Ms. Baxtresser has been widely acclaimed for her interpretation of the music of the French composer, Claude Debussy. She gave her first solo recital at the age of 8 and appeared as a soloist with the Detroit Symphony when she was thirteen. Her career has included solo recitals and concerto appearances with major orchestras in the United States, as well as London, Berlin, Amsterdam, Delhi, Bombay, Tokyo, and Sri Lanka. Ms. Baxtresser is the recipient of the prestigious Naumburg Award, and is a retired professor of music at Kent State University. Tom Stoppard's classic play revisits Shakespeare's Hamlet , as seen through the eyes of two of its minor players, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.
Admission is free and open to the public.
Carnival Girls is a theatrical production about the fictional lives of young women who have grown up in or who have worked the American carnivals in the 20th century. Carnival Girls is comprised of a company of over 50 Wells women, and promises to be raw, real, and powerful. The work of photographer Robert Doherty will be on display April 11 - May 10 in the String Room Gallery on the Wells College campus. He earned a Master of Fine Arts from Yale University, and has served as director, curator, designer, and consultant for a large number of international organizations, including the George Eastman House, the University of Louisville, the Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, the Rhode Island School of Design, and Deutsche Gesellshaft fuer Photographie. The geometric qualities of these photographs were unusual in that they were always taken at a direct right angle to the subject.