Paula D'Arcy, speaker; Ken Medema, piano; & Benjamin Mertz, piano A special evening of Living for and with Each Other awaits the audience in this special Fabian Center for Musical Excellence concert featuring Paula D'Arcy, Ken Medema, and Benjamin Mertz. D'Arcy is a writer, playwright, and conference and seminar speaker. She will be joined by Ken Medema, blind singer-composer, and Benjamin Mertz, San Francisco based composer and singer whose specialization is Black Spiritual music, in an evening of words and…

Calista Koch, conductor This ensemble concert will feature ensemble works from various periods of music, transcribed for harp ensemble. 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.

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.

Little Women, the Musical Jason Howland, music; Andi Dickstein, lyrics, Allen Knee, book Martha Malone, director Timothy McReynolds, conductor Little Women, the 1868 novel by Louisa May Alcott, is a story beloved by generations of Americans. The heartwarming tale of the March sisters has been adapted in many forms: from film and television to ballet and opera. The first stage play opened on Broadway in 1912; the Broadway musical opened almost a century later, in 2005, to terrific reviews. Wonderful songs that…

Little Women, the Musical Jason Howland, music; Andi Dickstein, lyrics, Allen Knee, book Martha Malone, director Timothy McReynolds, conductor Little Women, the 1868 novel by Louisa May Alcott, is a story beloved by generations of Americans. The heartwarming tale of the March sisters has been adapted in many forms: from film and television to ballet and opera. The first stage play opened on Broadway in 1912; the Broadway musical opened almost a century later, in 2005, to terrific reviews. Wonderful songs that…

Amy Schwartz Moretti, violin; Victoria Chiang, viola; Clive Greensmith, cello; & Leo Singer, cello We say "Au Revoir" to our 15th season with the musical postcard Souvenir de Florence by the great Russian Pytor Tchaikovsky and the extraordinary quartet of Arensky. Returning to Macon, guest cellist Clive Greensmith will be joining the Center's own violist Victoria Chiang, cellist Leo Singer, and Fabian Series and McDuffie Center director violinist Amy Schwartz Moretti, along with additional young artists of the Robert McDuffie…

Dr. Marcus Reddick, conductor Come and hear traditional and non-traditional percussion music performed by the percussion ensemble and BEAR Steel! 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.

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…