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The Harward Center for Community Partnerships at Bates holds its annual community celebration at 6 p.m. Friday, Feb. 5, in the Lewiston Public Library’s Marsden Hartley Cultural Center, 200 Lisbon St. The event is co-sponsored by the Alonzo Garcelon Society and is free and open to the public.

The event, now in its fifth year, features performances from a diverse array of groups including Bates students and members of the Lewiston-Auburn community. Light refreshments and hors d’oeuvres will be served. For more information, contact Harward Center events coordinator Brenda Pelletier at this bpelleti@bates.edu or 207-786-6400.

Artists in different media including music and spoken word are scheduled to perform. From Bates, the Deansmen, an a cappella group, and the Bates Step Team, a dance ensemble, will participate. The event will also feature students from the Androscoggin Valley Education Collaborative (AVEC) Writing Program and the Hillview Aspirations program as well as a performance by the Bald Hill Trio.

The Deansmen are a 12-voice all-male group and the oldest a cappella ensemble at Bates. Their albums include the independently distributed A Century Half Full (2007), Schlage (2004) and Vocal Syllogism (2001). Now in its 57th year, the group has performed at functions for the Boston Celtics, former U.S. President George Bush Sr., Rockapella and at other events in the Lewiston-Auburn area and around New England.

The Bald Hill Trio features Ben DeTroy on mandolin, fiddle and guitar, Mike Conant on guitar and Tim Clough on double bass. DeTroy, a lifelong musician, in recent years has performed with a New Gloucester-based band of eclectic musicians known as Mountain Avenue.
Also a member of Mountain Avenue, Conant has played guitar since his youth, and the last two years has focused on fiddle and banjo. DeTroy and Conant back up their two teenage daughters in a band called Chasini Shane.

Clough took his first electric bass lesson in the early 2000s and soon found himself drawn to the acoustic double bass. He also performs with a jazz band known as the Three Point Trio.

Students from Lewiston and Edward Little high schools will read poetry and stories they have written with the AVEC Writing Program, and girls in the Hillview Girls Aspirations Program will showcase projects including sewing and art pieces.

The Hillview program is in its third year of working with middle-school Somali girls. They meet weekly with an AmericCorps/VISTA staffer based at Lewiston Housing Authority’s Hillview Family Development and participate in activities like sewing, community service projects, visioning and goal setting, and skill building to help them to develop assets that support future success.

The Harward Center leads Bates’ efforts in community involvement, including programs in community-based learning, community volunteerism and environmental stewardship. The center works with community partners to meet community needs and, in the process, to integrate civic engagement with the Bates educational experience.

Learn more about the Harward Center for Community Partnerships.

The Garcelon Society is a community organization that raises support for the Androscoggin Scholarship Endowment at Bates, established in 2004 to increase financial support for the college’s students from Lewiston, Auburn and surrounding Androscoggin County communities.

The Harward Center for Community Partnerships hosts the third and final installment of its Civic Forum series at 7:30 p.m., Wednesday, Feb. 27, in the Edmund S. Muskie Archives, 70 Campus Ave., with a panel titled ” Reimagining the North Woods: The Changing Environment of Maine.”

The event is free and open to the public. For more information, please contact the Harward Center at 207-786-6202.

The Harward Center’s Civic Forum series explores issues of significance to the Bates community, Maine and beyond.

Maine is at a crossroads as it faces major decisions concerning the future of its North Woods. Pending decisions about development could have significant implications for the environment and growth management both in Maine and nationwide.

The three featured panelists have been thinking creatively about these issues for some time. They are Ted Koffman, director of government relations and summer programs, College of the Atlantic and legislator in the Maine House of Representatives; Matt Polstein, entrepreneur and town councilor from Millinocket; and David Vail, Adams-Catlin Professor of Economics, Bowdoin College.

The Harward Center leads Bates’ efforts in community involvement, including programs in service-learning, community volunteerism and environmental stewardship. The center works with community partners to meet community needs and, in the process, to integrate civic engagement with the Bates educational experience.

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From 1992 to 1998, Newman taught history at Bar-Ilan University in Ramat Gan outside of Tel Aviv, concurrently serving as director of the Center for Research at Bar-Ilan University’s Yad Ben Zvi during the middle years of his tenure there. He recently returned to academia as an adjunct associate professor at the Center for Judaic Studies at Boston University.

Since leaving Bar-Ilan University, Newman served as assistant to foreign minister David Levy from 1999 to 2000, and as policy adviser to Israeli President Moshe Katsav in 2000-01. Appointed consul of Israel to New England in November 2001, Newman also served for brief periods in Athens, Greece; Ankara, Turkey; and Tashkent, Uzbekistan.

Newman served as a paramedic in the Israel Defense Force from 1982 to 1986. Following his military service, he went on to study at Bar-Ilan University, where he earned a B.A. in psychology and history and later a Ph.D. in history. In his

Robert Cogan and Pozzi Escot, known internationally as composers and as music theorists expert in relationships between music and such disciplines as math and physics, are spending a weeklong residency at Bates College that includes two events open to the public at no cost.

They will offer a joint lecture titled “Poetics and Science of Music” at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 17, in the Keck Classroom (G52) in Pettengill Hall, Andrews Road.

Music by Escot and Cogan will be performed at 8 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 18, in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, 75 Russell St. The musicians include members of the avant-garde Second Instrumental Unit; soprano Joan Heller, head of the voice department at the Meadows School of the Arts, Southern Methodist University; and the Bates College Symphony Orchestra.

Faculty members at the New England Conservatory, Cogan and Escot will visit Bates under the auspices of the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation. Their visit was initiated by Professor of Physics John Smedley, one of several faculty at Bates who explore the relationship between music and physics.

The residency is underwritten by a curriculum development grant from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and has been coordinated by the Harward Center for Community Partnerships at Bates. For more information, please call 207-786-6195.

Cogan has sustained a threefold career as composer, music theorist and teacher. For more than 30 years he has been chair of graduate theoretical

studies and professor of composition at the conservatory. His book New Images of Musical Sound (Harvard, 1984) won the Society for Music Theory’s Distinguished Publication Award in 1987.

More recently, he published Music Seen, Music Heard and The Sounds of Song (both Publication Contact International, 1998-99). Cogan’s compositions have been performed by the Cleveland Orchestra, major regional orchestras in Germany and at festivals such as Avignon and Tanglewood.

Escot is a professor of composition and music theory at NEC and holds a professorship at Wheaton College. She is editor-in-chief of the internationally acclaimed journal Sonus and president of the International Society of Hildegard von Bingen Studies. She is widely regarded as a pioneer in the study of the relationship between music and mathematics, and has published numerous articles exploring that and other theoretical and interdisciplinary topics.

In 1975, Escot was named one of the five most remarkable women composers of the 20th century, and that same year the New York Philharmonic premiered her Fifth Symphony, to critical acclaim. She and Cogan co-wrote Sonic Design: The Nature of Sound and Music and Sonic Design: Practice and Problems (Prentice Hall, 1976). She recently completed two books, The Poetics of Simple Mathematics in Music and Oh How Wondrous — Hildegard von Bingen, Ten Essays.

Cogan’s works on the Bates program are Utterances, sung by Heller; Aflame in Flight, featuring violinist David Fulmer of the Second Instrumental Unit, and the string quartet America Is, with Fulmer and SIU colleagues.

Escot’s works are: Jubilation, String Quartet No. 5, performed by the SIU players; Eure Pax, with Fulmer; and the Violin Concerto, with Fulmer as soloist, accompanied by the Bates orchestra, conducted by Philip Carlsen.

Founded in 1945, the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation is an independent, nonprofit organization dedicated to the encouragement of excellence in education. Its Visiting Fellows program was established to encourage the flow of ideas between the academic and non-academic sectors of society, and to connect a liberal education with the world beyond the campus.

Wilson Fellows represent various professions, such as business, diplomacy, journalism, literature and art. Fellows spend a week on the campuses of small liberal arts colleges helping students and teachers relate education to the needs of society. Through classes, seminars, workshops, lectures and informal discussions, the fellows, students and faculty promote understanding between the academic and non-academic worlds.

The Visiting Fellows program began in 1973 with a $1 million grant from the Lilly Endowment. It is now a self-sustaining program, with colleges contributing a small fee to support the activities of each fellow. More than 200 colleges have participated.

At Bates, Cogan and Escot will visit classes as varied as music theory, physics, psychology and philosophy, and will speak with students in less-formal settings, such as mealtimes.

Joan Heller, a vocalist whose stylistic range embraces orchestral literature, chamber music and dramatic solo music, is particularly known for her work in contemporary repertoire. Senior lecturer in music at SMU, she released her first solo compact disc, To the Verge, on Neuma Records in 1992.

Violinist and composer David Fulmer is a co-founder of the Second Instrumental Unit, specializing in the most progressive forms of music being written today. Of a Fulmer performance, David Cleary of the New Music Connoisseur wrote, “Special bravos are reserved for . . . Fulmer, who played like a man possessed: his stage presence, tone, bow control and finger technique were simply stunning.” In 2003, Fulmer performed the world premiere of Escot’s Violin Concerto, a concerto written for and dedicated to him.