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Avatar opens new dimensions for film-making
By Julie Sayo
If you haven’t seen James Cameron’s epic film Avatar, I suggest you see it now after all it is the highest grossing film in the country. Avatar won Best Film drama and Cameron won Best Director at the Academy Awards this past week. Cameron had originally planned on shooting the film in 1996 but scrapped the project after realizing that the technology of the time could not produce the film he envisioned. Fast forward to 2005 when Cameron and his crew at Weta Digital, the studio that produced special effects for King Kong and the Lord of the Rings trilogy, began the monumental project.
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Loyola Music Department
By Cathryn Dutton
Loyola University Maryland has many outstanding liberal arts programs and among these programs, is the fine arts department, home to theater, art, photography, and music. Though it is a very small part of Loyola’s culture, the music program of the fine arts department is a thriving part of the college, important to both students and faculty.
Lessons and Carols
By: Stephenie Tucker
The lights dimmed and a hush filled the air, each silent face was visible only by the light of elegant candelabras and sconces. Darkly clothed choir members entered the chapel, each with a single candle in clasped hands, and proceeded down the center aisle, stopping halfway, the director stood in front of them and suddenly a soprano voice pierced the silence with “Once in Royal David’s City, stood a lowly cattle shed…”
Lessons and Carols
by Stephenie Tucker
The lights dimmed and a hush filled the air, each silent face was visible only by the light of elegant candelabras and sconces. Darkly clothed choir members entered the chapel, each with a single candle in clasped hands, and proceeded down the center aisle, stopping halfway, the director stood in front of them and suddenly a soprano voice pierced the silence with “Once in Royal David’s City, stood a lowly cattle shed…” This was the beginning of the Loyola University Maryland’s twenty-second annual “Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols”, held in the Alumni Memorial Chapel on December 4th.
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