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,…

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.

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…

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…