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Branford Marsalis takes a new look at jazz and hip-hop

By Aditya Dutt | February 7, 1995

After playing in his brother Wynton Marsalis' shadow for the past few years, Branford Marsalis has stepped into the limelight with a new album titled "Buckshot LeFonque." The title of the album is derived from a pseudonym used by alto saxophonist Cannonball Adderly when he performed on pop and R&B records in the 1950s.

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LaForgia performs at the Hop

By Nicole Mallement | February 6, 1995

The charmingly mannered Jeanne LaForgia '92, accompanied on the piano by her former voice teacher, Louis Burkot, gave an enthusiastic performance of selections from her master's thesis yesterday afternoon in Faulkner Recital Hall.

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Von Herzen '84 to read from 'Copper Crown'

By Aditya Dutt | February 2, 1995

Lane Von Herzen '84 returns to Dartmouth tonight for a public reading, after recently completing two extremely successful works, "Copper Crown" and "The Unfastened Heart." After earning her bachelor's degree in English literature from the College, Von Herzen went on to the writer's workshop at the University of California, Irvine, to earn a master's degree.

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Trio Globo captivates audience with exotic jazz rhythms

By Dave Lelesi | January 31, 1995

Combining Eugene Friesen's combustible spontaneity on the cello, Howard Levy's mastery of the piano and harmonica, and Glen Velez's proficiency on the frame drums, Trio Globo entranced the audience at Spaulding Auditorium Saturday night. Called "a totally original voice in contemporary jazz" by music critics, the trio mesmerized the audience with their unique blend of jazz and world music. Both musician and audience members alike received an education in listening as the group combined their original compositions with an uncanny ability to improvise that stunned the audience. Each artist showed tremendous individual expertise on his respective instrument.

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Matthews plays with excitement and energy

By Karin Chesebro | January 30, 1995

Friday night's sold out concert, featuring Big Head Todd and the Monsters, the Dave Matthews Band, and opening act Ugly Americans, drew masses of excited students who enthusiastically welcomed the bands. The Dave Matthews Band was the undisputed favorite with the audience. The band succeeded in turning a mellow, politely responsive crowd into a bunch of wild, crazed fans who ruthlessly squeezed their way toward the stage in hopes of a better view. "Our energy comes from playing live," said violinist Boyd Tinsley in an interview last week, and the band definitely lived up to this promise. Tinsley stole the show with his astounding fiddle playing, and his frequent jam sessions with guitarist/lead vocalist Dave Matthews gave the performance a feeling of spontaneity. "Boyd Tinsley was amazing.

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'Lonesome' orchestra enthralls audience

By Gisela Insuaste | January 30, 1995

Silent black and white films emphasize the importance of physical motion and facial emotion. These films are an art in themselves, sparkling remnants of the developing film industry. "Lonesome" is a film that has the energy to convey a message without sound.

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Unsafe lead levels found in faculty apartments

By Neil Desai | January 26, 1995

The College is continuing ongoing inspections into lead levels in the faculty apartments. So far, one-third of the units have been tested and inspectors have found lead levels exceeding state standards in some of the units. Woody Simonds, the College's real estate manager, said specific figures about the number of units affected and their lead levels are not available. The College's rental housing office launched a program last August in conjunction with the College's department of environmental health and safety to inspect faculty housing for lead. The testing "was initiated because it is becoming an issue.

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Lecture on Fellini highlights his artistic origins, history

By Andrea Meacham | January 26, 1995

Have you ever come out of a movie shaking your head with a smile, wondering how the director ever came up with such inventive and impressive ideas of how to make the movie come alive? Unless you have some background in the making of film, the techniques used to create cinematic images might never be obvious.

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Big Head Todd and The Ugly Americans will perform Friday night

By Andrew Lin And Laura Turner | January 26, 1995

Hailing from Denver, Big Head Todd and the Monsters (their name is a tribute to blues artist, Eddie "Clean Head" Vinson), includes Todd Mohr (guitar, lead vocals, harmonica, keyboard), Brian Nevin (percussion), and Rob Squires (bass), broke into the limelight after touring with the HORDE festival. Now Big Head Todd is back, touring with fellow HORDE members, The Dave Matthews Band. When they were virtually unknown, they traveled 250,000 miles a year in a 1977 Plymouth van, playing any club they could, in an effort to gain national popularity.

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Ninth Street Theater performs diverse blend of drama

By Katharine Danzansky | January 23, 1995

Laurence Olivier never expected his epic version of "Hamlet" to be re-enacted in 10 minutes by a cast of paper dolls. That, however, is exactly what Ninth Street Theater managed to execute flawlessly with its Travelling Toy Theater Festival in two shows at the Hopkins Center last Saturday. Along with "Olivier's Hamlet," the company performed a version of Tolstoy's "War and Peace," a fable entitled "The Ash King," a political anti-handgun piece entitled "Terror as Usual, Episode 8: Guns and Roses." The group also showed a super-8 film by Meredith Holch entitled "My Hero." Ninth Street Theater used the 19th century art of toy theater, which involves the use of paper stages and cutout puppets to enact dramatic pieces. The Festival opened with "Olivier's Hamlet," written by theater members John Bell, Stephen Kaplin, Nessa Rabin and Roberto Rossi, and performed by Bell, Kaplin, Rabin and Michael Romanyshyn. Two members read the narrative, which consisted of an abridged plot summary of Hamlet interspersed with readings from Olivier's book on acting, while the other two moved the paper puppets. The dramatic contrast between Olivier's austere opus and the irreverence with which the players reenacted it, punctuated by various egoisms from Olivier's book, made the entire effect hilarious. They reduced Olivier's fire and passion to a paper cutout: the ghost's voice was projected by speaking through an empty paper-towel roll and Ophelia died by casually being dropped over the side of the toy theater stage. The next piece, a more serious fairy-tale entitled "The Ash King," was conceived, designed and directed by Janie Geiser with a text by Daniel Zippi. "The Ash King" recounted the story of a man who became king after saving his country from a drought by creating an irrigation system.

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Fire guts professor's home

By Christopher Kao | January 19, 1995

A fire yesterday morning caused "extensive damage" to Engineering Sciences Professor Stuart Trembly's home on Dunster Street in Hanover. A press release from the Hanover Fire Department stated that the fire started a little before 10 a.m.

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Residents oppose new Jewish center

By Charles Davant | January 19, 1995

At a Hanover Planning Board meeting last week, angry residents of Occom Ridge Road again presented their case against the proposed location of the Center for Jewish Life at Dartmouth. Members of the Occom Pond Neighborhood Preservation Association, a group of about 70 citizens, told the Hanover Planning Board that the proposed Center has too broad a usage to be located on a primarily residential street. Charles Officer, who opposes the Occom Ridge location, said if the building was completely full it would need 74 parking spaces -- 32 more than are planned.

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