BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Drupal iCal API//EN X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York X-LIC-LOCATION:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZNAME:EDT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 DTSTART:20240310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZNAME:EST TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 DTSTART:20231105T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:event.910570.www.amherst.edu DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240418T160000 SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240418T173000 LOCATION:Buckley Recital Hall SUMMARY:M@A Masterclass: Ray Chen CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Music at Amherst artist Ray Chen works with student on their cr aft.\nFREE\, open to the public:\n\nJason Kang '25\, violin\, Bach Chaconn e in D minor from the Second\nPartita BWV 1004Cassandra Jin ’24\, violin \, and Oren Tirchwell ’25\,\n‘cello: Kodály's Duo for Violin and Cell o\, mvt. 3 Zhihan Xu ’24\,\nviolin\, and Christian Pattavina ‘24\, pi ano: Beethoven’s\n“Spring” Sonata\, mvt. 1 \n    DTSTAMP:20240416T135724Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:event.891729.www.amherst.edu DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240419T193000 SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240419T193000 LOCATION:Buckley Recital Hall SUMMARY:M@A Presents: Ray Chen\, violin CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Ray Chen is a violinist who redefines what it is to be a classi cal\nmusician in the 21st century. With a media presence that enhances and \ninspires the classical audience and reaches out to millions through\nhis unprecedented online following\, his remarkable musicianship\ntransmits t o a global audience. This is reflected in his engagements\nwith the foremo st orchestras and concert halls around the world. \n\nProgram: \n\n Sonata in G minor “Devil’s Trill” (arr. Kreisler) -Giuseppe\nTartini (1692–1770) \n\nViolin Sonata No. 7 in C minor\, Op. 30 No. 2- Ludwig van Beethoven\n(1770–1827)--Allegro con brio --Adagio cantabile --Sche rzo.\nAllegro --Finale. Allegro–Presto \n\nINTERMISSION \n\nPartita N o. 3 in E major for Solo Violin\, BWV 1006- Johann Sebastian\nBach (1685 –1750) \n\nPreludio Loure Gavotte en Rondeau Menuet I & Menuet II Bourr ee Gigue\nLa Ronde des Lutins\, Op. 25- Antonio Bazzini (1818-1897) \n\nS lavonic Dance No. 2 in E minor\, Op. 72 (arr. Kreisler)- Antonin\nDvorak ( 1841–1904)\n\nSpain (arr. Elizalde & Chen)- Chick Corea (1941–2021) \ n\nTickets are available as part of the Music@Amherst 2023-2024\nsubscript ion packages\, via the ticketing website listed below\, from\nAug. 22 unti l Sept. 14. FREE with current AC ID. Single tickets are\nalso available at amherst.universitytickets.com beginning Friday\,\nApril 5. Assigned seati ng. \n\nSingle ticket prices: --General Public: $28 --Senior Citizens ( 65+):\n$22 --Students\, with valid ID: $12 --FREE with current Amherst\n College ID\n DTSTAMP:20240416T135724Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:event.910303.www.amherst.edu DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240420T130000 SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240420T140000 LOCATION:Arms Music Center\, 3 SUMMARY:Studio Recital: Students of Sarah Briggs\, Violin CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Emilie Ward (‘27) Bach\, Sonata 2\, Grave\; Mikiko Suga (‘2 7) Bach\,\nPartita 3\, Giga\; Skyler Lee (‘27) Wieniawski\, Polonaise Br illante\nNo. 1\; Kevin Hwang (‘26) Vaughan Williams\, The Lark Ascending \;\nGiovanna da Silva (‘26) Folk songs\; Claire Beougher (‘26) Bach\,\ nConcerto for Two violins\, Largo\, ma non tanto \; Yajie Wang (‘26)\nBa ch\, Minuet 1\; Megan Huang (‘25) Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto\,\nCanzone tta\; Tara Alahakoon (‘25) Bloch\, Baal Shem 1. Vidui\;\nAlexandra Olson (‘25) Bloch\, Baal Shem 2. Nigun\; Francisca Abdo\nArias (‘24) Dvorak Sonatina\; Grace Lee (‘24) Wieniawski Concerto\n#2\, Romance\; Cassandr a Jin (‘24) with guest cellist Oren Tirschwell\n(‘25) Kodály Duo.\n DTSTAMP:20240416T135724Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:event.906690.www.amherst.edu DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240420T190000 SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240420T200000 LOCATION:Buckley Recital Hall SUMMARY:Choral Society Concert: \"Seeking Light: music of life and the\naft erlife\" CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Featuring the Amherst College Glee Club and Concert Choir direc ted by\nDr. Arianne Abela\, with guest artist\, Haitham Haidar\, the perfo rmance\nincludes world premiere of new choral work Ma Ziltu Hayyan by\nJor danian-Palestinian-Canadian composer\, Shireen Abu-Khader and world\npremi ere of a new choral work by Mt. Holyoke choral director\, Colin\nBritt. Th e performance will close with Amherst college songs to honor\nour graduati ng seniors. \n\nDoors open half an hour before the concert. Seating is by general\nadmission. FREE\, and open to the public. \n DTSTAMP:20240416T135724Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:event.907665.www.amherst.edu DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240423T170000 SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240423T180000 LOCATION:Arms Music Center\, 3 SUMMARY:All-Studio Performance Recital CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Students enrolled in private music lessons present recent work in\nprogress. Open to the public.\n DTSTAMP:20240416T135724Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:event.908760.www.amherst.edu DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240428T153000 SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240428T163000 LOCATION:Aliki Perroti & Seth Frank Lyceum\, 101 SUMMARY:Five College Ethnomusicology Certificate Celebration CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Join the Five College Ethnomusicology community in celebrating our\ngraduating seniors\, Jules Padro (Smith College) and Ruby Shea (Smith \nCollege). Following short presentations of their work\, Nick Seaver\n(As sistant Professor of Anthropology\, Tufts University) will deliver a\ntalk entitled PARKS AND RECOMMENDATION: CARE AND CONTROL IN\nALGORITHMIC SYSTE MS\n\nReception to follow. FREE and open to the public.\n  DTSTAMP:20240416T135724Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:event.908959.www.amherst.edu DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240429T190000 SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240429T200000 LOCATION:Arms Music Center\, 7 SUMMARY:Jazz Combo Concert CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Amherst College student jazz musicians offer a night of jazz pe rformed\nby student combos. The combos are small groups of musicians who a re\ndedicated to studying the great jazz artists and carrying on their\nle gacy by making innovative journeys into improvisation and\nsmall-group pla ying. This prepares the group for life after college by\nexposing the comb o to standard charts\,  jazz improvisation\,\ntechniques and theory\, whi le encouraging each to create their own\nsound through tune selection\, ar rangement and use of original\ncompositions. FREE and open to the public.  \n DTSTAMP:20240416T135724Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:event.908961.www.amherst.edu DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240501T190000 SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240501T200000 LOCATION:Arms Music Center\, 7 SUMMARY:Jazz Combo Concert CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Amherst College student jazz musicians offer a night of jazz pe rformed\nby student combos. The combos are small groups of musicians who a re\ndedicated to studying the great jazz artists and carrying on their\nle gacy by making innovative journeys into improvisation and\nsmall-group pla ying. This prepares the group for life after college by\nexposing the comb o to standard charts\,  jazz improvisation\,\ntechniques and theory\, whi le encouraging each to create their own\nsound through tune selection\, ar rangement and use of original\ncompositions. FREE and open to the public.  \n\n \n DTSTAMP:20240416T135724Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:event.891713.www.amherst.edu DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240503T193000 SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240503T193000 LOCATION:Buckley Recital Hall SUMMARY:M@A Presents: Samora Pinderhughes\, Singer-Songwriter CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Samora Pinderhughes is a composer\, pianist/vocalist\, interdis ciplinary\nartist and surrealist whose work delves into all the things our \nsociety tries to hide—about its history\, about its structures\, and\n about the individual and daily things we all experience but don’t\nknow how to talk about. His primary body of work\, The Healing Project\,\nis an extension of the political commitments that Samora has held\nthroughout h is life and work: abolitionist\, anti-capitalist\,\nanti-colonialist\, int ernationalist\, pro-Black power\, intersectional\,\nrevolutionary. Pinderh ughes has been known in the music world for a\nwhile now as somebody who i s fiercely committed to the fight for\nliberation\, and as somebody who go es past just making songs about\nissues and is actively involved in the st ruggle—it’s an everyday\,\nlifelong commitment for him\, not just a mo ment. Tickets are available\nas part of the Music@Amherst 2023-2024 subscr iption packages\, via the\nticketing website listed below\, from August 22 until Sept. 14. FREE\nwith current AC ID. Single tickets are also availab le at\namherst.universitytickets.com beginning\,Friday\, Sept. 15. General \nSeating. Single ticket prices: General Public: $28 Senior Citizens\n(65+ ): $22 Students\, with valid ID: $12 FREE with current Amherst\nCollege ID \n DTSTAMP:20240416T135724Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:event.894960.www.amherst.edu DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240504T190000 SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240504T204500 LOCATION:Buckley Recital Hall SUMMARY:ASO Season Finale: Mahlers Third Symphony CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:For the finale of the Amherst Symphony Orchestra's 2024 spring season\,\nthe ASO tackles the behemoth Third Symphony of Gustav Mahler.  This\nwork takes the audience on a philosophical as well as musical journe y\,\nfrom the primordial soup of Earth's depths to the highest pinnacles o f\nhuman love.  With an enormous orchestra\, six movements\, two choirs\n and an operatic soloist\, Mahler's maximalist masterpiece is an\nuplifting celebration of \"What the World Teaches Us\" and a triumphant\nculminatio n to the season.  Ann McMahon Quintero\, a leading\nmezzo-soprano with Bo ston Baroque\, major symphony orchestras\, and\nopera houses around the wo rld\, appears as guest soloist with the ASO.\n DTSTAMP:20240416T135724Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:event.894961.www.amherst.edu DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240525T200000 SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240525T213000 SUMMARY:Choral Society Commencement Concert CLASS:PUBLIC DTSTAMP:20240416T135724Z END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR