The Residence Life Office will be holding its 13th Annual Trick-or-Treat Night on Wednesday, Oct. 27, 2010, from 6-8 p.m. in South Hall and Crawford Hall. Event is open to children up to age 12.
Nationally recognized music historian and author, Michael Lasser, will give two presentations on music from the era of World War II on Oct. 26 and 27, 2010.
Lasser is the former theater critic for The Rochester Democrat & Chronicle. For nearly 25 years Lasser has spoken at museums and universities across the nation including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Smithsonian National Museum of American Art. Lasser is here for the public Lunch N’ Learn programs at the Sullivan Museum and History Center at Norwich University. In conjunction with its special fall exhibition, The Role of Remembrance: Norwich University and WWII, a series of programs are being offered that share more information about the WWII period.
On Tuesday, Oct. 26 at 7 p.m. Lasser will present “Walking Alone: The Love Songs of World War II” at the Kellogg Hubbard Library in Montpelier. He will discuss how popular songs reflected what was happening in peoples’ hearts and lives during that era.
And on Wednesday, Oct. 27 at noon Lasser will present “Music and World War II: God Bless America and White Christmas” at Norwich’s Sullivan Museum and History Center in Northfield. He will share Irving Berlin’s two famous songs, which embodied and shaped American attitudes and were written for a world about to go to war.
Both presentations are free and open to the public, and the Sullivan Museum event includes lunch.