On Campus: Culturally Responsive Classrooms, Chamber Music

Culturally Responsive Classrooms. On Friday, March 2, the Office of Intercultural Affairs' biweekly Diversity Conversation focuses on the classroom. Associate Professor of Education Alison Cook-Sather and Tiffany Shumate '08 will facilitate a discussion titled "Towards Culturally Responsive Classrooms." Everyone who is involved in the educational enterprise is invited to share plans, struggles and insights regarding diversity and cultural sharing in the classroom. The conversation takes place in the Multicultural Center from noon to 1 p.m.; lunch is provided.

Chamber Music Society to Play this Weekend. Bryn Mawr and Haverford students and professors will show off their classical chops this Saturday, March 3, at a concert by the Chamber Music Society at Bryn Mawr College at 8 p.m. in Goodhart Music Room.

The trio of Professor of Biology Karen Grief (oboe), W. Alton Jones Professor of Chemistry Frank Mallory (clarinet) and guest artist Lorraine Jewett (bassoon) will play a gigue in G Major by Mozart, a suite for oboe, clarinet and bassoon by Alexandre Tasman and "Habanera from Aires Tropicales" by Paquito D'Rivera.

Halley Cody '10 (violin), Chris Healy, Haverford '09 (violin), Dennis Norris, Haverford '09 (viola) and Meredith Zackey, Haverford '07 (cello) will play Dmitri Shostakovich's String Quartet No. 8 in C Minor.

Piano Quartet No. 2 in A Major by Johannes Brahms will round out the evening; performers are Rachel C. Hale Professor in the Sciences and Mathematics Paul Melvin (cello) along with guest artists Geoffrey Michaels (violin), Alison Avery (viola) and celebrated composer Ketty Nez '87 (piano).

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