Established in 1993 on the occasion of the college’s 200th anniversary, Bicentennial Medals honor members of the Williams community for distinguished achievement in any field of endeavor. The college awarded 23 Bicentennial Medals in 1993 and has added five to seven in each year since. This year’s recipients are Frederick Rudolph ’42, Dr. Michael F. Roizen ’67, Wilfred Chabrier ’77 and parent ’06, Ms. Navjeet K. Bal ’84, and Bethany McLean ’92.
Class of ’71 Public Affairs Forum, part 1 (see also Fiona Terry, Oct. 18). This event is sold out
Bill McKibben is an American environmentalist and writer who frequently writes about global warming and alternative energy and advocates for more localized economies. In 2010 the Boston Globe called him “probably the nation’s leading environmentalist” and Time magazine described him as “the world’s best green journalist.” In 2009 he led the organization of 350.org, which coordinated what Foreign Policy magazine called “the largest ever global coordinated rally of any kind,” with 5,200 simultaneous demonstrations in 181 countries. The magazine named him to its inaugural list of the 100 most important global thinkers, and MSN named him one of the dozen most influential men of 2009. Sponsored by the W. Ford Schumann ’50 Program in Democratic Studies. The event is free, but tickets are required. Call the ’62 Center box office for reservations: 413.597.2425.
Dr. Robert Cantu and Mr. Christopher Nowinski are both associated with the Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy at Boston University and are co-founders of the Sports Legacy Institute.
Andrew Skurka: Circling Alaska and Yukon: A 4,700-mile 6-month journey by skis, foot, and packraft through Big Wilderness.
Featuring the orchestra principals with music by Vaughan Williams, Mozart, and Haydn.
Grammy winning Charles Neville is a virtuoso Saxophone player with an astounding variety of styles. Most well know as a front man for the world famous Neville Brothers (“The Kings of New Orleans” - Conan O’Brien) with whom he has performed with for more than 30 years. His saxophone solo won him a Grammy in 1989 for his haunting rendition of Healing Chant on the Neville Brother’s Yellow Moon album. With the Neville Brothers Charles has played venues all around the world, The Late Night with Conan O’Brien , Late night with Jay Leno, the Late Show with David Letterman , and Saturday Night Live twice. In addition to Charles’s stellar career as The Neville Brothers front man he has performed with some of the world’s most legendary musicians including: Ray Charles, James Brown, B.B. King, Santana, The Grateful Dead, Herbie Hancock, and many, many more. His brothers affectionately refer to him as "The Horn Man".
"The rippling, and at times percussive, arrangements with the kora are like rocks in a stream, with Neville's fluid and melodic saxophone like water flowing over and around the rocks. The music is meant to be a healing force that binds the past with the present. " - The Monterey County Herald
October 28 | 7:00 PM | Adams Memorial Theatre
October 28 | 9:00 PM | Adams Memorial Theatre
October 29 | 2:30 pm | Adams Memorial Theatre
October 29 | 8:30 PM | Adams Memorial Theatre | $6 in advance/$10 at door
Frosh Revue 2011, "Afrosh the Universe" is a sketch comedy show written and performed by a group of ten members of the class of 2015 in which they satirize the experience of being a Williams first-year.
Directed by CJ Higgins ’14, Frank Pagliaro ’14, Lizzie Stern ’14, and Julia Juster ’14
The Williams Jazz Ensembles present a concert of classic big band swing, featuring this year’s new crop of young improvisers.
Charles Ives - The Unanswered Question
David Kechley - Sea of Stones
A Concerto for Guitar and Saxophone
John Adams - My Father Knew Charles Ives
Leonard Bernstein - Symphonic Dances
from West Side Story
Stephen Dankner - Meditation
for Alto Sax and String Orchestra
—Dedicated to Steven Dennis Bodner
Pre-concert talk 7:15 pm in Greylock Hall
November 19 | 2:30 PM | CenterStage | $3 (students)/ $5
Cap & Bells is pleased to present Mary Zimmerman’s Metamorphoses, a contemporary reinterpretation of Ovid’s myths. The ensemble of Metamorphoses examines the triumphant power of love through the timelessness of storytelling and classic Greek myths featuring familiar characters including Midas, Orpheus, and Aphrodite.
The cast includes Marina Bousa ’13, Holly Crane ’12, Vashti Emigh ’12, Alex Foucault ’15 Lizzie Fox ’12, Kyle Martin ’12, Tallis Moore ’14, Michaela Morton ’12, and Sarah Sanders ’14. The creative and design team includes Margy Love ’12, Anna Barnes ’14, Meghan Breen ’12, Frank Pagliaro ’14, Alison Pincus ’12, Michelle Rodriguez ’12, Griffith Simon ’15, Julia Simon ’14, Quinn Solifsburg ’14, and Lizzie Stern ’14.
For more information, see capandbells.org.
New and experimental music for percussion surveying a vast terrain of sound and rhythm.
I/O Fest returns for a weekend of music that defies category, crosses musical and conceptual boundaries, and challenges performers and audiences alike. Featuring I/O New Music, Iota Ensemble, and student ensembles, the festival invites audience to fully experience new ideas and essential music. Performances will take place January 5-7 in the ‘62 Center, and throughout winter study in other campus locations.
I/O New Music
Probing new sounds and ideas, I/O performs the vital and challenging music of now. I/O serves as the house band for THE BOX–music by living composers series, and presents the third annual I/O Fest in January. Embracing both non-traditional sounds and non-conventional performance spaces, I/O opens new paths for listening.
Critically acclaimed duo, The Bengsons, are proud to be returning to Williams College CenterStage for an evening of music from their upcoming EP and their in-development opera, 100 DAYS. Williams '05 alumnus, Abigail Nessen Bengson, and her husband, Shaun Bengson, write songs that blend rousing, all-join-hands group choruses with spry vocal melodies and rich instrumentation that incorporates everything from banjo to accordion to church organ. The New York Times has said they possess “not only a tremendous musical talent, but a raw honesty, a sincere righteousness.” Join them for an evening of new music and general merrymaking.
Lawrence H. Summers is President Emeritus of Harvard University and Charles W. Eliot University Professor at the Harvard Kennedy School. During the past two decades he has served in a series of senior policy positions, including Vice President of development economics and chief economist of the World Bank, Undersecretary of the Treasury for International Affairs, Director of the National Economic Council for the Obama Administration from 2009 to 2011, and Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, from 1999 to 2001.
A One Man show by Ibrahim Miari that portrays the complexities and contradictions inherent in Palestinian-Israeli identity.
Williams College is proud to present the winner of the Outstanding Solo Show at the New York International Fringe Festival,Truth Values: One Girl's Romp Through M.I.T.'s Male Math Maze. Created as a response to former Harvard President Lawrence Summers’s now infamous suggestion that women are less represented than men in the sciences because of innate gender differences,Truth Valuesis a true-life tale that offers a humorous, scathing, insightful and ultimately uplifting look at the challenges of being a professional woman in a male-dominated field. There will be panel discussion lead by Andrea Danyluk, Williams Professor of Computer Science and Kathryn Kent, Williams Professor of English, Chair of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies.
A workshop performance of East of the Sun/West of the Moon
A workshop performance of East of the Sun/West of the Moon
