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This Thursday and Friday, November 15 and 16, the Global Studies Center (GSC) hosts Lilianna Herrero, renowned Argentinean musician. On Thursday, Herrero will give a lecture at Smith at 4:30 p.m. in Earle Recital Hall, Sage. The following day, she will be the special guest at a Global Salon and later that evening will team […] The band Sokoun, from Montreal, will play at Smith on Thursday. Students are invited to participate in an Arabic Music Festival on Thursday, April 26 in the Davis Ballroom. The event, which begins at 6:30 p.m., is hosted by the Middle East Studies department and features the band Sokoun from Montreal. Guests will […] Hanami (literally "flower viewing") is the Japanese traditional custom of enjoying the beauty of flowers, especially cherry blossoms. On Saturday, April 14, Smith’s Japanese culture organization, Sazanami, will host the Five College Hanami Festival, celebrating the Japanese tradition of flower-viewing. The event is being co-sponsored by the Five College East Asian Program and […] On Saturday, March 31, Smith College will host the Second Five College Japanese Speech Contest. The contest, which begins at 1 p.m., will be followed by a reception. Japanese language students from Smith, Mount Holyoke, Amherst, Hampshire, and UMass Amherst will compete on four different levels: First Year, Second Year, Third Year, Fourth Year+. There […] Pandit Devashish Dey, one of North India’s most acclaimed classical vocalists and a current visiting professor of music at Smith will perform classical North Indian vocal music on campus this Saturday, February 11. He will be accompanied by Dibyarka Chatterjee on tabla. The event, which begins at 7:30 p.m. in Earle Recital Hall, Sage, is […] Ralph Vaughan Williams's "A Cambridge Mass" will be performed this weekend at Smith. The American premiere of a long-lost work by British composer Ralph Vaughan Williams will be presented by the Hampshire Choral Society at Smith on Sunday, January 22. The Hampshire Choral Society is the first in the U.S. to present Ralph […] Photo courtesy of www.myspace.com/ tuneyards. Smith alumna Merrill Garbus ’01 is the woman behind the band tUnE-yArDs. Called “one of the big indie breakout acts of 2011“, tUnE-yArDs “went from cult to mainstream, appearing on late-night television, festival stages and countless album-of-the-year lists.” Merrill, who is no stranger to travel, having lived in […] Odilon Redon's "With Closed Eyes" from the SCMA. On Friday, February 3, Debussy’s Paris: Art, Music, and Sounds of the City opens at the Smith College Museum of Art. The exhibition will explore the “soundscape” of Paris during the lifetime of composer Claude Debussy and is organized in association with the Smith College […] Smith's Christmas Vespers 2011. For the first time ever, Smith was able to broadcast this year’s annual Christmas Vespers concert online using live video. Analytics show that Smithies from around the world signed on to watch the December 4 Vespers online. People accessed the video from five different continents and countries including Argentina, […] This summer the Smith Alumnae Chorus traveled to Sicily where they performed Mozart’s Requiem with the Italian choir Ad Dei Laudem. The group’s first international tour included alumnae ranging from the classes of 1947 to 2009. Two alumnae, Greta Motts Birkby ’82 and Deborah Garrett ’84, were featured as soloists. Photo highlights from the trip […] |
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