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The Lehrer Report: April 30, 2021
Monday, May 03, 2021
Garden report: I planted beets, leeks, onions and lettuce. The hosta and columbine are up. My Thanksgiving cactus has new buds and now I have a May Day cactus as well.
Jeff Bohne, moderator of South Congregational Church, sent me the menu for the next takeout dinner, which will be held May 8 with pickup between 5 and 6 p.m. It’s a chicken or spinach enchilada dinner with rice, black beans, salsa verde and flan. The cost is $15.
The order deadline is “Cinco de Mayo,” Wednesday, May 5. Call 253-2977 or online at: www.southchurchfiddlerspantry.bigcartel.com/.
Around Amherst: Bach Festival resounded downtown
By SCOTT MERZBACH
Live, in-person music returned to downtown Amherst for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic began more than a year ago.
On Saturday and Sunday, Bach in Amherst featured outdoor pop-up performances of the music of Johann Sebastian Bach as part of the 2021 University of Massachusetts Bach Festival and Symposium.
Performances will be Saturday from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. on the Town Common, and
Ann Tweedy, marketing director for the Amherst Business Improvement District, said the performances follow from the Bach in the Subways held indoors in 2015 at Amherst Books and Black Sheep Deli.
Published: 12/22/2020 4:47:19 PM
AMHERST Pulling out the picture book “Alma and How She Got Her Name” from a paper bag, first grader Juniper Westgate expressed delight at the gift.
“I think it’s kind of cool,” Juniper said from the back seat of a vehicle parked in front of Crocker Farm School Monday afternoon, telling her father, Matthew Westgate, that she might begin reading “Alma,” or another book in the bag, “The All-Together Quilt,” as they ventured from the school to their next stop.
Juniper, 7, was among more than 400 students who received age-appropriate books with social justice themes either picked up drive-thru style or delivered as part of the Crocker C.A.R.E. Home Reading Bags.
December 21, 2020
UMass Wind Ensemble
MSR Classics has just released the latest CD by the UMass wind ensemble, led by director of wind studies Matthew Westgate. “Quicksilver” features the world premiere recordings of three works, all of which were commissioned by the wind studies program as part of a larger consortium. These include Stacy Garrop’s “Quicksilver: Concerto for Alto Saxophone with Wind Ensemble,” which includes UMass saxophone professor Jonathan Hulting-Cohen as soloist; David Biedenbender’s “What is Written on the Leaves;” and David Maslanka’s “Concerto No. 3 (‘Do You Know My Name?’) for Piano, Winds and Percussion.” The featured soloist on the Maslanka piece is the late UMass faculty pianist Nadine Shank, to whom the CD is dedicated.