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By Sydney Held

In Edward Albee's Everything in the Garden, "green" has a double meaning. Jenny and her husband Richard's garden is flourishing with green but their income is diminishing. The protagonist Jenny decides to disobey Richard and take a job, selling her body for money, in order to keep up with their wealthy inner circle of friends where money seems to be valued above all else. The performance was a reminder to me that the grass will always seem greener on the other side.

By Robert Lee Wolfe III

It's difficult to entertain a conversation about classical music in the twenty-first century without addressing the decline of the form. The spattering of remaining young musical aficionados regularly laments the sea of gray heads amid the array of empty seats at most classical performances.

By Robert Lee Wolfe III

Diversity is one of this generation's most controversial buzzwords: many say that it represents a means to a broader understanding of the world, while others assert that a focus on diversity can lead to an emphasis on breadth that discourages students from plumbing the depths of their respective fields.

By Robert Lee Wolfe III

When most people think of chamber music, they think of talented musicians playing complex classical pieces that haven't changed in hundreds of years. Such an arrangement is not the sort that typically encourages innovation within the field of music. One may thus find oneself appropriately skeptical of a chamber music performance that generates hype. By the same argument, one finds oneself appropriately refreshed when the hype is entirely warranted.

By Peter Liu

On the evening of February 4th, I braved the cold weather to attend the Margaret Jenkins Dance Company's second showing of their East Coast premiere of Light Moves at the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center. The audience had the pleasure of hearing Margaret Jenkins herself speak before the show. She exclaimed that this would be the third time her company performed at the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, and that her company had started working on the Light Moves project over a year ago. She explained that the show was inspired by the element of inquiry and tried to answer questions through dance.