On Sunday, Mar. 1, Assistant Professor of Music Horacio Contreras and George and Marjorie Olsen Chandler Professor of Music Catherine Kautsky performed several selections from the works of Beethoven, Desenne, Debussy and Astor Piazzolla. Contreras, who is widely recognized as one of the best Venezuelan cellists of his generation, played alongside Kautsky, who is the…
Album Review: “Miss Anthropocene”
Grimes, aka Claire Boucher, has been known since her MySpace days for her dark, eclectic, self-produced pop and aesthetics created by using looping and layering techniques in production. Her image, maintained by her unconventional approach to music and art as well as self-proclaimed “anti-imperialism” via Twitter, spurned an array of reactions to her announcement of…
Milwaukee filmmaker ponders location
Milwaukee-based artist Maeve Jackson shared with the Lawrence community several of her short films as well as her personal experiences behind them on Monday, Feb. 17. Her talk centered on her life and artistic process through several guiding questions, while most importantly asking the audience to interrogate what spaces can be used to make art…
Guitar professor’s performance explores Paris
Accomplished musician and Lecturer of Music Nathan Wysock filled Harper Hall with the sounds of classical guitar on Sunday, Feb. 2. The selections Wysock performed here at Lawrence were threaded together by the experiences of composers travelling through Paris. He opened with Fernando Sor’s “Fantaisie élégiaque à la mort de Madame Beslay” Op. 59, a…
Trumpet guest recital wows
Trumpeter, French Horn player, keyboardist and arranger C.J. Camerieri performed a selection of his original pieces to a full audience of enthralled Lawrentians in Harper Hall on Monday, Jan. 27. Performing alongside him on the keyboard and French horn were two of his cohorts from college in New York. Graduating with a degree in classical…
Campus movie night celebrates MLK day
On Wednesday, Jan. 15, the Center for Community Engagement and Social Change sponsored a showing of HBO’s “King in the Wilderness” in the Warch Campus Center Cinema. Students, staff and community members alike attended the event to kick off a week of service and dedication in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The documentary,…
Cello guest recital and master class
On Monday, Jan. 13, acclaimed guest cellist Matthew Zalkind brought three works first collected in his debut solo recording to Lawrence University’s Harper Hall, including pieces from composers Bach, Michael Brown and Zoltán Kodály. He explained that he feels that these works have a strong sense of “kinship,” which allows him to fully explore the…
Appleton Library hosts Native quilt making and storytelling
In celebration of Native History Month, the Appleton Public Library hosted the travelling exhibit “Native Stitches and Stories” on the evening of Nov. 7. The night of story and song was woven together by Oneida storyteller Debra Morningstar and Wisconsin quilter Pat Ehrenberg as a tour of regional Native cultures across the Americas in the…
Vocal professor gives recital
On Nov. 3, Professor of Music Karen Leigh-Post preformed a vocal recital in the Lawrence Memorial Chapel to an attentive audience of students, staff and community members. After ending the final notes of the eerily discordant “Furthermore” by Christine Davis, she joked that the first 40 minutes comprised what she called the “baby-boomer” half of…
Spotlight: Houdini Museum
For Lawrentians interested in the off-campus attractions available in Appleton, the History Museum at the Castle is a hidden gem. The museum is currently featuring exhibitions on Appleton residents Harry Houdini and Joseph McCarthy as well as a nationally travelling exhibit titled “Guitar: The Instrument That Rocked the World.” The guitar exhibit, in town through…
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