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Joanne Shenandoah will present Music of the Oneidas on Thursday, May 1, at 7 p.m., in the Fillius Events Barn.  She is the great-great-granddaughter of Chief Skenandoah with whom Samuel Kirkland envisioned Hamilton College.  The event is free and open to the public.

For the last 53 years Minor Theater has served as the home for countless Theatre Department programs. From productions of Ibsen’s A Doll’s House to the Pulitzer Prize-winning drama A Streetcar Named Desire, the darkly comic Etta Jenks to the fanciful Big Love, the brick building on Campus Road has provided a stage and a home for Hamilton’s aspiring actors, actresses, playwrights and stage crews.

The Hamilton College and Community Masterworks Chorale and Symphoria will perform Franz Joseph Haydn’s The Seasons on Tuesday, April 29, at 7:30 p.m., in Wellin Hall, Schambach Center for Music and the Performing Arts.

The Hamilton College Theatre Department announces the second week of the Spring Theater Production, Dark Play or Stories for Boys by Carlos Murillo. Performances will run Thursday, April 24 – Saturday, April 26, at 7:30 p.m.

Hamilton College Performing Arts concludes the spring series with a performance by the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) on Friday, April 18, at 7:30 p.m., in Wellin Hall, Schambach Center for Music and the Performing Arts. The Hamilton College Orchestra will appear as special guests with ICE.

Hamilton alumnus and music major Jeff Dyer ’04 returned to Hamilton on April 3 for a discussion and performance with famed flute player, Arn Chorn Pond. Pond is a Cambodian-American who experienced the horrors of genocide when the Khmer Rouge took control of his native country and forced Pond into a child work camp.

Hamilton College Performing Arts continues the spring performing arts series with jazz vocalist Nnenna Freelon on Saturday, April 5, at 7:30 p.m., in Wellin Hall, Schambach Center for Music and the Performing Arts.

The Hamilton College Choir will present the home concert of its annual spring break tour on Friday, April 4, at 7:30 p.m., in Wellin Hall, Schambach Center for Music and the Performing Arts.

Professor of Music Samuel Pellman presented his composition of digital music “Selected Galaxies: Peculiar” on March 22 at the Society of Composers, Inc. (SCI) National Conference at Ball State University in Muncie, Ind. The performance included a video created by Ben Salzman ’14 as part of an Emerson Project collaboration with Pellman.

The Hamilton College Choir will hit the road for its annual spring break tour, this year visiting cities in the Northeast. The 78 members are directed by G. Roberts Kolb, professor of music and director of choral music at Hamilton since 1981.