News & Events 04/2000

April 20, 2000 Director of Media Relations 413/542-8417 AMHERST, Mass.—Storytellers from across the country will spin their tales at the eighth annual Keepers of the Word Storytelling Festival, a day-long event on Saturday, April 29, in the Keefe Campus Center Frontroom at Amherst College. Performances are scheduled for 10 a.m., 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. This year’s nationally known storytellers are Onawumi Jean Moss, Carmen Deedy, Nina Jaffe, Patricia and Frederick McKissack, and Robert Kikuchi–Yngojo and Nancy Wong (Eth–Noh–Tec).

April 20, 2000
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AMHERST, Mass.— The Amherst College Madrigal Singers will present a concert of Renaissance music on Saturday, May 6, at 8 p.m. in the Octagon at Amherst College. The concert is free and open to the public. Refreshments will follow.

The Madrigal Singers will offer a program that includes songs by Thomas Morley, Francis Pilkington, Thomas Weelkes and Billy Joel, among others. The singers will be conducted by Denise Steele ’02.

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April 20, 2000Director of Media Relations 413/542-8417 AMHERST, Mass.—The Tserma String Quartet will present a concert of chamber works of on Saturday, May 6, at 3 p.m. in Johnson Chapel at Amherst College. The concert is free and open to the public. The ensemble will play an all Russian program: the First String Quartet (Opus 11) of Tchaikovsky and the String Quartet No. 4 of Shostakovich.

April 13, 2000Director of Media Relations 413/542-8417 AMHERST, Mass.—Amherst College has appointed Reverend Leon Tilson Burrows as Protestant religious advisor to the college. Amherst will share Burrows’s services with Smith College, where he has been appointed Protestant chaplain.

April 13, 2000Director of Media Relations 413/542-8417 AMHERST, Mass.—The Moscow Conservatory Trio will present a concert featuring Beethoven’s Archduke Trio in the final concert in the Music at Amherst Series on Sunday, April 30, at 8 p.m. in Buckley Recital Hall at Amherst College.

April 13, 2000Director of Media Relations 413/542-8417 AMHERST, Mass.—A group of 30 sixth graders from the Chestnut School in Springfield, Mass. will spend a day at Amherst College on April 21 and 28. The visits will be the culmination of six weeks of work in statewide program called "Kids to College."

April 12, 2000Director of Media Relations 413/542-8417 AMHERST, Mass.—Lew Spratlan, who on Tuesday received a Pulitzer Prize in Music for his opera, Life Is a Dream, will premiere Two Orchestral Sketches in Buckley Recital Hall at 3 p.m. on Sunday, April 16. The Amherst College Orchestra, under the direction of Lanfranco Marcelletti, will perform both pieces. The concert is free and open to the public.

April 11, 2000Director of Media Relations 413/542-8417AMHERST, Mass.—Two Amherst College students, Matthew Bevers of Iowa City, Iowa, and Michael Dougan of Pelham, Mass., will receive Barry M. Goldwater Scholarships for study next year. Only 309 scholarships were awarded to undergraduate sophomores and juniors in the United States this year.

April 11, 2000Director of Media Relations 413/542-8417 AMHERST, Mass.—Jerry Cohen, a long-time colleague of César Chávez, will speak on Monday, April 17, at 7 p.m. in the Cole Assembly Room in Converse Hall at Amherst College. He will discuss "César Chávez: Non-Violence and the Politics of Race." The talk is free and open to the public.

April 11, 2000Director of Media Relations 413/542-8417AMHERST, Mass.—"Una Velada Criolla," a gala evening of arts, music, poetry and video to help raise funds for the victims of last winter’s terrible floods in Venezuela, will be held at Buckley Recital Hall at Amherst College on Thursday, April 20, at 6 p.m. The event is free, although donations of $5 for the flood victims are encouraged. Venezuelan food and beverages will be available.

April 10, 2000Director of Media Relations 413/542-8417 AMHERST, Mass.-Amherst College will receive $700,000 for undergraduate science education from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI), the nation's largest private supporter of science education from elementary school through postdoctoral studies.

April 10, 2000Director of Media Relations 413/542-8417AMHERST, Mass.—Blair Kamin, the Pulitzer Prize-winning architecture critic at the Chicago Tribune and a 1979 graduate of Amherst College, will speak about "Activist Criticism and the Inescapable Art" on Wednesday, April 12, at 4:15 p.m. in Room 202 of Fayerweather Hall. His talk is free and the public is invited.

April 10, 2000Director of Media Relations 413/542-8417 AMHERST, Mass.—The Amherst College Concert Choir will present "Matters of the Heart," on Saturday, April 29, at 8 p.m. in Buckley Recital Hall. The concert is free and the public is invited. The choir, directed by Mallorie Chernin, will perform a program that includes madrigals of Monteverdi, El Arbor del Arvido of Ginastera, The Water is Wide, arranged Yumiko Matsuoka, and Psalm 116: Das ist mir Lieb, by Heinrich Schütz.

April 10, 2000Director of Media Relations 413/542-8417AMHERST, Mass.—Lewis Spratlan, Peter R. Pouncey Professor of Music at Amherst College, has received the 2000 Pulitzer Prize in music for his composition, Life is a Dream, Opera in Three Acts: Act Two, Concert Version, which received its world premiere at Amherst in January.

April 10, 2000
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AMHERST, Mass.—The Amherst College Women’s Chorus will present its annual Spring Concert, "Music of the World," on Friday, April 28, at 8 p.m. in Buckley Recital Hall. The concert is free and the public is invited.

The chorus, directed by Mallorie Chernin, will perform a program that includes music of di Lasso, Morley, Duruflé, Casals and Poulenc. Nikki Stoia will be the guest pianist. The assistant conductor is Mara Levi ’99.

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