Orchestra Performs Mahler's Fifth

This Saturday, May 4 at 8:00 p.m., the Amherst College Symphony Orchestra will debut its most difficult performance to date: Gustav Mahler’s Fifth Symphony. The 70-member ensemble, under the direction of conductor Mark Swanson and concertmaster Ben Boatwright ’14, is prepared to deliver a thrilling 70-minutes’ worth of virtuosity. According to Swanson, Mahler’s Fifth is a symphony celebrated for its “great dramatic impact, emotion, and beauty.” Concertmaster Ben Boatwright offered his own take o

The Art of Our Sister Colleges: An Overview

When your aesthetic appetite has exhausted the 18,000 works available in Amherst’s own Mead Art Museum or when you’re just looking to get off campus for an afternoon, hop in a car and head to Smith or Mount Holyoke, or both. The Smith College Museum of Art, as part of the Brown Fine Arts Center, is reminiscent of our own Beneski building – brick red, with lots of glass, metal, and lateral slatting. After earning free admission at the door via your five-college ID, you’ll pass (or not) through