Come fill these seats on Saturday, October 26! The Smith College Department of Music presents Montage: Sounds from the Silver Screen, a Family Weekend program of favorite movie songs. Complete with a sing a-long of New York, New York! Featuring Glee Club, Chamber Singers, Orchestra, Wind Ensemble, Wailing Banshees, Jazz Ensemble, Handbells, Groove, the Smiffenpoofs, the Smithereens, the Noteables, and the Vibes. This is the only concert of the year when most of the Smith College ensembles and acapella groups perform together. A true celebration of music making. Free and open to the public.
The Smith College Wind Ensemble under the direction of Meghan McFadden rehearses Vulnerable Joy by Jodie Blackshaw for their Spring Concert: The Road to Find with guest ensemble Valley Winds directed by Dr. Brian Messier Thursday, May 2 at 7:30 PM in John M. Greene Hall. The concert also includes works by Kimberly Archer, Omar Thomas, Percy Grainger, Emi Nishida, Nubia Jaime Donjuan, and Arturo Márquez. Free and open to the public.
Joel Pitchon, violin and Yu-Mei Wei, piano, rehearse the Ukulele Serenade by Aaron Copland for Joel’s Retirement Celebration Recital Friday, April 5 at 7:30pm in Sweeney Concert Hall. Marking 50 years of professional music making and his retirement from Smith College, Joel is joined by friends for Prokofiev’s incomparable Duo for Two Violins and the brilliant Brahms Piano Quintet. Featuring the Elm Chamber Ensemble: Anthony Berner, viola, Volcy Pelletier, cello Yu-Mei Wei, piano and special guest Robyn Quinnett, violin. Free and open to the public.
The Smith College Department of Music, Department of Religion, and Middle East Studies Program present Mahsa and Marjan Vahdat in Concert with guest artist Bridget Kibbey on Sunday, March 31 at 3 PM in Sweeney Concert Hall. The internationally celebrated Iranian singers, composers, and activists Mahsa and Marjan Vahdat are known for their deep connection to heritage and innovative musical expression. They have invited world-renowned harpist Bridget Kibbey to perform with them at Smith College in a collaboration that blends the intricate Persian textures of modes, melodies, and poetry with the evocative improvisations of the harp. Free and open to the public. No tickets required. (Video by Bridget Kibbey)
It’s time for the March Music Monday! The Smith College Chamber Singers, a select group of twenty singers, will present repertoire from their concert tour to Italy on Monday, March 4 at 1 PM in Sweeney Concert Hall. Conducted by Jonathan Hirsh and Paige Graham. Free and open to the public.
Sweeney Concert Hall is located on Smith Campus at 144 Green Street in Northampton, MA.
The Smith College Department of Music presents prize-winning musician, Albert Cano Smit, Iva Dee Hiatt Visiting Artist in Piano on Sunday, March 3 at 3 PM in Sweeney Concert Hall. Hailed as “”A master of sound, imagery and dazzling technical skills” he will play a concert of piano works by Schubert, Beethoven, Debussy, Fauré, Granados.
Sweeney Concert Hall is located at 144 Green Street in Northampton, MA on Smith Campus. Free and open to the public.
The Smith College Department of Theatre presents You on the Moors Now by Jaclyn Backhaus directed by Monica Lopez Orozco February 28, 29, March 1,2 in the Hallie Flanagan Studio Theatre. Four literary heroines of the nineteenth century set conventionalism ablaze when they turn down marriage proposals from their equally famous gentlemen callers. What results is a confluence of love, anger, grief, and bloodshed, as the ensemble struggles to reconcile romantic ideologies of the past with their modern ideas of courtship. Everything you’ve learned about love from the pages of Pride and Prejudice, Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre, and Little Women is turned upside down in this grand theatrical battle royale. Free for Smith students be emailing [email protected]. Tickets $5-10 at smith arts.booktix.com. Photos by Derek Fowler.
The Smith College Department of Dance presents the Dance MFA Thesis Concert: an Impractical Idea featuring original choreography by 2nd year MFA candidates. Experience the colorful and thought provoking new works: Con petire by Francesca Baron, Vacuwunderous by Gabrielle Revlock, Hush by Laura P. David, and Until We Forget by Madelyn Sher. Three shows Thursday, Feb 8, Friday, Feb 9, & Saturday Feb 10 in Theatre 14. Doors open at 7:30 pm, you want to be in your seats by 7:55! Reserved seat Tickets $5-10 at smitharts.booktix.com.
The Smith College Department of Music presents the Wind Ensemble Fall Concert: Weather of the Soul on Monday, December 4 at 7:30 PM in Sweeney Concert Hall under the direction of Meghan MacFadden. The concert features music centered around emotions and mental health. Works include Katahj Copley's ode to love "Halcyon Hearts", Barbara Buehlman's iconic arrangement of "Blessed Are They" from the Brahms German Requiem, "(not) Alone" by Randall Standridge, and Harrison J. Collins' coming of age journey "These Radiant Moments" heard in this rehearsal clip. The concert is free and open to the public. It will also be livestreamed on the Smith College Department of Music YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/live/Ab1fc6BFzhc?feature=share.
Sweeney Concert Hall is located at 144 Green Street, Northampton, MA.
The Smith College Department of Music presents the Wind Ensemble Fall Concert: Weather of the Soul on Monday, December 4 at 7:30 PM in Sweeney Concert Hall under the direction of Meghan MacFadden. The concert features music centered around emotions and mental health. Works include Katahj Copley’s ode to love “Halcyon Hearts”, Barbara Buehlman’s iconic arrangement of “Blessed Are They” from the Brahms German Requiem, “(not) Alone” by Randall Standridge, and Harrison J. Collins’ coming of age journey “These Radiant Moments” heard in this rehearsal clip. The concert is free and open to the public. It will also be livestreamed on the Smith College Department of Music YouTube channel (link in bio).
Sweeney Concert Hall is located at 144 Green Street, Northampton, MA.
Saturday, December 2 at 4PM the Smith College Department of Music presents Liebesode (Ode to Love) with Katherine Saik DeLugan, mezzo soprano whose voice has been described as leaving “an indelible impression”, “gloriously sung” and having a voice that “sparkled easily above the orchestra”, accompanied by Jiayan Sun, praised for his “revelatory” and “technically flawless, poetically inspired and immensely assured playing.”
The program explores works of late Austrian and German Romantic composers who revolutionized Western melody and harmony in service of elevated poetry and storytelling. The concert is free and open to the public in Sweeney Concert Hall. The event will also be live-streamed at https://bit.ly/SmithMusicLive.
Sweeney Concert Hall is located at 144 Green Street, Northampton, MA
The Smith College Department of Dance presents the Fall Faculty Dance Concert, featuring the Five College Dance repertory project Dance 1 by Lucinda Childs, the first movement from Dance a collaboration with Philip Glass and Sol LeWitt. Also on the program Oh Ordinary, a new contemporary dance by guest artist and Smith alum Sarah Konner built in collaboration with the dancers—bending time and space, patience, and the fullness of being, Sad to know of the wind tonight, a contemporary ballet set to the haunting work of British musician Jamie McDermott, and a new Hip Hop fusion piece by Duane Lee Holland, Jr., Nourishment, a piece for 8 performers that features dance as a cathartic conduit to healing, empowerment, and cultural diplomacy.
Childs is widely revered as one of the most important figures in modern dance. This is a rare opportunity to see her minimalist dance masterwork live. Describing Childs’ work in the New York Times, Gia Kourlas writes “Her stark, minimalist approach stitches together straight and circular motifs in space with fleet footwork and military authority. It is at once unfussy and euphoric, somehow like figure skating without the ice.”
Tickets $5-10 available online at https://smitharts.booktix.com or by emailing [email protected].
