Vassar’s traditional opening of the academic year will feature a choir performance, a Convocation address by Mita Choudhury, and much more!

The Distortion of Memory: Guitarist Trevor Babb, performs a recital length work for solo guitar by 2019 Pulitzer Prize Finalist, James Romig.

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Classics and Creations: The trio of Nick Hetko (piano), Rich Syracuse (bass), and Jeff Siegel (drums) presents a set of American Songbook classics alongside their modern jazz originals for piano trio.

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Poughkeepsie-based artist Julia Whitney Barnes joins us to share insights into her wide-ranging artistic practice, which is based in reverent observation of the natural world. Whitney Barnes’s work is a highlight of the Loeb’s exhibition The Botanist at Vassar, on view through October 4.

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Music by Bach, Haydn, Chopin and Copland.

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Catherine Ramírez explores race, immigration, automation, and visions of labor in Latinxfuturist works.

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In The Patient Looks Back: Portraits of My Therapist, Catskill-based painter Joyce Polance reverses therapy’s usual direction of attention by turning the patient’s gaze toward the therapist. Painted in oil entirely with her fingers, the three-year series moves between likeness and disruption, testing how much close looking can—and cannot—reveal.

Music from Paris: Vassar faculty members—Marka Young, violin; Liuh-Wen Ting, viola; Iva Casian-Lakos, cello; Marija Ilić, piano; and Alan Hankers, electronics—perform works by Kaija Saariaho and Gabriel Fauré.

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Members of the Vassar Music Faculty will perform a variety of jazz originals and standards.

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