Hamilton College Classical Connections
SHAKESPEARE & COMPANY
Hamlet
Friday, October 10, 8 pm
Wellin Hall
$18/$12/$5
Shakespeare & Co. leaves the
Berkshires to undertake their
first national tour with this
acclaimed production of Hamlet.
The luminous portrayal of the
human struggle with two oppos-
ing forces – moral integrity and
the desire for vengeance – was
hailed as “galvanizing and bold”
by Variety magazine. The Wall
Street Journal called this pro-
duction, “incisive and fast-
moving…, full of fresh line
readings and directorial touches
that light up Shakespeare’s
lines like fireworks in the
summer night.”
HARLEM STRING QUARTET
Friday, November 7, 8 pm
Wellin Hall
$15/$10/$5
The Harlem Quartet, an
innovative and daring all-
Black and Latino string quartet,
made their acclaimed debut in
the fall of 2006 at the Sphinx
Organization’s Gala Concert
at Carnegie Hall, earning rave
reviews from The New York
Times. This emerging ensemble
is dedicated to advancing
diversity in classical music
by presenting a varied reper-
toire and highlighting works
by minority composers.
SYRACUSE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Sunday, February 15, 3 pm
Wellin Hall
$18/$12/$5
The Syracuse Symphony
Orchestra returns to Wellin
Hall with conductor Daniel
Hege and Kirill Gerstein, piano,
as the featured soloist. The
SSO will perform Diamond’s
Music for Shakespeare’s
Romeo and
Juliet, Ravel’s
Piano Concerto
in G Major, and
Mendelssohn’s
Symphony No.4 “Italian.”
Please join us
for a pre-concert
talk in Café Opus
at 2 pm with
Daniel Hege and
Kirill Gerstein.
REBEL BAROQUE
ENSEMBLE
Irregular Pearls
Saturday, April 4, 8 pm
Wellin Hall
$15/$10/$5
Hailed by The New York Times
as “sophisticated and beguil-
ing” and praised by the Los
Angeles Times for their “aston-
ishingly vital music-making,”
the New York-based baroque
ensemble REBEL (pronounced
Re-BEL) offers Irregular
Pearls, an eclectic mix of
chamber music from 17th- and
18th-Century Italy, Germany,
and France with works by
Purcell, Handel, and Telemann,
among others.
SHAFAATULLAH KHAN
Friday, April 10, 8 pm
Wellin Hall
$15/$10/$5
This exciting, multicultural
two-part program will feature
Shafaatullah Khan performing
classical Indian music on
tablaand sitar and a “Tribute
to Rumi” where Khan will be
joined by Roger Mgrdichian
on the oud (a Middle Eastern
instrument resembling the lute)
for a fusion of Indian and
Middle
Eastern music
inspired
by the spiritual
poet Jalaaluddin
Rumi.
Funded by a grant from the
Pennsylvania Performing Arts
on Tour, a program developed
and funded by the Heinz Endow-
ments; the William Penn Founda-
tion; the Pennsylvania Council
on the Arts, a state agency; and
the Pew Charitable Trusts; and
administered by the Mid Atlantic
Arts Foundation.
