The final concert in the inaugural Fabian Center for Musical Excellence features Robert Blocker, pianist and the Henry and Lucy Moses Dean of Music and Professor of Piano at the Yale School of Music. An internationally acclaimed concert pianist, Blocker performs throughout the world, appearing in recital and in chamber music and orchestral settings. Described by the Los Angeles Times as an artist of "great skill and accomplishment," Robert blocker has forged an inspired career as an academic leader, an…

Martha Malone, soprano Timothy McReynolds, collaborative piano We're celebrating life, from the glorious to the absurd. In this program Tom Lehrer may rub elbows with Rodgers & Hammerstein; Johnny Mercer or Stephen Sondheim might make an appearance; Aaron Copland and Johann Strauss might show up for the party...and you're invited! This performance will take place in Neva Langley Fickling Hall in the McCorkle Music Building on Mercer's Macon Campus. If unable to attend this performance it will be live streamed on Facebook.

Robert McDuffie Center for Strings presents MUSIC FOR ALL! Spring Gala Concerts APRIL 13 and 14 7:00 p.m. FICKLING HALL, the program intertwines beautiful and superlative chamber music works from the past and present, and will be the debut of the innovative New Music Initiative for Black Voices project. This performance will take place in Neva Langley Fickling Hall in the McCorkle Music Building on Mercer's Macon Campus. If unable to attend this performance it will be live streamed on…

Recitals are held in the Bell House Jennings Salon, 315 College Street, at 7 p.m. and are free and open to the public. Seating is first-come, first-served. Doors open 30 minutes beforehand.

Dr. Douglas Hill, conductor  Dr. Nathan Gay, conductor  Chuck Herron, conductor  This evening of "soaring" special music will feature two of Middle Georgia's fine concert bands in a "bearish" presentation of wind music selected from the realm of classical band literature as well as 21st century works. Special guests: Northside High School, Chuck Herron, conductor. Thompson Middle School, 301 Thomson Street, Centerville, GA. If unable to attend this performance it will be live streamed on Facebook.    

This performance will take place in Neva Langley Fickling Hall in the McCorkle Music Building on Mercer's Macon Campus. If unable to attend this performance it will be live streamed on Facebook.

Get a free copy of the Mercer literary magazine, The Dulcimer, at the 55th edition release party at the McEachern Center for the Arts! The event will be catered.

Dr. Monty Cole, conductor Closing the season with a concert featuring works by Miles Davis, Marcus Miller, and Chick Corea. This performance will take place in Neva Langley Fickling Hall in the McCorkle Music Building on Mercer's Macon Campus. If unable to attend this performance it will be live streamed on Facebook.

Mercer University’s Spencer B. King Jr. Center for Southern Studies will award the 2022 Thomas Robinson Prize for Southern Literature to renowned poet, professor and author Nikky Finney. The prize will be presented April 23 at 1 p.m. in the Presidents Dining Room inside the University Center on the Macon campus. “Words come and go. But the word that remains the great shark in the Atlantic Ocean, that is my life, is the word ‘Southerner.’ This word that fits and…

I believe that identity is a fluid that flows between diversity and uniqueness. It changes and adapts depending on the events and context. For its unpredictable and changing nature, the “character piece” is one of the composers' favorite devices for finding, embracing, transforming, or hiding their identity through music. This program proposes some of these examples. It starts with a set of preludes by Louis Ballard, a 20th-century Quapaw-Cherokee composer. He embedded his Native idiom in the atonal Western language,…