Last week the College's Departments of Music and Art played host to three distinguished Japanese artists, Akiyoshi Kida, Yoko Hiraoka and Sen So-Oku, who are professionals in the disciplines of: flower arranging (ikebana), Japanesae lute (Chikuzen biwa) and Japanese tea ceremony (Mushakouji Senke Chado).
AM 378 is more than just a series of numbers and letters. It is more than just a course, for that matter. For those students who have taken or are taking Professor of English Phyllis Mannocchi's American Studies class American Dreams: The Documentary Film Perspective, it has been a source of inspiration and an eye-opening experience.
Before Lady Gaga encouraged people to "just dance," musicals inspired people to dance and sing. Broadway Musical Review, a student-run musical group more commonly known as BMR, upheld this tradition in its spring show last week, performing original interpretations of numerous Broadway hits.
Do you secretly enjoy awkward conversations, especially when you're just watching and not involved in them? Have you recently experienced the anxiety of a job interview gone horribly wrong? Maybe you have an interest in the responsibilities that people of the present bear in relation to people of the distant past.
If you've ever worried about the misuse of technology causing you anxiety, shame or even legal repercussions, then Powder and Wig's production of Stephen Karam's Speech and Debate offers a host of examples of what not to do. The show is a dark comedy about teenage anxiety, homosexuality and technological responsibility (with a little bit of striptease thrown in).
It's been nearly two years since Jeffrey Oakes '10 started DJing for the College's radio station as WMHB's hip-hop radio host on his show Rhyme 'N Time. But now, Oakes is getting ready to move out of the station's obscure, less visible basement location and onto the street-Every Street.
This past Thursday, April 23, the East Asian Studies, Music and Dance Departments brought Yoko Hiraoka to perform at the College. A Chikuzen biwa teacher and performer, Hiraoka was one of three "masters" invited as part of the Japanese Masters series funded by the Freeman Foundation to spread awareness and understanding about East Asian cultures.
On Tuesday, April 21, the College experienced "Eine Phenomenal Prunkvolle Präsentation," or, for you non-German speakers, "A Phenomenously Pompous Presentation" of German Studies. The performance, entitled "Kabarett Maulesel"-or Cabaret Mule-incorporated the teachers and students from German classes 126, 128, and 300 into one cabaret.