Dr. Stanley L. Roberts, conductor A gala concert featuring students of the School of Music, hosted by the Mercer Singers.

Ward Stare, conductor The newly formed Macon-Mercer Symphony Orchestra begins its inaugural season with a blockbuster concert featuring the Prokofiev, Symphony No. 1 (Classical Symphony), Beethoven Symphony No. 7, and Otis Redding Foundation students and campers. Prokofiev's work premiered in 1918 and has become one of his most popular compositions. In composing the Classical Symphony, Prokofiev sought to draw inspiration from Joseph Haydn and other classical composers. Of Beethoven's Symphony No. 7, it has been written that "this symphony is…

Dr. Douglas Hill, conductor Dr. Nathan Gay, conductor Todd Howell, conductor The Mercer University Wind Ensemble will join musical forces with the Warner Robins High School band in a concert featuring music of the dance from around the country. Special guest: Warner Robins High School Symphonic Band, Todd Howell, conductor. The concert is performed at Warner Robins High School, 401 South Davis Drive, Warner Robins, GA.

Details to come at a later date.

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.

Dido and Aeneas By Henry Purcell Martha Malone, director Richard Kosowski, conductor The exquisite music of Dido and Aeneas contains all the drama and variety of a much longer work. The opera is by turns graceful, romantic, bawdy, suspenseful and grief-stricken. This is music that lifts the spirit and moves the soul. Come to experience a much-loved classic again, or to discover it for yourself. Tickets: $15 adults. Free with Mercer ID or any student ID.

We continue the season with a concert highlighting several of the talented principal players of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra in the intimacy of a chamber music setting. Joining flutist Christina Smith, clarinetist Laura Ardan, bassoonist, Andrew Brady, oboist, Elizabeth Koch Tiscione, harpist Elisabeth Remy Johnson, and McDuffie Center director and curator of the Fabian Series, violinist Amy Schwartz Moretti, as well as the young artists from the Robert McDuffie Center for Strings. The 2021-22 Fabian Concert Series welcomes new friends…

Mercer University will host the very first Gothic Festival this Fall semester. The festival will include several events celebrating Gothic culture during the last week of October. One of the important events of the festival will be an art contest. Students can participate by submitting poems, stories, drawings, photography or short movies, all related to a gothic theme. For details on submissions please contact Dr. Clara Mengolini at: gothicfestival@mercer.edu The deadline for submissions is October 27.

Dr. Monty Cole, conductor The students of the Mercer Jazz Combo continue their exploration of the music of great American Jazz Artists. Join us for an evening of John Coltrane, Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter and Eddie Harris.

Timothy McReynolds, collaborative piano Jennifer Piazza-Pick, soprano R. Timothy McReynolds, celebrated vocal collaborator and new faculty member of Mercer's Townsend School of Music, joins Georgia College and State University faculty member and internationally acclaimed soprano, Jennifer Piazza-Pick, champion of American women composers in presenting a recital of new music by living composers.