Wednesday, April 22nd, 7:00pm

Chism Recital Hall

The Whitman College Department of Music Presents:

Maddy Becherini Senior Voice Recital, Soprano

Maddy Becherini, Soprano

Jan Roberts, Piano

Program available here

Friday, April 24th, 7:00pm

Chism Recital Hall

The Whitman College Department of Music presents:

Jazz Ensemble 1 and Jazz Ensemble 2 Spring Concert

Susumu Watanabe, director

Sunday, April 26th, 5:30pm

Chism Recital Hall

The Whitman College Department of Music presents:

Whitman College Chorale and Chamber Singers Spring Concert

Dr. Laney McClain Armstrong, Director

Dr. Feng Kang, Collaborative Pianist

Program available here

Monday, April 27th, 7:00pm

Chism Recital Hall

The Whitman College Department of Music presents:

Whitman College Piano Area Spring Showcase

Featuring students of Rodolfo Faistauer, Carissa Pitkins Cox and Stephanie Steele

Genjo Roshi has been Abbot of Chobo-ji Zen Center in Seattle since his formal installation in 1999. His studies, in both America and Japan began in 1975. Genjo Roshi is also a psychotherapist in private practice, and the author of two books: Intimate Infinite and Reflections on Awaking and Maturity.

Genjo’s talk will focus on developing confidence in your own wisdom and learning how to respond to life’s challenges in a troubled world.

Sunday, April 19th, 3:00pm

Chism Recital Hall

Whitman College Department of Music presents:

Millie Atack Senior Recital, Soprano

Program available here

Dr. Tallamy is the author of Bringing Nature Home, The Living Landscape (co-author Rick Darke),  Nature's Best Hope, and The Nature of Oaks, and cofounder of Homegrown National Park (HomegrownNationalPark.org). He has received awards from numerous organizations (Garden Writers’s Association, Audubon,  National Wildlife Federation, Western Carolina University, Garden Club of America, and American Horticultural Association). Doug lives with his wife, Cindy, on their restored property in Oxford, PA.

Recent headlines about global insect declines and three billion fewer birds in North America are a bleak reality check about how ineffective our current landscape designs have been at sustaining the plants and animals that sustain us.  Such losses are not an option if we wish to continue our current standard of living on Planet Earth. The good news is that none of this is inevitable. Choosing the right plants for our landscapes will not only address the biodiversity crisis but help fight our climate crisis as well. Tallamy will discuss simple steps that each of us can- and must- take to reverse declining biodiversity, why we must change our adversarial relationship with nature to a collaborative one, and why we, ourselves, are nature’s best hope.