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A thank you to silent artists
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A thank you to silent artists

  I couldn’t miss this concert. Blanco White had become the hottest music celebrity on my list, and the three-and-a-half-hour drive to Chicago wasn’t a choice. I’ll explain. It all started in a coffee shop in Breckenridge this summer. Cell service was sparse where I was staying, so I whipped out my laptop for the...

New costume designer uses music to shape designs
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New costume designer uses music to shape designs

“I am trying to capture the essence of a person in a costume,” she said.  Though Langford appears precisely at home in the basement of the Fine Arts Building, her position there is recent. Hillsdale’s Department of Theatre and Dance hired Langford as costume designer this semester to fill the hole left by Bryan Simmons,...

Chicago dance company to perform jazz
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Chicago dance company to perform jazz

Giordano Dance Chicago, one of America’s finest jazz dance companies, will be performing for the Hillsdale community Sept. 14 in Markel Auditorium at 7:30 p.m. The show will include two new works, “Flickers” by Marinda Davis and “Soul” by Ray Leeper, as well as other signature pieces.  GDC was founded over fifty years ago by...

College completes multi-million dollar construction projects
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College completes multi-million dollar construction projects

Construction crews completed five major Hillsdale College building projects this summer worth more than $40.6 million.   In planning for the construction of new buildings, the college’s operations department endeavors to raise the operating endowment so that there is not an added fixed cost for incoming students, according to Vice President for Administration and Chief Administrative...