Events

On Friday, November 22 at 7:30 in The Music Box, the Department of Music presents the UMBC Collegium Musicum in a concert entitled Phat Phancies and other English Ditties. The ensemble will perform a variety of short works in small consort groupings using viola da gamba, recorder, and drum.

UMBC Collegium Musicum is a performance ensemble dedicated to exploring and performing vocal and instrumental music from Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque periods, sampling musical repertories created between 800 and 1750. 

Four members of the Baroque band ACRONYM will lead an open discussion and workshop with UMBC's Collegium Musicum. They will speak about their performance process, which begins with finding pieces in archives and ends in performance. As their website says, the group "is dedicated to giving modern primers of the wild instrumental music of the seventeenth century." Come listen and learn something new about 17th-century music!

On Sunday, December 8, Baroque band ACRONYM will be performing at Shriver Hall. MEMS has secured a block of free student tickets and reserved one of the CAHSS buses to transport students from UMBC to the concert. This is a fantastic opportunity to see an exciting group! Tickets are limited and first come, first served. Email Dr. Lindsay Johnson at lmjohnson@umbc.edu to reserve a student ticket and indicate if you plan to take the bus.

The bus will leave campus at 4pm and return around 8pm. The concert begins at 5:30pm and includes a 4:30pm pre-concert interview with the performers.