Fabian Concert #4: Cavani String Quartet Educational Series
2021-01-12 19:30 - 21:30 (America/New_York) | Fickling Hall, 1501 Mercer University Drive, Macon, 31207
Performance can be viewed on our Instagram page https://www.instagram.com/musicatmercer/ and through Zoom. See Zoom details below:
Join Zoom Meeting
https://mercer.zoom.us/j/93144326609?pwd=[REDACTED]
Meeting ID: 931 4432 6609
Passcode: [REDACTED]
One tap mobile
+13126266799,,93144326609# US (Chicago)
+16468769923,,93144326609# US (New York)
Dial by your location
+1 312 626 6799US (Chicago)
+1 646 876 9923US (New York)
+1 301 715 8592US (Washington D.C)
+1 346 248 7799US (Houston)
+1 669 900 6833US (San Jose)
+1 253 215 8782US (Tacoma)
Meeting ID: 931 4432 6609
Find your local number: https://mercer.zoom.us/u/abpaArrwg5
Join by SIP
93144326609@zoomcrc.com
Join by H.323
162.255.37.11 (US West)
162.255.36.11 (US East)
115.114.131.7 (India Mumbai)
115.114.115.7 (India Hyderabad)
213.19.144.110 (Amsterdam Netherlands)
213.244.140.110 (Germany)
103.122.166.55 (Australia)
149.137.40.110 (Singapore)
64.211.144.160 (Brazil)
69.174.57.160 (Canada)
207.226.132.110 (Japan)
Meeting ID: 931 4432 6609
Passcode: [REDACTED]
Join by Skype for Business
https://mercer.zoom.us/skype/93144326609

Center Young Artist Chamber Music Gala: A Musical Tapestry – Common Threads & Poetic Voices
2021-01-15 19:00 - 21:00 | Fickling Hall, 1501 Mercer University Drive, Macon, 31207

TSM Student Recital Hour
2021-01-21 15:55 - 16:55, 2021-02-18 15:55 - 16:55, 2021-03-04 15:55 - 16:55, 2021-03-18 15:55 - 16:55, 2021-04-01 15:55 - 16:55, 2021-04-08 15:55 - 16:55 | Fickling Hall, 1501 Mercer University Drive, Macon, 31207
Open to Mercer Music Faculty, Music Students, and parents of the performers only. Performance can be viewed on our Instagram page https://www.instagram.com/musicatmercer/

TSM Student Recital Hour
2021-02-04 15:55 - 16:55 | Fickling Hall, 1501 Mercer University Drive, Macon, 31207
Open to Mercer Music faculty, Music students and parents of the performers only. Performance can be viewed on our Instagram page https://www.instagram.com/musicatmercer/

Fabian Concert #5: Chamber Music Greats
2021-02-09 19:30 - 21:30 | The Piedmont Grand Opera House, 651 Mulberry Street, Macon, 31201
We are featuring an evening of fabulous music by the great composers. Musicians performing include Amy Schwartz Moretti, violin; Dimitri Murrath, viola; Elizabeth Pridgen, piano; and McDuffie Center Young Artists.
The Fabian Concert Series continues bringing great chamber music, collaboration, education, and outreach to Mercer and Macon. Over the course of this year, we are exploring the diversity and expressiveness of music with some of the world’s greatest musicians, channeling healing and thoughtfulness during this unprecedented time. Our 13th Anniversary Season continues with concerts at the Grand Opera House in downtown Macon where we have addressed all concerns for health and safety. Tickets are $15 per person/free with Mercer or any valid student ID. Single tickets will be available prior to each performance. Call (478)301-5470 to find out more.

Chamber Winds & Jazz Ensemble Go Virtual
2021-02-22 19:30 - 20:30 | Penfield Hall, Macon, GA, 31207, United States
Tune in for an evening of musical adventures presented by woodwind and brass chamber groups performing a variety of Classical arrangements, followed up with Jazz charts from swing to jazz-rock!
Performance can be viewed on our Instagram page https://www.instagram.com/musicatmercer/.

Fabian Concert #6: From Samoa to Sinatra
2021-03-02 19:30 - 21:30 | The Piedmont Grand Opera House, 651 Mulberry Street, Macon, 31201
FROM SAMOA TO SINATRA is Grammy award winner, multi-instrumentalist, and composer Matt Catingub’s tribute to his mother, jazz singer Mavis Rivers, and her years on Frank Sinatra’s Reprise record label, currently being heard on SiriusXM radio. Matt will be performing music specially written for the completion of this recording here in Macon, featuring Kevin Axt, bass; Steve Moretti, drums; violinist Amy Schwartz Moretti, violin; and the McDuffie Center Strings Ensemble.
The Fabian Concert Series continues bringing great chamber music, collaboration, education, and outreach to Mercer and Macon. Over the course of this year, we are exploring the diversity and expressiveness of music with some of the world’s greatest musicians, channeling healing and thoughtfulness during this unprecedented time. Our 13th Anniversary Season continues with concerts at the Grand Opera House in downtown Macon where we have addressed all concerns for health and safety. Tickets are $15 per person/free with Mercer or any valid student ID. Single tickets will be available prior to each performance. Call (478)301-5470 to find out more.

Mercer University Orchestra
2021-03-16 19:30 - 21:30 | The Piedmont Grand Opera House, 651 Mulberry Street, Macon, 31201
Program:
Diamond Rounds of String Orchestra
Walker ‘Lyric’ for Strings
Mendelssohn String Symphony No. 7 in D minor

Harp Ensemble Concert
2021-03-27 14:00 - 15:00 | Fickling Hall, 1501 Mercer University Drive, Macon, 31207
This live music concert will feature solos, duets, and full ensemble pieces performed by the Mercer Harp Ensemble. Different genres will be explored including Celtic, religiously inspired arrangements, a Spanish dance, as well as something reminiscent of banjos from a movie called “Deliverance”.
Open to Mercer Music Faculty, Music Students, and parents of the performers only.
Performance can be viewed on our Instagram page https://www.instagram.com/musicatmercer/

Spring Sounds of Winds & Jazz
2021-04-13 19:30 - 20:30 | Penfield Hall, Macon, GA, 31207, United States
This evening of live music is sure to open a blossom of spring joy for all viewers. The Woodwind Choir, Brass Choir, and Jazz Ensemble will perform a wide variety of works from many genres.
Performance can be viewed on our Instagram page https://www.instagram.com/musicatmercer/.

Fabian Concert #7: Season Finale
2021-04-13 19:30 - 21:30 | The Piedmont Grand Opera House, 651 Mulberry Street, Macon, 31201
We are closing out the season with a powerful night of music. Featured musicians are Joyce Yang, piano; Ara Gregorian, violin and viola; Amy Schwartz Moretti, violin; Clive Greensmith, cello; and McDuffie Center Young Artists.
The Fabian Concert Series continues bringing great chamber music, collaboration, education, and outreach to Mercer and Macon. Over the course of this year, we are exploring the diversity and expressiveness of music with some of the world’s greatest musicians, channeling healing and thoughtfulness during this unprecedented time. Our 13th Anniversary Season continues with concerts at the Grand Opera House in downtown Macon where we have addressed all concerns for health and safety. Tickets are $15 per person/free with Mercer or any valid student ID. Single tickets will be available prior to each performance. Call (478)301-5470 to find out more.

TSM Honors Student Recital
2021-04-15 15:55 - 16:55 | Fickling Hall, 1501 Mercer University Drive, Macon, 31207

Thomas Robinson Prize: Barbara Kingsolver
2021-04-17 13:00 - 14:00 | Online
Mercer University’s Spencer B. King Jr. Center for Southern Studies will award the 2021 Thomas Robinson Prize for Southern Literature to novelist, essayist and poet Barbara Kingsolver. The prize will be presented April 17 at 1 p.m. in a livestreamed ceremony at kingcenter.mercer.edu.
Kingsolver was born in 1955 and grew up in rural Kentucky. She earned degrees in biology from DePauw University and the University of Arizona. She has lived in England, France and the Canary Islands and has worked in Europe, Africa, Asia, Mexico and South America. She spent two decades in Tucson, Arizona, before moving to southwestern Virginia where she currently resides.
Kingsolver is the author of 15 books translated into more than two dozen languages and adopted into the core literature curriculum in high schools and colleges throughout the nation. She served as editor for Best American Short Stories 2001, contributed to more than 50 literary anthologies, and her reviews and articles have appeared in most major U.S. newspapers and magazines.
The Poisonwood Bible was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the Orange Prize and won the national book award of South Africa before being named an Oprah Book Club selection. Animal, Vegetable, Miracle won numerous prizes including the James Beard award. The Lacuna won Britain’s prestigious Orange Prize for Fiction in 2010.
Kingsolver was named one the most important writers of the 20th century by Writers Digest. In 2000, she received the National Humanities Medal, the nation’s highest honor for service through the arts. She has received multiple awards from the American Booksellers Association and the American Library Association, among many others. In 2011, she was awarded the Dayton Literary Peace Prize.
Kingsolver established the Bellwether Prize for Fiction, the nation’s largest prize for an unpublished first novel, which since 1998 has helped to establish the careers of more than a half-dozen new literary voices. Through a recent agreement, the prize is now known as the PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction.

Mercer University Opera Presents "The Last Sorcerer"
2021-04-17 18:30 - 19:30, 2021-04-18 15:00 - 16:00 | The Piedmont Grand Opera House, 651 Mulberry Street, Macon, 31201
The Last Sorcerer is an operetta from 1867 composed by opera star and composer Pauline Viardot, recently rediscovered and made available for performance. Deep in the forest, fairies play tricks on the old sorcerer in his decaying palace in an effort to dislodge him from their woodland home. The opera incorporates magic, love, and comedy in a story with elements that hark back to Shakespeare’s comedies and familiar fairy tales. The music is brilliant and lovely, the characters and plot are colorful, and the show is a delight for audiences of all ages.
Performance can be viewed on our Instagram page https://www.instagram.com/musicatmercer/.

Mercer University Opera Presents "The Trial of Susan B. Anthony"
2021-04-24 15:00 - 16:00 | McCorkle Music Building, 1501 Mercer University Drive, Macon, 31207
The Trial of Susan B. Anthony is a new opera with tremendous impact on many levels. The famous suffragette was arrested in 1872 for attempting to vote, and the text of this opera was taken directly from her trial. Set as a tour de force for one singer, Steven Mark Kohn’s rich, gorgeous music of our time brings her story in her own words powerfully to life as reminders of the human search for equal justice. The piece is especially resonant now, as all through the year2020 Americans have celebrated the hundredth anniversary of women’s first votes in our country.

The Phoenix Project: Renewal
2021-04-24 19:30 - 20:30 | Cruz Plaza, GA, United States
A multimedia, creative outdoor spectacular that includes giant puppets, pyrotechnics, and more on Cruz Plaza. The Phoenix Project is inspired by the societal upheaval of 2020 to ask what innovations and creativity will rise from the ashes, much like the mythical bird of its title. This is an original work generated collaboratively by Mercer Theatre students, faculty, and staff that will take place live in a parade-like environment alongside community performers. Get ready to be wowed!

Mercer University Opera Presents "The Trial of Susan B. Anthony"
2021-04-26 19:30 - 20:30 | Fickling Hall, 1501 Mercer University Drive, Macon, 31207
The Trial of Susan B. Anthony is a new opera with tremendous impact on many levels. The famous suffragette was arrested in 1872 for attempting to vote, and the text of this opera was taken directly from her trial. Set as a tour de force for one singer, Steven Mark Kohn’s rich, gorgeous music of our time brings her story in her own words powerfully to life as reminders of the human search for equal justice. The piece is especially resonant now, as all through the year2020 Americans have celebrated the hundredth anniversary of women’s first votes in our country.
Open to Mercer Music Faculty, Music Students, and parents of the performers only. Performance can be viewed on our Instagram page https://www.instagram.com/musicatmercer/

Mercer University Orchestra
2021-04-27 19:30 - 21:30 | The Piedmont Grand Opera House, 651 Mulberry Street, Macon, 31201
Program:
Higdon ‘String’
Concerto comp winner To Be Determined
Schoenberg Verklärte Nacht

Mercer Flute Choir Chamber Ensemble
2021-04-29 19:30 - 20:30 | Fickling Hall, 1501 Mercer University Drive, Macon, 31207
Join the Mercer Flute Choir Chamber Ensemble in a jubilant musical celebration of spring!
Open to Mercer Music Faculty, Music Students, and parents of the performers only. Performance can be viewed on our Instagram page https://www.instagram.com/musicatmercer/.

A GRAND night for Percussion
2021-04-30 19:30 - 21:00 | The Piedmont Grand Opera House, 651 Mulberry Street, Macon, 31201
An evening of music specifically written for instruments that are within the percussion family.
Performance can be viewed on our Instagram page https://www.instagram.com/musicatmercer/

Townsend All-Faculty Gala
2021-08-31 19:30 - 21:00 | Fickling Hall, 1501 Mercer University Drive, Macon, 31207
The Townsend concert season opens with a showcase of performances by the distinguished faculty artists in a festival gala concert event. Afterward please join us for a pre-packaged reception on the patio honoring the performers and the start of the concert year.

Robert McDuffie Labor Day Festival Concert
2021-09-06 15:00 - 17:00 | Fickling Hall, 1501 Mercer University Drive, Macon, 31207
Help celebrate Labor Day in a festive concert that features Center faculty and students. Founder Robert McDuffie, Artistic Director Amy Schwartz Moretti, and Macon-Mercer Symphony Orchestra Conductor Ward Stare will be among the performers. Fickling Hall, seating is first-come, first served.

McDuffie Young Artist Concert
2021-09-13 19:00 - 20:30 | Bell House Jennings Salon, 315 College Street, Macon, 31201
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.

Fabian Concert Series: September Salute
2021-09-21 19:30 - 21:30 | Fickling Hall, 1501 Mercer University Drive, Macon, 31207
Amy Schwartz Moretti, violin; Lawrence Dutton, viola; Zlatomir Fung, cello; & Orion Weiss, piano
We begin this fabulous 15th season with a memorable concert featuring the music of Spanish composer Joaquin Turina, German composer Robert Schumann and others. Opening night artists include the award-winning pianist Orion Weiss, multi-GRAMMY winning violist Lawrence Dutton, recent gold medalist of the Tchaikovsky International Competition cellist Zlatomir Fung, Fabian Series curator and violinist Amy Schwartz Moretti, and the young artists of the Robert McDuffie Center for Strings.
The 2021-22 Fabian Concert Series welcomes new friends as well as the return of artists from previous seasons. Reserve your seats today and enjoy performances by some of today’s top classical musicians in the McCorkle Music Building’s intimate Fickling Hall. This anniversary season celebrates 15 fantastic years of music…with more to come! For Tickets call (478)301-5470 or visit mcduffie.mercer.edu.
