• Music Review

    Music Review

    Hey everyone! It’s a new school year, and it looks like I’m back at it for the music review column. My name is Liz and I’m a senior. I’ve done plenty of music reviews before, about everything from K-pop to video game music to the one and only Cher. I provide a little bit of

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  • Esports and Music

    Esports and Music

    Music has always been a vital part of the sports industry. If you think of WWE, you know John Cena’s theme. Every baseball player has an anthem their home stadium plays as they step up to bat. Sports associations make music videos by splicing together clips of different plays in games and setting them to

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  • Music Review: Vampire Weekend: Six years of waiting well worth it, indie lovers say

    Six years. That’s how long it’s been since we’ve had a fresh album from indie sensation Vampire Weekend. That finally changed this past May. The band released “Father of the Bride,” an album with a whopping total of 18 tracks. 18 tracks! This album has some of my new favorite Vampire Weekend songs. What I

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  • Music review: Lyrical analysis

    Music review: Lyrical analysis

    Photo courtesy of unsplash.com The way I see it, there are two ways to approach a music review (Okay, maybe three — but all music reviews require introductory meta-analytical explorations of what music reviews are, so perhaps that is an overarching category, or a prerequisite, rather than an approach). The first is to plunge into

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  • Gender diversity in music explored in women’s recital

    Gender diversity in music explored in women’s recital

    Photo courtesy of Maura Longenecker Monday, Feb. 24 the music department of Elizabethtown College hosted a Women Composers Concert. The event took place in Zug Recital Hall and was a full house. The program included had piano, flutes, clarinets, saxophones and singers at different times. Crew members worked quickly when the lights were low to

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  • Music Review: The Original Crooks and Nannies

    Music Review: The Original Crooks and Nannies

    Photo courtesy of unsplash.com What are music reviews typically meant to do? Usually to introduce people to new or upcoming artists that they may not have heard of yet, right? So what have I done this week? I’ve found a small band that disbanded in June 2016, according to their Facebook page. I’m fairly confident

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  • Music Review: Fiona Apple: An artist with diverse and emotionally charged music

    Music Review: Fiona Apple: An artist with diverse and emotionally charged music

    Photo courtesy of unsplash.com Hello, hello, fine readers. It is I, your marginally friendly campus opinion-haver, ready to share some opinions in a public forum. I have been entrusted with one-third of the music review privileges this semester, and I am ready to use this third of a column to spread my own agenda. Let’s

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  • Music Review: The Lumineers: New album narrative-style, powerful, insightful

    Music Review: The Lumineers: New album narrative-style, powerful, insightful

    Photo courtesy of Flickr Friday, Sept. 13, 2019 (yes, Friday the thirteenth), The Lumineers released their third studio album, aptly titled “III.” The narrative-style album presents the effects of addiction on members of the imaginary Sparks family. It’s beautiful, tragic and evocative, but we’d expect nothing less from the group that gave us “Sleep on

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  • Music department staff changes, alumni teach

    Music department staff changes, alumni teach

    • News
    • September 13, 2019

    With Robert Spence, associate professor and director of instrumental studies, on leave for the year, the music department has invited two Elizabethtown College alumni back to help teach and direct during the 2019-2020 academic year. Kimberly Hirschmann will be directing the Symphonic Band, as well as teaching one upper-level music education class, and Micah Albrycht

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