CA L E NDAR OF EVENTS
Arts and Culture at Wellesley
Fall 2014 Spring 2014
ARTS AND CULTURE AND WELLESLEY FALL 2014
09 9/1–10/3, P.9 Selected Multimedia Works: Art Faculty from the Universidad Católica, Santiago, Chile Jewett Art Gallery
9/6 (Sat), P.27 Festival of New Plays: Our Voices 7:00 PM Ruth Nagel Jones Theatre
9/8 (Mon), P.27 Women of Ararat 7:00 PM Ruth Nagel Jones Theatre
9/10 (Wed), P.16 Russia NOW: The Current State of the Former Soviet Union 8:00 PM Clapp Library Lecture Room
9/11 (Thu), P.17 The Goldman Lecture in Economics: Angus Deaton 8:00 PM Tishman Hall
9/13 (Sat), P.29 Lionel Loueke Trio 8:00 PM Jewett Auditorium
9/17 (Wed), P.10 Fall Opening Celebration 5:30 PM–7:00 PM the Davis.
9/17–12/21, P.10 New View: 2014 Faculty Exhibition the Davis.
9/17–12/21, P.11 Feast Your Eyes*
10/1– Spring ’15, P.12 Hanging with the Old Masters: Davis Museum Reinstallation the Davis.
10/9 – 10/11, P.26 Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing Diana Chapman Walsh Alumnae Hall Auditorium
Michael Craig-Martin:
10/4 (Sat), P.14 Drop-in Public Tour: New View: 2014 Faculty Exhibition
10/11 (Sat), P.14 Family Day at the Davis
Art&Design the Davis.
2:00 PM Davis Lobby
11:00 AM–3:00 PM the Davis.
9/17–12/21, P.11 Sigalit Landau: DeadSee
10/4 (Sat), P.29 Evening Concert: Kumariyaan
the Davis.
8:00 PM Jewett Auditorium
10/15 (Wed), P.17 Russian Poetry Reading: Vera Pavlova
the Davis.
9/17–12/21, P.11
9/19 (Fri), P.21
4:30 PM Newhouse Center
10/5 (Sun), P.31 Family Show: Kumariyaan
10/22 (Wed), P.11 New InterViews
2:00 PM Jewett Auditorium
6:00 PM–8:00 PM the Davis.
9/21 (Sun), P.34 Cinéphile Sunday: The Immigrant and The Gold Rush
10/5 (Sun), P.35 Cinéphile Sunday: Awara
5:00 PM Collins Cinema
5:00 PM Collins Cinema
9/24 (Wed), P.10 New InterViews
10/6–10/31, P.9 Cole Alumnae Exhibition
10/23 (Thu), P.8 Kellie Jones: Crisscrossing the World: Los Angeles Artists and the Global Imagination, 1960–1980
Dance Performance:
reveal 4:30 PM Academic Quad
6:00 PM–8:00 PM the Davis.
Jewett Art Gallery
9/30–10/17, P.9 S.D. Holman Photography Exhibition Jewett Sculpture Court Gallery
10/7 (Tue), P.22 Distinguished Writers Series: Colson Whitehead
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10/7 (Tue), P.31 Liuwe Tamminga and Bruce Dickey: Organ and Cornetto Concert
10/1–Spring ’15, P.12 Edged in Black: Selections from SMS the Davis.
5:00 PM Collins Cinema
4:30 PM Newhouse Center
7:00 PM Houghton Chapel
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10/25 (Sat), P.18 Slavery, Compensation, Reparations 9:00 AM Collins Cinema
10/25 (Sat), P.14 Drop-in Public Tour: Feast Your Eyes 2:00 PM the Davis.
ARTS AND CULTURE AND WELLESLEY FALL 2014
10/25 (Sat), P.31 Piffaro: The Renaissance Band 8:00 PM Houghton Chapel
10/26 (Sun), P.35 Cinéphile Sunday: Daisies 5:00 PM Collins Cinema
11/5 (Wed), P.18 Paul Sabin: The Bet: Our Gamble over Earth’s Future 12:30 PM Knapp Atrium in Pendleton East
11/5 (Wed), P.32 Midday Muse: Paul Dresher Double Duo
11/11 (Tue), P.22 Distinguished Writers Series: Etgar Keret and Benjamin Percy
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4:30 PM Newhouse Center
12/1 (Mon), P.23 Distinguished Writers Series: Zadie Smith
11/12 (Wed), P.10 New InterViews
4:30 PM Knapp Atrium in Pendleton East
6:00 PM–8:00 PM the Davis.
12/7 (Sun), P.35 Cinéphile Sunday: Monsieur Verdoux
10/27 (Mon), P.22 Distinguished Writers Series: Nathalie Handal and Robin Robertson
11/6 (Thu), P.23 Jane Kamensky: Copley’s Wars
Ruth Nagel Jones Theatre
3:00 PM Collins Cinema
4:30 PM Newhouse Center
4:30 PM Newhouse Center
12/7 (Sun), P.33 Vespers
10/30 (Thu), P.31 Midday Jazz Muse: David Harris, trombone*
11/7 (Fri), P.32 Concert: Paul Dresher Double Duo
11/17 (Mon) , P.24 Jenny Price: Enact Our Metropolis!: Adventures in the Brave New World of Public Art Actions
12:30 PM Jewett Auditorium
8:00 PM Jewett Auditorium
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11/8 (Sat), P.32 Family Event: Paul Dresher Double Duo
11/2, P.31 Classical Faculty Concert: Then and Now
1:00 PM Jewett Auditorium
7:00 PM Jewett Auditorium
11/3–11/21, P.9 Cole Fellowship Solo Exhibition: Works by Sam Ekwurtzel Jewett Art Gallery
11/3–12/5, P.9 Works by Julie Kim: Rendering the Body Present Jewett Sculpture Court Gallery
12:30 PM Jewett Auditorium
11/12–11/16, P.26 Mary Shelley
4:30 PM Newhouse Center
11/19 (Wed), P.12 Gallery Talk: Edged in Black 3:00 PM the Davis.
2:00 PM the Davis.
11/19 (Wed), P.35 Milly Buono: American Television on the Italian (Small) Screen: From “Transatlantic Other” to “Transatlantic Romance”
11/9 (Sun), P.35 Cinéphile Sunday: Intimate Stories
5:00 PM Pendleton West Amphitheatre, Room 212
11/8 (Sat), P.14 Drop-in Public Tour: Hanging with the Old Masters
3:00 PM Collins Cinema
11/23 (Sun), P.32 The Carey Concert: Charles Fisk, piano 7:00 PM Jewett Auditorium
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8:00 PM Houghton Chapel
12/15 (Mon), P.27 Artie Shaw and His Cinderella 7:00 PM Ruth Nagel Jones Theatre
01 1/8–2/2, P.28 Woolf’s ORLANDO Ruth Nagel Jones Theatre
*See page 25 for associated Art of Good Taste event. Please note that student performances are not included in our pullout section. Please see pages 15 and 33 for carillon concerts and other student music ensembles, and page 28 for student theatre productions.
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ARTS AND CULTURE AT WELLESLEY
The arts speak the languages of all people—they cross racial, socioeconomic, generational, and educational barriers. The arts help us to express what we may not communicate otherwise, and to understand that one question may be answered truthfully in many different ways. They are both personal and collaborative. The power of the arts is, as First Lady Michelle Obama has expressed it, “to remind us of what we each have to offer, and what we all have in common.” Wellesley’s dedication to the arts is at the core of our mission, as is our deeper exploration of the individual disciplines of a liberal arts education. A rich, inter- and cross-disciplinary dialogue among artists, scientists, economists, sociologists, and interpreters of history and literature enriches and enlivens Wellesley’s curriculum and intellectual culture. We invite the larger community to join us as we welcome acclaimed artists, authors, performers, and scholars to Wellesley. All of the arts and cultural events listed in this calendar are free and open to the public (unless otherwise noted), and ample parking is available at no cost. Please join us this fall to celebrate the arts at Wellesley.
TABLE OF CONTENTS Distinguished Writers Series.............................2–3, 22–24 New View: 2014 Faculty Exhibition .............................. 4–5 Actors From The London Stage.............................. 6–7, 26 The Art Department ......................................................... 8–9 the Davis. ..................................................................... 10–14 Guild of Carillonneurs ....................................................... 15 The Spoken Word........................................................ 16–19 The Newhouse Center................................................. 20–24 The Art of Good Taste ....................................................... 25 Theatre......................................................................... 26–28 The Concert Series...................................................... 29–33 Cinema and Media Studies.......................................... 34–35
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Cover: Zadie Smith Photo: Dominique Nabokov
THE SUSAN AND DONALD NEWHOUSE CENTER FOR THE HUMANITIES PRESENTS
DISTINGUISHED WRITERS SERIES The Distinguished Writers Series reminds us that reading, writing, conversation, and laughter are related arts. The Newhouse Center venue is intimate and the format is simple: The writers read, have a conversation with a faculty member, and then engage in an open dialogue wih the audience. In recent years, many exceptional writers have joined us at the Newhouse— Chinua Achebe, Colum McCann, Claire Messud, and Junot Díaz among them—and this fall we are pleased to welcome six more literary leaders:
Colson Whitehead October 7 (Tue) | 4:30 PM Newhouse Center, Green Hall
Nathalie Handal and Robin Robertson October 27 (Mon) | 4:30 PM Newhouse Center, Green Hall
Etgar Keret and Benjamin Percy November 11 (Tue) | 4:30 PM Newhouse Center, Green Hall
Zadie Smith December 1 (Mon) | 4:30 PM Knapp Atrium in Pendleton East
Please see page 22 for author biographies.
Sponsored by the Susan and Donald Newhouse Center for the Humanities and generously supported by the Treves Fund.
Free and open to the public www.newhouse-center.org/
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Pictured: Etgar Keret
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THE DAVIS PRESENTS
NEW VIEW: 2014 FACULTY EXHIBITION New View: 2014 Faculty Exhibition On View September 17–December 21, 2014 The Davis Museum at Wellesley College Marjorie and Gerald Bronfman Gallery / Camilla Chandler and Dorothy Buffum Chandler Gallery
This fall, the Davis is proud to present New View, a survey of recent work by 11 faculty artists. Known to students in their classrooms and studios, the members of the faculty featured in this exhibition are at once educators, mentors, and active, professional artists. Their work is regularly shown in galleries and museums across New England, throughout the country, and in many cases internationally. This exhibition offers visitors the unique opportunity to explore the extraordinary talent and broad scope of art production among the faculty of Wellesley College. Participating artists include Carlos Dorrien, Bunny Harvey, Candice Ivy, David Kelley, Phyllis McGibbon, Salem Mekuria, Qing-Min Meng, Andrew Mowbray, David Teng-Olsen, and Daniela Rivera from the studio art faculty and Nicholas Knouf from Cinema and Media Studies. Capturing their extensive range, the exhibition includes paintings, prints, and sculpture, as well as video and mixed media installations.
Curated by Claire Whitner, Associate Curator. Generously supported by Wellesley College Friends of Art at the Davis. Free and open to the public. www.theDavis.org
Photos: top, from left: Daniela Rivera, Bunny Harvey, middle, from left: Andrew Mowbray, Candice Ivy bottom, from left: Salem Mekuria, David Teng-Olsen
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THE DEPARTMENT OF THEATRE STUDIES PRESENTS
ACTORS FROM THE LONDON STAGE
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Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare October 9 (Thu) | October 10 (Fri) | October 11 (Sat) All performances at 7:00 PM Diana Chapman Walsh Auditorium
Wellesley Summer Theatre Company is pleased to welcome the return of Actors From The London Stage for a ninth, muchanticipated visit, to bring audiences Shakespeare’s beloved tale of love, loss, and witty repartee. Presenting in their spare, dramatic style, this troupe delights with its verbal, physical, and theatrical dexterity. Sponsored by the Department of Theatre Studies, with generous support from the Ruth Nagel Jones Endowed Fund for Theatre Studies and Rosalind Sperber Frye ’25 and Constance Frye Martinson ’53 Fund, the English Department, Upstage Theatre Student Orgzanization, the Shakespeare Society, the Wilson Fund, and The Cain Foundation.
Free and open to the public. No reservations necessary. www.wellesleysummertheatre.com 781.283.2000
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Photo: A previous cast of Much Ado About Nothing with Actors From The London Stage
Left, Photo: John Outterbridge, No Time for Jivin’, 1969. Right: David Hammons, America the Beautiful, 1968
THE ART DEPARTMENT The Art Department is home to art history, studio art, architecture, and media arts at Wellesley. Each year, the department brings guest lecturers, exhibitions, films, and visiting artists to the campus and community. The Jewett Gallery is the department’s teaching gallery; it hosts exhibitions generated by faculty for teaching purposes as well as exhibitions of student work. RUTH MORRIS BAKWIN CLASS OF 1919 ART LECTURE
Kellie Jones: Crisscrossing the World: Los Angeles Artists and the Global Imagination, 1960–1980 October 23 (Thu) | 5:00 PM Collins Cinema
Kellie Jones is associate professor in Art History and Archaeology at the Institute for Research in African American Studies at Columbia University. Jones is also a curator and author whose numerous awards include a Creative Capital | Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant in 2013. Dr. Jones’ Bakwin Lecture considers mutimedia work and performance by African American artists who migrated to Los Angeles in the 1960s and ’70s with a resolve to stake a claim in the U.S.
Kellie Jones
The talk elucidates how artists translate experience into form, and how they transform what they find in this world into what they would like it to be. All events are free and open to the public. www.wellesley.edu/art | 781.283.3873 8
S.D. Holman, Stephanie
Work by Sam Ekwurtzel from The machine in the ghost at Simone Subal Gallery, New York
JEWETT ART GALLERY
experiment, develop a body of work, and focus on future artistic goals. The October exhibit features work from previous years’ recipients.
Selected Multimedia Works: Art Faculty from the Universidad Católica, Santiago, Chile
Cole Fellowship Solo Exhibition: Works by Sam Ekwurtzel
On View September 1–October 3
On View November 3–21
Jewett Art Gallery
Jewett Art Gallery
This exhibition features multimedia works from selected art faculty at the Universidad Católica in Santiago, Chile. These collective works are part of an artistic exchange and dialogue between studio art faculty at Wellesley and the Universidad Católica.
New sculptural work from 2013–2014 Cole Fellowship recipient Sam Ekwurtzel is featured in this solo exhibition, his first since On the Beach was presented by Real Art Ways in Hartford, Connecticut. Eksurtzel has taught sculpture at colleges and universities throughout New England, and was the 2011 Fountainhead Fellow in the department of sculpture at Virginia Commonwealth University. He has studied at the Hartford Art School, Columbia University, and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and was recently awarded a grant from The New York Community Trust.
Photography by S.D. Holman: Butch: Not Like the Other Girls On View September 30–October 17 Jewett Sculpture Court Gallery
Explore, through photography, the space occupied by female masculinity. Butch resists limitations on the way women, gender, and sexuality are still defined. The images honor the mercurial beauty, power, and diversity of women who transgress the gender binary—celebrating the transversal dialectic of female masculinity.
Works by Julie Kim: Rendering the Body Present On View November 3–December 5 Jewett Sculpture Court Gallery
This event is organized by LGBTQ Programs and Services as part of LGBTQ History Month, and is generously supported by The Wilson Fund.
Exploring the relationship between the body, clothing, and architecture, Julie Ju-Youn Kim has designed work that bridges architecture and installation. This study considers how the physical body is expressed via an articulated “house coat.” The installation invites you to enter its construct of simultaneously veiled, contained, and wrapped spaces. The containers incorporate ideas that are central to the work, including sequence, access, and boundaries. Both the installation and the theoretical architectural proposals explore notions of gender and women’s space.
Cole Alumnae Exhibition On View October 6–31 Jewett Art Gallery
The Alice C. Cole ’42 Fellowship is awarded to an outstanding early-career painter or sculptor to support one year of unimpeded time and space to 9
John F. Francis. Still Life, 1873–77. Oil on canvas. frame: 33 in. x 38 in. (83.8 cm x 96.5 cm). Gift of Brereton Sturtevant (Class of 1942). 1980.125
THE DAVIS. One of the oldest and most acclaimed academic fine art museums in the United States, the Davis Museum is a vital force in the intellectual, pedagogical, and social life of Wellesley College. The Museum’s mission is to create an environment that encourages visual literacy, inspires new ideas, and fosters involvement with the arts in the academy and in life.
OPENING CELEBRATION!
EXHIBITIONS AND PROGRAMS
Fall Opening Celebration
New View: 2014 Faculty Exhibition
September 17 (Wed)
On View September 17–December 21, 2014
5:30 PM–7:00 PM
Marjorie and Gerald Bronfman Gallery / Camilla Chandler and Dorothy Buffum Chandler Gallery
Davis Galleries, Lobby
Drop-in Public Tour October 4 (Sat) | 2:00 PM
Please join us for an opening reception, and be the first to enjoy our exciting fall exhibitions: New View: 2014 Faculty Exhibition Feast Your Eyes Sigalit Landau: DeadSee Michael Craig-Martin: Art&Design
Meet in the Davis Lobby (see page 14)
Please see page 4 for details on New View: 2014 Faculty Exhibition.
New InterViews Marjorie and Gerald Bronfman Gallery / Camilla Chandler and Dorothy Buffum Chandler Gallery Reception in the Davis Lobby to follow each talk
Delve deeper into the practices of the artists featured in the New View exhibition with this series of three gallery talks. Each session features 10
Sigalit Landau. DeadSee, 2005 Video. Image courtesy of the artist
Michael Craig-Martin. Art & Design, 2012 Photo courtesy of Alan Cristea Gallery, London
interviews with faculty artists led by a Davis Museum curator and includes a reception in the lobby.
Sigalit Landau: DeadSee On View September 17–December 21, 2014 Joan Levine Freedman ’57 and Richard I. Freedman Gallery
September 24 (Wed) | 6:00 PM–8:00 PM
Eve Straussman-Pflanzer with Carlos Dorrien, Salem Mekuria, Qing-Min Meng, and Daniela Rivera
Known for a performative art practice that explores the landscapes of Israel, Sigalit Landau works in video, installation, sculpture, and drawing. Her elegant video DeadSee embeds the artist’s nude body within a spiral of 500 floating watermelons, gradually unfurling in the buoyant waters of the Dead Sea. Presented to complement Feast Your Eyes, the piece reinscribes the representational tradition of “still life” with unexpected layers of reference and movement.
October 22 (Wed) | 6:00 PM–8:00 PM
Michael Maizels with David Kelley, Nicholas Knouf, and David Teng-Olsen November 12 (Wed) | 6:00 PM–8:00 PM
Claire Whitner with Bunny Harvey, Candice Ivy, Phyllis McGibbon, and Andrew Mowbray
Curated by Lisa Fischman, Ruth Gordon Shapiro ’37 Director, with generous support from Wellesley College Friends of Art at the Davis.
Feast Your Eyes On View September 17–December 21, 2014 Morelle Lasky Levine ’56 Works on Paper Gallery/ Friends of Art Gallery/Robert and Claire Freedman Lober Viewing Alcove
Michael Craig-Martin: Art&Design
Drop-in Public Tour October 25 (Sat) | 2:00 PM
Dorothy Johnston Towne Gallery
Meet in the Davis Lobby (see page 14)
This recent print series from conceptual artist Michael Craig-Martin treats icons of contemporary art and design in the artist’s signature style—rendered as spare, sharply graphic line drawings, with a flashy pop palette of colors in unexpected combinations. The purchase of this portfolio is possible through the generosity of Friends of Art patrons who enjoyed the 2014 Patrons Trip to London — and a personal tour guided by Craig-Martin of the home of the Duke and Duchess of Devlonshire. The gift brings the enthusiasm and energy of the London experience
On View September 17–December 21, 2014
Artfully photographing a meal is not only a recent foodie fad, but taps into a long history of feast and famine imagery. Connecting contemporary interest in cuisine with the rich tradition of still life in art, this exhibition of prints, drawings, photographs, and paintings from the Davis collections serves up an opportunity to consider how representations of food reflect cultural ideas about consumption in different eras. Curated by Mazie Harris, former Linda Wyatt Gruber ’66 Curatorial Fellow in Photography. This exhibition is generously supported by Wellesley College Friends of Art at the Davis.
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William Copley’s SMS portfolio #4 (1968), including Roy Lichtenstein’s Folded Hat, John Cage’s Diary: How to Improve the World and Hollis Frampton’s Phenakistiscope. All SMS portfolios from the Nancy Gray Sherrill ‘54 Collection. Photograph: Steve Briggs
Portfolio, examining these interactive, multimedia projects in light of the radical ferment of the late1960s art world.
home to campus, and kicks off the 50th Anniversary celebration of Friends of Art. Gift of Mary Norton ’54, Judith Phinney ’63, Joan Hass ’66, Myra Levenson ’61, Susie Bennet ’59, Eileen Conroy ’75 and John Eckert, Nan Tull ’59, Christine Reese ’88, Cathryn Griffith ’88, Fran Schulman ’75, and Janet Diederichs ’50 in honor of the Friends of Art 50th Anniversary Trip to London.
Hanging with the Old Masters: Davis Museum Reinstallation On View October 1, 2014–Spring 2015 Joanne Larson Jobson Gallery/ Harold and Estelle Newman Tanner Gallery
Edged in Black: Selections from SMS
Drop-in Public Tour November 8 (Sat) | 2:00 PM
On View October 1, 2014–Spring 2015
Meet in the Davis Lobby
Lawrence and Ina Lee Brown Ramer Gallery
Showcasing Old Master Italian paintings under consideration for the upcoming reinstallation of the permanent collection galleries, the fifth floor of the Davis Museum will become a laboratory for the exploration of the curatorial process. One wall will be lined with 3D models of the Davis Museum on a smaller scale, affording visitors, students, and faculty alike transparent access to the reinstallation process. The other three walls of the space will be devoted to understanding the curatorial process through the exhibition of Old Master Italian paintings. Issues and concerns— including questions of display, conservation, and aesthetics—that inform whether an individual work of art will be included in the reinstallation will be explored and, hopefully, demystified for the viewer.
Distributed in 1968, the SMS series is an intermedia artist’s project that sought to disseminate the work of the day’s leading artists. Through the generous gift of Nancy Gray Sherrill ’54, the Davis Museum holds a complete set of the portfolios. This exhibition showcases a selection of interactive work by artists including Marcel Duchamp, Joseph Kosuth, and Roy Lichtenstein alongside music by La Monte Young and Terry Riley. Curated by Michael Maizels, Andrew W. Mellon New Media Curator/Lecturer. Generously supported by the Anonymous ’70 Endowed Davis Museum Program Fund.
SMS Portfolio Gallery Talk
Co-curated by Eve Straussman-Pflanzer, Assistant Director of Curatorial Affairs/Senior Curator of Collections, and Claire Whitner, Associate Curator. Presented with generous support from the Sandra Cohen Bakalar ’55 Fund and the Mildred Cooper Glimcher ’61 Endowed Fund.
November 19 (Wed) | 3:00 PM Lawrence and Ina Lee Brown Ramer Gallery
Mellon New Media Curator Michael Maizels will discuss the exhibited highlights of the SMS 12
Valentin de Boulogne, St. Jerome, ca. 1628–30. Oil on canvas. overall: 52 1/2 in. x 38 3/8 in. (133.4 cm x 97.5 cm) Anonymous gift 1955.16
FAMILY EVENTS
NEW! Drop-in Public Tours
Family Day at the Davis
Special exhibition tours are led by student guides and are free and open to the public on a firstcome, first-served basis. All tours meet in the Davis Lobby.
October 11 (Sat) | 11:00 AM–3:00 PM Davis Galleries, Collins Café, Collins Cinema, Davis Plaza
Join the Davis to celebrate our favorite things about fall! Listen to live bluegrass music and eat some treats on the Davis Plaza, or head into the galleries to embark on a scavenger hunt. Watch Wellesley College faculty featured in New View as they demonstrate their art-making processes, and then try your hand at pumpkin carving!
October 4 (Sat) | 2:00 PM
New View: 2014 Faculty Exhibition October 25 (Sat) | 2:00 PM
Feast Your Eyes November 8 (Sat) | 2:00 PM
Family Day is generously supported by The Palley Endowment Fund for Davis Museum Outreach Programs.
Hanging with the Old Masters
TOURS: GET TO KNOW THE DAVIS. The Davis Museum at Wellesley College offers guided tours during weekday open hours, Tuesday through Friday from 11:00 AM to 5:00 PM. Our specially trained student guides engage visitors with the Davis’s distinctive permanent collections and its special temporary exhibitions through exciting dialogue-based experiences. Admission is free, and we welcome audiences from the Wellesley College campus and beyond. School groups are encouraged to plan visits to the Davis and to apply for our School Bus Subsidy, generously funded by the Palley Endowment Fund for Davis Museum Outreach Programs.
Museum Hours Tuesday–Sunday, 11:00 AM–5:00 PM Closed Mondays, major holidays, and campus recesses. For information: 781.283.2051 To schedule a tour, please call: 781.283.3382
Tours are customized according to interest area and cover either special exhibitions or the permanent collections. To schedule your visit or to request more information, please email Public and Interpretive Programs Specialist Liz Gardner at egardner@wellesley.edu or call 781.283.3045.
All events are free and open to the public. www.thedavis.org
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The Davis is supported in part by a grant from the Massachusetts Cultural Council.
Carillon at Wellesley College. Photo by Soe Lin Post
GUILD OF CARILLONNEURS The carillon, commonly known as “the bells,” is the largest musical instrument in the world. Wellesley’s is one of fewer than 200 in the United States, and one of only a few in the country played by students. The Guild of Carillonneurs plays around 200 concerts a year, so while those within earshot of Galen Stone Tower may enjoy the music often, the listed concerts are times that one may plan ahead to find a favorite spot on campus and take in a performance.
Family and Friends Weekend Open Tower Featuring Guest Artist Laura Ellis October 17 (Fri) | 4:00 PM–6:00 PM October 19 (Sun) | 2:00 PM–4:00 PM Galen Stone Tower
Haunted Open Tower October 26 (Sun) | 2:00 PM–4:00 PM
The Guild of Carillonneurs is a Music Department Ensemble program. Please see page 33 for additional student ensemble performances.
Galen Stone Tower
Holiday Open Tower December 7 (Wed) | 1:00 PM–3:00 PM Galen Stone Tower
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Photo: Ukrainian Honor Guard, June 2001. Department of Defense photo by R.D. Ward
THE SPOKEN WORD: PANELS AND MAJOR LECTURES Wellesley’s liberal arts education exposes students to distinct and diverse viewpoints. Bringing this “worldly” view to bear on the great issues of the 21st century is accomplished in part by bringing leading intellectuals to speak at the College.
RUSSIAN AREA STUDIES
year’s annual Russian Area Studies panel, “Russia NOW,” will shed light on this central region of the world in a time of momentous transition. Speakers include Professor Philip Kohl, Anthropology Department; Nadiya Kravets, postdoctoral fellow, Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute and Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Center; and Professor Nina Tumarkin, History Department. Moderated by Professor Thomas Hodge, Russian Department.
Russia NOW: The Current State of the Former Soviet Union September 10 (Wed) | 8:00 PM Clapp Library Lecture Room
From the Sochi Olympics to the annexation of Crimea and subsequent destabilization of eastern Ukraine, Putin’s Russia has caught the world’s attention during much of 2014. This
This program is generously supported by the Davis Fund for Russian Area Studies.
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Vera Pavlova. If There Is Something to Desire
Above: Vera Pavlova. Below: Angus Deaton
THE GOLDMAN LECTURE IN ECONOMICS
Russian Poetry Reading: Vera Pavlova October 15 (Wed) | 4:30 PM
Angus Deaton: The Great Escape: Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequity
Newhouse Center for the Humanities, Green Hall
One of Russia’s best-known contemporary poets, Vera Pavlova has published 15 collections of poetry. Her first collectionto be released in English, If There Is Something to Desire, was among the top ten best-selling poetry books for 2010 in the United States. Pavlova’s economy and directness make her delightfully accessible in all of the widely ranging topics she covers: love, motherhood, the memories of childhood that continue to feed us, and our lives as passionate souls abroad in the world and the fullness of experience that entails. Expertly translated by her husband, Steven Seymour, Pavlova’s poems are highly disciplined miniatures, exhorting us without hesitation: “Enough painkilling, heal. / Enough cajoling, command.”
September 11 (Thu) | 8:00 PM Tishman Hall
Angus Deaton is the Dwight D. Eisenhower Professor of Economics and International Affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and the Economics Department at Princeton University. He is also a Fellow of the British Academy, of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and of the Econometrics Society. He has held the position of president of the American Economic Association. His main current research areas are in health, well-being, and economic development. Sponsored by The Goldman Lecture Fund in Economics.
This program is generously supported by The Maria Opasnov Tyler ’52 Endowed Fund for the Russian Department.
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Paul Sabin
BETSY WOOD KNAPP ’64 LECTURE IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES
Free country, an 1833 illustration of former slaves celebrating their emancipation in Barbados. Photograph: Hulton Archive/Getty Images
Paul Sabin: The Bet: Our Gamble over Earth’s Future
AFRICANA STUDIES
November 5 (Wed) | 12:30 PM Knapp Atrium in Pendleton East
Slavery, Compensation, Reparations
Are we headed for a world of scarce resources and environmental catastrophe, or will market forces and technological innovation yield greater prosperity? Paul Sabin, Associate Professor of History and American Studies at Yale University, takes up this question in his book The Bet: Paul Ehrlich, Julian Simon, and Our Gamble over Earth’s Future. Using as a frame a highly publicized wager between celebrated biologist Paul Ehrlich and iconoclastic economist Julian Simon over the future price of metals, Sabin examines the clash between environmentalists and their conservative critics and traces the origins of the political gulf that separates the two sides. The Bet was named a Best Science Book of 2013 by New Scientist.
October 25 (Sat) | 9:00 AM–4:00 PM Collins Cinema
Specialists in the field convene to discuss British slavery, its impact upon the making of the Industrial Revolution, and the moneys awarded to the slaveholders after British slavery ended in 1833. Panelists will examine the current demand by the heads of state of 15 Caribbean nations for reparations from Europe for the enduring suffering inflicted by the European slave trade upon the people in the Caribbean. Craig Murphy, the M. Margaret Ball Professor of Political Science at Wellesley, is joined by Sir Hilary Beckles, Principal and Pro-Vice-Chancellor of the University of the West Indies (Barbados); Nicholas Draper of the University College London; Eric Graham, University of Edinburgh; William Pettigrew, University of Kent; and Louis Lee Sing, former mayor of Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago.
Please see the following page for additional information on this new annual lecture.
This program is generously supported by the Treves Fund.
All events are free and open to the public. www.wellesley.edu/events or 781.283.2373
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NEW AT THE KNAPP SOCIAL SCIENCE CENTER The Betsey Wood Knapp Social Science Center is pleased to introduce the Betsy Wood Knapp ’64 Lecture in the Social Sciences, an event to be hosted annually in the Knapp Atrium within the Knapp Social Center at Pendleton Hall East. (Please see 2014 lecture details at left.)
quantitative and qualitative—and to work across department and program lines on issues of common interest. The Center also provides physical spaces, such as the two-story Knapp Atrium, for specialized programming. The Knapp Atrium provides an ideal venue for campus and public assemblies such as the new Knapp Lecture. The inaugural Betsy Wood Knapp ’64 Lecture in the Social Sciences is presented by the Knapp Social Science Center and the Center for the Environment, and is made possible by the generous support of Betsy Wood Knapp ’64.
The Knapp Social Science Center was developed to integrate the social sciences and serve as a constellation of activity in the social sciences at Wellesley. Its instruction and events connect the intellectual work of social science to its role in the real world. It creates opportunities for students and faculty to conduct social science and interdisciplinary research—both
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Silas Riener, Cori Kresge. reveal. Photo by Darial Sneed
Silas Riener, Rashaun Mitchell. Photo by Darial Sneed
THE SUSAN AND DONALD NEWHOUSE CENTER FOR THE HUMANITIES The mission of the Newhouse Center for the Humanities is to create a dynamic and cosmopolitan intellectual community that extends from Wellesley to the wider Boston area and beyond. Founded in 2004 by a generous gift from Susan Marley Newhouse ’55 and Donald Newhouse, the Newhouse Center generates and supports innovative, world-class programming in the humanities and arts.
MELLON ARTIST RESIDENCY
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DANCERS RASHAUN MITCHELL AND SILAS RIENER
September 19 (Fri) | 4:30 PM Academic Quad Reception to follow in the Newhouse Center, Green Hall
Throughout the fall semester at Wellesley, former Merce Cunningham dancers and Bessie Award winners Rashaun Mitchell and Silas Riener will create a series of works, research, and encounters that exist in the intersections of the natural world, the built environment, and fictional, hypothetical, fantasy space. Their time will be punctuated by interactions with faculty and guest artists, workshops with students, and site-specific demonstrations in an attempt to animate the campus and expand ideas of transformation of space, transformation of self.
reveal will be an outdoor dance performance featuring Silas Riener, Rashaun Mitchell, and Cori Kresge, with costumes by Silas Riener, Julia Donaldson, and Yvette Helin. The Mellon Visiting Artist in Residence Program is supported by a generous grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
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Robin Robertson
Colson Whitehead
DISTINGUISHED WRITERS SERIES
Nathalie Handal and Robin Robertson October 27 (Mon) | 4:30 PM
Colson Whitehead
Newhouse Center, Green Hall
October 7 (Tue) | 4:30 PM
Nathalie Handal was raised in Latin America, France, and the Arab world. Her most recent books include the critically acclaimed Poet in Andalucía, which Alice Walker lauds as “poems of depth and weight and the sorrowing song of longing and resolve,” and Love and Strange Horses. She is a professor at Columbia University.
Newhouse Center, Green Hall
Colson Whitehead’s first novel, The Intuitionist, was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award. John Henry Days followed and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Los Angeles Times Fiction Award, and the Pulitzer Prize. Colossus of New York, a book of essays about the city, was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year in 2003. Sag Harbor was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Hurston-Wright Legacy Award. Zone One (2011), about postapocalyptic New York City, was a New York Times bestseller. Among other awards, he has received a MacArthur Fellowship and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Whitehead will read from The Noble Hustle: Poker, Beef Jerky and Death, a non-fiction account of the 2011 World Series of Poker, published in 2014.
Scottish poet Robin Robertson has published five collections of poetry. He has also edited a collection of essays, Mortification: Writers’ Stories of Their Public Shame; translated two plays of Euripides, and, in 2006, published The Deleted World. His selected poems, Sailing the Forest, will be out from FSG in fall 2014.
Etgar Keret
Etgar Keret and Benjamin Percy November 11 (Tue) | 4:30 PM Newhouse Center, Green Hall Nathalie Handal
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Benjamin Percy
Keret is internationally acclaimed for his short stories. His most recent book, Suddenly a Knock on the Door (2010), became an instant number one bestseller in Israel. He has been declared a “genius” by the New York Times.
John Singleton Copley self portrait
Benjamin Percy is the author of The Wilding, and two books of stories, Refresh, Refresh and The Language of Elk. His second novel, the psychological thriller, Red Moon, was published in 2013. He is currently the writer in residence at St. Olaf College.
Better (2006). Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays came out in 2009, and her novel NW (2012) was named one of the New York Times “10 Best Books of 2012.” Zadie Smith is a tenured professor of creative writing at New York University. This event is generously supported by the Treves Fund and the Susan and Donald Newhouse Center for the Humanities. Please note that books pictured are not necessarily those from which the authors will read.
MARY L. CORNILLE DISTINGUISHED LECTURE IN THE HUMANITIES
Jane Kamensky: Copley’s Wars November 6 (Thu) | 4:30 PM Zadie Smith
Newhouse Center, Green Hall
Historian Jane Kamensky explores the life and art of the painter John Singleton Copley (1738–1815) in the geopolitical context of his times. Copley’s era was punctuated by almost ceaseless imperial warfare, including the Seven Years’ War, the Napoleonic wars, and two bloody conflicts between Britain and North America, the first of which we in the United States call the American Revolution. Those wars—and indeed the age of Atlantic revolutions—look different through Copley’s eyes. Copley’s art, in turn, looks different when its broader contexts are recovered.
Zadie Smith December 1 (Mon) | 4:30 PM Knapp Atrium in Pendleton East
Novelist Zadie Smith’s acclaimed first novel, White Teeth, was published in 2000 and her anthology of erotic stories, Piece of Flesh, was published in 2001. Her second novel, The Autograph Man (2002), won the 2003 Jewish Quarterly Literary Prize for Fiction. On Beauty was published in 2005, and she has written a nonfiction book about writing entitled Fail
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Jane Kamensky
Jenny Price
Jane Kamensky is the Mary L. Cornille Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Humanities and the Mary Ann Lippitt Professor of History at Brown University.
people to envision and actually create the cities we long for? Jenny Price is a public writer, artist, and historian, and the 2014 Barron Visiting Professor of the Environment and the Humanities at Princeton University. Author of Thirteen Ways of Seeing Nature in L.A. and Flight Maps: Adventures with Nature in Modern America, she has also written for Believer, GOOD, the New York Times, and The Los Angeles Times, and pens the Green Me Up, JJ notquite advice column. As a co-founder of the Project 51 collective, she is co-leading the current year-long Play the LA River project on L.A.’s concrete river. As a founder of the L.A. Urban Rangers, she has been a resident artist at the Museum of Contemporary Art and the Orange County Museum of Art and has co-created such projects as Trail System: Downtown L.A. and Public Access 101: Malibu Public Beaches. She is working on a new book, Stop Saving the Planet!— And Other Tips for 21st-Century Environmentalists.
ELIZABETH TURNER JORDAN ’59 ENDOWED HUMANITIES LECTURE Jenny Price: Enact Our Metropolis!: Adventures in the Brave New World of Public Art Actions November 17 (Mon) | 4:30 PM Newhouse Center, Green Hall
While the more equitable and sustainable cities of our dreams will clearly require the efforts of planners, scientists, engineers, and policy makers of all kinds, they will also require us to fundamentally reimagine our connections to nature and to each other. That’s a job for the arts—and in this talk, Jenny Price chronicles the rapid emergence of art collectives that are creating playful, participatory public projects to grapple with our urban troubles. What particular powers do these collectives bring to the table? How can these on-the-ground interactive projects mobilize
All events are free and open to the public. www.newhouse-center.org
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THE ART OF GOOD TASTE The Wellesley College Club welcomes the Wellesley College community and guests from surrounding communities for lunch on the shores of beautiful Lake Waban. The College Club is pleased to offer flavors from North East Family Farms (NEFF), which include meats, seafood, and artisan cheeses from various parts of New England. Menu selections include vegetarian and daily specials using locally sourced foods.
LUNCH AND THE MUSEUM
PRE-SHOW LUNCH
Honoring Feast Your Eyes at the Davis
A Prelude to Midday Jazz Muse: David Harris, trombone
September 23–26 | 11:30 AM–2:00 PM
October 30 | 11:30 AM–2:00 PM
Food has long been an important subject matter in art, and the College Club is joining the celebration of food in art at the Davis. Please join us for lunch before or after your visit to the museum to see Feast Your Eyes—and the other wonderful exhibitions on view. Mention Feast Your Eyes on the dates noted above and receive a 10% discount for your table or group.
We invite you stop in for lunch before joining the Music Department’s Midday Muse event. Mention Wellesley faculty member and performer Davis Harris and receive a 10% discount for your table or group. (Please note that the Midday Jazz Muse performance begins at 12:30 PM.) Lunch is offered at the Wellesley College Club Tuesday–Friday, 11:30 AM–2:00 PM. Reservations are encouraged, but walk-ins can often be accommodated. Please call 781.283.2700 for reservations and membership inquiries.
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Shown: Angela Bilkic ’15, Will Keary*, Elisabeth Yancey ’16, and Charlotte Peed* (*AEA)
THEATRE The Department of Theatre Studies allows Wellesley College students to explore the history and literature of the theatre, and then to bring their knowledge from the classroom to a handson application of the craft. To facilitate this essential experiential learning, the department hosts multiple active performing programs on campus, ranging from solely professional to student-produced.
ACTORS FROM THE LONDON STAGE
WELLESLEY COLLEGE THEATRE Under the direction of the Wellesley College Theatre program, College shows blend casts from Wellesley, Olin, and Babson College and members of the Boston theatre community, including members of Actors Equity Association (AEA).
Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare October 9 (Thu) | 7:00 PM October 10 (Fri) | 7:00 PM October 11 (Sat) | 7:00 PM Diana Chapman Walsh Auditorium
Mary Shelley
Please see page 6.
by Helen Edmundson, directed by Nora Hussey November 12 (Wed) | 7:00 PM November 13 (Thu) | 7:00 PM
No reservations necessary for Actors From The London Stage. For reservations for other producations, visit wellesleysummertheatre.com or call 781.283.2000. For Upstage Series only, please call 781.283.2220 or email upstage@wellesley.edu.
November 14 (Fri) | 7:00 PM November 15 (Sat) | 2:00 PM & 7:00 PM November 16 (Sun) | 2:00 PM Ruth Nagel Jones Theatre, Alumnae Hall
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Actors From The London Stage
Shown: Will Keary, AEA, and Elisabeth Yancey ’16. Photographer: David Brooks Andrews
“We cannot let our lives be small. There is no life but loving.” This compelling new drama explores a crucial episode in the early life of Mary Shelley—her meeting and scandalous elopement with Percy Bysshe Shelley and the consequences for those who loved her.
Women of Ararat
$15 General Admission, $10 Seniors, Students, and Staff. Reservations required: 781.283.2000 or www.wellesley.edu/theatre.
Women of Ararat is a tale of women’s courage, perseverance, and love for family.
by Judith Boyajian September 8 (Mon) | 7:00 PM Reception to follow performance Ruth Nagel Jones Theatre, Alumnae Hall
It is a story that relates how women cope with men’s violence leaving them without husbands, brothers, and sons. Although this is one family’s story, this play reflects the deep emotions of women in Bosnia, Rwanda, Sudan, Greece, Ireland, Cambodia, Jews throughout the world, and on and on and on.
NEW WORKS SERIES Theatre Studies is pleased to present a series of three staged readings on successive September evenings. Please join us for the postperformance talkbacks as well.
Artie Shaw and His Cinderella
Festival of New Plays: Our Voices by Boston-area women playwrights
by Joan Martin Burke, directed by Lois Roach, Lecturer in Theatre Studies
September 6 (Sat) | 7:00 PM
December 15 (Mon) | 7:00 PM
Ruth Nagel Jones Theatre, Alumnae Hall
Reception to follow Ruth Nagel Jones Theatre, Alumnae Hall
This evening of staged readings of new plays performed by talented Boston-area actors is the culmination of a day-long event that provides artistic support for local women playwrights. Following afternoon play readings with feedback for the playwrights and an afternoon writing workshop to engage their creativity, the audience is invited to join the playwrights for a reception prior to the evening performances.
Artie Shaw—a leading bandleader in the swing era—has just died. He finds himself detained in a bare, drab room adjacent to the Main Room, awaiting assignment to his final destination. When he learns that his fate is to be decided by the votes from his eight ex-wives, his chances of reaching the Main Room are in real jeopardy. Will he make it or not? All New Works Series shows are free and open to the public, through the generous support of the Ruth Nagel Jones ’42 Endowed Fund for the Black Box Theatre.
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Shown: Angela Bilkic ’15 and Woody Gaul, AEA
Wellesley students rehearse the Spring 2014 production of Motherhood Out Loud
WELLESLEY SUMMER THEATRE COMPANY
Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Would Not Grow Up by J.M. Barrie, in a new version by John Caird and Trevor Nunn; Directed by Carrington OBrion ’15
WSTC is the professional Equity company in residence at Wellesley College. The award-winning company attracts audiences and artists from across New England.
October 23 (Thu) & October 24 (Fri) | 7:00 PM October 25 (Sat) | 2:00 PM & 7:00 PM October 26 (Sun) | 2:00 PM
Woolf’s ORLANDO
Ruth Nagel Jones Theatre
by Sarah Ruhl, directed by Nora Hussey
The classic tale of the Darling children, the Lost Boys, and of course, Peter Pan, has been restored to Barrie’s original intentions by drawing on a variety of sources. The result is a moving portrait of the murky place between childhood and adulthood that speaks to all ages.
January 8–February 1 (Please note that this show opens prior to the start of Wellesley’s spring semester.) Thursdays and Fridays at 7:00 PM, Saturdays at 2:00 PM and 7:00 PM, Sundays at 2:00 PM Special performance on February 2 | 7:00 PM Ruth Nagel Jones Theatre, Alumnae Hall
The award-winning professional company brings their joy and dramatic dexterity to this Boston-area premiere. In this blithe and passionate adaptation of the 1928 gender flipping Virginia Woolf novel, transformation and identity are magically explored. Ruhl imagines and Woolf soars, with both women writers winning accolades. As critic Elyse Sommer states, “Ruhl’s adaptation marries her love of language imbued with poetry to Woolf ’s ground-breaking amalgam of novel, poetry and theatrical fantasia.”
Time Stands Still by Donald Margulies, directed by Danielle Zarbin ’17 December 4 (Thu) & December 5 (Fri) | 7:00 PM December 6 (Sat) | 2:00 PM & 7:00 PM December 7 (Sun) | 2:00 PM Barstow Stage, Alumnae Hall
Sarah and James, a photojournalist and a foreign correspondent, try to find happiness in a world that seems to have come unhinged. When their own partnership takes a sudden turn after a violent event, the adventurous couple confronts the prospect of a more conventional life.
THE UPSTAGE SERIES
$5 General Admission, free to students of Wellesley, Olin, MIT, and Babson. Reservations required: 781.283.2220 or upstage@wellesley.edu.
Upstage productions are student-produced and directed. They provide Wellesley College students with the opportunity to explore all aspects of working in theatre independently.
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Piffaro: The Renaissance Band
THE CONCERT SERIES Organized and curated by the Department of Music, the Wellesley College Concert Series brings world-class performers to campus, complementing the department’s academic offerings and augmenting the cultural life of the College and the surrounding community. With concerts ranging from early music to contemporary, world music to jazz, electronic music and beyond, the series features both visiting artists and members of the performing faculty.
PROFESSIONAL SERIES
Kumariyaan Evening Concert: (Sat) October 4 | 8:00 PM
Lionel Loueke Trio
Family Show: (Sun) October 5 | 2:00 PM
September 13 (Sat) | 8:00 PM
Jewett Auditorium
Jewett Auditorium
With its propulsive, furious sound, Kumariyaan (“The Intoxicators”) has reawakened the live music scene in Peshawar, Pakistan. The lute-like Pashtoon rubab is the meeting point for this instrumental hyper-folk jam quartet. It intertwines with the djembe-like zerbaghali (clay or wooden goblet drum) and Pushtoon sitar (longnecked lute). Underpinning these instruments with driving acoustic guitars, Kumariyaan’s rolling pulse and richly layered sound builds to frenzied intensity. The Friday Times of Pakistan says that Kumariyaan straddles “that line between genres and cultures, shifting from Eastern to Western and playing around with crescendos and stop-start staccatos.”
Praised by his mentor Herbie Hancock as “a musical painter,” and by the New York Times as “a gentle virtuoso,” Loueke combines harmonic complexity, soaring melody, a deep knowledge of African folk forms, and conventional and extended guitar techniques to create a warm and evocative sound of his own. Along with Massimo Biolcati on bass and Ferenc Nemeth on drums, Loueke will play music from his latest CDs, Mwaliko and Heritage, as well as some new material and a few standards. This program is generously supported by the Marjorie Copland Baum Memorial Fund. Reservations highly recommended; please visit www.wellesley.edu/music/concertseries. 29
Lionel Loueke.
Kumariyaan
Liuwe Tamminga
The Kumariyaan concert and family show are part of Center Stage, an initiative of the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, produced by the New England Foundation for the Arts in cooperation with the U.S. Regional Arts Organizations, with additional support from the Robert Sterling Clark Foundation and the Asian Cultural Council. Additional funding is provided by the Music Department, the Marjorie Copland Baum Memorial Fund, and the Partnerships for Diversity and Inclusion.
krumhorns, bagpipes, lutes, guitars, harps, and a variety of percussion — all careful reconstructions of instruments from the period. Tom Zajac, who plays with Piffaro, is the director of Wellesley College’s Early Music ensemble, Collegium Musicum.
Liuwe Tamminga and Bruce Dickey: Organ and Cornetto Concert
October 30 (Thu) | 12:30 PM–1:30 PM
October 7 (Tue) | 7:00 PM
David Harris is an esteemed member of the Wellesley College Jazz Faculty, and also serves on the faculty of both the Berklee College of Music and New England Conservatory. A solo concert of original music, this event will mostly feature trombone, occasionally looping on computer, with some tuba and piano as well.
This program is generously supported by the Marjorie Copland Baum Memorial Fund and by the Moffet Fund.
Midday Jazz Muse: David Harris, trombone Jewett Auditorium
Houghton Chapel
This concert, to be performed on the historic Fisk Organ, features Bruce Dickey and Liuwe Tamminga. Dickey is considered the greatest cornetto virtuoso in the world, while Tamminga is a celebrated Dutch organist currently serving as the organist at St. Petronio in Bologna. The performance will include repertoire for organ and cornetto, and organ solo works, featuring Italian Renaissance and early baroque music.
This program is generously supported by the Marjorie Copland Baum Memorial Fund.
Classical Faculty in Concert: Then and Now—chamber works of the 1600s, 1700s, 1800s, and 2014
This program is generously supported by the Marjorie Copland Baum Memorial Fund and by the Charles Benton Fisk Memorial Fund.
November 2 (Sun) | 7:00 PM Jewett Auditorium
Piffaro: The Renaissance Band
Enjoy music of Campra, Beethoven, Fauré, and Christine Chen ’14, winner of the Music Department’s Lamb Prize for Composition. Performed by 15 members of the extraordinary Wellesley College Performance Faculty, this concert includes Beethoven’s Quintet in E flat for Piano and Winds, Opus 16, Fauré’s Piano Quartet in C minor, Opus 15, “Le Lis et la Rose” by French Baroque composer, André
October 25 (Sat) | 8:00 PM Houghton Chapel
Piffaro delights audiences with highly polished recreations of the rustic music of the peasantry and the elegant sounds of the official wind bands of the late Medieval and Renaissance periods. Its ever-expanding instrumentation includes shawms, dulcians, sackbuts, recorders, 31
Charles Fisk
Paul Dresher Double Duo. Photo by Nina Roberts
ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE
Campra, and settings of Shakespeare Sonnets by Christine Chen ’14.
This program is generously supported by the Marjorie Copland Baum Memorial Fund.
Paul Dresher’s Double Duo combines a duo of traditional chamber music instrumentation— Bang on a Can All Stars founding member Lisa Moore on piano and longtime Dresher collaborator Karen Bentley on violin—with a duo of recently invented instruments. Percussionist Joel Davel plays the Marimba Lumina, a specialized MIDI control surface capable of triggering myriad sounds, while he and Dresher split time playing the Quadrachord, a 14-foot guitar-like stringed instrument invented by Dresher that is plucked, bowed, hammered, and strummed.
The Carey Concert: Charles Fisk, piano
The audience is invited to join the musicians onstage to explore the invented instruments after each performance.
Performers include: Marion Dry, contralto; Jenny Tang, piano; Jane Harrison, oboe; Katherine Matasy, clarinet; Fred Aldrich, french horn; Tracy McGinnis, bassoon; Eliko Akahori, piano; Aaron Sheehan, tenor; Suzanne Stumpf, baroque flute; Laura Jeppesen, viola da gamba; Daniel Ryan, harpsichord; Gabriela Diaz, violin; Laura Bossert-King, viola; Rebecca Thornblade, cello; Kanako Nishikawa, piano; Diego Arciniegas, actor.
November 23 (Sun) | 7:00 PM
Midday Muse: Paul Dresher Double Duo
Jewett Auditorium
For his final recital as the Phyllis H. Carey Professor at Wellesley, pianist Charles Fisk will perform two major works that have long held special meaning for him: Robert Schumann’s Fantasy in C Major, both an homage to Beethoven and a “love letter,” during an enforced separation, to his bride-to-be Clara Wieck; and, with violinist Gabriela Diaz and cellist David Russell, Franz Schubert’s haunting and elaborately cyclic Piano Trio in E flat Major. Fisk’s program will also include music from J.S. Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier, Book II, Alban Berg’s Sonata, Op.1, and the premiere of a new work by his longtime colleague Martin Brody.
November 5 (Wed) | 12:30 PM Jewett Auditorium
Concert: Paul Dresher Double Duo November 7 (Fri) | 8:00 PM Jewett Auditorium Reception to follow
Family Event: Paul Dresher Double Duo November 8 (Sat) | 1:00 PM Jewett Auditorium
This program is generously supported by the Marjorie Copland Baum Memorial Fund.
These performances are generously supported by the Marjorie Copland Baum Memorial Fund and The Florence Jeup Ford ’22, Mary M. Crawford ’22, and Virginia For ’48 Artist-inResidence Endowment Fund. 32
HOLIDAY PROGRAM
The Brandeis-Wellesley Fall Concert is generously supported by the Dr. and Mrs. Arthur George Griffin Memorial Fund, the Ella A. Sweet Fund, and the Hsi Keng Peng Music Department Fund.
Vespers Lisa Graham, Director December 7 (Sun) | 8:00 PM
Collegium Musicum Fall Concert: A New Year’s Gift
Houghton Chapel & Interfaith Center
The Choral Music Program and Office of Religious and Spiritual Life present an evening of candlelight, music, readings, and carols. A long-standing Wellesley tradition, Christmas Vespers heralds the arrival of the holiday season in the beautiful setting of Houghton Chapel.
Tom Zajac, Director December 2 (Tue) | 8:00 PM Houghton Chapel
Chamber Music Society Fall Concerts David Russell and Jenny Tang, Directors December 3 (Wed) | 12:30 PM | Jewett Auditorium December 4 (Thu) | 7:00 PM | Pendleton Salon (PNW 220) December 7 (Sun) | 4:00 PM | Jewett Auditorium December 8 (Mon) | 7:00 PM | Pendleton Salon (PNW 220)
Wellesley BlueJazz Big Band Fall Concert Cercie Miller, Director December 5 (Fri) | 7:00 PM
Chamber Music Society
Jewett Auditorium
STUDENT ENSEMBLES
Yanvalou Winter Concert
The Dober Memorial Concert: Wellesley College Choral Program
Kera Washington, Director December 6 (Sat) | 8:00 PM
Lisa Graham, Director
Jewett Auditorium
November 15 (Sat) | 8:00 PM Houghton Chapel
The Wellesley College Choir will perform with the Cornell Glee Club (Robert Isaacs, Conductor) in a program that also includes the Wellesley College Chamber Singers. This program is generously supported by the Betty Edwards Dober Memorial Fund.
BlueJazz Strings and Combos Paula Zeitlin, Director November 21 (Fri) | 7:00 PM Jewett Auditorium
Brandeis-Wellesley Orchestra Fall Concert: Celebrating the Human Spirit
Please also see page 15 for the Student Ensemble program’s Guild of Carilonneurs performances.
Neal Hampton, Conductor
All events are free and open to the public. www.wellesley.edu/music/concertseries concerts@wellesley.edu | 781.283.2028
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Awara
CINEMA AND MEDIA STUDIES The Cinema and Media Studies program aims to bring film lovers together into a communal viewing experience, sharing the beauty of 35mm films on the big screen of Wellesley’s Collins Cinema. In these days when people too often watch film in the isolation of their homes or their computers, we offer the opportunity to come together, in the dark and in the light, to view film on the big screen, to hear from major film theorists, and to meet filmmakers.
All films shown in the Collins Cinema. Free and open to the public. This program is generously supported by the Wilson Fund.
CINÉPHILE SUNDAYS: 100 YEARS OF TRAMPS
The Immigrant and The Gold Rush
The Cinéphile Sundays series offers exemplary films—five each semester—from all parts of the globe and all periods of cinematic history. This fall, we celebrate the 100th anniversary of Charlie Chaplin’s creation of the character of the Tramp by showing three of his films (one short and two features), plus three other films made in the spirit of the Tramp’s subversive laughter.
By Charlie Chaplin, 1917 and 1925, respectively, U.S. September 21 | 5:00 PM
The Immigrant—a Little Tramp short about two immigrants who meet on a boat—was Chaplin’s favorite among all of his two-reel comedies. In The Gold Rush, a calm and content Little Tramp seeks his fortune in the hidden gold mines of the Klondike. (source: charliechaplin.com)
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Awara By Raj Kapoor, 1951, India October 5 | 5:00 PM
Awara is the Hindi word for tramp, and Kapoor’s main character references Charlie Chaplin. The film centers on the intertwining lives of its two main characters, one poor and one priviledged.
Daisies By V˘ era Chytilová, 1966, Czechoslovakia October 26 | 5:00 PM
Monsieur Verdoux
Believing the world to be “spoiled,” two brash young women embark on a series of pranks in which nothing—food, clothes, men, war—is taken seriously. (source: The Criterion Collection)
SPECIAL PRESENTATION FROM CAMS AND THE DEPARTMENT OF ITALIAN STUDIES Milly Buonanno: American Television on the Italian (Small) Screen: From “Transatlantic Other” to “Transatlantic Romance” November 19 (Wed) | 5:00 PM Pendleton West Amphitheatre, Room 212
Cinema and Media Studies and the Department of Italian Studies welcomes Milly Buonanno, professor of television studies, Department of Communication and Social Research at La Sapienza University of Rome. This lecture examines the shifting relationship between Italian and American broadcasting, focusing on television drama. American television has had a remarkable impact on television production and consumption in Italy as well as on the collective imagination of Italian viewers. In the 1950s, when Italian television was state-controlled, American TV programs were not broadcast. In the mid-1970s after broadcasting had been liberalized, all this changed and American TV programs were welcomed with open arms. The high quantity of such products was not, however, matched by their quality, and it was only in the early 2000s that dramas from the United States were able to gain in Italy the reputation for quality that had always been denied the “popular” American programs.
Daisies
Intimate Stories By Carlos Sorin, 2002, Argentina November 9 | 3:00 PM
Intimate Stories is a triple-stranded road movie set in Argentina’s vast southern Patagonian outlands…The vistas, evocatively photographed, give the movie a feeling of eternity, even though it’s actually a comedy about common people and ordinary lives. (source: Chicago Tribune)
Monsieur Verdoux By Charlie Chaplin, 1947, U.S. December 7 | 3:00 PM
A film made when Chaplin’s popularity in the United States was rapidly declining due to the rising McCarthyism, Monsieur Verdoux is a comedy with an edge, inspired by the notorious French serial killer Landru. (source: charliechaplin.com)
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VISITING WELLESLEY
Just 12 miles from Boston, Wellesley’s rich and diverse arts scene feels worlds away. Nearby neighbors and Bostonians alike will discover that Wellesley is a wonderful untapped resource for cultural and intellectual pursuits.
Jr., the campus is a historic landmark that showcases the work of distinguished architects, including Ralph Adams Cram, Paul Rudolph, and Rafael Moneo. Podcast tours are available at the Davis Museum—check out Landscape and Architecture and walk with Professor John Rhodes as he presents highlights of the campus. You’ll see Wellesley’s Alumnae Valley, honored in the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum for returning a parking lot to native wetland. Pause on the shores of Lake Waban to take in the elaborate topiary on the far shore. And don’t miss the Botanical Gardens, featuring specimens from around the world and its own butterfly garden.
Attending an event at Wellesley is as stressfree as it is affecting. Parking is free and readily accessible, our performance spaces are intimate and inviting, and the nearby town of Wellesley offers a variety of fine restaurants. Or join students and faculty on campus for a lively meal at the Lulu Chow Wang Campus Center, affectionately called the Lulu. The Wellesley College Club is another option for lunch or dinner.
Leave inspired.
Take in the celebrated landscape and architecture.
Even if you visit us for just an afternoon or an evening, you’ll find Wellesley will leave you feeling renewed and enriched.
Combine your visit to Wellesley with a stroll through the grounds and see if you don’t feel as inspired by our surroundings as our guest artists do. Designed in consultation with landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted
For directions to campus, please visit: www.wellesley.edu/about/visit
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ABOUT WELLESLEY
The world’s preeminent college for women, Wellesley College is known for its intellectual rigor, its belief in the enduring importance of service, and its cultivation of an inclusive, pragmatic approach to leadership.
Preparing women for this role is perhaps Wellesley’s unique strength. From the moment they step onto the campus, our students are cultivating not only their minds, but also an aspirational drive and sense of responsibility. They know they are carrying forward a very special legacy, one in which purposeful leadership is a way of life, regardless of the life they choose—and one in which they are committed to taking their place at the table, to getting things done, to making a difference.
We take great pride in what we produce here: women who know how to succeed in every arena, public and personal, while keeping their values intact; women who bring world-changing vision and an inimitable sense of purpose to even the smallest endeavor; women who understand that effective leadership means tempering the exercise of power with the commitment to serve. And as the sense of what it means to be an effective leader evolves, the crucial role that women are playing in making the world a better place is becoming increasingly apparent.
Your gift to Wellesley helps maintain the excellence of our arts programming and keeps our events free of charge. www.wellesley.edu/give | 800.358.3543
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Be part of the vibrant arts and culture scene at Wellesley this fall!
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