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Office Location: Zankel 111
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Saratoga Springs, NY 12866
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Michele Koskinen
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Metroland
Chandra gets credit for creating "world-class" Indian music[2/4/10] Veena Chandra's birthday celebration featured music, of course. Celebrants included Josh Potter of Metroland, who writes about how Chandra and her son are making beautiful music together. Read More. |
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Music
Ensemble ACJW Begins Three-Day Residency[2/3/10] Eleven members of Ensemble ACJW have started their residency, which culminates Friday night with their first performance in Zankel. For a sense of what this residency means both to the Academy and to Skidmore, view this great video. Read More. |
Activism
Meeting set to plan Skidmore's response to crisis in Haiti[1/25/10] How can Skidmore respond effectively as a community to the crisis in Haiti? Join the discussion at a meeting Tuesday, Jan. 26, at 2:15 in the Intercultural Center to learn what people already are doing and explore how the Skidmore community can focus its energies. Read More. |
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Music
Zankel Opens Tonight! [1/21/10] After two years of construction, the Arthur Zankel Music Center opens tonight with a performance by Ensemble ACJW. The public is welcome at this free concert in the sparkling new home of Skidmore's Music Department. Read More. |
Music
Music groups to wrap semester with series of concerts[12/3/09] Music, both vocal and instrumental, will be available in abundance as the semester ends with a selection of concerts by Skidmore's music groups. Read More. |
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Music
Carnegie Hall Premieres series continues with Oct. 9 concert[10/3/09] Skidmore welcomes the return of Ensemble ACJW, featuring brilliant young musicians in residence and the upstate premiere of a Carnegie Hall commission by Daniel Bernard Roumain (DBR) in an Oct. 9 concert. Read More. |
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Campus News
FYE program opens three special events to public[8/27/09] Several elements of the 2009 First-Year Experience have potential appeal to an audience beyond the campus, which is why the general public is welcome to attend these special events. Admission is free. (Author and guest lecturer Eric Foner, left) Read More. |
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Music
Tonight: Tom Denny to give pre-performance talk at SPAC[8/6/09] Tom Denny, chair of Skidmore's Department of Music, will give the pre-performance talk at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center tonight, preparing the audience for an evening of Romantic classics performed by the Philadelphia Orchestra with pianist Andre Watts. Read More. |
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Summer Programs
Summer Jazz Institute offers performances through July 10[6/25/09] The Jonathan Batiste Quartet will perform Monday, July 6 in the JKB Theater. Also coming up concerts with the Skidmore Faculty Sextet and institute participants. Read More. |
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Summer Programs
Writers Institute readings are under way through July 24[6/25/09] Free readings and discussions by writers hosted by the New York State Summer Writers Institute are now underway through July 24. The list includes three recent poet laureates, three Pulitzer-Prize winners, a MacArthur Foundation "genius" award-winner, and a winner of the Lamont Poetry Prize. Read More. |
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Community
June 10 "Prelude" to launch SaratogaArtsFest[6/2/09] Back stage at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center will be the venue of a special gathering to kick off SaratogaArtsFest 2009. Read More. |
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Summer Programs
Taylor 2 returns for residency, public events, performances[5/29/09] The junior troupe of the Paul Taylor Dance Company arrives on campus for a month-long residency designed to inform, entertain, and delight. UPDATED: Link to Daily Gazette story by dance journalist Wendy Liberatore on Taylor's company and SaratogaArtsFest performance. Read More. |
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Music
Hawthorne String Quartet to perform with Skidmore Orchestra[4/24/09] This spring's Sterne Virtuoso Artists-in-Residence will perform a final time on campus–with the Skidmore Orchestra on April 25. Don't miss this chance to hear an outstanding program of orchestral music. Read More. |
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Special Programs
Perlow events to observe Yom HaShoah[4/10/09] A series of events to observe Holocaust Memorial Day (Yom HaShoah) will foster exploration of evil, trauma, and artistic creativity. Admission is free and open to the public. Read More. |
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Music
Grammy Award-winner McBride to perform[2/26/09] The Filene Concert Series continues with a concert by jazz bassist Chrstian McBride at 8 p.m. Monday, March 2. Read More. |
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Music
Addy, Odadaa! participate in 'A Celebration of America'[1/15/09] Skidmore's own Yacub Addy and his performing group Odadaa! were among a select group of performers participating in a special observance of Martin Luther King Day and the inauguration of Barack Obama as the 44th president of the United States. Read More. |
