Mount Holyoke Holiday Vespers
Dec
4
4:00 PM16:00

Mount Holyoke Holiday Vespers

Performances at 4pm and 7:30pm. Free admission.

Holiday Vespers is a long-standing popular tradition at Mount Holyoke College, during which the community comes together to celebrate light and togetherness on a dark and cold December night.

Since 1899, the holiday tradition has been much anticipated and reliably fills Abbey Memorial Chapel for both an afternoon and an evening performance. Though doors open 35 minutes before the free show, some eager attendees line up an hour or more in advance, despite any winter chill. According to many gleeful attendees, this warm and inclusive event is Mount Holyoke College at its best.

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Nov
6
4:00 PM16:00

Close Encounters with Music: Otherworldly Schubert and "One Earth"

  • Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center (map)
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$28 – $52

$28 Upper Balcony
$52 Orchestra and Mezzanine

Tamar Muskal’s twice-postponed work will receive its long-awaited world premiere, kicking off the new season with a musical adventure. In the words of the composer, “We live in a very challenging time—a time of war, sickness, climate disasters, and economic difficulties. One Earth, for a rapper/beatbox artist, table player, string quintet and a treble chorus, calls all people to positive action, to love, to beauty, and to anything that protects the planet and humanity. The piece is rich in sonorities, a fusion of different musical worlds, and contrasts between energetic rhythms, lyrical melodies and powerful rapping.” The program also features Schubert’s heavenly String Quintet in C Major—an early 19th Century call to humanity, beauty and truth. Of Muskal’s music, the Chicago Tribune has written: “The ripples and shimmers that filled Muskal’s post-minimalist score were as evanescent as swirling, digitized visuals— dissolving into one another with kaleidoscopic beauty…high-tech music theater at its most inventive and fascinating.” 

Borromeo String Quartet
Yehuda Hanani, cello
Avirodh Sharma, tabla
Christylez Bacon, beatbox artist
Tian Hui Ng, conductor
Rachel Feldman, choral director
Mount Holyoke College Chamber Singers

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Connecticut College Prism: Ensemble Sampler
Oct
11
6:00 PM18:00

Connecticut College Prism: Ensemble Sampler

  • 270 Mohegan Avenue Parkway New London, CT, 06320 United States (map)
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A Family Weekend Concert featuring the Connecticut College Music Department Ensembles: Camel Heard, Chorale, Concert Band, Jazz Ensemble, New Music Chamber Ensemble, Orchestra and Trad Band

Gary Buttery, director
Mathias Elmer, conductor
Rachel Feldman, conductor
Peter Jarvis, director

Free and open to the public

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