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Hamilton students are nearing the end of their spring break, but they’ll have plenty to look forward to when the spring semester resumes on March 28.  The college calendar is loaded with upcoming lectures, performances and events from now until the end of the semester. Take a look!

Hamilton’s choir had a special guest when they performed in St. Paul on their spring tour last week. Hamilton President-elect David Wippman attended the performance. Wippman is currently dean of the University of Minnesota Law School and will become president of Hamilton on July 1.  

The Hamilton College Choir is on the road for its annual spring break tour, this year opening in Rochester, N.Y., then heading to five cities in the Midwest. The 51-member choir is directed by G. Roberts Kolb, professor of music and director of choral music at Hamilton since 1981.

“I'm playing this out the window to the monkeys... The monkeys are still there...so you didn't scare them off. I thought they only liked classical music,” exclaimed a Costa Rican listener to the livestreamed jazz program delivered by Fillius Jazz Archive Director Monk Rowe as part of his edX course on March 6. More than 600 listeners from dozens of countries and states joined in with those in the college’s packed Little Pub to hear Rowe and his fellow musicians play and talk about jazz.

The Hamilton College Orchestra, conducted by Heather Buchman, presents the annual Brainstorm! concert on Sunday, March 6, at 3 p.m., in Wellin Hall. This year’s theme is “Landscape Music.”

Hamilton’s Department of Dance and Movement Studies will present its annual Spring Dance Concert on Friday, March 4, and Saturday, March 5, at 7:30 p.m., in Wellin Hall. The performance will feature student dancers and choreography by Hamilton faculty Sandra Stanton-Cotter, Bruce Walczyk and Paris Wilcox ’95 in addition to guest choreographers Chuyun Oh, Jeremy Raia and Catherine Wright.

Moliere’s comedic masterpiece Tartuffe, directed by MJ Lugo ’16 with costumes by Asad Javed ’16 was performed on Feb. 28. The production fulfilled the 2015 costume design Emerson project collaboration between Javed and Visiting Assistant Professor of Theatre Andrew Holland. The cast included Mackenzie Bettman ’18, Ryan Cassidy ’17 and Michael Gagnon ’16.

The Hamilton College Performing Arts Series presents Step Afrika! on Saturday, Feb. 27, at 7:30 p.m., in Wellin Hall, Schambach Center. 

Magic Man, an electronic rock band from New England, visited the Annex on Feb. 18 for a CAB Acoustic Coffeehouse performance. Magic Man’s show was a highlight of this year’s FebFest.

The Hamilton College Department of Music will present Franz Schubert’s song cycle Die Winterreise (Winter’s Journey) with Jonathan English, tenor, and Sar-Shalom Strong, piano, on Sunday, Feb. 21, at 3 p.m., in Wellin Hall, Schambach Center.