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On Tuesday, October 3 at 7:30 p.m., saxophonist Jonathan Hulting-Cohen and pianist Nadine Shank will present a concert entitled On the Edge.

On Wednesday, October 4 at 7:30 p.m. (with Pre-Concert Talk at 6:45), composer and saxophonist Felipe Salles will present his Interconnections Ensemble, a jazz big band that fuses Brazilian and European traditions.

In early October, the UMass Amherst Department of Music & Dance and the Fine Arts Center’s Asian Arts & Culture Program co-host a presentation and masterclasses by the Compagnie Hervé Koubi Residency Project at the Totman Dance Studio 202.

On Sunday, October 1, UMass Music & Dance pays tribute to one of the seminal figures in the history of the UMass music program. The concert features selections composed by the former department chair, along with comments by current chair Roberta M. Marvin on Bezanson’s work as composer, educator, and visionary leader.

The UMass Amherst Department of Music & Dance will celebrate oboe professor Fredric T. Cohen’s 30 years in the music program with a special concert program on Tuesday, September 26, 2017.

The Scarlet Professor, a new opera based on the book by Barry Werth, opens this weekend at Smith College’s Theater 14. Two of the five productions (9/23 at 8pm, 9/24 at 3pm) feature a Young Artist cast consisting of Five College students.

True Colors, a jazz-tinged work in two movements composed for UMass trumpet Professor Eric Berlin and the Albany Symphony Orchestra by award-winning composer George Tsontakis, has been released by Naxos Records.