On Monday night, Crowell Concert Hall felt more like a Southern Revivalist Church than a performance hall in a Northeastern college as Pastor Marichal Bryan Monts led the Ebony Singers through a dynamic and moving Gospel performance.
Pouring rain spattered against the windows of Russell House last Sunday, providing a dramatic backdrop to the powerful music of cellist Jeffrey Lastrapes and pianist and Wesleyan Private Lessons Teacher Erika Schroth.
With a collective intake of breath, the Flux Quartet launched into a performance that explored the challenging, lush, and energized landscape of twenty-first-century experimental music.
Occasionally tongue-in-cheek, but more often painfully serious, the Israeli film "Out of Sight" is a beautiful and poignant exploration of love, betrayal, and familial bonds, as experienced through the unique senses of a blind woman.
A mad hatter circled a convulsing woman dressed as a man while a small boy wearing pants made of puffy white feathers twirled across the stage: an unusual cast of characters confronted a rapt audience.
Steve Morison ’88 first experienced the Afghani countryside while perched on the top of a rickety bus careening through the mountains. Speaking on Tuesday as a guest of the History Department, Morison talked about his travels to Afghanistan, beginning with a story from a 1989 trip.