HWS at Rochester International Jazz Festival

This summer, HWS students performed at the Xerox Rochester International Jazz Festival as part of the HWS Jazz Guitar Ensemble, led by Applied Instructor of Guitar Studies Greg Wachala. The students…
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Classical Guitar Performance features Ken Meyer

Classical guitarist Kenneth Meyer will perform and discuss questions related to the history and art of the instrument on Friday, April 27 at 2 p.m. in Froelich Hall. Meyer, the…
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Generations of HWS Grads Lead at Canisius High School

At Canisius High School in Buffalo, N.Y., four Hobart and William Smith graduates are preparing students with an education grounded in multidimensional inquiry and critical thinking—not so different from their…
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German Symposium: The Music of the Holocaust

The fourth annual German Area Studies symposium focused on the music composed by concentration camp inmates during the Holocaust. The program, titled “Curating the Traumatic Past: Music and Memory of the…
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Parkins ’18 Pursues Honors in Conducting

For the culmination of a yearlong Honors project in choral conducting, Elena Parkins ’18 will lead a recital featuring the Seneca Camerata and HWS Chorale through a compilation of songs…
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