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Going into Saturday's meet, the women's cross country team was looking to perform better than they did last year. Unfortunately, they didn't quite hit the mark.The women came back from Pittsburgh as the sixth-placed team out of eight in the University Athletic Association."I had mixed feelings about the finish," head coach Barbara Hartwig said. "I […]

October weather tasted stale to a lot of soccer teams, but not for the UR women's team, who went 9-0-1 for the month when they tacked on a pair of wins this past weekend. The weekend matches featured some of UR's greatest competition seen in a long time. The Yellowjackets first squared off against Emory […]

Eastman School of Music alumnus Todd Lowery '89, brought the genius of Mozart to young Japanese students in Tokyo on Oct. 7.Thirty-two Japanese fourth-grade students stood on stage in Tokyo's world-renown Bunkamura Orchard Hall and sang sections from Mozart's famous opera "Don Giovanni." The children were all students from Japan's Gunma Kokusai Academy. The concert […]

For those who think the Eastman School of Music is only concerned with classical music and hasn't yet been convinced otherwise, Ossia, a student-run group entirely dedicated to the production of new music, may change your mind. Funded by Eastman, it receives musical works from famous contemporary composers to budding Eastman musicians. Ossia's goal is […]

A. Clyde Roller '41, a celebrated conductor at the Eastman School of Music, passed away at the age of 91 in San Antonio, Texas.An Oklahoma native, Roller began studying oboe as a young boy. He started his professional musical career as principal oboist with the Tulsa Philharmonic Orchestra, later joining the Oklahoma City Symphony. He […]

Having been a longtime horror fan, I am thoroughly disappointed with the majority of recent horror films. Of all the genres of film, horror gets the least amount of respect and seems to receive the most contempt from pretentious cinephiles. Perhaps this is for good reason, considering many horror films are produced with limited budgets […]

A feeling of icy horror creeps over the audience as they recline in their chairs with their feet on the ledge in front of them, shielding themselves from the ghosts. The small island of Antonio Bay is being engulfed in a consuming and rolling fog. The camera zooms out into a panoramic view of the […]

Ben Folds stormed through new and old songs at SUNY Brockport on Sunday evening, rocking a crowd composed mainly of students. Older fans could be spotted on the outskirts of the crowd, along with those who were decked out in Halloween costumes too delicate for the masses. Colorado-based band, The Fray, revved the audience for […]

By Dawn RyanCampus Times StaffWatching a performance of UR International Theatre Program's latest creation, "Killer Joe," is like watching an episode of Jerry Springer - for some inexplicable reason, you can't stop watching."Killer Joe" presents its characters in a brutally honest, usually unflattering way. It takes a proverbial white-trash family and shows you how their […]

As recipient of a Pulitzer Prize, a MacArthur Foundation fellowship and an array of other major awards and honors, George Perle has had a powerful impact on this generation's American music community.David Headlam, professor of music theory at the Eastman School of Music and a good friend of Perle, planned the Celebration of the Music […]