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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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Life & Arts

Blurb: Dance Off

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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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Life & Arts

Encore! Shanghai Quartet receives standing ovation

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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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Biology professor shares thoughts on Daraprim

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Reading Time: 3 minutesCONNOR HOFFMAN Staff Writer   According to the Washington Post, Martin Shkreli, a 32-year-old hedge fund billionaire, became the recent target of enormous criticism. Shkreli achieved this when he decided to raise the price of Daraprim — a new drug his company Turing Pharmaceuticals had purchased — from $13.50 to......
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Life & Arts

Guitar professor releases new CD

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Reading Time: 2 minutesRIANNA SEELIG Staff Writer   One of Fredonia’s own was recently involved in an exciting project. Composer and SUNY Distinguished Professor of the School of Music James Piorkowski had his newest recording, “NINE: The Guitar and Beyond,” released by Centaur Records. The recording is a collection of nine new works.......
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Shanghai Quartet in Residency

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Reading Time: 3 minutesMARIA MELCHIORRE Special to The Leader   “The music is a language itself,” said Lily Li, International Recruiting Assistant for the School of Music. “It’s really a dual-lingual sound,” she continued, explaining the expressional and tonal differences between the Chinese and English languages and how these manifest in the quartet’s......
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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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