Q&A: Cellist of Dover Quartet Reflects on Career and Life

Named the Cleveland Quartet Award-winner, and honored with the coveted Avery Fisher Career Grant, the Dover String Quartet has become one of the most in-demand ensembles in the world. According to Strings Magazine, the quartet’s rise from up-and-coming young ensemble to occupying a spot at the top of their field has been “practically meteoric.” The Dover performed Mozart pieces as well as works by Samuel Barber, Caroline Shaw and Dimitri Shostakovich last Friday evening, Feb. 14, in Buckley Hal

Zumba at Amherst Provides Stress Relief for Students

Eight years after the exercise style was invented by accident (when its founder Beto Perex simply forgot his teaching music for an aerobics class and popped in salsa tapes instead), Lauren Gladu, academic department coordinator for Spanish and campus Zumba fitness instructor, can be found spending her Tuesday and Thursday afternoons bopping and dancing, teaching Zumba in front of a group of students. As she teaches, she pushes the style forward, morphing its traditional Latin influences with p