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Phi Mu Alpha celebrates 117 years

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Reading Time: 3 minutes[metaslider id=3862] REBECCA HALE Reverb Editor   Last Wednesday evening, a small crowd filed into Rosch Recital Hall to listen to the music of the brothers of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia during their Founder’s Day Recital. The recital fell on Oct. 7, a day late of the 117th anniversary of......
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Frostie Mocha and JP Makerquake for the win Contestants own the stage in Fall Dragapalooza

Reading Time: 4 minutesNAOMI LYNCH Social Media Manager   “Fredonia! Let me hear you make some noise!” Kimmi Moore screamed into the microphone as the packed Williams Center Multi-Purpose Room roared in response. Last Friday, Pride Alliance held its Fall 2015 Drag Show: Dragapalooza, hosted by Moore, 2013 Drag Queen winner and Fredonia......
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An American in Berlin ‘Cabaret’ to open Oct. 14

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Reading Time: 3 minutesKRIS HARRIS Special to The Leader   “Cabaret” is an exciting musical that combines a range of subjects from love to politics. What is even better is that it can be seen on campus next week. The musical is being put on by the Department of Theatre and Dance this......
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Blurb: Dance Off

Reading Time: 2 minutes[metaslider id=3673] REBECCA HALE Reverb Editor   Late Sunday afternoon, students, faculty and community members filed into the Steele Hall Fieldhouse to watch Orchesis’ first ever faculty dance-off, a competition which pitted different departments against one another. In the end the English Department won, with Iclal Vanwesenbeeck and Susan McGee’s......
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Rhythm and Brews

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Reading Time: < 1 minute[metaslider id=3660] CARLY KNASZAK Assistant Reverb Editor   Music Industry Club had its first fall event last Wednesday, titled “Rhythm and Brews.” The event took place at Tim Hortons’ The Spot. The place was packed with students, sound equipment and even the campus television station, WNYF-TV.   Junior Aidan Licker......
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Encore! Shanghai Quartet receives standing ovation

Reading Time: 2 minutesRIANNA SEELIG Staff Writer         The Shanghai Quartet is one of the world’s foremost chamber ensembles. The performers include Weigang Li (violin), Yi-Wen Jiang (violin), Honggang Li (viola) and Nicholas Tzavaras (cello). The four main performers were accompanied by Fredonia professor Sean Duggan, a pianist and monk of St. Joseph......
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Review: Making A Difference Through Music

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Reading Time: 3 minutesAMBER MATTICE Special to The Leader   There was an extremely successful turnout this year for Fredonia Radio Systems’ Rockin’ The Commons. Barker Commons was alive with the strumming of various acoustic guitars and the overall energetic air of the bands and the people watching them. Saying that the bands......
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A night of poetry Beat Poetry Festival showcases variety of topics

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Reading Time: 3 minutes[metaslider id=3323] CHARLES PRITCHARD Staff Writer The National Beat Poetry Festival at Fredonia kicked off this past weekend; a number of poets from out-of-state came, shared their work and interacted with the young poets on campus. The Festival, which, as one of the poets pointed out, is actually an international......
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LehrerDance premieres new works

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Reading Time: 4 minutesLINDSAY TOMAKA Special to The Leader   The LehreDance Company, which was founded in July 2007 by Jon Lehrer, is a small dance company consisting of only eight dancers that is focused on modern dance. The group’s style of dance is based on three main elements of movement: circularity, three-dimensionality......

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