Arts Calendar Spring 2014 PDF - Bowdoin College

Bowdoin College
Brunswick, Maine
Thursday, April 3
Russwurm Lecture Series
“Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, and the Civil War”
Robert Levine
7:00 p.m.
Lancaster Lounge, Moulton Union
Robert S. Levine is professor of English and Distinguished Scholar-Teacher at the University of
Maryland, College Park. His recent books include Martin Delany, Frederick Douglass, and the Politics
of Representative Identity (1997), and Dislocating Race and Nation: Episodes in Nineteenth-Century
American Literary Nationalism (2008). He serves on the editorial boards of American Literary
History; Leviathan: A Journal of Melville Studies; ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance;
Authorship; The Frederick Douglass Papers; and The Nathaniel Hawthorne Review. He was recently
named general editor of the five-volume The Norton Anthology of American Literature. His lecture will
be drawn from his current book project, “The Lives of Frederick Douglass,” for which he received a
John Simon Guggenheim fellowship in 2012. FREE.
Sponsored by the Africana Studies Program.
Robert Levine
Saturday, April 5
Family Saturday at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art
10:00 a.m.
Bowdoin College Museum of Art
Bowdoin College students lead a program of activity and fun for children, working with the
exhibitions on view. FREE.
Sunday, April 6
The Zamir Chorale of Boston
Joshua Jacobson, artistic director
2:00 p.m.
Kanbar Auditorium, Studzinski Recital Hall
Since its formation in 1969, this fifty-member adult chorale, dubbed a “virtuoso outfit” by the
Boston Globe and recognized by American Record Guide as “America’s foremost Jewish choral
ensemble,” has remained committed to the highest quality performance of music spanning
thousands of years, four continents, and a variety of styles, both popular and classical. FREE.
Sponsored by the Department of Music.
The Zamir Chorale of Boston
Wednesday, April 9
Amernet String Quartet
7:30 p.m.
Kanbar Auditorium, Studzinski Recital Hall
The Amernet String Quartet with Rachel Calloway, mezzo
soprano, will present two recent works for voice and quartet,
including a premiere by Bowdoin faculty member Vineet
Shende and the Incan-inspired work “Baalkah” by Mexican
composer Gabriela Ortiz. The program is counterbalanced by
two wonderful Czech works from the 1920s, the “Five Pieces”
by Erwin Schulhoff and Leos Janacek’s “Intimate Letters.”
FREE.
Sponsored by the Department of Music.
Thursday, April 10
Thursday Night Salon at the Museum of Art
“Man Ray, Marcel Duchamp, and the Surrealist Movement”
Anne Collins Goodyear
7:00 p.m.
Bowdoin College Museum of Art
An evening of conversation and enjoyment based on the exhibitions currently on view at
the Museum of Art. Anne Collins Goodyear, co-director of the Bowdoin College Museum of
Art, will speak about the role of Man Ray and Marcel Duchamp in the Surrealist Movement,
focusing on works in the Under the Surface: Surrealist Photography. FREE.
Sponsored and presented by the Bowdoin College Museum of Art.
The Amernet String Quartet
For more information:
207-725-3375
All events are open to the public.
Admission to most events is free
and no tickets are required. Any
ticket or admission requirements
are listed within the event
description. For information on
acquiring tickets, see the inside
back cover.
All events are subject to change.
Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, April 10, 11, and 12
Spring Theater Performance
Harrison Bergeron Escapes from the Zoo by Kurt Vonnegut
8:00 p.m.
Wish Theater, Memorial Hall
The year is 2081, and agents of the of U.S. Handicapper General have finally seen to it that
everyone is equal. Based on Kurt Vonnegut’s dystopic nightmare, Harrison Bergeron, this
circus-theatre-cabaret is a collective creation by students of the Departments of Theater and
Dance, Music, and Visual Arts, under the direction of Kathryn Syssoyeva. Tickets FREE.
Sponsored by the Alice Cooper Morse Fund for the Performing Arts.
Presented by the Department of Theater and Dance.
For more information on these and many other events go to:
bowdoin.edu/arts
Man Ray, Untitled, 1921, gelatin silver
print. Museum Purchase, Lloyd O. and
Marjorie Strong Coulter Fund.