UMBC Jazz Ensemble
UMBC's Department of Music presents the UMBC Jazz Ensemble under the direction of Matthew Belzer.
Admission is free.
UMBC's Department of Music presents the UMBC Jazz Ensemble under the direction of Matthew Belzer.
Admission is free.
UMBC's Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery presents Experimentalist: The Art of Robert W. Fichter, the first retrospective of the artist’s career in over thirty years. Drawn from his archive at UMBC, the 55 works in this exhibition created between 1962 and 2006 highlight Fichter’s exploration of the human condition across photography, printmaking, and painting. Fichter employs shifting moods and mediums as well as wit, humor, and satire to deliver trenchant critiques of war, nuclear proliferation, and environmental disaster.
UMBC's Humanities Forum presents Amy Stanley, associate professor of history at Northwestern University, who will speak on “A View from Edo, The Greatest City in the World.”
The Ruckus new music ensemble opens UMBC’s annual new music festival — Livewire 10: Rewind / Fast Forward — with a program of music featuring:
Feuilles à travers les cloches (1999) by Tristan Murail
Dust Encapsulated #2 (2009) by Rune Glerup
Toward (2012) by Mischa Salkind-Pearl
Thème et variations (1932) by Olivier Messiaen
torsion (2009) by Katharina Rosenberger
Palindromes (1988) by Ben Johnston
$15 general admission, $10 seniors, $5 students.
UMBC Theatre presents Hunting and Gathering by Brooke Berman, directed by Susan Stroupe.
Four New Yorkers seek shelter, both physical and spiritual, in a variety of temporary abodes and one another in this dark comedy.
Performances:
Thursday, October 24, 8 p.m.
Friday, October 25, 8 p.m.
Saturday, October 26, 8 p.m.
Sunday, October 27, 2 p.m.
Tickets: $15 General Admission, $10 Students and Seniors
The next generation of emerging talent is showcased in this concert, featuring premieres and works in progress by UMBC student composers, performed by their colleagues.
“First rate”
—The New York Times
The vocal ensemble Third Practice presents the North American premiere of Salvatore Sciarrino’s rarely performed 12 Madrigali — 17th-century haiku by the poet Basho that are turned inside out and upside down in the ‘“unreliable mirror” of Sciarrino’s otherworldly music.
Soprano Susan Botti and clarinetist Gleb Kanasevich present the premiere of Rahilia Hasanova‘s chamber opera for two performers, Pendulum Clocks (2014).
Founded in 2004 by artistic director Richard Scerbo, Inscape Chamber Orchestra is pushing the boundaries of classical music in riveting performances that reach across genres and generations, and transcend the confines of the traditional classical concert experience.
$15 general admission, $10 seniors, $5 students
UMBC is located about 10 minutes south of the Inner Harbor along I-95. For this event, free visitor parking is available in Lot 8, directly adjacent to the Performing Arts and Humanities Building, where Linehan Concert Hall is located.
In a program entitled “Balderdash,” the percussion quartet Umbilicus will perform works by Will Redman, Tom Goldstein, Jennifer Walshe and others, including:
Burners: End to End by Will Redman
Deck by Will Redman
Evergreen by Tom Goldstein
A new work (premiere) by Tom Goldstein
THIS IS WHY PEOPLE O.D. ON PILLS/AND JUMP FROM THE GOLDEN GATE BRIDGE by Jennifer Walshe
UMBC's Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture presents Distal’s Musk: Rosy Keyser, featuring new works by artist Rosy Keyser, a painter and sculptor known for working in large-scale gestural, tactile abstraction. Further details and related programing announcements forthcoming.
An opening reception will be held on Thursday, October 31, from 5 to 7 p.m., and the gallery will open for regular viewing hours on Friday, November 1.
Admission to the exhibition and all related events is free.
Harry Appelman’s jazz trio brings a lyrical and swinging style to interpretations of material from composers ranging from Jerome Kern to Thelonious Monk, as well as original compositions. The trio consists of Harry Appelman on piano, Jeff Reed on bass, and Eric Kennedy on drums.
$15 general admission, $10 seniors, $5 students.
UMBC is located about 10 minutes south of the Inner Harbor along I-95. For this event, free visitor parking is available in Lot 8, directly adjacent to the Performing Arts and Humanities Building, where Linehan Concert Hall is located.