Recent technological advancements have profoundly altered the shape of music. It is difficult nowadays to find a song without some digital touch, from basic editing to intense synthesizing. An extremely versatile new instrument has arisen, for better or for worse: the computer. From the late 60s on, artists and bands like Brian Eno, Kraftwerk and…
Perscribed Escape debuts “Merry Wives of Windsor”
This weekend in the Wriston Auditorium, Shakespeare will come alive once again in Prescribed Escape Productions’ performance of “The Merry Wives of Windsor.” I sat down with director Alysa Levi D’Ancona and assistant director Bryan McManus to preview their production and gain insight into the new creation that is Prescribed Escape Productions. The plot of…
New Nick Cave album a poetic success
When asked to describe his band’s fifteenth studio album, “Push The Sky Away,” Nick Cave, frontman of the Australian alternative rock band Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, said: “Well, if I were to use that threadbare metaphor of albums being like children, then “Push The Sky Away” is the ghost-baby in the incubator and…
The Artist Spotlight: Camilla Grove
It’s almost guaranteed that you’ve passed Camilla Grove in the campus center. She’s there, sitting behind the info desk, on almost a daily basis. While this young woman is a great resource for all things campus related, she is also a documentary film-making genius. In the past year, she has been working on a major documentary about…
The Artist Spotlight: Kajsa Schneider
For Kajsa Schneider, class of 2014, presenting a recital is more than a performance opportunity: it is a way for her to become an even more valuable educator. A violinist from Verona, Wis. pursuing a Bachelor or Music Education Instrumental-General degree, Schneider has approached her recital with the goal of benefitting herself as a solo…
Tomnay’s “The Perfect Host” a less-than-perfect experience
Like many others, I came in to this new year with a resolution to better myself: I was determined to become a much more positive person, one who looks for the good in every little part of life and tries to ignore the bad as much as possible. It has been less than a month…
Senior Project: Cawley and Stein’s “The Dumb Waiter”
On the weekend of the 25th in the Underground Theater, Lawrence students Matt Cawley and Steven Stein thrice performed Harold Pinter’s one-act play “The Dumb Waiter” for their senior project. “After considering many possibilities, I settled on Harold Pinter because of his unique style,” explained Cawley. “Pinter is characterized by long pauses, awkward moments and an…
Selznick’s “Hugo Cabret”
Brian Selznick’s “The Invention of Hugo Cabret” is at once a profoundly old-fashioned and innovative work of fiction. A novel, a comic book, a movie, a picture book—it’s all and none of these. While some may consider a children’s book beneath their notice, I consider this book nothing less than art of the finest quality.…
LSO features Michael Mizrahi
Last Friday, Jan. 25, the Lawrence Symphony Orchestra performed their first show of the term. They proved that they have only grown individually over the six-week break and matured collectively since last term. The first piece was the debut of a piece by composition student Nolan Veldey ‘13 entitled “All But Inescapable.” It began with…
A&E Abroad: Christopher Skinner on opera in Vienna
By Christopher Skinner, for The Lawrentian Before I studied abroad with IES Vienna Fall 2012, I was strongly interested in opera, studying it for my major at Lawrence, seeing live performances when I could and watching DVDs or listening to CDs. I had, however, only seen three productions live—two of which were relatively unimpressive—prior to my…