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Striking a chord
Inaugural music composition competition brings student-created music to center stage.
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The music of resistance
How celebrated jazz pianist and Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Anthony Davis ’69 is changing the narrative.
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10 Exonians win medals in 100th Scholastic Awards
Andrew Yuan ’24 claims two golds, one silver in nation’s longest-running arts and writing awards program.
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Reading Rita Dove
Exeter uppers study the former U.S. poet laureate’s work ahead of the latest Lamont Poetry Series visit.
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"I want the gallery to feel like less of a pristine white cube … I want it to feel more like an elevated community space.”
Lamont Gallery Director and Curator Pam Meadows
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Assembly lineup a mix of art, analysis
Exeter speaker roster confirmed for winter term.
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'Moments in Time'
The Fall Dance Company concluded the term with a three-show performance at The Goel Center.
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5 questions for Lamont Poet A.E. Stallings
Kaylee Chen ’23 sat down with the poet and translator to discuss inspiration, elitism in the classics and how ancient Roman poetry can still seem fresh.
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Artists share joy for discovery
Takuya and Minami Yoshida sponsored by the Michael Clark Rockefeller Class of 1956 Visiting Artist Fund.
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Martín Espada speaks for the silenced
Poet brings to life selections from his award-winning book “Floaters” in Assembly.
Janet Yang '74 is first Asian American to lead The Academy of Motion Pictures and Arts
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“I’ve never had so many kids hungry to do stuff. I was like, ‘Wow, I gotta keep up.’”
Music Instructor Marcus Rabb
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"I was knocked out by the sheer power of that sound, transported really I thought the only kind of music that had that kind of genius, virtuosity and earthy directness was Beethoven and Chopin."
John Davis '75
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Lamont Gallery takes stock of its own treasures
The current exhibition Managing Miscellanea offers mystery and excellence in equal parts.
The Goel Center
The David E. and Stacey L. Goel Center for Theater and Dance has elevated Exeter’s performing arts to a whole new level.