Improvised music and art influence one another during Sound Line in SCC Atrium
Visual artist and musician Lennie Peterson says that it is easy for him to imagine shapes when he listens to music.
Milford Graves delivers keynote address for first ever Brandeis Improv Festival
As part of the 2015 Brandeis Improv Festival, Milford Graves joined a small group of fellow musicians and other attendees to speak about his experiences with musical improvisation, drumming and healing through music.
HTG’s open cast musical ‘Legally Blonde’ refocuses on feminist themes
You may have seen people in pink sweatshirts with Greek letters around campus this past week—that is because those people were involved in Hillel Theater Group’s production of Legally Blonde, which premiered on Thursday night in the Shapiro Campus Center Theater.
Interview Column
This week, justArts spoke with Sarah Hines ’15, director of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. justArts: How did you choose to perform this show?
Q&A with Ingrid Schorr
This week, justArts spoke with Ingrid Schorr, the acting director of the Office of the Arts, about the finalized line-up for featured events for this year’s Leonard Bernstein Festival of the Creative Arts. JustArts: I saw that there was a lot of new information released, which is really exciting.
Pop Culture
“The hills are alive with the sound of music.” Rodgers and Hammerstein’s The Sound of Music is being re-released in theaters next month in honor of the film’s 50th anniversary, as well as a release of a 50th anniversary edition DVD and Blu-ray.
Festival of the Arts schedule released
This week, the Office of the Arts announced the events for this year’s Leonard Bernstein Festival of the Creative Arts.The festival, which will run from April 23 to 26, will host various public arts installations and use the Rose Art Museum’s “Light of Reason” sculpture as a stage for performances. The festival has various activities each day, and a website for the festival is expected to launch within the next few days, according to Acting Director of the Office of the Arts Ingrid Schorr in an interview with the Justice. Thursday’s main events will be a creativity symposium; a seminar on women’s rights and activism; several workshops; two performances and extended hours at the Rose Art Museum.
‘THE BIBLE’ depicts stream of beautiful and horrifying imagery in 48 minutes
Tommy Hartung’s feature-length film THE BIBLE (2014) is haunting and beautiful at once.
Netflix original follows cult escapee in NYC
In an age filled with so many sequels, prequels, remakes, reboots and spin-offs, a breath of fresh air can be nice once in a while.
‘Spelling Bee’ is both comical and deep
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee proves that much more than just spelling happens at a spelling bee.
Interview Column
This week, JustArts spoke with Sarah McCarty ’15 and Sofia Retta ’15, Rose Art Museum interns and the curators of Disrupted Spaces in the Farber Mezzanine.
Pop Culture
Recently, many television shows have come to an end, and this Friday night marks the end of another pop culture phenomenon: Glee is ending its run after six seasons.
‘Way of Water’ shows life after oil spill
How has the 2010 BP oil spill affected the lives of those living near it? While the media no longer gives attention to the spill, the effects of the disaster are still being felt by the environment and the people that it touched.
BTC releases productions for Fall 2015
This past week, the Brandeis Department of Theater Arts announced their Fall 2015 shows—Songs for a New World and Macbeth. The plays will be directed by rising seniors Rachel Liff ’16 and Zoe Golub-Sass ’16, respectively. Songs for a New World will run from Oct.
Cast tackles all of Shakespeare’s works
The opening night of The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged), performed by Hold Thy Peace on Thursday, had audiences rolling in their seats with laughter throughout the entire play. Squeezing every single one of Shakespeare’s 37 plays into an hour-and-a-half, the production included a great deal of audience interaction, the modern mixed with the period, many double entendres and some phallic jokes.
Improv Festival will come to campus, organized by music professor Tom Hall
Campus will see its very first Improvisation Festival in just a couple of weeks—from March 27 through 29.
Students explain creative choices in art exhibit
Rose Art Museum curatorial interns Sofia Retta ’15 and Sarah McCarty ’15 stated that they made sure to play to their strengths in organizing Disrupted Spaces, a photography exhibit focusing on memory and cultural history. The pair spoke at an art talk on Thursday and described the choices they made during the curation process.
Exhibit brings art to Farber Mezzanine
Students studying in the Farber Library Mezzanine might notice that as of Thursday some of the walls near the mezzanine’s entrance have drastically changed color.
Q&A with Judith Eissenberg
This week, justArts spoke with Prof. Judith Eissenberg (MUS), the director of MusicUnitesUs, a program that brought Azerbaijani vocalist Fargana Qasimova to the University for an intercultural residency. justArts: Can you tell us a little about MusicUnitesUs? Judith Eissenberg: It’s a program I started in 2003, and its purpose is to deepen our understanding and appreciation of Other, with a capital “O,” cultures.
English professors recite their own poetry
In her introduction before Thursday’s poetry reading, Prof. Elizabeth Bradfield (ENG), Jacob Ziskind Visiting Poet-in-Residence, noted that there is something special about hearing one’s own professors present their original artistic work.
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