Justin Furness, a freshman at Mercer, has already made a positive impression through thorough involvement as a music education major. Every day, he arrives to class sporting a tie and suspenders. His immaculate style, however, is not the only attribute that sets Furness apart from his peers. Furness, ...
What happens when Picasso, Einstein and Elvis walk into a bar? Comedy, wit and the truth about creativity and humanity. “Picasso at the Lapin Agile,” directed by Marian Zielinski, opened on Feb. 13 in Mercer University’s Back Door Theatre. Set in Paris in 1904, the play was written by Steve Martin ...
QuadWorks revealed the headliners for BearStock 2014 in a video previewing the event with clips of past BearStock performances. The all-day music festival will take place in Tattnall Square Park Saturday, April 12. The free music festival will feature 10 bands during the course of the day and three ...
On Jan. 27, Bruce Adolphe, an accomplished composer, educator, performer and author, gave a lecture on creative musicianship in Fickling Hall at the Townsend School of Music. His compositions have been performed by world class artists including Yo-Yo Ma, the Chicago Chamber Musicians and the Brentano ...
Joori Chung is a senior at Mercer University majoring in art with a double minor in communications and photography. She is a full-time international student from Seoul, South Korea. Chung said that she always had a passion for art. Her love of art was inspired by her father, as she used to look through ...
As 2014 begins, the world turns in anticipation of the unknown. For those of us passionate about the arts, this means an exciting year full of new music waiting to make its way to our ears. In order to serve its readers who share in this passion, The Cluster has provided reviews of this month’s latest ...
Chamber Winds Ensemble Fickling Recital Hall Feb. 7 Picasso at the Lapine Agile Backdoor Theatre Feb. 13- 16 Mercer University Orchestra Fickling Recital Hall Feb. 13, 7:30 p.m. Student Recitals: Alison Post Graduate: Collaborative Piano Feb. ...
The Brits are rapidly climbing the ladder of American entertainment. English musicians such as Adele, Mumford & Sons and One Direction have become top-chart artists in the U.S. This British Invasion II, however, encompasses more media than solely music, with BBC television series sparking their ...
For those of us who have no interest in football, the Super Bowl halftime show is the one thing (aside from Super Bowl parties and chili cookoffs) we have to look forward to during what is probably the biggest sporting event of the year. The commercials during the game are entertaining, but I usually ...
CBS broadcasted the 56th Annual Grammy Awards on Jan. 26 live from the Staples Center in Los Angeles. Daft Punk, a French electronic music featuring robotic personas created by Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo and Thomas Bangalter, won big, earning victories in the Record of the Year, Album of the Year, ...
Sitting in the Grand Opera House, I was amazed by the music created by my fellow Mercerians. “A Grand Mercer Christmas” was pre-recorded in 2012 to be aired nationwide on PBS in December 2013 through Georgia Public Broadcasting and Brandenburg Productions. The show was comprised of students ...
“Saving Mr. Banks” is the supposedly true story about Walt Disney bringing “Mary Poppins” to theaters and the tragic childhood of the book’s author P.L. Travers. In actuality, it is an overly saccharine revisionist tale by Disney that is precisely what Travers objected to. The film, ...
"A visual concerto" is the self-coined interpretation for Dr. Steve Simmerman' s exhibit, “Arpeggios, Advertising, and Autobiography,” hosted in the Frances Sewell Plunkett Gallery of Hardman Hall. Simmerman is an assistant professor of art in the College of Liberal Arts. This is his first ...
Steve Hussung is a senior at Mercer University pursuing a double major in Computational Science and Math. Although his choice in majors does not reflect his passion for music, Hussung is a diverse artist, proficient at the piano, the bass guitar and the mandolin. His first instrument was the piano, ...
Mercer University’s Opera and Townsend School of Music began the semester with a colorful production of W.A. Mozart’s “The Magic Flute.” Under the direction of Dr. Martha Malone, Chair of Vocal Studies and the Director of Mercer University Opera, the opera featured over 30 vocalists, ...
Macon’s Cox Capitol Theatre welcomes three of the top songwriters in the south tonight for “Lies, Damn Lies and Statistics.” The concert will be a night of country music and storytelling. Kevn Kinney, singer and songwriter of Drivin N Cryin’, will be joined by fellow country music performers ...
Annual auditions are held for high school and college voice students to participate in a competition through NATS, the National Association of Teachers of Singing. This year, Mercer’s Townsend School of Music had the honor of hosting this highly anticipated two day event. On November 15th and ...
Dustin Murdock is a sophomore at Mercer University majoring in music performance with an emphasis in classical guitar. His first experience with guitar was with his grandfather, who taught him how to play old gospel music. Since then he has not only learned to play guitar but also piano, drums and ...
Although Marvel Studios has had much success with their multiple superhero franchises, some of the films have been better than others. “Thor” (2011) was an unoriginal and fairly uninteresting film covered with some decent special effects. “The Avengers” (2012), was a fine spectacle, but lacked ...
Directed by Scot J. Mann, the Mercer Players opened the comical and charming play, “Love Kills,” by Vladimir Volkoff in the Back Door Theatre. The play is a part of “Exile Is My Country,” the International Colloquium held at Mercer on the writings of Volkoff, a celebrated and provocative Russian ...
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