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The Hamilton College Department of Music presents several spring concerts for student ensembles -- the choir, orchestra and jazz ensemble --  in Wellin Hall, Schambach Center for Music and the Performing Arts, May 2-8.

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.

The Hamilton College Voices of Color Lecture Series welcomed renowned dance icon Judith Jamison for an intimate talk in the Chapel on April 18. The Series honors C. Christine Johnson, former director of the Hamilton College Higher Education Opportunity Program (HEOP. In the context of being an empowered role model, eager to give back, Jamison reflected on her career in the performing arts, most significantly her involvement in classical ballet.

Hamilton College will name its theatre and studio arts building for Kevin and Karen Kennedy in recognition of their lifetime giving to the college, including $10 million for the new project. They are the lead donors to the $46.8 million building that is located directly across College Hill Road from the Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art, which opened in 2012.

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 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.