Music
Broadway Musicals
‘Where’s OBOC?’ a hit, despite mic trouble
On Friday night, Off Broadway On Campus presented “Where’s OBOC?,” a collection of vignettes and tracks from countless other stage shows, performed live in Strong Auditorium. I had never been to an OBOC show before — the only on-campus drama I’d seen at Rochester before was last year’s performance of “Accidental Death of an Anarchist” […]
A Cappella
Ramblers welcome newcomers in “Day Off”
The line for tickets to the Midnight Ramblers’ fall show, “Midnight Rambler’s Day Off,” wound around the lobby of Strong auditorium — competition for the best seats in the house was fierce. T-shirts, stickers, CDs, and even Rambler pencils were being hawked at the door, as songs from past years blasted through the speakers and […]
A Cappella
A cappella groups fundraise for clean water with Engineers Without Borders
UR Engineers Without Borders put on their fifth-annual benefit concert this past Saturday, Oct. 20, featuring performances by UR a cappella groups, to raise funds for its fifth annual trip to the Dominican Republic. The club will use the funds to return to Don Juan in January, where the members work to implement water filtration. […]
Music
Our brain, language, music and how they all connect
I have always been fascinated by the ways in which music affects the brain in general But recently, I’ve begun to ask: how does it affect language? Growing up, my parents’ taste in music was very diverse, especially in regards to language. I was raised listening to Spanish, French, Italian, Greek, Turkish, Arabic, German, and […]
Pink Martini
Eclectic and electric: Pink Martini at Eastman
I was one of about five people my age at the Pink Martini concert at Eastman on Friday, so it was cool. I didn’t know anyone, so I was on a date with myself. I must have looked pretty sad, because the people at the box office let me in for free. (I’ll take it.) […]
student musicians
For senior Facciolo, debut album is 8 years in the making
Senior Siena Facciolo was 14 when she wrote her first song about a “little fling” she had at piano camp. That song, “Morning,” is featured on singer-songwriter Facciolo’s debut album, “Dear House,” out Sept. 29. Facciolo, now 22, has been actively putting the album — recorded in Rettner — together since January. She first arrived […]
Friday Night Live
At The Lightest thrives on atmosphere
Student band At The Latest performed for an hour at Starbucks on Friday night, Aug. 31. It was one of the few concerts that I’ve attended, and one of the few that I’ve enjoyed. But it wasn’t the music or the quality of the performance that made it enjoyable — it was the casual and […]
Ella Mai
Ella Mai dazzles the student and local community
I have never, in my time on this campus, seen so many people from the Rochester community congregated in one place for an artist that seemed so incredibly loved. This year’s Yellowjacket Weekend performance in Douglass Ballroom featured Ella Mai and her opening act, Ishmael Raps. Though perhaps it was not as crowded as last […]
Album Review
Ryan Beatty’s ‘Boy in Jeans,’ reviewed
When I listen to Ryan Beatty's recent album "Boy in Jeans," I feel like back I'm in high school — sexually repressed, spending summer in suburgatory with my undiagnosed mental illness and maybe one or two friends in their backyard pool. "Boy in Jeans" is Beatty’s queer, pop, R&B dream, completely different from the sugary […]
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2018 Campus Times summer playlist
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