Archive: Feb 2004
Twilight skiing at Mt. Bristol
Finding the sweet spot in skiing is comparable to finding the sweet spot of a baseball bat. It serves as a guide to where you should place your body and what kind of motions you should be making. If you're someone like me, neither of these things mean anything and you just fly down a […]
Women's basketball loses to NYU, drop third straight
The women's basketball team lost at New York University by a score of 80-68 on Sunday afternoon. The loss was the third straight for the Yellowjackets, who earlier this season had attained the top ranking for the first time in history.Senior Erika Smith scored a game-high 22 points for the Yellowjackets, but 15 of those […]
Men's Swimming
It is obvious that Richard Tipton has no idea about the sport of swimming when he called our preformance subpar at UAA's. Just because we finsihed seventh, against some of the top teams in Division III I might add, does not mean we preformesd poorly. In fact, we had our best swims of the year […]
Festival celebrates 20th-century composer
The Eastman School of Music will honor the legendary Polish composer and conductor Krzysztof Penderecki in a week-long festival from Feb. 23 through Feb. 27. Born in 1933, Penderecki is known for his accomplishments on violin and piano and in composing. He graduated from the Krakow Conservatory at the age of 18. After graduating, he […]
Small opera leaves big impression
The Eastman Opera Theatre presented Francis Poulenc's opera "Dialogue of the Carmelites" on Feb. 11 through 14 in Christ Episcopal Church. The Stage director was Steven Daigle and the music director was Benton Hess. Hess also performed the entire opera on the piano, as the space limitations didn't allow an orchestra. Despite the lack of […]
Romantic concert strikes the right chord on Valentine's Day
On Feb. 13 and 14, Eastman Theatre was the stage for two very special Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra WPOP concerts. These concerts featured the stunning Ben E. King, who is best known for the hit "Stand by Me" and his time with The Drifters. On the program was a collection of romantic songs from the standard […]
Alien served over easy
Last Thursday, my morning class was cancelled - therefore, I had time to eat breakfast for the first time since the semester started. Naturally, I was thrilled. I got up in the morning, brushed my teeth, washed my face and cheerfully cooked myself an egg. Being so skillful and all, I kept the yolk round […]
DiFranco satisfies fans, scares off new listeners
With "Educated Guess," her first solo album in more than a decade, Ani DiFranco takes the meaning of a solo artist to another level. Playing all the instruments, accounting for all the vocals, and mixing the entire record on a simple eight-track, reel-to-reel recorder, she returns to her fiercely independent alt-folk roots that will definitely […]
From the Pressbox
Holy Hindenburg! Just when you thought that the bedlam of this winter's baseball off-season with all of the big-name trades and power move re-signings had quelled, the Yankees go and throw another whale on the wagon - whatever that expression may mean - and yet again change the politics and practices of a sport spiraling […]
Men's team splits for weekend, goes to CU, BU
The men's track and field team split up this weekend, as most of the team went to Cornell University, but most of the weekend's highlights came at Boston University. Competing on one of the fastest tracks in the country against some top level Division I competition, the men certainly held their own in the non-scoring […]