Arts News from the Chronicles

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New Zimdars recording

All proceeds from Sunday's CD sales go to the Hugh Hodgson School of Music Scholarship Fund. The album may also be purchased from Zimdars' Amazon page. Kudos on a fantastic career onstage and in the classroom, and congratulations to one of our best.
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Dodd MFA Exit 2015

We practice and teach professional ambition throughout the Franklin College, and nowhere more vigorously than in the Lamar Dodd School of Art. Students work hard to develop their sense of expectation for themselves and set their professional goals accordingly. But no matter what our faculty (and…
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Slingshot Festival

The third annual Slingshot festival got off to a rousing start last night and the action continues through Saturday: Musical highlights of the festival will include DJ sets by James Murphy of LCD Soundsystem and DJ Windows 98 (Win Butler of Arcade Fire) as well as performances by Jamie XX, Nosaj…
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Ambartsumian named Regents Professor

It is with great pleasure that we join in celebration of the naming of Franklin Professor of Violin Levon Ambartsumian as a Regents Professor: Regents Professorships are bestowed by the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia on faculty members whose scholarship or creative activity is…
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Keith Wilson exhibition, lecture, tour

In addition to his lecture, Wilson will give interpretive tours of the School of Art building on River Road March 26 at 6 p.m. The tours—known as the Cave and Mountain Tours, in which he describes as performances where he adopts the persona of a tour guide—are meant to create new relationships to…