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Spring Dance Concert

Always a sold-out event, the Spring Dance Concert features exciting new choreography by Smith College students and special faculty/alumnae projects. Smith Dance welcomes guest choreographer and Smith alumna Megan Bonneau McCool. We recommend reserving tickets early as space is limited.

For more information:
  Tel.:  413.585.ARTS

 

Thursday-Saturday,
April 3-5,

8:00 p.m.
Hallie Flannigan Studio Theatre

Tickets: $9 general public, $5 students/seniors.

Master Class with Lucy Shelton

Distinguished American soprano Lucy Shelton, the only artist to receive the International Walter W. Naumburg Award twice, as a soloist and as a chamber musician, has performed repertoire from Bach to Boulez in major recital, chamber, and orchestral venues throughout the world. She is highly acclaimed as an interpreter of new music.

Lucy Shelton will present a Master Class on Saturday April 5 in Earle Recital Hall 3-5 pm. She will work with a select number of Smith College senior voice students. This event is free and open to the public.

 

Saturday, April 5

3:00 p.m.
Earle Recital Hall, Sage Hall.
Free.

Music in the Noon Hour

Music of Brahms. Ronald Gorevic, viola; Matthias Naegele, cello; Judith Gordon, piano.
NOTE: Green Street will be closed on 4/8 due to construction, but Sage Hall and the concert can be accessed via College Lane.

 

Tuesday, April 8

12:30 p.m.
Sweeney Concert Hall, Sage Hall.
Free.

Arts and Technology Performance Event with Reception and Discussion with Artists

This performance event, produced by the Smith College Arts and Technology Program, will feature interactive electronic music performances by composer/improviser Curtis Bahn (eSitar / eDilruba), and sound/media artist Thomas Ciufo (various computer-extended instruments) as well as a performance of 'MELT' created by Lostwax Dance Theatre. MELT is a multimedia dance work that explores the encounter between Tibetan Buddhist iconography and contemporary technology, to reveal a language of idiosyncratic movement in an interactive installation of music, hieroglyph, and ice. Reception and discussion with artists immediately follow the event.

For more information:
  Web: www.smith.edu/smitharts
  Tel.:  413.585.ARTS

 

Friday,
April 11

7:00 p.m.
Hallie Flannigan Studio Theatre, Mendenhall Center.
Free.


Shanghai Quartet

Music in Deerfield and the Smith College Music Department present the Shanghai Quartet in a program featuring Haydn's Quartet, Op. 77, No. 1, Zhou Long's "Song of the Ch'in", Beethoven's Quartet, Op. 132.

For more information:
  Web: www.musicindeerfield.org
  Tel.: (413) 774-4200

 

Saturday, April 12

Pre-concert conversation: 7:00 p.m.
Earle Recital Hall, Sage Hall.

Concert: 8:00 p.m.
Sweeney Concert Hall, Sage Hall

Tickets: $25-$30 in advance, $32 at the door; $9 students/children

Spring Choral Concert

The annual spring concert by the Smith College choral ensembles. Jonathan Hirsh and Ryan Brandau, directors. Program TBA.

 

Sunday, April 13

4:00 p.m.
Sweeney Concert Hall, Sage Hall.
Free.

Senior Dance Concert

Department of Dance seniors present original choreography for their final projects.

For more information:
  Tel.:  413.585.ARTS

 

Thursday-Saturday,
April 17-19,

April 17 & 18: 8:00 p.m.
April 19: 2:00 p.m.
Scott Dance Studio

Tickets: $7 general public, $5 students/seniors.

Theatre Festival of One-Act Plays

Smith Theatre presents three new plays by award-winning playwrights in its first, fully-produced one-act play festival. The plays chosen have important social and personal themes, palpable and moving subtexts, and vividly drawn characters and situations. Two of the three were this past springs Five College Denis Johnston Prize winners- Smith College senior Rachel Lerner-Ley's Winter Requiem, directed by Erica Cormier '08,  taking first, and Hampshire College senior Darren Harneds Ephemera, directed by Lisa Wall, ACS, taking second. Ms. Lerney-Ley also was a finalist and a semi-finalist in The National Young Playwrights Competition. Mr. Harneds Ephemera was accepted into the 32nd Annual Samuel French Off-Off Broadway Original Short Play Festival. The third play chosen was Isosceles, by Lynne S. Brandon, Smith College MFA Candidate in Playwriting, directed by Emily Hiltzik. Her monologue Bare Chested was selected for the Short Attention Span PLAYFEST presented by Atlantis Playmakers in Lowell, Mass,. and her short play, She Doth Protest, for the NoHo Playwrights Lab reading.

For more information:
  Web: www.smith.edu/smitharts
  Tel.:  413.585.ARTS

 

Thursday-Saturday,
April 17-19

Wednesday-Saturday,
April 23-26

8:00 p.m.

Theatre 14, Mendenhall Center.

Tickets: $8 general public, $5 seniors/students; April 23 is dollar night for Smith students

Spring Orchestra Concert

The annual spring concert by the Smith College Orchestra, featuring performances by this year’s Concerto Competition winners, Molly Gibson, ’09, violin; Arianne Abela, ’08, soprano; and Victoria Fraser, ’10, soprano. Also works by Mozart, Carlisle, Floyd, and others. Jonathan Hirsh, director.

 

Friday, April 18

8:00 p.m.
Sweeney Concert Hall, Sage Hall.
Free.

Jazz & Wind Ensembles Spring Concert

The annual spring concert by the Smith College Jazz and Wind Ensembles. Program TBA. Genevieve Rose and Ellen Redman, directors.

 

Monday, April 21

7:00 p.m.
Sweeney Concert Hall, Sage Hall.
Free.

Spring Gamelan Concert

A program of traditional Javanese music.

 

Wednesday, April 23

8:00 p.m.
Earle Recital Hall, Sage Hall.
Free.

Student Composers Concert

Featuring works composed by Smith College music students.

 

Sunday, April 27

8:00 p.m.
Earle Recital Hall, Sage Hall.
Free.

Wailing Banshees Spring Concert

Enjoy the best craic on campus with a concert of traditional and contemporary Celtic music featuring jigs, reels and songs from Ireland and beyond.

 

Monday, April 28

7:00 p.m.
Earle Recital Hall, Sage Hall.
Free.

M A Y    

In this Skin: First-Year Grad Dance Concert

An evening of new works by the first-year graduate students in dance. Audra Carabetta, Jillian Grunnah, and Lona Lee present a kinesthetic exploration of human relationships, behavior, and communication.

For more information:
  Tel.:  413.585.ARTS

 

Friday,
May 2,

8:00 p.m.
Scott Dance Studio, Scott Gymnasium
Free.

Voces Feminae Spring Concert

Baroque and Renaissance music for women’s voices. The program will featre music of Jewish composers and traditions and pieces based on the Old Testament. Catherine Bell, director.

 

Saturday, May 3

4:00 p.m.
Sweeney Concert Hall, Sage Hall.
Free.

Euridice Ensembles Spring Concert

Baroque chamber music for strings, winds, and voices performed by the students and faculty of the Five College Early Music Program. Featuring music by Purcell, Monteverdi, Telemann, and others. Robert Eisenstein, director.

 

Saturday, May 3

7:00 p.m.
Sweeney Concert Hall, Sage Hall.
Free.

Piano Recital: Bogdan Dulu

A piano recital by award-winning Romanian pianist Bogdan Dulu. Sponsored by the Ernst Wallfisch Memorial Scholarship Fund.

 

Sunday, May 11

4:00 p.m.
Sweeney Concert Hall, Sage Hall.
Free.

An Evening of Jazz

Featuring  Laila Plamondon, vocals, Jerry Noble, piano, Bob Sparkman, clarinet and Genevieve Rose, bass.

 

Thursday, May 15

8:00 p.m.
Sweeney Concert Hall, Sage Hall.
Free.

Commencement Show: Theatre Festival of One-Act Plays

Smith Theatre presents the three award-winning plays featured in the April production for our Commencement and Reunion attendees, for those who missed the first presentation, and for all who want to see these wonderful plays again.

For more information:
  Web: www.smith.edu/smitharts
  Tel.:  413.585.ARTS

 

Thursday-Saturday,
May 15-17

8:30 p.m.
Theatre 14, Mendenhall Center.

Tickets: $8 general public, $5 seniors/students

Commencement Chamber Music Concert

Featuring chamber music performed by Smith College seniors.

 

Friday, May 16

3:00 p.m.
Earle Recital Hall, Sage Hall.
Free.

Commencement Choral Concert

Featuring the Smith College Glee Club and and the a cappella group Groove performing works chosen by the graduating class. Jonathan Hirsh, director.

 

Saturday, May 17

12:30 p.m.
Sweeney Concert Hall, Sage Hall.
Free.

Commencement Orchestra Concert

Featuring the Smith College Orchestra and soloists from the senior class. Jonathan Hirsh, director.

 

Saturday, May 17

8:00 p.m.
Sweeney Concert Hall, Sage Hall.
Free.

     
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