Gesualdo: Rebel or Rogue?
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Gesualdo: Rebel or Rogue?
February 6, 2012 – 6:00 am | No Comment

Carlo Gesualdo was a prince and landholder in Venosa in southeastern Italy. Around 1588 his wife began an affair with a gentleman in the vicinity. In 1590 Gesualdo, found the pair in bed together, stabbed them both, and hung their corpses in front of his castle for all to see. The story was retold repeatedly by poets of the day in a sixteenth-century equivalent of headline news. Was Gesualdo really a renegade as well as a murderer? Was he even a “modernist” of his time?

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Come Visit UMS at Festifall!

Submitted by on September 8, 2010 – 12:26 pmNo Comment

Students, are you interested in live jazz, theater, classical music, and dance? Do you like cheap tickets??          

UMS at Festifall

Come visit the UMS table at Festifall (on the Diag, in front of the library) to get information on all of our incredible student ticket programs, inlcuding $10 Rush Tickets and the Fall Half Price Sale! 

As a student, you can experience the world’s best live music, dance, and theater right here on campus — all at discounted prices!

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