Lectures and Performances

Join the Department of Music for a Winter Concert on Friday, February 28 featuring the Chamber Orchestra and Concert Band.

Repertoire will include pieces by Benjamin Britten, Nancy Galbraith, Gustav Mahler, and William Grant Still.

Two students from the Class of 2020 will be featured as soloists: Jacob Levin on violin and Timothy Nichin on xylophone.

The ensembles will be conducted by Lake Forest College faculty members Daniel Braeme and Nicholas Wallin.

How a personal commitment to kindness and community, a love of Shakespeare and the arts, and a fierce focus on equity drove one woman from rural Louisiana to becoming the leader of America’s largest anti-hunger charity

A virtual seminar with science-fiction legend Samuel R. Delany

Samuel R. Delany is a science fiction writer and critic whose work explores the intersections of science, race, literature, and sexuality in modern society. Born in Harlem in 1942, he became a crucial figure in the New Wave of science fiction in the 1960s with such novels as the Nebula Award-winning Babel-17 (1966) and The Einstein Intersection (1967); the winner of two Hugo Awards, he was inducted into the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame in 2002. His other works include the nonfiction book Times Square Red, Times Square Blue (1999) about the gentrification of New York City’s Times Square and In Search of Silence: The Journals of Samuel R. Delany (2017). He lives in Philadelphia.

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The College welcomes Keynote Speaker Shaun King for “Reflections on Dr. King, and the future of the Civil Rights Movement” in the Lily Reid Holt Memorial Chapel. Celebrate the iconic activist and leader of the Civil Rights Movement with on Martin Luther King Jr. Day with this lecture to commemorate the occasion.

Recorded Jan. 20, 2020 at Lake Forest College.

Lake Forest College student musicians will be performing the works of Charles Mingus, Horace Silver, Clifford Brown, Joe Henderson, Herbie Hancock and others.

Recorded Nov. 25, 2019.