CALENDAR
April 2024
Ritual and Devotion
Sneha Shrestha
Closing April 5, 2024
Ritual and Devotion focuses on Nepali-born, Boston-based artist Sneha Shrestha (b. 1987 – ) who is known for her bold, calligraphic, and colorful presentation of the Nepali alphabet in Devanagari script.
Nostalgia and Identity in Ritual and Devotion
Matthew JaskotApril 2, 2024 | 4 pm
A concert inspired by Sneha Shrestha’s exhibit, Ritual and Devotion. The program features three captivating works for solo piano. The musical works presented relate to concepts explored in the exhibit such as the “intermingling of the sacred and secular” and “devotion to culture, heritage, and ancestry.”
Poet Laureate x Poet Laureate
An Interview of Porsha Olaytwola by Oliver de la Paz
April 3, 2024 | 6 pm
Worcester Poet Laureate and Holy Cross English professor Oliver de la Paz interviews Boston Poet Laureate Porsha Olayiwola about her work, her artistic process, and her collaboration with composer Mason Bynes for the Boston Lyric Opera on the song cycle “The Wanderer’s Tethering.”
No-No Boy
April 3, 2024 | 7:30 pm
No-No Boy is an immersive concert experience that illuminates hidden Asian American histories through folk songs, sound pieces, live projections, and storytelling. This performance will celebrate No-No Boy’s third full-length LP EMPIRE ELECTRIC released by the Smithsonian Folkways label.
Nicole Flattery
April 3, 2024 | 7:30 pm
The Irish writer Nicole Flattery is author of the short story collection Show Them a Good Time
O Lungo Drom (The Long Road) Oratorio
April 5, 2024 | 8:15 pm
O Lungo Drom (“The Long Road” in Romanes) (2022) is an oratorio that tracks the history of the Roma and Sinti (a subgroup of the Romani people found mostly in Germany) through the words of Sinti/Roma poets and writers themselves.
Boston Lyric Opera
The Wanderer’s Tethering
April 6, 2024 | 3 pm
With a libretto and spoken word by Boston Poet Laureate Porsha Olayiwola and music by composer Mason Bynes, “The Wanderer’s Tethering” reconsiders the 1803 Igbo revolt on the shores of Georgia through the eyes of one of their descendents.
Noontime Concert
Two Piano Mini ExtravaganzaApril 9, 2024 | 12:30 pm
This concert celebrates the two remarkable Steinway D pianos housed in Luth Concert Hall with performances by Music Department students. A transcription of Beethoven’s 5th symphony will highlight the program.
Graffiti, Street Art, and Community
A Panel Discussion
April 9, 2024
Join exhibiting artist Sneha Shrestha and guest panelists Ché Anderson ’11, Rob “ProBlak” Gibbs, and Caleb Neelon for a panel discussion about graffiti, street art, and community.
Vesna Goldsworthy
April 11, 2024 | 7:30 pm
Vesna Goldsworthy is a memoirist, poet, and novelist who writes in English, her third language. She is the author of seven widely translated books, including the best-selling memoir Chernobyl Strawberries; The Angel of Salonika, a prize-winning poetry collection that was designated the Times Poetry Book of the Year; and the novels Monsieur Ka, inspired by Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina, and Gorsky, an updating of Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby that was nominated for the Women’s Prize for Fiction.
Dance Ensemble Spring Performance
April 12, 2024 | 7:00 pm
A showcase of student-taught workshops that include jazz, tap, hip-hop, ballet, lyrical, contemporary, and Dance Team.
Gavin Klein
April 16, 2024 | 7:00 pm
College of the Holy Cross’ Organ Scholar and rising star, Gavin Klein, performs works of Sweelinck, Bach, Mendelssohn and Franck.
Nathan McClain
April 18, 2024 | 7:30 pm
Nathan McClain is a poet, editor, and educator who lives in Amherst, Massachusetts. McClain teaches both creative writing and African American literary arts at Hampshire College and also serves as poetry editor of the Massachusetts Review.
The Heiress
By Ruth and Augustus Goetz
Based on Washington Square by Henry James
Directed by Steve VinebergApril 18-20 and 25-27 at 7:30
April 21 and 28 at 2:00
The Goetzes turned Henry James’s celebrated late-nineteenth-century novella Washington Square into a classic American play. The play is an unusual and complex coming-of-age story about the consequences of living without love.
Chamber Singers
April 20, 2024 | 4:30 pm
The Holy Cross Chamber Singers will be performing a program based on musical psalm settings. The program also features several antiphons, or musical settings that provide commentary on the text and proceed or follow a psalm, by James MacMillan, Anton Bruckner.
Cassatt String Quartet
April 23, 2024 | 8 pm
Program will premiere new works by Holy Cross composers Chris Arrell and Matthew Jaskot, and will also feature Shirish Korde’s Moods of Ellington, written in celebration of Duke Ellington’s 125th birthday, and God Bless the Child, a fantasia for jazz vocalist and cello based on the Billie Holiday classic.
Academic Conference Concert
April 24, 2024 | 8 pm
Academic Festival Performance, featuring pianist Robert Gardner, the 2023 Concerto Competition winner, and opera choruses performed by the Holy Cross College Orchestra and College Choir.
Chamber Music Recital
April 25, 2024 | 6 pm
Students who participate in the Chamber Music course perform the works they have studied during the semester.
End of Semester Student Recital
April 26, 2024 | 4 pm
Students who took private lessons will perform pieces they have worked on during the semester.
Jazz Ensemble
April 30, 2024 | 8 pm
The Holy Cross Jazz Ensemble will perform American Jazz standards under the direction of Mike Monaghan.