Lectures and concerts are now presented live in the ASA Great Room, and are open to the public and ASA members. ASA-sponsored concerts are also available to view on-line: Video Concerts; and the video lectures are available here.
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APRIL 2025
“Buffalo Soldiers of Bonita Canyon: Who They Were and Who They Mourned”
Sharon A. Kennedy, Ph.D.
2:30pm – 3:30pm, ASA Koffler Great Room & Zoom
FRIDAY CONCERT, APRIL 4th, 11:30am-12:30pm, ASA Koffler Great Room
“A Tribute to Burt Bacharach” returns with more Grammy and Academy Award-winning Bacharach songs, performed by singer Chelsee Hicks, with Brian Hicks (sax, flute, percussion), Rob Boone (trombone, piano), Frank Filipo (guitar), Jack Wood (bass), and Fred Hayes (drums).
“The Death of Public Education”
Gary Fenstermacher
2:30pm – 3:30pm, ASA Koffler Great Room & Zoom
“The Birth and Death of American Public Education – Part 2”
Gary Fenstermacher
2:30pm – 3:30pm, ASA Koffler Great Room & Zoom
“The Death of Public Education – Part 3”
Gary Fenstermacher
2:30pm – 3:30pm, ASA Koffler Great Room & Zoom
“Biographies of Power and Culture in Colonial Mexico: Biography as History and the Origins of Mestizaje in Mexico”
Michael Brescia, Ph.D.
2:30pm – 4:30pm, ASA Koffler Great Room & Zoom
SUNDAY CONCERT, APRIL 13th, 3:00pm-4:00pm, ASA Koffler Great Room
The Vail Chorale’s Spring Concert, “Romancing the Song,” contrasts classical songs – selections from Brahms’s “Love Song Waltzes” and Elgar’s “As Torrents in Summer” – with American songbook favorites and more – “Come Rain or Come Shine,” “An Orange Colored Sky,” “Love Me Tender.” Please note ASA performance time: 3:00pm.
NO WEDNESDAY LECTURE, April 16
FRIDAY CONCERT, APRIL 18TH, 11:30am-12:30pm, ASA Koffler Great Room
The Duane Reilley Trio returns with straight-up jazz favorites by Cole Porter and George Gershwin, featuring Duane Reilley (sax, flute & clarinet), Daniel “Sly” Slipetsky (piano), and Evan Dain (upright bass).
“Biographies of Power & Culture in Colonial Mexico: Early Colonial Elites, the Common Man, and the Push for Evangelization”
Michael Brescia, Ph.D.
2:30pm – 4:30pm, ASA Koffler Great Room & Zoom
NO WEDNESDAY LECTURE, April 23
FRIDAY CONCERT, APRIL 25th, 4:00pm-5:00pm, ASA Koffler Great Room
The Tango Guitar Project is a tango trio of classical guitarists from Tucson – Maxi Larrea (Argentinian native), Andres Pantoja (Chilean native), and Misael Barraza-Diaz (Mexican native) – who join talents to perform new compositions and arrangements of traditional and contemporary tango pieces.
“Biographies of Power and Culture in Colonial Mexico: The Long Seventeenth Century, Part I: Bishop-Viceroys and Collective Biography”
Michael Brescia, Ph.D.
2:30pm – 4:30pm, ASA Koffler Great Room & Zoom
NO Wednesday, Lecture, April 30
MAY 2025
Biographies of Power and Culture in Colonial Mexico: The Long Seventeenth Century, Part II: “Foolish Men” and the Tenth Muse
Michael Brescia, Ph.D.
2:30pm – 4:30pm, ASA Koffler Great Room & Zoom
NO Wednesday, Lecture, May 7
“Biographies of Power and Culture in Colonial Mexico: The Enlightenment Comes to Mexico: Late Colonial Stress and Independence”
Michael Brescia, Ph.D.
2:30pm – 4:30pm, ASA Koffler Great Room & Zoom
NO Wednesday, Lecture, May 14
“Tumamoc Saguaros through time: 117 years of saguaro surveys and the future(s) of the saguaro”
Dr. Peter Breslin
2:30pm – 3:30pm, ASA Koffler Great Room & Zoom
Wednesday, Lecture, May 28
“Pioneering Jews of Southern Arizonans”
Lori Shepherd
2:30pm – 3:30pm, ASA Koffler Great Room & Zoom