BRUNCH WITH CRAIG GILDNER AND BETO RODRIGUES
Enjoy an afternoon of delicious food and exquisite live music in the bar.
Enjoy an afternoon of delicious food and exquisite live music in the bar.
Speaker: Dr. Alan Garfield, Widener University Delaware Law School
What happens when secular law requires religious believers to violate their faith? Should believers have to comply with the law or must government give them an exemption? What if the person seeking an exemption is a religious baker who refuses to serve same-sex couples (a case currently before the Supreme Court)? What if the baker instead refuses to serve Jews?
*Opening Reception: Sunday, April 8, 2–4 p.m., with remarks by college historian James E. Lightner
In conjunction with McDaniel College’s 150th anniversary celebration, this timeline exhibit highlights each decade of the college’s 150-year history.
Through interviews with historians and music enthusiasts, Body and Soul: An American Bridge examines the fascinating history of this timeless jazz song’s and illustrates the complex musical interplay between Jewish and African-American cultures. Created by Jewish composer Johnny Green in 1929, the song was introduced on Broadway by Jewish torch singer, Libby Holman, and ushered into the jazz canon by Louis Armstrong. A post discussion with music enthusiasts will follow. In partnership with the Baltimore Jewish Film Festival 2018.
Through interviews with historians and music enthusiasts, Body and Soul: An American Bridge examines the fascinating history of this timeless jazz song’s and illustrates the complex musical interplay between Jewish and African-American cultures. Created by Jewish composer Johnny Green in 1929, the song was introduced on Broadway by Jewish torch singer, Libby Holman, and ushered into the jazz canon by Louis Armstrong. A post discussion with music enthusiasts will follow. In partnership with the Baltimore Jewish Film Festival 2018.
For nearly 30 years before he entered the circus business, P.T. Barnum owned and managed Barnum’s American Museum in New York City. Featuring nearly 500,000 attractions, the American Museum was a museum, zoo, lecture hall, theater and treasure house of marvels of nature that served as a central site in the development of American popular culture.
Experience the magic, the metaphor, the symbolism, the humor and the romance, when the Ballet Theatre of Maryland (BTM) presents the hauntingly, transformative retelling of the classic fairytale: Beauty and the Beast. Enter an enchanted castle where Beauty discovers that nothing is what it seems; help her tame a Beast through the power of love; and become a part of the magic that unravels the hideous spell keeping the Beast Captive.
Duo Down the Danube
Schubert • Rondo in B minor
Dohnányi • Violin Sonata Op. 21, C sharp minor
Bartók • Rhapsody No. 1
Enescu • Sonata No. 3 in Romanian Folk Style
High school students admitted free.
Younger children admitted with an adult
Second Sundays are FUNdays with FazaFam! Sundays of family strengthening fun!
Moms, dads, grandparents, aunts, uncles, brothers, sisters, ANYONE can hop, skip, jump, or scoot to our Second Sunday FazaFams!
The best thing you can do for your family is spend time together and FazaFam is here to help you do just that! Jam to Salsa, Disco, Hip-Hop, Motown, and more.
Games, moves, and great music make it easy to meet your goals to Dance & Bmore fit, fun, and free!
Continuing its over quarter-century tradition of bringing award-winning jazz musicians to the City for intimate, memorable performances, The Baltimore Chamber Jazz Society will host a concert by the renowned Dave Stryker Quintet on Sunday, April 8, 2018.
Sotto Sopra Restaurant
presents
Dawn Derow
MY SHIP – Songs from 1941
Sunday, April 8th – 6 pm to 9 pm
Tickets: 410 625 0534
Cabaret at its best – MY SHIP has won accolades from New York City audiences this past fall and for a “one night only” performance, singer extraordinaire Dawn Derow and her pianist, Ian Herman, will perform the award winning show at Sotto Sopra Restaurant. Step back in time and listen to Dawn Derow’s renditions of 1941’s Hit Parade interspersed with a five course, fine dining Italian dinner from Sotto Sopra.
A B O U T S V E T L A N A
Celebrate the return of spring with beautiful art songs, duets, and trios by Mozart, Fauré, Mendelssohn, Rachmaninoff, Guastavino and more, plus the American premiere of works by Canadian composer Jeff Enns. Featured artists include soprano Thea Tullman Moore, mezzo-soprano Christianne Rushton, baritone José Sacin, and pianist Ka Nyoung Yoo. A wine reception will follow the hour of music.
McDaniel College students compete for a $10,000 top prize in this annual competition put on by the college’s The Encompass Distinction program in innovation and entrepreneurship. Finalists present their entrepreneurial ideas and products to a panel of experts. The event is sponsored by McDaniel College alumnus Dennis Sisco ’68 and Alexine Lesko through The Sisco Fund for Enterprise Management. Call 410-871-3305 or email [email protected] for more information.
Now Hear This
Courtney Orlando, artistic director
David Smooke, faculty advisor
Horse Lords, guest artists
Julius Eastman: Gay Guerrilla
George Crumb: Black Angels
Horse Lords is an indie rock quartet from Baltimore that has a sound all their own drawing from drone music, krautrock, Afro-beat, rap, rock ‘n’ roll and more. Group members Andrew Bernstein, Max Eilbacher, Owen Gardner, and Sam Haberman will perform with the student ensemble, as well as play their own music.
Tickets Available: March 1
World War I gets the musical treatment in a series of a song-and-dance vignettes. Throughout it follows the Smith family who initially view the war with sunny optimism. But after the Smith boys witness the reality of trench warfare, their illusions are shattered, and the best they can hope for is survival.
Chris Kaltenbach, film writer for the Baltimore Sun, presents “Seen on Screen: Great Movies and Why We Love Them”. Kaltenbach selects & presents classics with lively talks about each film. This series begins with his presentation of the 1933 classic, "King Kong" . Other films in this series include Superman (1978) – May 8, Shane (1953) – June 12, and Hairspray (2007) – July 17.
Join the UMD College of Arts and Humanities (ARHU) for the third conversation in the 2017-18 Arts and Humanities Dean’s Lecture Series (DLS) focused on 'The Political' with Mara Liasson, award-winning journalist and National Public Radio (NPR) political correspondent with over 30 years of experience reporting on the White House and Congress. Liasson will present “The Political Landscape: Dealing with Hate and Bias in Washington.”
Co-sponsored by the Philip Merrill College of Journalism.
Evergreen Museum & Library's annual spring lecture series, The House Beautiful, presents a trio of illustrated talks by notable experts and authors in the fields of architecture, artistic design, and decorative arts.
The 2018 series continues on Wednesday, April 11, with a lecture on noted early 20th-century architect Laurence Hall Fowler by Amy Kimball, Materials Manager of Special Collections at The Sheridan Libraries.
UMBC Humanities Forum — Focus on Gentrification in Baltimore
Amy Davis, author and Baltimore Sun photojournalist
“Flickering Treasures: Rediscovering Baltimore’s Forgotten Movie Theatres”
Wednesday, April 11, 7 p.m.
132 Performing Arts and Humanities Building