Events

April 6, 2026, 2-4 pm – Fellows and External Fellows Every Valley: The Desperate Lives and Troubled Times that Made Handel’s “Messiah” by Charles King (2024)       Discussion Leaders: Linda Hutcheon and Michael Hutcheon George Frideric Handel’s (1741) Messiah is an oratorio that has been called “the greatest piece of participatory art ever created.” Choirs and orchestras perform […]

May 4, 2026, 2-4 pm – Fellows and External Fellows Silent Spring by Rachel Carson (1962)  Discussion Leader: Sara Shettleworth Published only 64 years ago, Silent Spring already qualifies as a classic. As an accessible popular account of the damage being done to the environment by substances such as the then-common pesticide DDT, it was […]