The Xavier Newswire Manami White is a violin/viola professor at Xavier who is also a world-class musician. She plays in local symphonies and chamber music orchestras. She has traveled around the world playing in countries such as England and Japan. In addition, she has been taught by famous violinists and […]

Two Xavier music students, junior Taylor Brown and senior Katie Giuliano won Cincinnati’s Got Talent, a talent competition hosted by the Cincinnati Reds on Dec. 3, 2011. Performing an arrangement done by senior Tim Graulty of Adele’s’ “Someone Like You,” Brown sang vocals while Giuliano played the harp accompaniment. Brown […]

Distance 4 Dreams (D4D) gathered the most prominent vocal performance groups on campus for a concert in the Gallagher Student Center (GSC) Theatre on Nov. 17. The event was held to raise money to grant children with lifethreatening illnesses their wishes of going to Disneyworld and drew more than a […]

Recently, Xavier Players presented Voices for Change, a theater production in which students are given the chance “to stand up and be heard,” said this year’s producer senior Jay Cusick. Presented in the small and intimate space of the Gallagher Student Center Studio Theatre, audience members were up, close and […]

The Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra (CSO) performed a series of concerts over the past two weekends entitled Russian Festival. The idea was to perform great works by Russian composers. I attended the latter of the two called Russian Voices. The two works performed at this concert were Tchaikovsky’s first symphony, “Winter […]

Presented by Redsfest, this year’s finalists of Cincinnati’s Got Talent will receive the opportunity to perform at a Cincinnati Reds 2012 home game. As of now, three Xavier students may be among those five performing. Senior Katie Giuliano and juniors Taylor Brown and Johnathan Long have been advanced to the […]

DAYTON, Ohio — Remember those reading incentive programs in elementary school where you got a free personal pan pizza for reaching a reading goal? Now that you’re in college and you can buy your own pizza, you probably need new motivation to read. Since, now that you’re in college, you […]

To the delight of citizens and visitors throughout Cincinnati, Wicked has returned to the Aranoff Center. Based on the book by Gregory Maguire, Wicked tells the backstory of The Wizard of Oz, allowing for more complex character development of and between the Wicked Witch of the West called Elphaba, and […]

Chris Kiradjeff is the assistant principle trumpet player in the Cincinnati Symphony as well as an adjunct professor of music at Xavier. Xavier Newswire: What did you do before you started teaching at Xavier? Chris Kiradjeff: I was born and raised in Cincinnati. I went to St. Xavier High School […]

Recently Patrick Clark and Britt Nygaard of the Xavier Newswire attended a prescreening of the movie The Rum Diary featuring Johnny Depp. In the spirit of fair and accurate movie reviews, here are the comic thoughts from both moviegoers. What was this movie about? Britt Nygaard: The movie focuses on […]