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Club now grooms Nordic trails

By Jean Blackerby | January 18, 1996

Cross-country skiers at Dartmouth can now enjoy both the abundance of snow and the expansion of Nordic trail grooming to the Hanover Country Club this winter. Outdoor Programs Facilities Manager David Hooke said there has been an "amazing response" from Dartmouth students to the expanded grooming.

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First NH Bank to merge with Citizens Financial Group

By David Kung | January 11, 1996

If regulators approve the proposed merger between First New Hampshire Bank and Citizens Financial Group Incorporated, it will be the third merger in a month for major New England banks. The merger will create New England's third-largest banking institution, and it will be renamed Citizens New Hampshire. The First New Hampshire Bank will not have many changes at first, according to First New Hampshire Bank spokesman Mark Bodi. "Once the merger is completed, the bank will look at what expanded services and products it may wish to offer -- but this is a premature time to discuss what changes will occur," he said. James Dorsey, the senior vice-president and director of corporate affairs at Citizens Financial Group, Inc. said, "There will probably be additional services and a broader array of checking products and loan products." "Traditionally, younger folks are in college.

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Savor delights of 'A Feast of Song' tonight

By Marjorie Thurlow | January 11, 1996

Are you hungry enough to feast yourself? Well, come chow down on a full fare of the Chamber Singers' annual production of "A Feast of Song." It promises a little bit of everything to the art connoisseur: a few laughs, dancing and drama, a healthy dose of history and, of course, food. The cast members will even serve roast beef and vegetarian entrees in true Elizabethan style to put everyone in the mood for an evening of original entertainment. An annual Dartmouth tradition, "A Feast of Song" began in 1980 as "A Feast of Carols." Always providing a breath of freshness, the original productions rotate between five nationalities: English, French, German, Italian and Spanish. This year, the English program is combined with Helene Rothermund's vintage catering to provide what the Chamber Singers' conductor Music Professor Melinda O'Neal dubbed, "an evening extravaganza." As a production set around a banquet, "A Feast of Song" captures the true essence of madrigals.

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Kieslowski's film trilogy inspires

By Michael Ellenberg | January 10, 1996

Tonight's Dartmouth Film Society screening of director Krzysztof Kieslowski's Three Colors trilogy offers a special opportunity to explore the theme of this term's series, "Auteurs." Blue, White and Red (titled after the three colors of the French flag) represent the final product of the great Polish director's oeuvre.

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'12 Monkeys': an apocalyptic vision of the future

By Michael A> Posey | January 9, 1996

The future is history. "12 Monkeys," the apocalyptic vision of director Terry Gilliam, stars box-office stars Bruce Willis sans hair and Brad Pitt as Jeffrey Goines, the scattershot son of a Nobel prize-winning virologist. Wrought with all your conventional sci-fi plot devices -- a time machine, fragmented sequences in the past and present, and a puckish ex-criminal -- "12 Monkeys" is a stylish but characteristic popcorn thriller.

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Lawrence shines as new director

By David Kung | January 4, 1996

No one can call her pretentious as she sits in her office surrounded by scattered packets of videotapes, compacts discs, photographs and open cans of Canada Dry. But it seems everyone is trying to get Margaret Lawrence's attention these days since she started her role at Dartmouth as the new programming director of the Hopkins Center for the Performing Arts. She said while to many people working with the arts "sounds really glamorous," much of the time she spends sorting through mail from artists vying for coveted places in the Hopkins Center's events. Lawrence is responsible for coordinating the artistic programming at the Hopkins Center.

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DFS evaluates success of 'Sex in the Cinema'

By Elizabeth Tedesco | November 22, 1995

While movies about sex might be big box office draws for most Americans, they are advertised as just another facet of the "cinematic education" offered to Dartmouth students by the Dartmouth Film Society. The DFS series this Fall term titled "Sex in the Cinema" was not constructed to "titillate or sell tickets," and it has not been received that way, according to Bill Pence, director of film at the Hopkins Center. "I think it's one of the best series we've ever undertaken," Pence said.

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Du's 'jAAm' attracts large crowds

By Michael A> Posey | November 20, 1995

Dartmouth United's first event of the term, coined "The jAAm at the AAm," is being dubbed a success by many of those who attended. The event, held Saturday night from 11 to 3 at Cutter-Shabazz Hall, was said to have been attended by as many as 600 people. "Overall, it was an excellent, rockin' party that went on until the wee wee hours of the morning, with at least 600 people through the doors throughout the night," said Holly Eaton '98, a member of Femme Fatale and an attendee of the event. "It was a huge, diverse, mixed in-every-aspect crowd, and everyone seemed to be having a blast.

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DSO presents impressive interpretation of classics

By David Guerrerio | November 20, 1995

Under the baton of music director and conductor Anthony Princiotti, the Dartmouth Symphony Orchestra presented an enjoyable rendition of three popular works from the standard orchestral repertoire to a full house. Saturday evening's concert began with an appropriately simple performance of the overture to Mozart's "The Marriage of Figaro." The tone of the upper strings was clear, their touch was light and the performance was an energetic one. Perhaps too much so: Princiotti allowed the violin's momentum to take over, and by last section it had sped up considerably. The Violin Concerto in G Minor, by German composer Max Bruch, is among the more popular orchestral compositions for the instrument. Expressive melody takes precedence over virtuosic pyrotechnics, making the work both easily accessible for audiences and ideal material for young violinists. Patrick Kwon '96's performance of the violin solo was admirable in its technical precision. The rapid scales of the first movement were executed with agility and with mostly excellent intonation. The more lyrical second movement was equally skillful, and the finale's fiery gypsy character was handled with aplomb, though as with the Mozart, this enthusiasm caused an inappropriate accell-erando that the rest of the orchestra was not always prepared to follow. Throughout the course of the concerto, Kwon's technical mastery was beyond question. Even so, because the work's narrative is not one of technical accomplishment, but rather of lyric emotion, one wished he would have explored a more expressive realm of playing, especially in the use of greater dynamic contrasts to shape melodic lines. His level of playing is certainly high enough that he could afford the indulgence. The program concluded with Dvorak's Symphony No.

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WMPE presents rhythmic barrage

By Neil Desai | November 15, 1995

The beat and movement of African and South American rhythms generated plenty of energy and excitement during the World Music Percussion Ensemble's first performance of the term. The ensemble, titled "The Big Beat," performed beats from many countries, such as Cuba, Nigeria, Mali, Guinea, Ghana and Brazil. "The beat can only be as big as you make it," said ensemble director Hafiz Shabazz.

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WMPE features drummer from Mali

By Aditya Dutt | November 14, 1995

The World Music Percussion Ensemble, led by Hafiz Shabazz, will feature three guest artists playing alongside the 23-piece group tomorrow night in Spaulding Auditorium. The concert is billed as a combination of traditional and contemporary styles of drumming, according to Shabazz.

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