A cast of 23 dedicated performers has been hard at work on senior Bobby McGlynn's production "Norton," a musical set in mid-1800s San Francisco. The story focuses on the historical figure Joshua Norton, an investor who decides to proclaim himself Emperor of the United States.
Before I went to the exhibition opening of Reimagining the Distaff Toolkit and Close Encounters 2: Acts of Social Imagination (open until March 22), Megan Hancock, the administrative secretary of the Denison Museum, was kind enough to give me a tour as all of the workers were finishing the installation of the exhibit.
The worry, of course, was that Vampire Weekend's second album would sound like some other band trying really hard to sound like Vampire Weekend. There was the very real possibility that Contra would sound affected and self-conscious. Instead, thankfully, it just sounds like Vampire Weekend.