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Fairytale took King in the form of an opera

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Reading Time: 3 minutesKRISTEN SHULTIS and MAGGIE GILROY Special to The Leader and Reverb Editor On Friday night, King concert hall erupted with sounds of idle chatter and the warming up of an orchestra. On the stage in front of that orchestra sat a lonely fireplace just waiting for the singers to arrive......
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‘12 Years a Slave’ — A nation’s dark history is the year’s best picture

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Reading Time: 2 minutesA negro musician in 1981 is drugged kidnapped and sold into slavery. Director Steve McQueen and actors Chiwetel Ejiofor and Michael Fassbender throw you headfirst into the pits of hell that would unbearable if it never actually defined the American slave trade. CONNOR BURTON AND DAVID GLANTZ Specials to The......
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‘Dancing with the Athletes’ Unique event raises money for Moving Miracles

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Reading Time: 2 minutesALEXIS FORES Special to The Leader “And first place goes to … Abby Sullivan and Marcus Moles for their jazz routine!” said Jordan Louis Fischer, host. Ballet, salsa and twerking took the center stage as students gathered in the Multi-Purpose Room of the Williams Center on Sunday, Nov. 17 to......
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Orchesis: Unplugged, Student-run dance company’s show sells out despite change of venue

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Reading Time: 2 minutesRebecca Hale Staff Writer Dancers of all styles and colors twisted, jumped and rolled in Mason 1080, bringing movement and color to the dark, rainy Saturday evening. Students, faculty, friends and family squeezed into the room until no more could fit, many standing in the back of the room to......
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‘The School for Scandal’ Theater meets Twitter in mainstage play

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Reading Time: 4 minutesJordyn Holka Staff Writer In an age where many members of the cultural elite see social media as a vexing taboo, the Department of Theatre and Dance’s latest production has received a slew of positive electronic reviews, each of which was compiled in a mere 140 characters or less. The......
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Arturo Sandoval, Cuban Jazz trumpeter, supplies soul to SUNY Fredonia

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Reading Time: 4 minutesCOURTNEE CESTA Staff Writer Nine-time Grammy winner and protégé of Dizzy Gillespie Arturo Sandoval will join SUNY Fredonia students and faculty on Monday, Nov. 11 at 8 p.m. in Rosch Recital Hall. Sandoval is a distinguished musician in both the jazz and classical worlds, and performs regularly with some of......
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Chris O’Dell on gender, drugs and rock ‘n roll

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Reading Time: 6 minutesEILEEN MOWREY Assistant Reverb Editor Last Tuesday, Chris O’Dell, author of “Miss O’Dell: My Hard Days and Long Nights with The Beatles, The Stones, Bob Dylan, Eric Clapton, and the Women They Loved,” shared with Fredonia students what it was like to work with some of the biggest rock and......
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Adjunct Spotlight: Musically and technically speaking, Yuen has it all

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Reading Time: 6 minutesCARL LAM Staff Writer Many who are not familiar with Mason Hall could attest that all that can be seen are doors. Gray doors, green doors, wooden doors — any type of door, really. And then there are the red doors, often filled with reminders, lesson schedules, concert information and......
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The Lone Bellow

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Reading Time: 2 minutesEILEEN MOWREY Assistant Reverb Editor One morning at Dizzy’s Diner in Park Slope, Brooklyn, three musicians, Zach Williams, Brian Elmquist and Kanene Pipkin, made music together for the first time. They were, respectively, a solo artist, a diner employee and a girl who had recently returned from Beijing. Today they......
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