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No shortage of hardware: 2009-2010 Performing Arts Series lineup announced

By Ben Noll • Apr 15th, 2009 • Category: news

When the audience rises for its customary ovation on March 30, 2010, it will conclude a 2009-2010 Performing Arts Series featuring the most prestigious lineup of artists the series has ever seen. Sauder Concert Hall has been attracting top international recording...

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Artist’s Corner – April 16

By Ben Noll • Apr 15th, 2009 • Category: arts
Artist’s Corner – April 16
The featured artist this week is Daniela Hernandez, a senior. Her self-portrait drawing is representative of more than just herself. "It represents the oppressed women of Mexico, and more specifically the indigenous women," said Hernandez. The quotation that...

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For the Record Apr. 9

By Ben Noll • Apr 9th, 2009 • Category: for the record

A simple yet profound request made its way into my Gmail inbox last week.  It was an invitation to sign a graduation pledge, which read: "I pledge to take into account the social and environmental consequences of any job I consider and will try to improve those aspects...

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Sanchez to swing through Goshen

By Ben Noll • Apr 8th, 2009 • Category: arts

Audience members for the final Performing Arts Series concert of the year shouldn't get too comfortable in their seats. The main event on Tuesday, Poncho Sanchez and his Latin Jazz band, is sure to have the crowd moving with their Afro-Cuban salsa beats. The evening...

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Curtains up on ‘Fool for Love’

By Ben Noll • Apr 8th, 2009 • Category: arts

New World Arts' love-themed mainstage season turns to obsession this weekend as the theater opens Sam Shepard's play "Fool for Love." The show follows the romantic pursuits of a cowboy and film stuntman named Eddie, played by Bryan Falcon, a Goshen resident and 1995...

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Artist’s Corner – April 9

By Ben Noll • Apr 8th, 2009 • Category: arts

This featured artist this week is Laura Harnish, a senior art major from Flanagan, Ill. Harnish's oil paintings, as with "Agrey" pictured here, are on display along with the work of four other senior art majors in the Music Center's Hershberger Art Gallery from now until...

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Sharing Cambodian stories of survival

By Ben Noll • Apr 1st, 2009 • Category: arts

Recent world history will soon be coming into clearer focus for Goshen College students when Sheldon Good, a senior, releases his Pinchpenny Press book, "Surviving the Khmer Rouge: Stories on the Struggle to Stay Alive," this weekend. Accounts of the impending...

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Artist’s Corner – April 2

By Ben Noll • Apr 1st, 2009 • Category: arts
Artist’s Corner – April 2
The featured artist this week is Whitney Philipps, a senior, and her oil painting "madonna not yet with child diptych." The piece is part of the final senior art gallery of the year, which features the work of Philipps, Joanna Landis, Laura Harnish, Britta Albrecht, and...

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Don’t call it a comeback: Thile returns to Goshen

By Ben Noll • Mar 25th, 2009 • Category: arts

Two years after thrilling a packed out Sauder Concert Hall, mandolin virtuoso Chris Thile will return to Goshen College next weekend as part of this year's Performing Arts Series. But don't expect the same mix of folk-y bluegrass Thile dealt out as one-third of the...

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Artist’s Corner – March 26

By Ben Noll • Mar 25th, 2009 • Category: arts
Artist’s Corner – March 26
The featured artist this week is Carmen Myers, a senior, whose work, along with fellow senior art majors Daniel Merkt-Blatz, Janell Koch-Cripe, Emily Shantz and Alex Troyer, is currently on display in the Hershberger Art Gallery. Myers, an art major with a fine art...

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Yoder to make noises with small black box

By Ben Noll • Mar 18th, 2009 • Category: arts

"You, dear listener, are separated from me by a wall of the greatest impenetrability," Greg Yoder playfully commented as he discussed the difficulties of piano performance. "The only way I can hope to reach you is through my little, black box." "I sit on the stage,...

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Last call for JRL

By Ben Noll • Mar 18th, 2009 • Category: arts

After six years of performing and five studio albums, singer/songwriter Jonathon Reuel and his collaborative band, JRL, will take a break from their extensive recording and touring schedule on Friday. Reuel and a large cast of special guests, including Kaleem Kheshgi, a...

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Artist’s Corner – March 19

By Ben Noll • Mar 18th, 2009 • Category: arts
Artist’s Corner – March 19
The featured artist this week is Emily Shantz, a senior from Goshen. Her drawing, "Ollie Squibnose," was created with a  pen on paper and will be featured alongside her other drawings in the second Senior Art Exhibition of the year, opening this weekend in the...

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Music review: Gina Holsopple’s ‘Unless’

By Ben Noll • Mar 11th, 2009 • Category: arts
Music review: Gina Holsopple’s ‘Unless’
Where most album cases bear an official-looking warning from the FBI forbidding would-be pirates from distributing copyrighted material, Gina Holsopple's new album reads: "Unauthorized duplication, while not recommended, is better than no music at all." Holsopple, a...

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Artist’s Corner – March 12

By Ben Noll • Mar 11th, 2009 • Category: arts
Artist’s Corner – March 12
Abigail Groff, a senior art major from Lancaster, Pa., is this week's featured artist. Her graphite and watercolor work is currently on display in the Hershberger Art Gallery in the Music Center. Groff's piece is part of a series of four 8" x 8" figure drawings....

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