The Notre Dame Symphony Orchestra's spring chamber recital will showcase the orchestra's members through brass and wind quintets, a string quartet, string duo and trombone quartet. Set in the intimate organ hall, join us for works by Borodin, Halvorsen, and more.After the recital, be sure to also attend Tales From the Nine Bells, performed by Notre Dame's own Patrick Yim as he showcases works by Chen Yi and Zhou Long. RESERVE TICKETS

In an exciting collaboration exploring creative dialogues between musical traditions and meaningful transnational sonic encounters, violinist/violist Patrick Yim, assistant professor in the Department of Music at Notre Dame, performs music showcasing the creative ingenuity of two of the most celebrated Chinese-American composers active today: Chen Yi and Zhou Long.The world premiere of Bamboo Grove, a newly composed solo violin work by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Zhou Long, will be performed by Yim at the concert. The program also includes another masterpiece by Zhou, the haunting, atmospheric Tales from the Nine Bells, a chamber work for violin, viola, clarinet, and piano commissioned by the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and inspired by the Chinese folk legend.The second half features the viola in two works by Chen Yi, winner of the Charles Ives Living Award from the American Academy of Arts and 2006 Pulitzer Prize Finalist: Xian Shi for viola, percussion, and piano (the first viola concerto by a Chinese composer) and Suite for Viola and Chamber Winds inspired by traditional Chinese instruments. GET TICKETS

Music of Chen Yi and Zhou Long In an exciting collaboration exploring creative dialogues between musical traditions and meaningful transnational sonic encounters, violinist/violist Patrick Yim, assistant professor in the Department of Music at Notre Dame, performs music showcasing the creative ingenuity of two of the most celebrated Chinese-American composers active today: Chen Yi and Zhou Long.The world premiere of Bamboo Grove, a newly composed solo violin work by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Zhou Long, will be performed by Yim at the concert. The program also includes another masterpiece by Zhou, the haunting, atmospheric Tales from the Nine Bells, a chamber work for violin, viola, clarinet, and piano commissioned by the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and inspired by the Chinese folk legend.The second half features the viola in two works by Chen Yi, winner of the Charles Ives Living Award from the American Academy of Arts and 2006 Pulitzer Prize Finalist: Xian Shi for viola, percussion, and piano (the first viola concerto by a Chinese composer) and Suite for Viola and Chamber Winds inspired by traditional Chinese instruments. There will be a masterclass featuring Department of Music students on  Friday, April 12 from 10 to 11 a.m. in the LaBar Recital Hall in O'Neill Hall of Music.In a special appearance, Chen Yi and Zhou Long will provide insight into their works from the stage. This performance is complemented by a public lecture with the composers titled "Cultural Confluence in the Music of Chen Yi and Zhou Long" on Monday, April 15, 2024, at noon, in the LaBar Performance Hall, sponsored by the Liu Institute for Asia and Asian Studies and the Department of Music at the University of Notre Dame.Composers Zhou Long (2011 Pulitzer Prize Winner) and Chen Yi (2006 Pulitzer Prize Finalist) are honored for their music's masterful integration of Chinese culture. Well-versed in the musical traditions of China and the U.S. — both trained at the elite Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing and Columbia University in New York — Chen and Zhou's music challenges stereotypes of the affordances of Western instruments and ensembles. Their craft is appreciated around the globe, with their music performed by an illustrious cast of musicians, including the Cleveland Orchestra, the New York Philharmonic, and Yo-Yo Ma. Part of the DeBartolo Performing Arts Center Presenting Series and co-sponsored by the Department of Music. For tickets, call 574-631-2800 or visit performingarts.nd.edu. Originally published at music.nd.edu.

On the morning of February 1, 1985, Lincoln "Lokmar" Love was doomed to the same fate as George Floyd, Tyre Nichols, and so many other Black men in the US. As he lay handcuffed and shackled, Pendleton Correctional Facility guards beat the prisoner beyond recognition as terrified bystanders watched from their cells. But Lokmar's story ended differently when 2 fellow prisoners sacrificed their freedom to save him from his assailants, a Ku Klux Klan-affiliated guard gang known as the Sons of Light. The Pendleton 2: They Stood Up tells the story of John "Balagoon" Cole and Christopher "Naeem" Trotter, the leaders of the Indiana prison uprising that rescued Lokmar, exposed Pendleton's dehumanizing conditions, and unleashed the vindictive wrath of the Indiana Department of Correction. Presented by the Defense Committee to Free the Pendleton 2, this documentary features exclusive first hand testimony from Cole and Trotter, as well as interviews with family members and witnesses to the uprising who continue to fight for the Pendleton 2 after four decades of unjust incarceration and solitary confinement. RESERVE TICKETS

Streaming Link: https://youtube.com/live/gOAdLsSUEvI?feature=shareJoin the Notre Dame Children's Liturgical Choir in person or online for Vespers at Saint Mary's College in the beautiful Church of Our Lady of Loretto. Originally published at sma.nd.edu.

Join the Keough-Naughton Institute for an event with Tyler Anbinder, professor emeritus of history at George Washington University, who will discuss his newest book Plentiful Country: The Great Potato Famine and the Making of Irish New York (Hachette, March 2024).  Copies of the book will be available for purchase at this event, which will also be followed by a book signing.  Book Description From the award-winning author of Five Points and City of Dreams, a breathtaking new history of the Irish immigrants who arrived in the United States during the Great Potato Famine, showing how their strivings in and beyond New York exemplify the astonishing tenacity and improbable triumph of Irish America.  In 1845, a fungus began to destroy Ireland’s potato crop, triggering a famine that would kill one million Irish men, women, and children—and drive over one million more to flee for America. Ten years later, the United States had been transformed by this stupendous migration, nowhere more than New York: by 1855, roughly a third of all adults living in Manhattan were immigrants who had escaped the hunger in Ireland. These so-called “Famine Irish” were the forebears of four U.S. presidents (including Joe Biden) yet when they arrived in America they were consigned to the lowest-paying jobs and subjected to discrimination and ridicule by their new countrymen. Even today, the popular perception of these immigrants is one of destitution and despair. But when we let the Famine Irish narrate their own stories, they paint a far different picture.   In this magisterial work of storytelling and scholarship, acclaimed historian Tyler Anbinder presents for the first time the Famine generation’s individual and collective tales of struggle, perseverance, and triumph. Drawing on newly available records and a ten-year research initiative, Anbinder reclaims the narratives of the refugees who settled in New York City and helped reshape the entire nation. Plentiful Country is a tour de force—a book that rescues the Famine immigrants from the margins of history and restores them to their rightful place at the center of the American story. Speaker Biography Tyler Anbinder is an emeritus professor of history at George Washington University, where he taught courses on the history of American immigration and the American Civil War era. He is the author of three award-winning books and of numerous articles, and his publications have been honored with the Avery Craven Prize of the Organization of American Historians, the Mark Lynton History Prize of the Columbia School of Journalism, and the Hubbell Prize of the Society of Civil War Historians. Anbinder has also held the Fulbright Commission’s Thomas Jefferson Distinguished Chair in American History at the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands, and has won three prestigious research grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Originally published at irishstudies.nd.edu.