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MoChester returns to EBC

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Reading Time: 4 minutes[metaslider id=4028] REBECCA HALE Reverb Editor   Ellicottville Brewing Company West (EBC) provided a warm and welcoming haven for cold hands and eager ears last Saturday evening as it hosted MoChester, a band that hasn’t visited Fredonia in many years. Outside, temperatures were nearing freezing, but students and community members......
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‘Two words that make the magic’ Broadway star conducts master class

Reading Time: 3 minutesHOLLY BURDICK Special to The Leader   “What if” — two words that can imply many things. “What if” — two words that permit the imagination to run wild. “What if” — two words that Tony Award-nominated, Karen Akers used many times to explain what she wanted to teach. “What......
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A girl on her mind Why Mary Beth Tinker doesn’t remember the Supreme Court

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Reading Time: 3 minutesL. FULLER Editor in Chief   Free speech heroine Mary Beth Tinker was sitting at the head of the table at The Brick Room on Sept. 28, and I was sitting to her immediate right. She had just finished her presentation in the Science Center about her experiences with the......
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Quartet Conversations Shanghai Quartet gives lectures and master classes

Reading Time: 3 minutesMARIA MELCHIORRE Special to The Leader   Over the course of the past week, Sep. 30 – Oct. 3, Fredonia has been honored to host the world-renowned Shanghai Quartet for a series of lectures, master classes and a performance. Joining the quartet was music education expert Roberta Guaspari-Tzavaras. The residency......
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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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NASA Learning Comes to Fredonia

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Reading Time: 2 minutesSCOTT DOWNEY Special to The Leader   One may think of Fredonia as primarily an arts college. President Virginia Horvath says that Fredonia is not just an arts institution. She believes that Fredonia has had a long history of science since the 1960s. “We have many graduates that have gone......

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