A Totally '80s Taste of the Town
Like, oh my gosh! It's an '80s party! Rock out at the library after hours on Saturday, April 27, from 7 p.m.-11 p.m. at the Cockeysville Branch for A Totally '80s Taste of the Town!
Like, oh my gosh! It's an '80s party! Rock out at the library after hours on Saturday, April 27, from 7 p.m.-11 p.m. at the Cockeysville Branch for A Totally '80s Taste of the Town!
Monthly "open mike" Folk Music Night is held Saturdays from 7:00-10:00 pm. Admission is free, but donations are welcome. Further info: 410-529-7176. The featured performer this month is Michael Warner. His website is http://michaelwarnermusic.weebly.com/ .
A concert featuring three of Howard Community College Music Department outstanding voice majors in a program varying from lieder to folk-songs to operatic arias encompassing three centuries of music.
“Competitions play an important role in the development of classical musicians, and they inspire us to get acquainted with new artists.” San Francisco Classical Voice, Scott Cmiel
The latest winner of the Guitar Foundation of America competition (2016) is Xavier Jara, who is born and raised the United States. He will share a concert with Tengyue Zhang of China, who won the same competition the year after, 2017.
Celebrate the end of a successful season, back in Shriver Hall, with music by Barber, Beethoven, and James Grant. Irina Murseanu performs the Barber Violin Concerto, alongside Beethoven's 8th Symphony and Entr'acte by James Grant.
Pre-concert talk at 7pm.
Saturday, April 27, 2019, 8pm, Shriver Hall Auditorium
Jed Gaylin, conductor
James Grant: Entr’acte
Samuel Barber: Violin Concerto, Op. 14 with Irina Muresanu, violin
Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 8, Op. 93
Join Occasional Symphony - Baltimore's grassroots orchestra - for our 2018-19 Season Finale Concert! Surrounded and inspired by Baltimore County's tree line, experience our program of orchestral music by Mabel Daniels (Deep Forest, Op. 34 no. 1), Toru Takemitsu (Tree Line), and Ellicott City-based Wu Yiming (world premiere) with chamber music by Joan Tower (Rising). Alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages available for sale at the concert. Venue capacity is 75 seats - get your tickets today!
Occasional Symphony celebrates spring at an iconic Baltimore venue - Cloisters Castle! Surrounded and inspired by Baltimore County's tree line, experience our program of orchestral music by Mabel Daniels (Deep Forest, Op. 34 no. 1), Toru Takemitsu (Tree Line), and Ellicott City-based Wu Yiming (world premiere) with chamber music by Joan Tower (Rising). Alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages available for sale at the concert. Tickets are $25 - only 75 seats at this venue, so buy your tickets while they last! You can sit with us.
Neither Chopin nor Mendelssohn devotes many of their compositions to cello and piano. Nevertheless, the very few pieces they wrote for cello and piano duo embody a rich mid-19th century treasure in the repertoire, leaving us wondering and wishing for more. The Li/Wu duo returns to HCC to present these beautiful works including cello sonatas by Chopin and Mendelssohn.
Our spring concert offers diverse meditations on the immortal. Life and death battle in J.S. Bach's Easter cantata, while Sir John Tavener's posthumous masterwork Requiem Fragments offers a luminous vision of the afterlife.
BRUCKNER Os justi
OLSON Incantation
GUILLAUME Dominus Vobiscum
BACH Christ lag in Todesbanden (BWV 4)
TAVENER Song for Athene
TAVENER Requiem Fragments
PARKER Hark! I Hear the Harps Eternal
Singer/Songwriter Artists Victoria Vox and Kipyn Martin have been recognized by the Washington Area Music Awards (WAMMIE) for their work as Folk Contemporary Vocalists and Songwriters.
Come join our new weekly jam session, every Sunday at 7pm, in the downstairs bar at Germano's! Mike 'n' Ike will provide the house rhythm section, while Germano's provides a fabulous bar featuring everything from fresh carrot juice to old whiskey, plus fantastic food,, all in a comfortable bar in the heart of Little Italy. Come join host Ian Rashkin (bass) and the rest of the rhythm section to play your favorite jazz standards, and not-so-standards; all instruments and vocalists welcome.
The McDaniel College Choir, led by Margaret Boudreaux, director of choral activities at McDaniel, presents “Of Wisdom and Folly.” According to Boudreaux, “this musical journey will take the audience around the world and from the most ancient times to the present days–exploring human natures–from fables to foibles.” Audience participation is encouraged on several pieces.
The Department of Music presents the Camerata Chamber Choir under the direction of Stephen Caracciolo. A select choir of 40–50 singers drawn from all majors of the university, Camerata performs a wide variety of works drawn from the expansive choral repertoire, including Renaissance motets, folksongs, choral-orchestral works, German part songs, Russian sacred liturgies, American spirituals, and new works.
Ruth Blaustein Rosenberg Series
Edward Polochick, conductor,
with the Peabody-Hopkins Chorus and Peabody Singers
Richard Strauss: Tod und Verkl„rung, Op. 24
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Mass in C minor, K. 427, "The Great"
This concert honors the generosity of Cynthia and Paul Lorraine.
Live streamed at ustream.tv/channel/johnshopkinsu.
McDaniel College’s Student African Drum Ensemble, under the direction of music faculty member Pape Demba “Paco” Samb, a Senegalese griot, and students in the “Making Rock” class, under the direction of music faculty member Roxanne Wehking, perform.
Hailed by Downbeat for its “deft analysis of choice repertoire,” and by the Chicago Reader for its “diversity of approaches to all kinds of source material,” the JOE POLICASTRO TRIO makes its Cabaret at Germano’s debut celebrating the release of their fourth album, Nothing Here Belongs.
The Trio des Alpes, an Italian-Swiss ensemble, featuring violinist Hana Kotková, cellist Claude Hauri, and pianist Corrado Greco, returns to UMBC for a evening of chamber music. The trio will also perform on Sunday, May 5 with the UMBC Symphony (more here).
The Brasilian Vibes Trio brings the beguiling rhythms and melodies of Brazil to Montpelier Arts Center, one of the DC-areas premier listening rooms.
Directed by Laurie Starkey
Musical Direction by Chris Rose
Choreographed by Elise Starkey
We are pleased to announce the final show of our 2018-2019 season, the musical version of the 1997 British film THE FULL MONTY, with music by David Yazbek (The Band’s Visit) and book by Terrence McNally (Love! Valour! Compassion!). Reset in Buffalo, NY, when a steel town announces job layoffs, a scrappy former employee comes up with a novel way to cope with realities of lost wages as well as feelings of lost manhood.
The Department of Music presents the Jubilee Singers under the direction of Janice Jackson.
The performance will be followed by the UMBC Gospel Choir at 7 p.m.
Admission is free.