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Welcome to First Days at MCLA. Our first podcast of the series celebrates our summer reading program.
Download and listen.

Track 1: Ethos - Marim Ba Ba’ Suite - Mvt. I Misterioso/Maculele from Sol Tunnel
Track 2: First year student Jessica Stern reads from her post the summer reading forum
Track 3: Ethos - Ba Ba’ Suite - Mvt. II Espressivo from Sol Tunnel
Track 4: Paige Carter from Skidoo on Eagle Street in North Adams reflects on the beauty of vintage
Track 5: Ethos - Ba Ba’ Suite - Mvt. III Tempo Di Baiao from Sol Tunnel

Join us on Monday, September 4th from 1-2:30 p.m. in the Church St. Center for the Lecture/Performance: Elizabeth Royte with Ethos.

Elizabeth Royte has written for The New York Times Magazine, Harper’s, National Geographic, The New York Times Book Review, the New Yorker, Outside, Smithsonian, and other national magazines. Her work is included in The Best American Science Writing 2004 (Ecco/HarperCollins), the environmental omnibus Naked (FourWallsEightWindows), and Outside Magazine’s Why Moths Hate Thomas Edison (W.W. Norton & Company). She has written extensively about the natural world and recently published a piece in The New York Times Magazine about women who survived the Rwandan genocide. A former Alicia Patterson Foundation fellow, Royte is also the author of The Tapir’s Morning Bath: Solving the Mysteries of the Tropical Rain Forest, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year for 2001. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and their daughter.
MUSICAL PERFORMER: ETHOS
For more than fifteen years, Ethos Percussion Group has inspired audiences throughout the country with its exceptional music-making and collective devotion to the incredibly diverse world of percussion music. Ensemble members Trey Files, Eric Phinney, Yousif Sheronick and David Shively are accomplished classical and world music artists, each with a distinctive background and musical perspective. Their substantial combined expertise is the source of Ethos’ innovative programming, which integrates global instruments and playing styles into the conventions of Western chamber music to create a visually and aurally compelling experience. The ensemble’s critically-acclaimed performances regularly feature numerous commissions and world premieres, traditional rhythms from India, West Africa and the Middle East, and landmark works by composers such as John Cage, Lou Harrison and Steve Reich.