Alumni Events Calendar

When: 6:30 PM May 16, 2012
Region: Silicon Valley, CA
Where: Google Headquarters Mountain View
Costs: registration: $15

Join us for our 3^rd annual Silicon Valley Networking Event at Google headquarters in Mountain View. Discover fellow Sagehens working in all aspects of the tech world!

Hosted by Laszlo Bock ’94, Senior Vice President of People Operations for Google

Important Note:  Space is limited for this event.  Actual address will be sent to those who register closer to the time of the event.

When: 7:30 PM May 18, 2012
Region: Europe
Where: England, Poland and Berlin
Speaker: Featuring the Pomona College Glee Club
Cost: Free

St. James's Church, Piccadilly (London, England)

Friday, 18 May 2012

concert time: 7:30 pm 

This concert will be immediately followed by a reception in the adjacent BAFTA building.  

St. Mary's Church (Chesham, England)

Saturday, 19 May 2012

concert time: 7:30 pm

Centrum Kultury (Grodzisku Mazowieckim, outside of Warsaw, Poland)

Tuesday, 22 May 2012

concert time: 7:00 p.m.

St. Catherine's Church (Krakow, Poland)

Friday, 25 May 2012

concert time: 7:00 p.m.

The Evangelical Church (Wroclaw, Poland)

Sunday, 27 May 2012

concert time: 6:00 p.m.

The Evangelical Church (Weissensee, outside of Berlin, Germany)

Wednesday, 30 May 2012

concert time: 7:30 p.m.

all concerts are subject to change and every attempt will be made to keep this page updated.

When: 5:45 PM Jun 9, 2012 - 8:01 pm May 15, 2012
Region: So Cal
Where: Home of J.M. "Mike" Morris '56 and Anne Abbott-Morris, 712 Country Club Drive Ojai CA 93023
Costs: Tickets: $65

Enjoy the hospitality of Stephen J.M. “Mike” Morris ’56 and Anne Abbott-Morris at their beautiful home in Ojai before heading over to the Libbey Bowl for a concert under the stars. Celebrating its 66^th year, the Ojai Music Festival is the perfect way to kick off your summer. We hope you can join David and Claire Oxtoby and other Pomona alumni, parents, and friends for this wonderful event. This year’s concert will feature the celebrated Norwegian Chamber Orchestra.   Haflidi Hallgrímsson’s evocative Poemi sets the stage of the American premiere of Bent Sørensen’s dreamscape Piano Concerto.  After intermission, clarinetist Martin Fröst reveals his versatility as a dancer, sometime percussionist, and brilliant chamber musician with works by Hillborg, Mozart, and Kurtág, and a little help from Antoine Tamestit and Leif Ove Andsnes, the founder of the Norwegian Chamber Orchestra and the 2012 Festival Music Director, described by the New York Times as “the outstanding pianist of his generation.”

Works will include:

Haflidi Hallgrímsson: Poemi, Op. 7
Bent Sørensen: Piano Concerto No. 2 “La Mattina”   American premiere
Anders Hillborg: Peacock Tales (version for clarinet and tape)
Mozart: Trio in E flat “Kegelstatt”  K. 498                 
György Kurtág: Hommage à Robert Schumann    

About the Ojai Music Festival

Established in 1947 by music aficionado John Bauer, the Ojai Music Festival has fostered a healthy spirit of eclecticism in its adventurous programs, gaining a worldwide reputation for attracting artists who are given artistic freedom as they perform exceptional pieces of classical music. That spirit was reinforced in 1954 with the appointment of Lawrence Morton as the Festival Artistic Director. A man of broad musical tastes, Morton was a visionary whose constant curiosity and unwavering integrity shaped the Festival’s future direction. Under his leadership, the Ojai Festival developed an enduring concept whereby the artistic director engages a different Festival music director each year around whom that year’s Festival is built. Among the Festival’s diverse music directors have been such renowned musical luminaries as composers John Adams, Ingolf Dahl, Peter Maxwell Davies, Lukas Foss, John Harbison and Oliver Knussen, Pierre Boulez, and Igor Stravinsky; conductors Kent Nagano, Michael Tilson Thomas, Simon Rattle and Esa-Pekka Salonen; and instrumentalists Emanuel Ax and Mitsuko Uchida.

When: 2:00 PM Jun 24, 2012
Region: Los Angeles
Where: Terrace Villa (aka Jamieson Mansion) , 440 West Green Street, formerly the Ambassador Campus Pasadena CA 91105
Speaker: Politics Professor David Menefee-Libey
Costs: Registration : $15

Presidential Elections – What Can We Expect In 2012?

Intrigue, scandals, accusations and money trails leading to questionable sources.  Sounds like a soap opera, doesn’t it?    No, just another year on the American Presidential election campaign tour.  With both political parties painting each other as extremist, what has happened to mainstream America?  Is there a standard bell curve of political opinion in the general population?  Is there any hope we will ever see a candidate from the mainstream?  Or, with the recent court decision on Super Pac funding, will the lobbyists control the elections? 

Join politics Professor David Menefee-Libey for an interesting discussion on today’s political climate. How will this election be both similar and different from what we may have seen before?  No matter what your political leanings, learn what issues candidates will be talking about.  Get an insider perspective from someone who has watched and studied this phenomena to spot the trends, patterns and the usual smoke screens!

The venue: we will be using Terrace Villa, one of the old mansions on Pasadena's "Millionaire Row" at the corner of Orange Grove and Green Street.  More recently known as the Ambassador Campus, the property features gorgeous old mansions and lovely gardens.  Feel free to spend a little time after our event checking out the grounds.  Terrace Villa itself was built in 1924 and may have been the first commissioned work of architect Walter C. Folland who later designed many other buildings in and around Pasadena.  It is a Mediterranean Revival home of more than 6000 square feet and the downstairs has recently been restored.  

Please note:  There are three small stairs to enter into this building.  It is not wheelchair accessible.  If you require a wheelchair ramp, please let us know no later than June 11.  We will do our best to accomodate your request, but the venue will actually need to construct one which is why we need the advance notice.  You can call the alumni office at 909-621-8110 to make your request by June 11.  

When: 5:30 PM Jul 21, 2012
Region: Northern California
Where: Carmel, CA
Costs: Registration includes pre-concert reception, admission to Sat. evening concert and post show reception: $65
Additional Information: for more information on the Carmel Bach Festival click here

Make plans now to join Pomona College President David Oxtoby and Claire Oxtoby, along with Carmel Bach Festival Board President-elect Betsey Hampson Pearson ’66, board members Steve Pearson '66 & Susie Sanders Brusa '84, and other alumni for a spectacular evening in the gorgeous seaside town of Carmel, California.    

Your evening will include:

• A pre-concert reception hosted by Bruce & Michelle Moore ’73  at their home in Carmel.
• Saturday evening concert featuring the Bach B Minor Mass conducted by Paul Goodwin with soloists, Kendra Colton, Clara Rottsolk and noted British Counter-tenor, Robin Blaze. 
• Green Room reception immediately following the concert with wine and desserts. Various musicians will attend, including Music Director and Conductor Paul Goodwin, Concertmaster, Peter Hanson and other soloists and principals. 

Tickets for this full evening of events are only $65 and include some of the best seats in the house.    We only  have 30 tickets for this exclusive event, please book early to secure your reservation.  Reservations are confirmed when payment is received.  We regret we are unable to offer refunds for this event.

And why stop there?  If you are a music fan you may wish to attend other festival events as well.  The festival program also includes Friday evening Bach, Stravinsky and Brahms; Saturday at 11 a.m. they are offering a predominately Mozart program with a smaller ensemble of the Festival and featuring Emlyn Ngai, violin, Roger Cole, oboe and Christopher Cooper, horn, and Sunday afternoon’s presentation is Handel’s Alexander’s Feast and Bach’s Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D Major, BWV 1068 with a commissioned piece by American composer Curt Cacioppo inserted.

 
Please note:  These events are NOT included as part of the Pomona event on Saturday evening.  To attend any of these events please purchase separate tickets through the Bach Festival website at http://www.bachfestival.org/index.cfm/tickets.htm.
  
Lodging:
Carmel is a popular vacation spot year round, and you will want to book your hotel rooms early (now is not too soon!).  Many hotels require more than a one night stay during weekends.  For a list of possible hotels please visit http://www.bachfestival.org/index.cfm/destination_carmel.htm.  Most have cancellation policies that offer refunds with no more than a week’s notice, so if in doubt we suggest you book your hotel now and cancel later if need be. 

Should you have any questions regarding this event simply reply to this email or call 909-621-8110 and we will be glad to assist you.

IF YOU ALREADY HAVE TICKETS OF YOUR OWN and would like to attend the receptions, please send an email to alumni@pomona.edu with the subject line Bach Festival.  In the body of the email simply give us the names of those who will be attending so we may add them to the guest list.