the U.S. premiere of Dada Masilo’s interpretation of “Swan Lake” at the Hopkins Center.

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Filter Theatre's 'Twelfth Night' pushes boundaries of theater

By Mac Emery | January 19, 2016

Often in theater a web of conventions, precedents, proprieties and restrictions surrounds the stage. This holds especially true with the exalted works of William Shakespeare, which have been marbleized by centuries of prestige. British stage company Filter Theatre crashed through that web in their raucous, heady rendition of Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night” (1602) last Friday and Saturday.

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Alumnus Q&A: Award-winning author Tom Meremaa '67

By Madeline Killen | January 19, 2016

Madeline Killen '18 interviews author Tom Maremaa ’67, who graduated from Dartmouth as an English and German double major. He spent 17 years as an Apple software engineer and now works in Silicon Valley. His novel “Metal Heads: A Novel” was named an American Library Association notable book in 2009. His eleventh and most recent novel, “Of Gods, Royals and Superman” (2015), takes place at Dartmouth.

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