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UMASS LOWELL, DEPARTMENT OF CULTURAL STUDIES ARTISTIC MANIFESTATIONS IN ARCHITECTURE Symposium Whistler House Museum of Art, 243 Worthen Street, Lowell, MA 01854 Saturday, December 11, 2010 Program Moderator and Organizer: Liana De Girolami Cheney, Professor of Art History, Chair, Department of Cultural Studies, UMass Lowell 9:00-9:30, Coffee and Greetings 9:45–10:15,…
Read More »Next Monday, Dec. 6, at 5.30 pm, the Greater Lowell Community Foundation will announce its 2010 grant recipients, volunteer award recipients, and other awards at an event featuring keynnote speaker Paul S. Grogan, president and CEO of the Boston Foundation. The evening begins with a reception in the Hall of…
Read More »In addition to the David Amram 80th birthday tribute on Dec. 9, UMass Lowell has several concerts in the next two weeks that are free and open to the public. The Durgin and Fisher venues are wheelchair accessible. “Classical String Music” with UMass Lowell students directed by Mark Berger. Dec. 1, 7.30…
Read More »David Amram’s 80th Birthday Bash! Thursday, December 9, 2010 at 7:30 p.m., UMass Lowell, Durgin Concert Hall, 35 Wilder Street (parking available in the Wilder Street lot at the corner of Broadway) Free & Open to the Public A musical birthday celebration of composer and multi-instrumentalist David Amram, featuring the University…
Read More »Just watched the Mark Wahlberg segment on 60 Minutes, which served as a massive promotion of his movie “The Fighter,” which we all know is based on the experiences of Lowell’s living boxing legend Micky Ward and his family. He said Micky Ward was a local hero to him in…
Read More »When you start making your Christmas gift list, look for legendary Lowell singer-songwriter Bob Martin’s new CD, “Live at The Bull Run,” in early December. The new recording has four new songs in addition to stellar performances of some of his best known songs. Check availability on Bob’s website, www.riversong.com For…
Read More »Sitting among thousands of people at the Tsongas Center at UMass Lowell tonight, witnessing Bob Dylan and his band lifting up the audience with powerful renditions of his songs, I had a thought: Dylan is like Moxie. In performance, he has become a completely singular mixture for which you either have the taste…
Read More »Here’s my account of Bob Dylan’s Rolling Thunder Revue performance in the Costello Gymnasium of the University of Lowell on November 2, 1975—PM Dylan was excellent in Lowell last night. Baez was superb in Lowell last night. The Rolling Thunder Revue was really something in Lowell last night. Dylan, the singing poet…
Read More »Poet Allen Ginsberg and Bob Dylan in Edson Cemetery (1975) [Photo by Ken Regan, courtesy of tangledupinlheurebleue.blogspot] Show flier for Rolling Thunder Revue at ULowell (1975) [Web photo courtesy of picasaweb.google.com] At Kerouac’s grave in Edson Cemetery (1975) [Photo by Ken Regan] At Our Lady of Lourdes Grotto, Franco American School (1975)…
Read More »From the UMass Lowell Honors Program: “The Honors Program is proud to welcome the award-winning filmmaker Henry Ferrini to campus on November 18 as this year’s Honors Community Fellow. Ferrini will screen his 30-minute film, Lowell Blues, at the UMass Lowell Inn and Conference Center, 50 Warren Street in Lowell, at 4:00, followed…
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