Arts/Entertainment
Student performs open recital at Phillips
On Wednesday, Oct. 21 at 6:30 p.m. the Phillips Academy Music Department will present a student piano recital featuring Henry Zhu, performing works by J. S Bach, Beethoven, Ginastera and Poulenc.
This concert, free and open to the public, will take place in the Timken Room at Graves Hall. For more information call the Academy a 978-749-4263 or e-mail to music@andover.edu.
Phillips Academy, better known as Andover, is a coeducational, non-profit, independent high school of 1,096 students, known for its extensive and rigorous academic program. It was founded in 1778, and notable Andover alumni include New England Patriots head coach Bill Belichick; 19th-century poet Oliver Wendell Holmes; Presidents George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush, former Yale president and commissioner of Major League Baseball A. Bartlett Giamatti; MacArthur Fellow Peter Sellars, landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted; inventor Samuel F. B. Morse, artists Frank Stella, Joseph Cornell, and George C. Tooker, authors Edgar Rice Burroughs, Julia Alvarez, and Tracy Kidder, actors Humphrey Bogart, Jack Lemmon, James Spader, and Dana Delany, author and physician Dr. Benjamin M. Spock, and John F. Kennedy Jr.
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'Glee' style show choir steps in to Andover High
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Andover man is your guide to local history
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TV show on town centers features Andover
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