The UMBC Jazz Ensemble, led by Matt Belzer, presents Electric Miles, a concert in celebration of the Miles Davis Centennial focusing on the groundbreaking electric sounds of the seminal albums, Bitches Brew, On The Corner, and more, featuring compositions such as Directions, Black Satin, In A Silent Way, and Star on Cicely.
Grammy Award-winning music producer, mixer, songwriter, arranger, musician, and finisher Ken Lewis will discuss his wide-ranging career in this presentation. With 166 Gold records, Lewis’s work has contributed to the success of global superstars including Taylor Swift, BTS, Kanye, Drake, NF, Khalil Fong, Alicia Keys, Ariana Grande, Vybz Kartel, NewJeans, Assi El Hallani, Mark Ronson, and Bruno Mars.
The Livewire 16: We the People new music festival celebrates the 250th anniversary of the United States and the composers and musicians who helped share our musical landscape. Through concerts and other events, Livewire celebrates the innovators, the brave, and the experimental, celebrating artists who forge new directions, challenge barriers, and open doors. This year, the newRUCKUS ensemble and the Zohn Collective present three evenings of music by Kenji Bunch, Raven Chacon, Chen Yi, Viet Cuong, Brittany Green, Lou Harrison, Edgar Meyer, Daniel Pesca, Steve Reich, Frederic Rzewski, Gabriella Smith, and Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon.
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The Baltimore Classical Guitar Society presents SoloDuo, featuring classical guitarists Matteo Mela and Lorenzo Micheli.
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UMBC Theatre presents the serpent under't, an experimental dance theatre adaptation of Shakespeare's Macbeth, conceived and directed by Nigel Semaj. Blending movement, dance, and spoken text, this reimagining draws inspiration from horror and the macabre of Edgar Allen Poe. Join us as we explore the shadows of the human psyche where ambition, guilt, and fate intertwine with the supernatural.
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The Department of Music presents a Halloween Spooktacular — a varied program with humor, fun, and more than a few surprises. Come in costume and enjoy an afternoon musical spectacle! Pre- and post-concert events will combine with the family-oriented program for all ages.
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Mary Celenza, a showrunner, director, and writer with over 25 years of experience in television and audio production, will discuss her extensive career. She is currently the Head of Current and Executive Producer at Treefort Media, where she oversees series for Audible, Wondery, Netflix, and Focus Features.
Indians on Indian Lands unravels Indian diasporic complicity in its ongoing colonial relationship with Indigenous peoples, lands, and nations in Canada. Upadhyay examines the interwoven and simultaneous areas of dominant Indian caste complicity in processes of settler colonialism, antiblackness, capitalism, brahminical supremacy, Hindu nationalism, and heteropatriarchy.
In conjunction with Somewhere Over the Rainbow of Row Homes, We Fly, an intergenerational group exhibition organized by curator Angela N. Carroll, the Center for Art, Design, and Visual Culture presents an artist roundtable on experimental praxis moderated by Ernest Shaw in conversation with Ada Pinkston and Lehna Huie.
The Department of Music presents the UMBC Faculty String Sextet in a performance of two of the keystone Romantic works for string ensemble — the String Sextet No. 2 by Johannes Brahms, and the String Sextet “Souvenir de Florence” by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.
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Interdisciplinary visual artist Stephanie J. Williams will tell us about her artistic practice, which bridges sculpture and animation. Her work navigates hierarchies of taste, unpacking how “official” histories are constructed in order to understand contemporary social coding.
This talk by Natanya Duncan, director of the Africana Studies Program and associate professor of history at Queens College, will examine how the women of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) set the stage for W.E.B. Du Bois’ expanded ideas on gender and nation building in the 20th Century.
Join us as pianist Grigorios Zamparas performs masterworks spanning the Romantic and Impressionist eras. The program features Franz Liszt’s 1849 dramatic "Dante Sonata," a formidable piece inspired by the Divine Comedy, Ludwig van Beethoven’s 1804 "Waldstein” Sonata, known for its grand scope and technical brilliance, and selections from Maurice Ravel’s Miroirs, a vivid five-movement suite written in 1904–05 and dedicated to his contemporaries in the Parisian artistic circle.
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The Department of Dance presents the annual First Works Concert, featuring new works by dance majors.
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The Department of Music presents the Walt Weiskopf Quartet, featuring Walt Weiskopf, saxophone, Harry Appelman, piano, Amy Shook, bass, and Steve Fidyk, drums. Their program will include music by Cole Porter, Wells & Segal, and contemporary original jazz works by Weiskopf.
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