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THE RUSSELL HOUSE SERIES

Prose, Poetry, and
Center For the Arts Music Series

Fall 2009

All events are free and open to the public

Event information: Jessica Posner, Russell House Arts Fellow, RussellHouse@wesleyan.edu, 860-685-3448.

For Russell House Series and Writing Programs information: Anne Greene, Director of Writing Programs, agreene@wesleyan.edu, 860-685-3604.

Support for this series is provided by the Wesleyan Writing Programs, the Center for the Arts, the Shapiro Creative Writing Center, the English Department,Wesleyan University Press, the Center for the Humanities, and the Jacob Julien Fund.


Wesleyan Writing Faculty
Wednesday, September 23	Russell House, Prose/Poetry 8 p.m.
LISA COHEN's biography of three neglected twentieth century figures -- the eccentric scholar Esther Murphy, the fan and collector Mercedes de Acosta, and the fashion writer and icon Madge Garland -- will be published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Her essays have appeared in journals including Ploughshares, Fashion Theory, GLQ, Bookforum, and The Boston Review. DEB OLIN UNFERTH is the author of a collection of stories, Minor Robberies, and a novel, Vacation, both published by McSweeney's. Her work has appeared in Harper's, 3rd Bed, Fence, and other publications. She has received a Pushcart Prize, a Creative Capital Grant from the Warhol Foundation, and in 2009 the Cabell First Novelist Award. She joins Wesleyan's English department this year. ELIZABETH WILLIS is the Shapiro-Silverberg Associate Professor of Creative Writing at Wesleyan University. She is the author of four books of poetry, Second Law, The Human Abstract, Turneresque, and Meteoric Flowers. Her work has been selected for the National Poetry Series and her awards include the Boston Review Prize, an award from the Howard Foundation, a Walter N. Thayer Fellowship for the Arts, and a grant from the California Arts Council. As a critic, she has written on 19^th- and 20^th- century poetry, and she has edited a collection of essays entitled Radical Vernacular: Lorine Niedecker and the Politics of Place.

For a clip of the Creative Writing Faculty Event click here


Ethan Bronner
Wednesday, October 7	Memorial Chapel, 8 p.m.
ETHAN BRONNER is currently the Jerusalem bureau chief of The New York Times. He has also held positions as foreign editor, education editor, and editorial page editor at the Times, where he wrote a number of the paper's editorials about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. As editor he worked on a series of articles about Al Qaeda that were awarded a Pulitzer Prize for explanatory journalism. Previously at the Boston Globe he served as Supreme Court and legal affairs correspondent. He is the author of Battle for Justice: How the Bork Nomination Shook America, chosen by The New York Public Library as one of the best 25 books of the year. For a clip of "An Evening with Ethan Bronner" click here



Bernadette Mayer
Wednesday, October 14	Russell House, Prose 8 p.m.
BERNADETTE MAYER poetry has been praised by John Ashbery as "magnificent." Brenda Coultas calls her a master of "devastating wit." Mayer is the author of more than two dozen volumes of poetry, including Midwinter Day, Sonnets, The Desires of Mothers to Please Others in Letters, and Poetry State Forest. A former director of the Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church in the Bowery and co-editor of the conceptual magazine 0 to 9 with Vito Acconci, Mayer has been a key figure on the New York poetry scene for decades. Event Organized by Professor Elizabeth Willis, English Department

For a clip of the Bernadette Mayer event click here



John Brandon
Wednesday, October 21	Russell House, Prose 8 p.m.
JOHN BRANDON is one of the nation's most distinguished new fiction writers. He is the author of the novel Arkansas and the forthcoming novel The Semester, both from Sweeney's. His shorter work has been published in Mississippi Review, The Believer, Subtropics, McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, and other publications. He received an MFA from Washington University in St. Louis. He is currently the Grisham Writer-in-Residence at University of Mississippi. Event Organized by Professor Deb Olin Unferth, English Department

For a clip of the John Brandon event click here




Maria Mazziotti Gillan, CT Circuit Poet
Thursday, October 29	Russell House, Prose 8 p.m.
MARIA MAZZIOTTI GILLAN has published eleven books of poetry, including The Weather of Old Seasons, Where I Come From, Things My Mother Told Me, and Italian Women in Black Dresses. Her newest book All That Lies Between Us received the American Book Award. She is the editor of the Paterson Literary Review and the founder and the Executive Director of the Poetry Center at Passaic County Community College in Paterson, NJ . She is also the Director of the Creative Writing Program and a Professor of Poetry at SUNY Binghamton.

*Following the Circuit Poet's reading, winners of the Wesleyan Student Poets competition will be reading their work*


Thomas Sayers Ellis
Wednesday, November 4	Russell House, Prose 8 p.m.
Thomas Sayers Ellis is the author of The Maverick Room (2005), which won the John C. Zacharis First Book Award, and a recipient of a Whiting Award. His poems and photographs have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including American Poetry Review, Callaloo, Best American Poetry (1997 and 2001), Grand Street, The Baffler, Jubilat, Tin House, Poetry, and The Nation Mr. Ellis is a contributing writer to Waxpoetics, Poets & Writers and contributes to TSE's Pick of the Week at www.tmottgogo.com. He is also an Assistant Professor of Writing at Sarah Lawrence College and a faculty member of The Lesley University low-residency M.F.A Program. He lives in Brooklyn, NY and spends his summers in Washington, D.C. working on The Go-Go Book: People in the Pocket in Washington, D.C. His new book, Skin, Inc., is forthcoming from Graywolf Press in fall 2010. Event organized by Professor Elizabeth Willis, English Department





Hanna Ingber Win '03
WESeminar: Celebration Of Wesleyan Writing
International Journalism and New Media: A conversation with Hanna Ingber Win '03
Saturday, November 7	Usdan, Room 108, Prose 11:00 a.m.
Join this award-winning multi-media journalist for a talk about global news coverage and internet reporting. Hanna Ingber Win is currently World Editor of the Huffington Post. She has reported from Burma, Ethiopia, South Africa, Malaysia and Thailand. Her work has appeared in publications such as LA Weekly, Washingtonpost.com and the Hartford Courant and on NPR's "Morning Edition" and "Day2Day." She won InterAction's 2009 Award for Excellence in International Reporting. Sponsored by the Wesleyan Writing Program and Wesleyan Writers Conference



Amy Bloom, Jacob Julien Visiting Writer
Saturday, November 7	Memorial Chapel, Prose 1:30 p.m.
AMY BLOOM is the author of two novels and two collections of short stories, and she has been a nominee for both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her stories have appeared in Best American Short Stories, The O. Henry Prize Stories, and numerous anthologies here and abroad. She has written for the New Yorker, the New York Times Magazine, and the Atlantic, among many other publications, and has won a National Magazine Award. Her latest novel, Away, is an epic story about a Russian immigrant. A graduate of Wesleyan, she teaches at Yale University



Jill Hunting on Writing Memoir
Wednesday, November 10	Russell House, Prose 8 p.m.
Before turning to the story of her brother's life and death in the early days of the Vietnam war, Jill Hunting published numerous reviews, profiles, and feature articles about food and wine. A regular Perspectives essayist for San Francisco NPR-affiliate KQED, the country's largest public radio station, she initiated the sister-city relationship between Sonoma and Phan Rang, Vietnam. Hunting proposed and currently leads the drive to create a Book of Remembrance sculpture to honor civilians claimed by war in Washington, D.C Cosponsored with Wesleyan University Press



Renee Gladman
Wednesday, November 18	Russell House, Prose 8 p.m.
RENEE GLADMAN's investigations of genre have been called "spectacular instances of art." Her books include Arlem, Not Right Now, Juice, The Activist, Newcomer Can't Swim, A Picture Feeling, and To After That (TOAF). She is the editor and publisher of Leon Works, an independent press for experimental prose and other thought projects based in the sentence. Event organized by Professor Lisa Cohen, English Department



MUSIC AT THE RUSSELL HOUSE Presented by the Center for the Arts

Sunday, September 20	The Russell House, 3 p.m.
Charlie Suriyakham
In this recital, Suriyakham will play a wide variety of pieces with expressive nuances from South American Jazz to German Romanticism to Klezmer to French Impressionism. Joining Suriyakham will be pianist John Metz, harpist Megan Sesma and soprano Lisa Williamson.

Sunday, November 1	The Russell House, 3 p.m.
Jeremiah McLane and David Surette
Jeremiah McLane (accordion and piano) and David Surette (mandolin, bouzouki and guitar) are two of New England's finest traditional players. They bring a fresh, inventive and playful approach to their repertoire of music from France, the British Isles and Quebec. Both McLane and Surette have spent extensive time performing and studying music in these areas and have assimilated these musical traditions into a new brand of New England music, one that combines the old world and the new--a contemporary take on centuries-old melodies.

Our Distinguished Writers/New Voices Series for Spring 2009 included the following special guests:

WESLEYAN WRITING and
THE CENTER FOR THE ARTS present

DISTINGUISHED WRITERS SERIES
Prose, Poetry, and Music
Spring 2009

Support for this series is provided by the Wesleyan Writing Program, the Center for the Arts, the Edward W. Snowdon Fund, Wesleyan University Press, the Center for the Humanities, the English Department, and the funds for the Joan Jakobson Visiting Writer, the Annie Sonnenblick Lecture, and the English Department's Millett Writing Fellow.

Click here to view podcasts of our events.

http://www.wesleyan.edu/podcast/full_writing.html


Tony Kushner
Friday, January 23	Memorial Chapel, Prose 8 p.m.
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tony Kushner is best known for his two-part epic, Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes. Born in New York City in 1956, and raised in Lake Charles, Louisiana, Kushner was hailed as "the most highly acclaimed playwright of his generation" by Salon.com. Kushner tackles some of the most difficult subjects in contemporary history, giving voice to characters who have been rendered powerless by the forces of circumstances. He has translated and adapted works by Bertolt Brecht, among others, and wrote the screenplays for the film of Angels in America and Steven Spielberg's Munich. Kushner is also the recipient of an Emmy Award, two Tony Awards, three Obie Awards, an Oscar nomination, an Arts Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the PEN/Laura Pels Award for a Mid-Career Playwright, and many other awards and honors. Sponsored by the CFA




Steven Greenhouse
Monday, February 2	Russell House, Prose 8 p.m.
Steven Greenhouse is the labor and workplace reporter for The New York Times. His critically acclaimed book The Big Squeeze: Tough Times for the American Worker, is an in-depth account of how American companies violate wage and hour laws. Greenhouse earned an MA in journalism from Columbia and a law degree from NYU. He served as a law clerk for Federal District Court Judge Robert L. Carter, who helped argue Brown v. Board of Education. Co-sponsored by the Center for the Humanities. http://www.stevengreenhouse.com



Rebecca Brown
Wednesday, February 11	Russell House, Prose 8 p.m.
Rebecca Brown is an author, teacher, and activist. Her best-known novel, The Gifts of the Body, won the Lambda Literary Award. Among her other books are The End of Youth and The Terrible Girls. Several of her books have been adapted for the stage, and her work has been widely translated. She is the recipient of the Boston Book Review Award for fiction and a Washington State Governor's Award. Presented by Lisa Cohen, Assistant Professor of English.




Photo by Beth Kelly
Amy Bloom- Jacob Julien Visiting Writer
Wednesday, February 18	Russell House, Prose 8 p.m.
Amy Bloom is the author of the novel Love Invents Us; a collection of short stories, A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You; and the nonfiction work Normal. Her most recent novel, Away, was a New York Times bestseller, and she has received the National Magazine Award, and been nominated for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her work has appeared in Best American Short Stories, The O. Henry Prize Stories, and numerous anthologies here and abroad. http://www.amybloom.com




Carlo Rotella
Wednesday, February 25	Russell House, Prose 8 p.m.
Carlo Rotella is the author of October Cities, Good With Their Hands, and, most recently, Cut Time, which received the L.L. Winship/PEN New England Award and was a finalist for the L.A. Times Book Prize. He writes for The New York Times Magazine, Washington Post Magazine, and Slate, and his work has also appeared in Harper's and Best American Essays. He is Director of American Studies and Professor of English at Boston College.




Andre Aciman
Wednesday, March 25	Russell House, Prose 8 p.m.
Andre Aciman is the author of the novel Call Me By Your Name and the nonfiction works Out of Egypt: A Memoir and False Papers: Essays on Exile and Memory. He is co-author and editor of The Proust Project and Letters of Transit. He has written for The New York Times, The New Yorker, The New Republic, and The New York Review of Books, and his pieces appear in several annual collections of the Best American Essays.



An Evening of Student Poetry
Thursday, March 26	Russell House Poetry 8 p.m.
A reading by the 2009 Wesleyan Student Poets and the Connecticut Poetry Circuit Student Poets, including Wesleyan�s winner, Susanna Myrseth '09.



Junot Diaz- English Department's 2009 Millett Writing Fellow
Wednesday, April 1	Memorial Chapel, Prose 8 p.m.
Junot Diaz is the author of the short story collection Drown and the novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, which won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. His fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, African Voices, Best American Short Stories, and The O. Henry Prize Stories 2009. D�az is the fiction editor at the Boston Review and The Rudge and Nancy Allen Professor at MIT.



Forrest Gander
Tuesday, April 7	Russell House, Prose 8 p.m.
Poet, translator, essayist, and novelist, Forrest Gander is the author of more than a dozen books, including the poetry collections Eye Against Eye (New Directions, 2005) and Torn Awake (New Directions, 2001), and the highly acclaimed novel As a Friend (New Directions, 2008). His essays on poetry and poetics have appeared in numerous publications, including the Nation and the Boston Review and a collection of his essays, A Faithful Existence (Counterpoint Press), was published in 2005. He is the editor of the bilingual anthology of poetry Mouth to Mouth: Twelve Contemporary Mexican Women Poets (1993), and he is the translator of No Shelter: The Selected Poems of Pura L�pez Colom� and Firefly Under the Tongue: Poems by Coral Bracho. He has also translated work of Bolivian poet Jaime Saenz with Kent Johnson, including Immanent Visitor: The Selected Poems. Gander is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Brown University. His visit was organized by visiting writer Martine Bellen.


Edward P. Jones- The Annie Sonnenblick Lecture
Friday, April 17	CFA Cinema, Prose 8 p.m.
Widely regarded as one of the nation's most distinguished contemporary fiction writers, Edward P. Jones won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, and the Lannan Literary Award for his novel, The Known World, an epic story examining the complexities of slavery. His previous book, Lost in the City, a collection of short stories, received the PEN/ Hemingway Award and was a finalist for the National Book Award. His most recent collection, All Aunt Hagar's Children, has become a bestseller. His work appears in Best American Short Stories and in major anthologies here and abroad. In 2004 he received a MacArthur Fellowship, and in 2005 Wesleyan University awarded him an honorary degree.

Wesleyan Student Prize Winners
Wednesday, April 29	Russell House, Prose 8 p.m.
Student winners of Wesleyan's Writing Prize.



MUSIC AT THE RUSSELL HOUSE- Presented by the Center for the Arts


Sunday, February 22	The Russell House, 3 p.m.
Charlie Kohlhase
Alto, tenor and baritone saxophonist Charlie Kohlhase has been a part of Boston's jazz scene for more than 20 years. Kohlhase's music spans a broad range of styles with an emphasis on the contemporary and the improvised. Featured artists in the group: Eric Hofbauer on guitar, Jef Charland on bass and Mike Connors on drums.

Sunday, March 1	The Russell House, 3 p.m.
Linda Skernick: An All-Bach Concert
Linda Skernick, harpsichordist, performs the works of Johann Sebastian Bach, Pieces include the Prelude, Fugue and Allegro; the Four Duets; the French Suite in G major; and the Partita in 3 minor.

Our Distinguished Writers/New Voices Series for Fall 2008 included the following special guests:

WESLEYAN WRITING and
THE CENTER FOR THE ARTS present

THE RUSSELL HOUSE SERIES
Prose, Poetry, and Music
Fall 2008


Charles Simic
Sunday, September 14,	Memorial Chapel, Poetry 7 p.m.
Charles Simic was born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia in 1938. In 1953 he left Yugoslavia with his mother and brother to join his father in the United States. They lived in and around Chicago until 1958. His first poems were published in 1959, when he was twenty-one. His first full-length collection of poems, What the Grass Says, was published in 1967. Since then, Simic has published more than sixty books, among them Jackstraws, named a Notable Book of the Year by the New York Times; Walking the Black Cat, which was a finalist for the National Book Award in poetry; and The World Doesn't End: Prose Poems, for which he received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry; and Unending Blues. He has also published many translations of French, Serbian, Croatian, Macedonian, and Slovenian poetry, and four books of essays, most recently Orphan Factory. He was the guest editor of The Best American Poetry 1992. Elected a Chancellor of The Academy of American Poets in 2000, his many awards include fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Since 1973 he has lived in New Hampshire; he is Professor of English Emeritus at the University of New Hampshire. Simic was named poet laureate of the United States in 2007. Click here for Wesleyan Connection article Co-sponsored by Neely Bruce


Gayle Pemberton
Wednesday, September 17	Russell House, Prose 8 p.m.
Gayle Pemberton is the author of The Hottest Water in Chicago: Notes of a Native Daughter and the forthcoming The Road to Gravure: Black Women and American Cinema. For her numerous essays on family, American culture, literature, and race, Pemberton has been lauded as the most notable African-American essayist to have appeared on the scene since the death of James Baldwin. Pemberton has been a John Simon Guggenheim Fellow and W.E.B DuBois Fellow at Harvard University, and she is a former professor of English, African American Studies, and American Studies at Wesleyan University. Her work appears in many major anthologies including The Art of The Personal Essay.


M. NourbeSe Philip
Wednesday, September 24	Russell House, Poetry 8 p.m.
M. NourbeSe Philip is a poet, essayist, novelist and playwright. She was born in Tobago and now lives in Toronto, where she practiced law for seven years before deciding to write fulltime. Philip has published four books of poetry, one novel, and three collections of essays. She was awarded a Pushcart Prize, the Casa de las Americas Prize (Cuba), and a Guggenheim Fellowship in Poetry. Her most recent book of poetry is Zong! (Wesleyan University Press), a work of experimental verse that draws upon the historical intentional drowning of 150 Africans by the captain of a slave ship. M. NourbeSe Philip�s work � poetry, fiction and non-fiction � is taught widely at the university level and is the subject of much academic writing and critique. Sponsored by the Wesleyan University Press


Michael Palmer
Wednesday, October 15	Russell House, Prose 8 p.m.
Born in Manhattan, poet and translator Michael Palmer has lived in San Francisco since 1969. Palmer has worked with the Margaret Jenkins Dance Company for over thirty years and has collaborated with many visual artists and composers. His most recent collections are Codes Appearing (Poems 1979-1988) and Company of Moths. A prose work, The Danish Notebook, was published in 1999, and his selected essays and talks, Active Boundaries, appeared in July of 2008. Among his awards, Palmer has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Lila Wallace-Reader�s Digest Fund Writer�s Award, two National Endowment for the Arts grants in poetry, the Shelley Memorial Award of the Poetry Society of America and, in the fall of 2006, the Wallace Stevens Award from the Academy of American Poets. He has taught at various universities in the United States and Europe, and his writings have been translated into more than twenty-five languages. CLICK HERE FOR CLIP OF EVENT Sponsored by Elizabeth Willis


Alastair Reid
Saturday, October 18	Russell House, Poetry 3 p.m.
Alastair Reid is a distinguished poet, translator, essayist, and traveler. Born in Scotland in 1926, he graduated from St. Andrews University and has since lived in countries across Europe, in Morocco, in the United States, and in Central and South America. Since 1959, Reid has written for The New Yorker, playing a major role as staff writer, South American editor, traveling correspondent, and noted champion of Latin American literature. He is the author of over twenty books - poems, essays, prose chronicles, and translations - and his writings have been widely translated. Reid�s collections include Oases (1997), Whereabouts (1987), Weathering (1978) and To Lighten My House (1953). On the Blue Shore of Silence (2004) is a new selection of his translations of Neruda�s poems of the sea. Reid has taught Latin American studies and literature as a visiting professor at schools across the United States and in England. In 2001, he received the PEN Kolovakos Award for Translation. Click here for movie clip of event Organized by the Wesleyan Writing Program


Kurt Brown- CT Circuit Poet
Wednesday, October 22	Russell House, Poetry 8 p.m.
Connecticut Poetry Circuit Poet Kurt Brown was born in Brooklyn and grew up on Long Island and in Connecticut, where he attended the University of Connecticut. He spent many years in Aspen, Colorado, where he founded the Aspen Writers' Conference and edited the Aspen Anthology. Brown is editor of The Measured Word: On Poetry and Science and Verse & Universe: Poems about Science and Mathematics as well as The True Subject, Writing It Down for James, and Facing the Lion. He is the author of three award-winning chapbooks and two collections of poems, Return of the Prodigals and More Things in Heaven & Earth. Brown�s poems have appeared in many periodicals, including Ontario Review, Massachusetts Review, Crazyhorse, and Southern Poetry Review. Organized by the Wesleyan Writing Program


Tony Kushner
(Rescheduled to January 23, 2008) Thursday, October 30	Memorial Chapel, Prose 8 p.m.
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tony Kushner is best known for his two-part epic, Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes. Born in New York City in 1956, and raised in Lake Charles, Louisiana, Kushner was hailed as �the most highly acclaimed playwright of his generation� by Salon.com. Kushner tackles some of the most difficult subjects in contemporary history, giving voice to characters who have been rendered powerless by the forces of circumstances. He has translated and adapted works by Bertolt Brecht, among others, and wrote the screenplays for the film of Angels in America and Steven Spielberg�s Munich. Kushner is also the recipient of an Emmy Award, two Tony Awards, three Obie Awards, an Oscar nomination, an Arts Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the PEN/Laura Pels Award for a Mid-Career Playwright, and many other awards and honors. Sponsored by the CFA


Michael Ondaatje- Joan Jakobson Visiting Writer
Wednesday, November 5	Memorial Chapel, Prose 8 p.m.
Michael Ondaatje is winner of the British Commonwealth�s highest literary award, the Booker Prize, and he is regarded as one of the foremost contemporary fiction writers and poets. Born in Sri Lanka of Indian/Dutch ancestry, he went to school in England and then moved to Canada. Although he is best known as a novelist, Ondaatje�s work also encompasses memoir, poetry, and film. He is the author of four collections of poetry including The Cinnamon Peeler and most recently, Handwriting. Among his works of fiction are Anil's Ghost, The English Patient, In the Skin of a Lion, Coming Through Slaughter, and The Collected Works of Billy the Kid. In 2000, Ondaatje was awarded the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize, the Prix Medicis, the Governor-General�s Award, and the Giller Prize for Anil�s Ghost. His most recent nonfiction work is The Conversations: Walter Murch & the Art of Editing Film. Ondaatje�s latest novel, Divisadero (2007), recently won the Governor-General�s Award novel. Organized by the Wesleyan Writing Program and the Joan Jakobson Fund Click here for The Wesleyan Connection article on Michael Ondaatje

MUSIC AT THE RUSSELL HOUSE- Presented by the Center for the Arts


Sunday, September 28	The Russell House, 3 p.m.
Songs of Love and Loss
Songs of Love and Loss features Megan Sesma, harp, Patricia Schuman, soprano, and Elizabeth Detweiler Jackson, flute. This program features music by Ravel, Britten and contemporary composers Tobenski and Krouse.

Sunday, October 12	The Russell House, 3 p.m.
Sue Burkhart & Ed Vadas
Guitarists and singers, Sue Burkhart and Ed Vadas perform an arresting blend of jazz, country, folk, old timey, blues and purely original material in an eclectic, humorous and sophisticated manner.
Sunday, November 23	The Russell House, 3 p.m.
Poulenc Sextet
Chamber music featuring winds and piano will be performed by Wesleyan MusicDepartment faculty members Gary Bennett, Robert Hoyle, Tom Labadorf, Erika Schroth, Peter Standaart, and Libby Van Cleve. Poulenc's charming Sextet will beperformed along with Mozart's sublime Quintet.