Notes

Stepping into the Cantor Art Gallery on a frigid February day felt a little like coming home. The quiet warmth of the gallery created a comforting and welcoming space for reflection. Almost immediately, an installation by Colleen Fitzgerald drew my attention: a large, vibrant quilt-like pattern, surrounded by smaller works that echoed its colors and… Continue reading “Memory is not a fixed recording”: Colleen Fitzgerald on Memory, Inheritance and Attachment Lessons, Catherine Rigoli ’28

The atmosphere of the Luth Concert Hall before Christine Sun Kim’s Deaf/Death was lively in ways new to me. It was quieter than any pre-show environment I’ve been in, usually filled with the quiet murmur of a crowd, occasional bursts of laughter, or an orchestra tuning up. The room was warm, not because of those… Continue reading Deaf/Death: Disability in the Age of Optimization, Tessa Patti ’26

If you can imagine dripping through space, each drop a fiery star, swirling quickly past your field of vision and into a great overwhelming unknown, then you can imagine the sensations brought about by Voyager performed by the Semiosis Quartet in Brooks Music Hall. The full program, Florescence, takes on uniquely complicated scores, beginning with… Continue reading Dripping Through Space with the Semiosis Quartet, Tessa Zafon-Whalen ’26

“Be ready for the journey”:  these were the words on posters around campus advertising Holy Cross’s recent production of Into the Woods, put on by the Department of Theatre and Dance in the Luth Concert Hall of the Prior Performing Arts Center. As a friend of many of the cast members, I already couldn’t wait… Continue reading Into the Woods: What Can We Learn? Lauren Mlicko ’26

As I walked into the Luth Concert Hall at the Prior Performing Arts Center on March 19, 2026, the amount of collective joy and human connection was already palpable amongst the audience members, chatting and dancing with one another. What unfolded in SW!NG OUT was more than a dance performance; it was a celebration of… Continue reading SW!NG IN! Connecting Through Dance, Catherine Rigoli ’28

A lonesome road stretches ahead, a perfectly-timed tumbleweed passes by. The snuffle and shuffle of a horse rocks the dust on the ground. What sort of music is on the wind? Sunny Jain, a Brooklyn-based percussionist and bandleader, offers one answer. The son of Indian immigrants, raised in Rochester, New York, Jain has inherited and… Continue reading Wild Wild East and the Character of the Cowboy, Tessa Patti ’26

Over the past ten years the Higgins Armory Museum, an iconic institution in Worcester housing thousands of medieval arms and armor, has felt like a distant memory for the city. Like many of the ghostly buildings around the city—abandoned factories, offices, stores—another beloved space fell into the past. However, all was not particularly lost when… Continue reading The Arms and Armory Galleries: New and Old Memories, Tessa Zafon-Whalen ’26

Over this past Spring Break, the Holy Cross College Choir completed a weeklong tour of Ireland, performing in some of the most historically and culturally significant venues the Emerald Isle has to offer. The Choir took twelve pieces—ranging from spirituals to movements from Vivaldi’s Gloria to traditional Irish songs—on the road, stopping in Galway, Cork,… Continue reading College Choir in the Emerald Isle, Lauren Mlicko ’26