Ask most musicians at Vassar and they’ll tell you that campus bands get the short end of the stick. A single sound system is shared by the entire campus, limiting the number of shows possible at one time. Plus, band practice space is almost nonexistent.
Something happened to Hot Chip on their last record, Made In The Dark. Their breakout record, The Warning, struck that perfect balance between dance and pop where the beats don’t overpower the hooks and vice versa. But in Made In The Dark, the balance was noticeably slanted towards pop.
Most artists start their careers displaying their art in galleries that double as refrigerator doors. Exhibition spaces get a bit more selective after the third grade, but those who continue...
Delilah, the seductress of the biblical strongman Samson, sings of her lover in Camille Saint-Saëns’ opera “Samson and Delilah:” “My brothers fear his wrath; I alone, among all, I bravely hold him in my lap!” So translates the libretto from one of the opera’s dramatic arias, “Amour! Viens aider ma faiblesse” (Love! Just help my weakness).
Stare at a painting long enough, and the number of questions that arise in your head about what you are viewing will be in the hundreds. Vassar’s new art lecture series, Kaleidoscope: Interdisciplinary Views of Art, seeks to provide a multifaceted answer to some of these questions wih the perspectives of faculty from varying academic fields.
Ken Levine ’88, developer of the critically acclaimed video game BioShock, spoke at a panel as part of Vassar College’s 10th annual No Such Convention on Saturday, Feb. 20. Before his talk, The Miscellany News sat down with Levine to talk about his Vassar days, his career and the creative process behind his games.
The Black Plague reduced the world’s population from 450 million to 350 million and catalyzed major social, economic and religious upheavals in 15th-century Europe. Naomi Wallace’s “One Flea Spare,” set in the midst of this catastrophe, grapples with what happens when the world as one knows it completely falls apart.
Once a year, Vassar Repertory Dance Theatre’s (VRDT) assemblage of pliés and leaps, jazz shoes and ballet slippers, and emotive and technically intensive choreography makes its way from its home in Kenyon Hall to Poughkeepsie’s Bardavon Opera House.
