A piano, a notebook, and an assortment of musical styles and talented friends marks a singularity in Laura Fisher's music. Fisher, a New Jersey native, is currently a junior studying at Marymount Manhattan College in New York City. She is pursuring a dual major in Psychology and Communications.
For West Chester University students Nathan Diehl and Andrew Smith, love for music started at an early age. Now they are taking their passion for music and creating West Chester's first all-male acappella group. Diehl (class of 2013) is a music education percussion major and Smith (class of 2012) is a music education voice major.
An evening of Shakespeare sounds wholly academic and (in some cases) frightening to most University students not willingly- immersed in literature or theater. The reading of prose and "olde-fashioned" language is connotatively determined as difficult to understand and as attractive to decipher as the scrawled note on one's car apologizing for denting the back bumper.
"If you lose it tonight, your career is over," warned Simon Cowell to visibly nervous contestants on American Idol Wednesday night. The top 24 contestants performed live for the first time last week and, while some individuals are taking an early lead, four contestants have already had their dreams destroyed.
As a huge soccer fan, both playing intramural league soccer and attending both men and women soccer games, junior Mike Sheehan shows the same exact love for music. The Boiling Springs native and soccer fanatic has a 6 p.m. to 8p.m. slot every Wednesday on WCUR playing a wide range of variety music.