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Bay Street Brassworks Concert - Spire Series
The Spire Series is pleased to sponsor the Bay Street Brassworks (BSB), an internationally acclaimed touring ensemble and one of America's finest and busiest brass ensembles. This award-winning quintet was founded in 1995 and performs everything from Bach to Be-Bop. BSB is also the premiere educational brass ensemble of its kind and currently a performing ensemble for Young Audiences Chapters, including Young Audiences of Maryland. BSB has performed hundreds of educational programs, masterclasses and clinics for kindergarteners through high school seniors.
Opera in a Can
Opera in a Can, the Department of Music’s resident children’s opera company, presents the classic tale of Cinderella with valuable life lessons for children and adults interspersed. Music is by Arthur Sullivan. Adapted from the operettas of Gilbert and Sullivan by Timothy Huth, Grace Kane and Phillip Collister. Dress as your favorite fairy-tale character, meet the cast and participate in creative activities from
10:15 a.m. to 11 a.m. For children from kindergarten through 6th grade.
Music at Evergreen: Dublin Guitar Quartet
Dubbed a "quartet with a difference" by the Irish Times, the trailblazing Dublin Guitar Quartet is devoted exclusively to contemporary music. Since its 2002 formation at the Dublin Conservatory of Music and Drama, the ensemble has commissioned new work, adapted contemporary pieces not originally written for guitar, and broadened both its range and tuning capabilities through the use of eight- and eleven-string guitars, as well as specialized amplification.
15th Great Halloween Lantern Parade & Festival: Kaleidoscope
KALEIDOSCOPE Brings 15th Annual Great Halloween Lantern Parade in Full Color!
Classical Masters
Tom Hall leads the Baltimore Choral Arts’ Full Chorus and Orchestra in a program of classical masters including Beethoven’s Elegiac Song, and Mozart’s Ave Verum Corpus. Tenor John Wesley Wright returns to Choral Arts, and joins other soloists in Bach’s Magnificat and Baltimore Symphony Principal Trumpet Andrew Balio and soprano Nola Richardson open the program with Bach’s Cantata No. 51, Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen. Join us for an afternoon of musical delights with Baltimore Choral Arts!
Culinary Chords - Art To Dine For
Tarks Restaurant’s Executive Chef Chris Golder creates Spanish tapas samplings of octopus, shrimp, chorizo, pork from the grill, gazpacho, and paella as the finale. Bring your instruments and jam a little with Lou Denrich, or join Barbara on a tour of their extensive and eclectic art collection, including international and local artists, that graces their beautiful Owings Mills home.
40 guests / $75 / 6-9pm
Musicals, Movies and Moxie, Oh My!
The irrepressible Laurette Hankins-O’Connell debuts her new cabaret, a nostalgic and occasionally irreverent salute to movie musicals. Enjoy many of your favorite show tunes, while getting the scoop on how some of the best-loved Broadway musicals of the 20th century traveled the bumpy road from The Big Apple to Hollywood. Songs and medleys span the genre-- from Oklahoma, South Pacific, King and I, Guys and Dolls, and Gypsy, to My Fair Lady, Sound of Music, Cabaret, Les Miserables and more.
Baltimore Square Dance
It's time to dust off those dancin' shoes and head down to Mobtown Ballroom for the big ol' Baltimore Square Dance! After a summer hiatus, we're back in action and excited to kick off the fall with a rockin' night of dancing and old-time music. As always, no experience or partner is necessary.
Columbia Pro Cantare Sings Rossini's Petite Messe Solennelle
Columbia Pro Cantare opens its 2014-2015 season, Saturday, October 25, 2014, at 8 pm with the rarely performed but thoroughly entertaining Petite Messe Solennelle
by Gioachino Rossini. An operatic composer of timeless renown, Rossini also composed sacred music, chamber music, songs, and instrumental and piano
works. Rossini referred to Petite Messe Solennelle as the last of his “peches de vieillesse” (sins of old age). First performed in 1864 in a private chapel
Columbia Pro Cantare Sings Rossini's Petite Messe Solennelle
An operatic composer of timeless renown, Gioachino Rossini also composed sacred music, chamber music, songs, and instrumental and piano works. Rossini referred to Petite Messe Solennelle as the last of his “peches de vieillesse” (sins of old age). First performed in 1864 in a private chapel of a friend of the composer in Passy, France, Petite Messe is characterized by contrapuntal writing, elaborate chromatics and harmonic audacity. This is its first performance by Columbia Pro Cantare.
Cantare!
Cantare! expresses the natural synergy between music and visual art. This interdisciplinary program entitled “All American” pairs the artwork of contemporary visual artist Patrick Delaney with the music of American composers: Leslie Adams, Jake Heggie, Scott Joplin, Camille Nickerson, Frank Proto and Gene Scheer.
Kronos Quartet: Prelude to a Black Hole and Beyond Zero: 1914-1918
Kronos Quartet is synonymous with curiosity and fearlessness. They are neither afraid to look forward or to look back. This program is played without pause or intermission and features Prelude to a Black Hole, a compilation of unusual works chosen by Kronos to reflect the serenity and impact of the World War I centennial, followed immediately by Aleksandra Vrebalov’s new work Beyond Zero: 1914 - 1918, highlighted by Bill Morrison’s film.
GLOW BALL Dance Party & Costume Contest
Baltimore’s own Balkan gypsy dance inferno Balti Mare opens. Balti Mare leader , Armani Crucescu is honing his craft while staying with Fanfare in Romania for a week this winter. Armani adds East European accordion master Kalin Kirilov to his A-list Balti Mare lineup, which also includes sax titan Chris Pumphrey, frenetic violin phenom Nils Schwerzmann, and tuba maestro Tom Holtz. Want to know why the brass band movement in America is booming? Come dance to the band that started the revolution! Gypsy dance shoes/dress suggested! $12, $9 members
Homewood Orchard Fest
This fun-filled afternoon is presented in celebration of Homewood Museum’s new interpretive orchard, featuring heirloom apple and pear trees. Visitors of all ages to Orchard Fest are invited to celebrate the fall season with traditional lawn games, living history presentations, tours of the historic site and its surviving outbuildings, apple tastings, and live music by the Mob Town String Band.
UMD Symphony Orchestra Concerto Competition Preliminaries
Which School of Music student will be the next featured soloist with the UMD Symphony Orchestra? In the preliminary round of the annual UMSO Concerto Competition, students perform excerpts of a concerto or concert piece for an independent jury panel. A select number of competitors are advanced to the final round where a winner, runner-up and second runner-up are announced.
Handel Choir of Baltimore presents RESONATE
Join Handel Choir of Baltimore in the beautiful Cathedral of the Incarnation as the sounds of our voices resonate through stone, glass and marble.
Enjoy an introduction to period musical instruments and playing techniques, followed by highlights from our upcoming 80th anniversary season. Works by Handel, Vivaldi and Górecki. A Free Fall Baltimore event!
Handel Choir of Baltimore
Risa Browder, violin
Leslie Nero, violin
John Moran, viola da gamba
Thomas Hetrick, harpsichord
Arian Khaefi, conductor
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The Greatest Songs You've Never Heard
Pianist extraordinaire, Alex Hassan, recreates the styles of the golden age of 1920s/30s Tin Pan Alley; sublime, acclaimed East Coast based singers Doug Bowles and Karin Paludan are versatile performers who bring the songs of the Era to life with humor and heart; together they form Three For A Song and present "The Greatest Songs You've Never Heard"!