Slam Poets Jared Paul and Sage Francis to Perform at Amherst College’s Mead Art Museum March 25

March 16, 2010

AMHERST, Mass.—On Thursday, March 25, at 8 p.m., the MeadArt Museum at AmherstCollege will host a reading by slam poets Jared Paul and Sage Francis in the North Fairchild Gallery.

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Jared Paul
Maxwell Suechting '11
Sage Francis
Michael Harrington
North Fairchild Gallery

Jerry Greenfield, Co-Founder of Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream, to Speak at Amherst College March 25

March 8, 2010                                               

AMHERST, Mass.—On Thursday, March 25, at 8 p.m. in the Freidmann Room of Amherst College’s KeefeCampusCenter, Jerry Greenfield, co-founder of Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream, will deliver a talk titled “How Ice Cream Changed the World.”

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Jerry Greenfield
Ben & Jerry's Homemade

University of Texas Philosopher Anna Sara Malmgren to Discuss “Warrant Preservation and Testimony” at Amherst College March 25

March 10, 2010

AMHERST, Mass.— On Thursday, March 25, at 4:30 p.m. in Pruyne Lecture Hall of Amherst College’s Fayerweather Hall, University of Texas at Austin philosophy professor Anna Sara Malmgren will present the final lecture in the 2009-2010 Forry Lecture Series on “The Philosophy and Science of Testimony.”

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Anna Sara Malmgren
Warrant Preservation and Testimony

American and European Art of the 1950s and 60s from the Collection of Richard Zeisler ’37 on Display at the Mead Art Museum

March 26, 2010
Contact: Karen Cardinal
Accounting, Web and Marketing Manager, Mead Art Museum
413/542-2551

AMHERST, Mass.—On Friday, March 26, AmherstCollege’s MeadArt Museum will open an installation of works on paper, paintings and sculptures of the 1950s and 60s donated and bequeathed from the collection of Richard S. Zeisler, a member of the college’s Class of 1937.

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Bettina Jungen
Richard S. Zeisler

So Percussion To Perform 2009 Pulitzer Prize-Winning Composer’s New Work at Amherst College March 27

March 2, 2010
Contact: Sara R. Leonard
Concert and Production Manager
413/542-2195

AMHERST, Mass. – The inaugural season of the Music at Amherst Parallels Series continues with a performance by So Percussion on Saturday, March 27, at 8 p.m. in Buckley Recital Hall in the ArmsMusicCenter at AmherstCollege.

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Steve Reich
Parallels Series
So Percussion
Dan Trueman
Steve Mackey

Senior Music Majors’ Original Choral Works to be Performed at Amherst College March 28

March 8, 2010
Contact: Sara R. Leonard
Concert and Production Manager
413/542-2195

AMHERST, Mass. – The Amherst College Department of Music will present “Missa Brevis in E minor,” a music composition thesis by senior Nathan Olson and “Requiem,” a music composition thesis by classmate Andrew Holgate on Sunday, March 28, at 8 p.m. in Buckley Recital Hall in the Arms Music Center at Amherst College.

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Nathan Olsen
Andrew Holgate

Renowned Educator Carol Tomlinson Speaks at Amherst College March 31

March 23, 2010

AMHERST, Mass. —Renowned educator and University of Virginia (UVA) education professor Carol Ann Tomlinson will discuss “Teaching Today’s Students: A Case for Differentiated Instruction” on Wednesday, March 31, at 7:30 p.m. in the Babbott of Amherst College’s Octagon. The event, which is free and open to the public, is sponsored by the Amherst’s Office of the President.

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Carol Ann Tomlinson

Music at Amherst Series to Host 325th Birthday Bash for Bach with Grammy-Nominated Violinist Jennifer Koh March 31

March 9, 2010
Contact: Sara R. Leonard
Concert and Production Manager
413/542-2195

 

AMHERST, Mass. – The Amherst College Department of Music will present Grammy-nominated violinist Jennifer Koh’s “Bach and Beyond” concert in celebration of Johann Sebastian Bach’s 325th birthday on Wednesday, March 31.

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Bach and Beyond
Jennifer Koh
Ysaye
Saariaho
Salonen