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Monday October 18,

Smith College’s Poetry Center will screen “Poetry in Wartime,” a documentary, tonight at 7:30 p.m. The film details how war and poetry have been bedfellows since the beginning (think Homer’s take on the Trojan War), and features the work of contemporary poets (Marie Howe, Sam Hammill, Saul Williams, Marilyn Nelson, Ali Habash, Chris Abani, Rachel Bentham, Hasham Shafq and Antonieta Villamil);as well as the greats (Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, Emily Dickinson, Langston Hughes, and Walt Whitman); This event, located at Leo Weinstein Auditorium’s Wright Hall, is free, open to the public and wheelchair accessible.

Wednesday October 20

The Graduate Brass Quintet performs today, at Bezanson Recital Hall, at 12:20 p.m. The ensemble features Matthew Misener (trumpet), Matthew Repucci (trumpet), Kelli Kirkman (horn), Hidehiro Domeki (trombone) and Matthew Gaunt (tuba); the program is set to include works by Telemann, Scheidt and J.S. Bach. This event is free.

Wednesday October 20

Professor Sheldon Goldman will lecture at the Mullins Center’s Massachusetts Room today, at 4 p.m. “Judicial Confirmations: The New Battle Zone in American Politics.” Goldman will discuss how “judicial nominees to the lower federal courts face increasing hostility on the path to confirmation,” according to the Office of the Provost. Immediately following the lecture Goldman, who has taught at UMass Amherst since 1965, will receive a Chancellor’s Medal. This event is free and open to the public

Saturday October 23

The UMass Amherst Orchestra, directed by Lanfranco Marcelletti, Jr. and featuring pianist Estela Olevsky, will perform tonight at 8 p.m. at the Fine Arts Center Concert Hall; The program is set to feature pieces by Mendelssohn (“Symphony No. 5,” “Reformation”) and Chopin (“Piano Concerto No. 1”). Admission is $5 for students and $10 for the general public.

(Saturday) Former Grateful Dead pianist Bruce Hornsby brings his Grammy award winning musicianship to Northampton’s Calvin Theatre tonight in support of Halccyon Days, out now on Columbia Records. The album features eleven new songs and contributions from Eric Clapton, Elton John and Sting, all of who will not be on tour with Hornsby. But, surrender your Saturday night to the piano man, anyway; aided and abetted by a full band, this is not a show to miss. Plus, Hornsby has performed on over 100 records by musicians like Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson, Bonnie Raitt and Bela Fleck, so it’s a good bet he’ll bring the same world- class professionalism that landed him those spots to the Calvin. And maybe he’ll do “The Way It Is.” Tickets are $29, $34 and $39; show is at 8 p.m.

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