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Painless Auditions The Five College Early Music Program announces "painless auditions" and information sessions for the Early Music Collegium, Euridice ensemble (Baroque/classical chamber music), and other ensembles. Wind players and violinists are especially welcome, but there are openings for singers and instrumentalists of all sorts. Choose from small instrumental ensembles, a women's vocal ensemble (Voces Feminae), a seminar in seventeenth-century song for qualified singers and lute/keyboard players, and a Renaissance dance class. Private and group lessons on recorder, viol, lute, and other instruments are also available. Auditions will be held September 4, from 2 to 3:30 pm, at the University of Massachusetts in room 159 FAC; September 5, from
6 pm to 7:30 pm, at Amherst College's music center in room 7; September 6, from 11:30 am to 12:30 pm at Hampshire College's music building and from 4 to 6 pm at Smith College's Sage Hall in room 6; September 7 from 11 am to 1 pm at the University of Massachusetts in room 159 FAC and from 2 to 4:30 pm at MHC's Pratt Hall, room 210. For further information, call x 2079, or email reisenst@mtholyoke.edu.

Calling All Actors MHC's Department of Theatre Arts will hold auditions for William Shakespeare's Hamlet September 8. Callbacks will be the same day. The production will present Shakespeare's most famous tale as the story of a young Danish princess caught in a web of corruption, intrigue, and sexual politics, and denied her rightful throne by her uncle. The all-female production will "reclaim" this "masculine" play for female actors and challenge concepts of gender, identity, and sexual ambivalence. Performances will be held April 19–21 and April 25–28. Principal cast members must enroll in Acting Shakespeare II in the fall semester. The department will hold auditions for Night of the Iguana, Tennessee Williams's poetic drama about the terrifying isolation of loneliness, September 5–7. Callbacks will be September 9; performances are scheduled for October 25–28. The department will also hold auditions for Noel Coward's Hay Fever, a comedy of manners set in the 1920s, September 5–7. Callbacks will be September 9. See CSJ Happenings for audition times and locations.

Glee Club, Chamber Singers Wanted
Would you like to be a part of concerts in South Hadley, Brattleboro, Boston—even Rome and Venice (optional January 2002 tour)? Would you be interested in singing with men from Harvard and Rutgers? If so, sign up now (in Pratt Hall, across from music deptartment office) for a short, painless, private audition for Glee Club or Chamber Singers. Auditions will be held Thursday, September 6 (afternoon and evening), and Friday, September 7 (morning only). Glee Club is open to sophomores, juniors, seniors, Frances Perkins Scholars, and female faculty and staff. To join Chamber Singers, you must be a member of either Glee Club or Concert Choir (first-years). For more information, email Cathy Melhorn at cmelhorn@mtholyoke.edu.