While the rest of the student body was celebrating the end of finals on Dec. 10, campus musical and a cappella groups were preparing for a whole new set of stressful performances — their annual winter tours. Traveling throughout the northeast, Texas and Europe, and encountering everything from vicious snowstorms to a boogie-ing Condolezza Rice, Dartmouth’s musically inclined used the opportunity to fundraise, assimilate new members and above all, have a good time on the road.
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Grammy Award winner Sharon Isbin happily captured audiences during her spellbinding classical guitar performance Saturday night at the Spaulding Auditorium. Her virtuosity on the instrument, which she cradled in her arms, was obvious; Isbin’s left hand effortlessly flew up and down the frets as her right hand performed intricately complex finger-picking and strums.
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Ea Sola’s stateside premiere of “Drought and Rain, Vol. 2” could be described as a cacophonous, surreal foray into the incomprehensibility of war, or even possibly as a condemnation of consumerism and materialism in our daily lives. But it would probably be most appropriate to classify it as a ballet choreographed by Stanley Kubrick on acid. No seriously, all that was missing was a monolith and dancing apes.
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