The Hunter Envoy

Hunter Reinvents The Threepenny Opera

Wed, 28 Apr 2010 08:00:00 GMT

Who says art has to be beautiful? Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill's The Threepenny Opera shows audiences that "art isn't nice." Instead, The Threepenny Opera provides biting and cynical social criticism designed to provoke an unsettled audience. Jonathan Jeremiah Peachum (Brett Warwick) and his wife, Celia (Jillian Stevens), are essentially lords of the impoverished, urban underworld of New York City (London in the original text).

Listen Up!

Wed, 28 Apr 2010 08:00:00 GMT

OUT NOW Vampire Weekend - "Contra" The innovative Columbia University alums turn from cutesy indie-pop to a serious consideration for greatness on their second release. Yeasayer - "Odd Blood" The Brooklyn-based experimentalists' sophomore effort; an acid-soaked dance party, channeling New Wave, Animal Collective, and something purely their own.

Nobel Prize Winning Poet Speaks at Hunter College

Wed, 28 Apr 2010 08:00:00 GMT

There was an inevitable air of formality at the Seamus Heaney ceremony and reading on Wednesday, April 21 in Hunter College's North Building Assembly Hall.

Heaney, who won the Nobel Prize in 1995, is one of contemporary poetry's most renowned and auspiciously gifted figures.