Baroque & Beyond
2022-03-25 19:30 - 20:30 (America/New_York) | Fickling Hall, 1501 Mercer University Drive, Macon, 31207
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.

McDuffie Young Artist Concert
2022-03-28 19:00 - 20:30, 2022-04-18 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.

Mercer University Opera Presents "Little Women, the Musical"
2022-03-31 19:30 - 22:00, 2022-04-03 15:00 - 17:00 | Fickling Hall, 1501 Mercer University Drive, Macon, 31207
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 illuminate a timeless story have made this show a favorite with audiences all over the United States. Tickets: $15 adults. Free with Mercer ID or any student ID.
Tickets available only at the door and can be purchased an hour before the performance.

Fabian Concert Series: April's Au Revoir
2022-04-05 19:30 - 21:30 | Fickling Hall, 1501 Mercer University Drive, Macon, 31207
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 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.

Mercer Percussion Ensemble Concert
2022-04-08 19:30 - 21:30 | Fickling Hall, 1501 Mercer University Drive, Macon, 31207
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.

Fabian Center for Musical Excellence Presents Robert Blocker, Piano
2022-04-11 19:30 - 21:00 | Fickling Hall, 1501 Mercer University Drive, Macon, 31207
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 accomplished pianist, and an impassioned educator.

Godsey Concert Series: Cabaret: Unmasked!
2022-04-12 19:30 - 20:30 | Fickling Hall, 1501 Mercer University Drive, Macon, 31207
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.

McDuffie Center for Strings Chamber Music Gala
2022-04-13 19:00 - 21:00 | Fickling Hall, 1501 Mercer University Drive, Macon, 31207
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 Facebook.

Mercer Wind Ensemble Presents "Eagles + Bears = Band"
2022-04-19 19:30 - 22:00 | Thomson Middle School, 301 Thomson St., Centerville, GA, 31028, United States
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.

TSM Honors Student Recital
2022-04-21 15:30 - 16:30 | Fickling Hall, 1501 Mercer University Drive, Macon, 31207
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 Dulcimer 55th Edition Release Party
2022-04-22 19:00 - 20:00 | McEachern Art Center, 332 2nd Street, Macon, 31201
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.

Mercer Jazz Ensemble Presents "Milestones"
2022-04-22 19:30 - 20:30 | Fickling Hall, 1501 Mercer University Drive, Macon, 31207
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.

Nikky Finney: Thomas Robinson Prize for Southern Literature
2022-04-23 13:00 - 14:00 | Presidents Dining Room, 1501 Mercer University Drive, Macon, 31207
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 begins me, that also knows how to camouflage, deep dive and create its own myth, while also possessing the right historical teeth for the futuristic job of writing,” said Finney. “I read southern writers as a girl poet. They became the nexus of humanity for me. I learned the true altitude of southern worlds from Ernest Gaines and Yusef Komunyakaa then took off on my own trail. To be invited to stand with these former Thomas Robinson honorees, as well as all the others of the past 10 years, those who have engaged and wrestled with this complicated land, sea and air is truly an extraordinary moment in my life.”
Finney was born by the sea in South Carolina and raised during the Civil Rights, Black Power and Black Arts movements. She has been a faculty member at Cave Canem summer workshop for African American poets; a founding member of the Affrilachian Poets, a particular place for poets of color in Appalachia; poet and professor for 23 years at the University of Kentucky; and visiting professor at Berea and Smith colleges.
In her home state of South Carolina, she involves herself in the day-to-day battles for truth and justice while also guiding both undergraduates and MFA students at the University of South Carolina, where she is the John H. Bennett Jr. Chair in Creative Writing and Southern Letters, with appointments in both the Department of English Language and Literature and the African American Studies Program.
“Nikky Finney writes powerfully and rhapsodically about the experiences, memories, families and communities of Black people living in the U.S. South,” said Dr. Davis A. Davis, associate director of the Spencer B. King Jr. Center for Southern Studies. “Her poems explore the beauty and the sorrow found in experiences and objects, and they celebrate the stories of people who have survived and achieved. We are immensely proud to present her with the Thomas Robinson Prize.”
Finney’s work includes the arenas of Black girl genius unrecognized, Black history misplaced and forgotten, and the stories of women who prefer to jump instead of ride the traditional tracks of polite and acceptable society. In her full body of poetry and storytelling, she explores the whispers and shouts of sexuality, the invisibility of poverty in a world continually smitten by the rich and the powerful, the graciousness of Black family perseverance, the truth of history, the grace and necessity of memory, as well as the titanic loss of habitat for all things precious and wild.
She won the PEN American Open Book Award in 1996 and the Elizabeth O’Neill Verner Award for the Arts in South Carolina in 2016. She edited Black Poets Lean South, a Cave Canem anthology (2007), authored On Wings Made of Gauze (1985), Rice (1995), Heartwood (1997), The World Is Round (2003), and Head Off & Split, winner of the 2011 National Book Award for Poetry. Her work, in book form and video, is on display in the inaugural exhibition of the African American Museum of History and Culture in Washington, D.C.
Her latest collection of poems, Love Child’s Hotbed of Occasional Poetry, was released in April 2020 from TriQuarterly Books/Northwestern University Press.

“One, No One and One Hundred Thousand.” Guise and disguise in the character piece
2022-04-23 19:30 - 21:00 | Fickling Hall, 1501 Mercer University Drive, Macon, 31207
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, trying to fuse two irreconcilable worlds. Then, I will perform a selection of preludes by Claude Debussy, who has always firmly rejected the Impressionist label that musicians and historians often attempt to put on his music. Next, a set of four pieces by Clara Wieck smash the quite sexist and condescending attitude of those who see her as only a composer influenced by the men in her life—her husband, then Brahms, or even Chopin—but somehow not capable of originality and uniqueness herself. In the end, Carnaval by Robert Schumann shows that identity is ultimately a parade of masques we decide to wear like colorful dresses—to play hide-and-seek with the secret code that defines our authentic individuality. I hope you enjoy the music, whether you will recognize a bit of yourself in one, none, or in all the pieces presented.
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 Voices of Spring
2022-04-24 15:00 - 16:00 | Fickling Hall, 1501 Mercer University Drive, Macon, 31207
Dr. Stanley L. Roberts, conductor
Final choral concert of the year featuring Mercer Women’s Chamber Choir.
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.

Macon-Mercer Symphony Orchestra
2022-04-25 19:30 - 21:30 | The Piedmont Grand Opera House, 651 Mulberry Street, Macon, 31201
Ward Stare, conductor
The season concludes with the winner of the Townsend School of Music Concerto competition, along with Beethoven’s Symphony No. 2 and Macon hip-hop artist, Bob Lennon. Written just after losing his hearing, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 2 was composed during one of the most depressed times of his life, but Beethoven shows little sign of his obvious despair and end with an explosive finale. Maconite Bob Lennon also takes to the stage in this final concert of the year to perform his commission, “Don’t You Look at Me.”
Symphony Tickets:
Tickets: $30 premium supporter seats / $20 adults
Free with any valid student ID
Save with season tickets or bring a group (10+) for special pricing!
Call (478)301-5470 or visit mcduffie.mercer.edu/symphony for tickets.

The Sams Workshop: An Evening of Students' Poems
2022-04-26 19:00 - 20:30 | Presidents Dining Room, 1501 Mercer University Drive, Macon, 31207
Sams Distinguished Writer in Residence Rose McLarney, the Enflish Department, and Creative Writing at Mercer present a free reading by student poets in the Sams Writing Workshop (April 26, 7 p.m.) in the President’s Dining Room of the University Center.
Rose McLarney’s poetry collections are Forage and Its Day Being Gone, from Penguin Poets, and The Always Broken Plates of Mountains, published by Four Way Books. She is co-editor of A Literary Field Guide to Southern Appalachia, from University of Georgia Press, and of the journal Southern Humanities Review. She has been awarded fellowships by the MacDowell Colony and Bread Loaf and Sewanee Writers’ Conferences; served as Dartmouth Poet in Residence at the Frost Place; and won the National Poetry Series in 2014). Among the prizes she has won are the Chaffin Award for Achievement in Appalachian Writing and the Fellowship of Southern Writers’ New Writing Award for Poetry. Her work has appeared in publications including The Kenyon Review, The Southern Review, New England Review, Prairie Schooner, Missouri Review, and The Oxford American. Rose earned her MFA from Warren Wilson’s MFA Program for Writers. Currently, she is Associate Professor of Creative Writing at Auburn University.
For more information, contact Gordon Johnston by phone at (478) 301-2588, or by e-mail at johnston_gg@mercer.edu.

Mercer Jazz Combo Concert
2022-04-26 19:30 - 20:30 | Fickling Hall, 1501 Mercer University Drive, Macon, 31207
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 Grover Washington Jr., Spyro Gyra, and Joseph Zawinul.
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.

Festive Flutes
2022-04-28 19:30 - 21:00 | Fickling Hall, 1501 Mercer University Drive, Macon, 31207
Kelly Via, conductor
Join the Mercer Flute Choir as they perform an exhilarating musical contribution to the sounds of spring!
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.

Farewell Concert
2022-04-30 19:30 - 21:00 | Fickling Hall, 1501 Mercer University Drive, Macon, 31207
Dr. Stanley L. Roberts, conductor
Final choral concert of the year featuring Mercer Singers. Our farewell to our seniors and master students who are graduating from the program.
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.

Choral Society of Middle Georgia and Mercer University Choir Present "The Peace of Wild Things"
2022-05-01 16:00 - 17:30 | First Baptist Church of Christ, 511 High Place, Macon, 31201
Stanley L. Roberts, conductor
A musical tapestry where human emotion connects to the natural world. Tickets are $10. Call (478)200-1064 or visit https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-peace-of-wild-things-tickets-307320262177 to purchase tickets.

Alexa Kleinbard: Storm Songs
2022-09-08 16:00 - 20:00 | McEachern Art Center, 332 2nd Street, Macon, 31201
Mercer University’s McEachern Art Center (the MAC) hosts “Storm Songs,” an exhibition of paintings and drawings by artist Alexa Kleinbard. The exhibition will remain on display through Nov. 5. Admission is free and open to the public during gallery hours, 4-8 p.m., Thursdays-Saturdays.
Alexa Kleinbard, a painter from Tallahassee, has decades of experience creating work about what human beings must protect in nature’s remarkable garden of biodiversity. As the destruction of wild lands all over the world escalates, she is driven to work on paintings that create a visual statement concerning the irreplaceable heritage of wildlife sanctuaries and biodiversity hotspots. The pieces in Kleinbard’s exhibition will serve as reminders of the delicate interdependency between water, air, land and all living beings on the planet, hinting at the silence that will be left in our remaining habitats if mankind’s war against the environment is not subdued.

Townsend Symposia on Music, Philosophy and the Arts: David Mallette
2022-09-16 10:00 - 23:00 | Fickling Hall, 1501 Mercer University Drive, Macon, 31207
The nonprofit arts field is in the midst of multiple tectonic shifts, including demographic changes, the natural evolution of art, digital delivery platforms, labor challenges, EDIA values and other challenges. Strong, savvy leadership has never been more important. David Mallette, president of Management Consultants for the Arts, will speak about the leadership skills needed in today’s nonprofit arts organizations. He will highlight elements in search processes conducted by the volunteer boards seeking top artistic and executive leadership.

McDuffie Center Young Artists Concert
2022-09-19 19:00 - 21:00 | Bell House Jennings Salon, 315 College Street, Macon, 31201
McDuffie Center Young Artists Concert
7 p.m., Bell House
Enjoy a free evening of music! Recitals are held in the Bell House Jennings Salon, 315 College St., at 7 p.m. and are free and open to the public. Seating is first-come, first-served. Doors open 30 minutes beforehand.

Premier Performances: An Evening of Original One-Acts
2022-09-22 19:30 - 21:00 | Tattnall Square Center for the Arts, 1096 College Street, Macon, 31207
For Mercer Bears, by Mercer Bears – most of all, this show is for you! An evening of original one-act plays from the 2021 playwrighting class. These never-before-seen plays promise to be fun, original and crazy. This show will be only $5 to attend, a 50% savings over most Mercer Theatre tickets.

GABBA Fest 2022 – Life Is Peachy
2022-09-23 19:00 - 21:00 | The Piedmont Grand Opera House, 651 Mulberry Street, Macon, 31201
GABBA Fest 2022 – Life Is Peachy
7 p.m., Grand Opera House
Georgia Allman Brothers Band Association celebrates its 30th Anniversary and the 50th Anniversary of “Eat A Peach.”
Friday – The Danielle Nicole Band; EG Kight Trio opens. Lobby at 5:00, Doors at 6:00, Show at 7:00.
Saturday – Brother & Sister featuring Vaylor and Melody Trucks; Parts & Labor open.
FREE tickets to Mercer Students with ID at the door.

Fabian Concert Series – “Going Big”
2022-09-27 19:30 - 21:30 | Fickling Hall, 1501 Mercer University Drive, Macon, 31207
Fabian Concert Series – “Going Big”
7:30 p.m., Fickling Hall
Amy Schwartz Moretti, violin
Lawrence Dutton, viola
Daniel Tosky, bass
Principal Winds of Atlanta Symphony Orchestra
We begin this fabulous 16th season with a memorable concert of the music of Bruch and Spohr. Several principal winds of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra will join violinist Amy Schwartz Moretti, bassist Daniel Tosky and McDuffie Center for Strings Young Artists to kick off this concert. The opening will also bring the audience up close and personal with multi-GRAMMY award winning violist of the Emerson String Quartet, Lawrence Dutton. Tickets $20; Mercer ID/Student ID free

Broadway Does Pride
2022-09-28 19:30 - 21:30 | The Piedmont Grand Opera House, 651 Mulberry Street, Macon, 31201
Broadway Does Pride
7:30 p.m., Grand Opera House
Broadway Does Pride is an upbeat cabaret-style performance blending Broadway-inspired vocal stylings with the eclectic atmosphere of an intimate lounge show in downtown Macon. From Rent reminding us to “measure your life in love” to songs like “I’m Coming Out” from Diana Ross and “Vogue” from Madonna, we will spotlight music important to the LGBTQ+ community. These will be performed by Macon’s very own talent with a fresh and campy twist, making it a night of fun, freedom and love. Part of Macon Pride 2022. $10.
