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Three from the Lydians

The Lydian String Quartet, comprised of music Profs. Judith Eissenberg, Mary Ruth Ray, Daniel Stepner and Joshua Gordon, played a spectacular concert to a packed house in Slosberg Recital Hall on Saturday.The concert was made up of three main pieces, by Mozart, Persichetti and Beethoven, respectively.


New director picked for Rose

Michael Rush will take over as the director of the Rose Art Museum next month, succeeding Joseph Ketner who resigned last June to become the chief curator at the Milwaukee Art Museum.Rush comes to Brandeis after serving as the chief director and curator at the Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art for the last four years.


VoiceMale performs ballads and political anthems

Brandeis' only all-male a cappella group, VoiceMale, delivered a well-executed performance Saturday night in the Wasserman Cinematheque at the Sachar Academic Complex, featuring love songs from groups such as The Beach Boys, The Backstreet Boys and many others.


Classical concert celebrates life of late music professor Irving Fine

"At Brandeis, I have had many satisfactions, a fair amount of frustration and one unique opportunity, as chairman of the School of Creative Arts, to collaborate in the creation of entire departments of music, fine arts and theater," reads a passage in the autobiography of the late Irving Fine, a former professor of music at Brandeis.Fine's legacy was celebrated Sunday afternoon in Slosberg Recital Hall in an annual concert dedicated to his memory featuring Prof.


Fool for Love' is 'Fool'-ishly confusing

Relationships: They can make the worst day better and the best day worse. No matter what you think of your life, however, it's got to be better than the convoluted romance of Eddie and May at the epicenter of playwright Sam Shepard's Fool for Love, performed by the Brandeis Players this weekend in the Shapiro Campus Center Theater.


Nothing can keep down 'Hairspray'

BOSTON-Within the first two minutes of Hairspray, presented by Broadway at the Boston Opera House, Christine Danelson, in the role of main character Tracy Turnblat, was belting out a dynamic rendition of "Good Morning Baltimore." More enthusiastic than any other performer, Danelson had reason to be sharing her character's optimism: normally an understudy, she was tonight singing with the spotlight on her.


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