Family Duo — the Brothers Flint

Sophomore Cory Flint directs a group of students performing the score he and his brother, cellist Toby, composed.
(photos by Chuck Grimmett/Collegian)

Sophomores Cory and Toby Flint, composed the 35 minute original score to last week's "King Stag." Opinions editor Betsy Woodruff took us into the orchestra pit to hear their music.

Cory directs "Smeraldina's Theme":

Although the brothers from Omaha, Neb. are both sophomores, Woodruff said that Toby is more than a year younger than Cory. One year Toby decided to do eighth grade in the summer, he said.



Both play cello in the Hillsdale College orchestra and compose music together, including a score for an iPhone application they created last year.

"Gavotte"

To read more about the brothers and their work on "King Stag" go here for Woodruff's article. To hear more original music, visit their Myspace here.

DIY Puppets

(photos by Sally Nelson/Collegian)

For last week's production of "King Stag," senior Kirsty Sadler constructed more than two dozen puppets. Some of these puppets were the size of a small car. Sadler said she studied the animals she was duplicating to understand how their joints affected their movement. Copy Editor Patrick Timmis found out what a step-by-step process of creation looked like for one of Sadler's bird puppets.

1. Sadler sewed a small cucumber-shaped pillow and painted it red.

2. She laid out the feathers — which had been individually trimmed for balance and symmetry — in the wing pattern.


3. She sewed the feathers into small white wings made from cloth and pillow stuffing.

She attached the wings to the cucumber body.

5. Sadler attached a feather tail and connected the finished bird to a fishing pole with fishing wire. The bird can be manipulated to flap its wings.


Sadler's birds soared from fishing lines above audience members as well as through the set and one heron even jaunted across the stage on its spindly legs. To read Timmis' article about the puppets go here. To read a review of the play itself, go here.