CAMPUS CURRENTS
PERFORMING ARTS
Otto Lanzavecchia and Kes Baker ‘14
On the Stage Director of Performing Arts Joe Sampson and Technical Director Meredith once again produced a series of plays designed to challenge the student casts and delight the community audiences. Sampson’s direction of Neil Simon’s Rumors saw a dinner party gone wrong, suspicious police, and head-snapping turns of plot, all in black tie. From farce to civil rights, Brown’s winter production of Letter from a Birmingham Jail brought historical perspective to the annual, national remembrance of Martin Luther King, Jr. The 2013-14 artistic year closed with the spring musical You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown. Most recently, Sampson reset Ray Cooney’s London-based Out of Order in the cut-throat politics of Washington, D.C. to universal acclaim.
CONTEMPORARY MUSIC LAB
Resonating Voices
HEADLINES
Alina Shevtsova and George Shukaylo ’15
Shuwang (Roderick) Zhang ’15
Marcel Johnson ’15, Alexander (Loy) Durrant ’14 and Innes Miller ’15
The Winter Music Showcase offers the community the chance to see and listen to what Music Director Kyle Masterson’s Contemporary Performance Lab has been rehearsing all fall. It also provides a stage for a farewell of sorts as NHS watches seniors sing and play in the last winter performances of their careers. This year, we bid goodbye to Marcel Johnson, Innes Miller, Jill Adams, David Fu. Their sounds live on in individual tracks at www. newhampton.org/mediagallery or in full-length at www.youtube.com/ watch?v=YfzU1FLa9-k.
INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM
International Night Returning students and faculty know a secret they’re reluctant to share: arrive early to dinner on International Night. The food, always a highlight, disappears quickly onto the plates of those in the know. After the student-prepared buffet, the school community retires to McEvoy Theater for performances running the spectrum from K-Pop to classical Chinese dance. The grace and command of the artists belies the hours of preparation that make the night a favorite on the School’s calendar.
OVERHEARD
“I was interested in the role that the body plays in the processes of artistic making, self-discovery, and grief. As a writing material, vellum (calf skin) requires that you literally write onto another body, and made me think about the ways in which we look for signs, answers, and even consolation in the physical.” –CHELSEA WOODARD, ENGLISH TEACHER, AUTHOR OF VELLUM
ANNUAL FUND
The Sun Never Sets As their Class Gift, the graduating seniors of 2014 donated four clocks to the Meservey restoration. Set to the local times of the cosmopolitan cities of Beijing, Moscow, Rome and New Hampton, the clocks represent the global citizens in our current student and alumni bodies. WINTER 2015 • HAMPTONIA 13