The Tower Players opened their most recent project, Mary Chase’s “Harvey,” last night. “Harvey” is a 1950s American comedy in which the central character, the eccentric Elwood P. Dowd, claims to have a six-foot-tall rabbit named Harvey as his closest companion. Elwood’s sister, Veta, and his niece, Myrtle Mae reside with him in his house....
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Protestantism: Disunity between denominations?
“What unites us is a pursuit of deeply and fervently held end or aim, not uniformity or agreement about the means with which we reach that aim,” Assistant Professor of Religion Don Westblade said about Protestant unity. Alitheia, a Christian apologetics group, hosted a panel last week to discuss the issue of Protestant unity through...
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Twenty-fifth opera workshop makes a scene
When vocal instructor Melissa Osmond selected opera scenes for this year’s Opera Workshop, she selected pieces that highlighted the vocal department’s students talents. “Don’t Make a Scene” is the 25th Opera Workshop, and almost 30 Hillsdale students displayed their talents in scenes from various operas, operettas, and operatic-style musicals. Along with adjunct instructors Emily Douglass,...
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Conserving the Classics: Don Bluth’s ‘An American Tail’
When Steven Spielberg saw “The Secret of NIMH” (1982), Don Bluth’s animated film about tenacious field mice caught in a mental ward, the director loved it so much that he asked Bluth to do it again — only this time starring Jewish émigré mice. Bluth jumped aboard immediately and, with Spielberg’s collaboration, he spun “An...
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Master of simplicity: Rich lyrics and clear acoustics in “Pray You Love Remember”
Catherine Coffey, ’16, has recently debuted her first L.P. titled “Pray You Love Remember.” The 11-track offering from Coffey comes on the heels of her signing with Vanity Plate Records, a record label founded in 2016 by a fellow Hillsdale graduate and classmate Danielle Adams, ’18. From the opening bars of the first track, “Pray...