November 2008 Events

Nov. 25th, Celebrating the 100th Birthday of Composer Elliott Carter. UMass faculty performing his works, including the Sonata for Cello & Piano. At 8:00 p.m. in Bezanson Recital Hall. For more information, please click here.

Nov.24th, Jazz Ensemble I: Still Jazz After All These Years, compositions by jazz writing graduate writing majors. At 8:00 p.m. in Bowker Auditorium. For more information click here.

Nov.21st, Prof. Paolo Pucci, University of Vermont, will present From Rags to Riches...and (Maybe) Back:  The Renaissance Courtesan's Struggle for Life." At 1:00 p.m. in 301 Herter Hall.

Nov. 19th, The Avanti Wind Quintet performing works of Shen & Haas. At 8:15 p.m. in Bezanson Recital Hall. For more information click here.

Nov. 19th,  "Black Life in Sweden:  Beyond Licorice and Chocolate."  A lecture by Utz McKnight from the University of Alabama as part of the W.E.B. Du Bois Lecture Series Black Europeans:  Race and the New Europe.  4:00-5:30 p.m.  Campus Center room 174-76.

Nov. 18th,  Author Paula J. Giddings discusses her book Ida:  A Sword Among Lions.  7:00 p.m. New Africa House, Shirley Graham Du Bois Library (2nd floor). For more information click here.

Nov.17th, MASS Marimba Band, UMass Amherst Marimba Ensembles & the Tuba Studio--showcasing percussion ensemble music, with marimbas as the primary instrument. At 8:00 p.m. in Bowker Auditorium. For more information click here.

Nov.16th, German Music: Bach to Weill. Professors Marjorie Malnick, mezzo soprano and Estela Olevsky, piano. At 4:00 p.m. in Bowker Auditorium. For more information click here.

Nov. 14th, "Free Will and the Mind-Body Problem."  A colloquia by Bernard Berofsky, Columbia University. Beginning at 3:30 p.m. in Bartlett Hall room 206.

Nov. 14th,  A lecture "Painted Nuns:  Dead, Live, and Learned," portraits of the nuns in the colonial Americas, particularly Columbia and Mexico, by Nina Scott, UMass Amherst Professor Emeritus.  4:00-5:30 p.m. in Herter Hall room 601.

Oct. 30th-Nov. 8th, The Trestle At Pope Lick Creek. The weight and power of a 153-ton steam engine hang over this striking play by Five College alumna Naomi Wallace. In a small American town in the 1930s, sensitive Dalton and tough-girl Pace find a shared purpose in training for a dangerous race against the train that crosses the town’s railroad bridge nightly.

Admission: $12 general, $6 students/seniors

At the Curtain Theatre of the Fine Arts Center. For more information, click here.

Nov. 6th, The English Department presents The Troy Lecture for 2008. A precision of Language: An Evening with Margaret Atwood. Atwood is a Canadian writer, a poet, novelist, literary critic, a feminist and an activist. She is a winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award, Governor General's Award and many more. The lecture will take place on November 6th, 4:30pm at the Concert Hall of the Fine Arts Center.

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