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...with Adams House for several decades. During the 1940s and 50s, before the college began using randomization to assign student housing, he reveled in the house’s strong artistic community and later became a house tutor. “Even when I went off to make a living in the real world,” he says, “I found that I was never so far that I couldn’t come back.” Shapiro is currently a professor of Romance languages and literature at Wesleyan University and a renowned translator of French...
...covers on acoustic guitar, “Time Out of Mind” saw Dylan stepping away from a bare musician’s role and toward a more auteristic philosophy, prompted by Daniel Lanois’ production. The arrangements on that album were lush and spacious, propelled by lively performances from seasoned studio musicians—his tightest band since the mid-70s. Dylan produced the three albums that followed on his own (credited as “Jack Frost”) but he’s maintained the standard that Lanois set, framing his wry, enigmatic lyrics with...
...then moved behind the scenes, directing work in the New College Theatre, Loeb Mainstage, and the Loeb Experimental Theatre. Two of the shows she has directed were originally developed by the London theater company Complicite, including “Mnemonic” and “The Three Lives of Lucie Cabrol.” Although she says her influences vary based on the project, Videt cites Complicite as one of her major sources of inspiration. Videt—who spent her childhood in Japan, Hong Kong, and Singapore—believes that her experiences growing up contributed to shaping...
...accordion and just kept playing it until it broke. I’ve since moved on to bigger and bigger accordions.” His childhood also exposed him to Irish music, now a focus of his performance. In his small town in upstate New York lived an Irish priest who played the concertina, a mini-accordion. “He would have concerts every week with great Irish musicians. Afterward they would have jam sessions,” Gurney says. “It was a lucky way to get into the music.” Gurney, who describes...
...approach one the way one hears music, just letting it wash over you,” he says. “My poetry is like music in a way—it comes and happens over a period of time and leads you into it. You kind of live it for a while, as opposed to, say, a picture, which you look at for a few minutes and walk away from...