Core News: The ANIMA Ensemble Comes to Mason Gross
The ANIMA ensemble is a chamber music group based in Hong Kong, founded by conductor Vivian Ip and violinist Nina Wong Sin-I. In November they stopped by to workshop and record music with Rutgers students, as well as rehearsing for their concert at Carnegie Hall. Core DJ James Madrilejo speaks with composer and head of composition at Mason Gross, Dr. Scott Ordway, as well as two student composers at Mason Gross School of The Arts about the collaboration.
Thankfully, an incoming winter storm was not enough to scare the members of the Core community away from our Winter Vendor Fair on Saturday, January 24th.
Local vendors set up shop at the Livingston Student Center Gathering Lounge, selling an array of charming, handmade products. Whether it was beeswax lip balm sourced from the seller's own apiary, crocheted plushes, or vibrant art prints, folks found some truly unique items made carefully by local talent. All the while, people mingled, shopped, and walked about the sun-lit room as Chaka...
