Alphabets From Clay Tablet to Photo at Chapin Library
WILLIAMSTOWN Mass. A Chapin Library exhibit features rare materials tracing alphabets from non Roman scripts to modern types. Items include cuneiform on clay, Egyptian hieroglyphs on papyrus, Greek fragments, Hebrew parchment, Arabic on cloth, and Tamil Upanishads on Palmyra leaves. A second group covers Roman and Greek handwritten and printed alphabets with multiple examples.
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Williamstown
Mass
Chapin
Williams College
Palmyra
Exhibition on historic alphabets at Stetson Hall library
The display showcases medieval to modern alphabets and printing art. It features Latin and polyglot Bibles, early typography, and type design by Zehner and Zapf, plus photo composition samples and wood type broadsides. The exhibition runs daily 9 12 and 1 2, Saturdays 9 12, second floor of Stetson Hall through May 26.
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Pliny
Jenson
Breydenbach
Terraro
Spain
Paccioli
Tory
Palatino
Durer
Bickham
Fournier
Bok
England
Scandinavia
Germany
France
Holland
United States
Victor Hammer
Rudolf Koch
Hermann Zapf
the Grabborns
Bruce Rogers
Erle Gill
Ben Shahn
Europe
David Kindersley
Cambridge
Rob Roy Kelly
William G. Gilger II
Cleveland
Stetson Hall
Maigret Trio: Final Adventures of the Paris Inspector
Richard H. Groward reviews a three volume set of Maigret novels by Simenon, noting it marks the late career of Jules Maigret and compares the work to classic detective literature. The piece praises Simenon’s surgical clarity in exploring greed and jealousy and his Paris as vivid as a travel book.
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Flotion
Jules Maigret
Paris
America
France
Maigret
Simenon
Sam Spade
Philip Marlowe
Sherlock Hien Elke
Andre’ Gide
Graham Greene
Chateau Lafite- Rothschild
Edgar Allen Poe
Richard H. Groward
Star Spangled Girl benefit theater in Bennington tonight
Oldcastle Players rehearse Neil Simon comedy Star Spangled Girl for a public benefit at St Joseph College Old Bennington tonight at 8 30. Advance tickets 3 available at the door and by reservation via McCullough Mansion Association 442 2747.
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Oldcastle Players
Bennington
New York City
Neil Simon
Hmne
St. Joseph College
Old Bennington
MecCullough Mansion Association
McCullough Mansion Association
Oldcastle
Christine Graham
WBIN
Middlebury College Choir to tour five states ending at Town Hall NYC
The Middlebury College Choir and Chamber Ensemble under Emory Fanning will close a four state tour with a Town Hall New York City performance at 8 p.m. on April 7. The 60 member ensemble, noted for its repertoire from Sweelinck to Bach, has toured Boston and Washington and recorded for Capitol Records.
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Middlebury
Middlebury College
District of Columbia
Town Hall
New York City
Emory ‘Fanning
Mid- Webury
Boston
Washington
Capitol Records
Montpelier
Vermont College
Church of the Covenant
Newbury
Berkeley Streets
Mass
Edwards
University of Rhode Island
Kingston
Ral
Yale Divinity School
New Haven
Fanning
James $. Rugen
Stafford Springs
Conn
Emory M. Fanning
Trent Tall
Bruckner Symphonies Reissued In Original Form Debate
UPI reports Anton Bruckner, misrepresented by early editions, was finally issued in authentic form by Haas and Nowak. Bernard Haitink conducts the Fifth with Concertgebouw. Otto Klemperer leads Ninth with Philharmonia. Dvorak is noted for composing nine symphonies, five published in his lifetime.
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Wilbur G. Landrey
New York
UPI
Anton Bruckner
Franz Schalk
Beuckner
Ferdinand Lowe
International Society
Bruckner
Robert Haas
Leopold Nowak
Haas
Otto Klemperer
Ew Philharmonia Orchestra
Angel Records
Klamperer
Nowak
Anton Dvorak
Reathoven
Schubert
Clark Art Institute catalogs collection in new illustrated book
The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute in Williamstown publishes an illustrated 149 page list of its paintings with 422 black and white images and brief entries noting dimensions inscriptions and entry dates. A back section lists all publications by the institute and a soft bound catalog is priced at four dollars.
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Williamstown
Mass
Sterling and
Francine Clark Art Institut
Clark
Clark Art Institute
Institute
Maida
George ‘Abrams
Williams College- Park Art Institute
Franklin W. Robinson
Dartmouth College
Abrams
Exhibition of Student Paintings Opens at Union Street Gallery
An exhibition of paintings by Robert Frick students opens Monday at Union Street gallery of Southern Vermont Artists Inc. and runs through April 5 with hours 12 to 4 and free admission. weekends closed. Union and West Rutland high school plays crown two winners bound for final state meet April 27 and 28. a private Dorset Players showing of Him is set for Thursday, April 5 with public plans uncertain.
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Robert Frick
Union Street
Southern Vermont Artists Inc
Apel
Union
West Rutland High School
Dorset Players
Selections from Two Decades on Paintings by Marjorie Semerad
Visual arts exhibit at Rensselaer Newsnant Foundation Chapel and Cultural Center runs through April 22. Marjorie Semerad, associate professor of art at Russell Sage College, presents the collection in Troy New York.
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Troy
Rensselaer Newsnant Foundation
Chapel and
Marjorie Semerad
Burr and Burton students win regional theater crown
Students from Burr and Burton Seminary who won the Mt Anthony High School competition on March 21 perform tonight at Chester Green Mt Union High School at 7. ABS presents ee cummings Him in a regional clash against Mt St Joseph Brattleboro.
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Chester
Burr and Burton Seminary
Mt. Anthony High School
Chester Green Mt. Union High School
ABS
Ee. Cummings
Mt. St. Joseph
Brattleboro
Philosopher Looks at the Occult Lecture Series Kickoff
Dr AH Allmaker associate professor of philosophy at North Adams State College will give the first lecture in a three part series Philosophical Perspectives Today on occult topics at the Gov McCullough Mansion Wednesday at 8 pm Admission is free Trovert Swann will discuss land use in Lunt Trust and Community at the same venue Sunday at 2 pm Admission is free
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AH Allmaker
North Adams State College
Gov. McCullough
Trovert Swann
Lunt ‘Trust
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Robert Grichton
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Agatha Tre
Winds OF War
Berman Wauk
Atkins
Diet Revolution
Robert C. Atkins
David Halberstam
Harry
Euan
Margaret ‘Trum
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Kennéth Po O'Donnell
D Avid F. Powers
Thomas Harris
Alex Comfort
Maigret Tris
Cewres Simeses
Marcourt Bence Javanarich
Swianeoe
Ang
Care Hapgood
George. Adams Ellis
Frances Ross
Paw Grattan
Donald Hemenway
Ogden Knapp
Ethel Fonds
Imogen Norton Englehart
Albert M. Ochs
Arthur Roberts
Louis A. Isselhardt
John Brooks
Marion Smith
Philip J. O'Neill
Vermont
Massachusetts
Indiana
Sweelinck
Die Herchem
Dallapiccola
Halsey Stevens
Braums
Megsaren
Bach
Bermuda Triangle
John Wallace Spencer
Minerva Books
Monument Plaza
Jerry & Louise Frank
Manchester
Visual Arts
North Bennington
Bennington, YT
F.C.E. Dance
Barbara Tyrell
Larry Clayton
Ed Bisson
Boy — Cal
Maggie Smith
Tendels
Angio
Wonermuma
Sunta
Hell Upside Down
Fai
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