The Dresher Center is pleased to announce our Spring 2018 Residential Faculty Fellows
Irene Chan, Associate Professor, Visual Arts and Affiliate Professor, Asian Studies: “Railroad Track of Violence: Stories about the Chinese in 19th Century America”
Amy Froide, Professor, History and Affiliate Professor, Gender + Women’s Studies; Language, Literacy, and Culture: “Eighteenth-Century England’s Charitable Corporation: A Corporation Tale of Microlending, Financial Fraud, and Government Bailouts”
Congratulations to these faculty members!
Jessica Berman, Director, Dresher Center for the Humanities
Featuring British Cellist/bass-baritone/actor Matthew Sharp
With UMBC String Faculty
Christian Tremblay, Airi Yoshioka, ViolinsDeath, Love and Terror in Music of Schubert
Thursday, September 7, 2017, 8 p.m.
Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert Hall
Tickets: $15 general admission, $10 seniors, $5 students, free for UMBC students with ID, available online or at the box office one hour before performances.
In a two-day spectacular, British cellist/bass-baritone/actor Matthew Sharp will enthrall his audience with a vocal and chamber concert and 21st century cabaret concerto, Death’s Cabaret. In this concert, Mr. Sharp sings Schubert Der Erlkönig and Jacques Brel’s Chanson des Vieux Amants and will be joined by UMBC string faculty for celestial and unsurpassed chamber work, Schubert’s Cello Quintet.
“Jacques Brel found Schubert’s C major Quintet inspirational – he listened to it when he wrote. I’ve always felt that their music shared a raw, unguarded, ‘leap from the precipice’ quality. So, we’re including two of their iconic songs – one where terror and death rips through the veil between fantasy and reality, the other in which love is both chains and salvation – as both a context for this late masterpiece and as a prelude to the cabaret concerto on Friday, September 8, Death’s Cabaret – A Love Story,” comments Matthew Sharp.
Program:
Franz Schubert: Der Erlkönig and String Quintet in C Major, op 163 D. 956In a second of the program featuring British cellist/bass-baritone/actor Matthew Sharp, the audience will be treated to an unprecedented, and interactive performance of a new concerto format. The Department of Music presents a concerto for the 21st century — a cabaret concerto. A unique and thrilling marriage of the 19th century concerto form with the grime and sensuality of cabaret — both an innovation and a re-invention of an ancient tradition. Dangerous, intimate, raw and virtuosic, it promises to be an unforgettable night. As our hero discovers, Mistress Death comes to call. Your time upon this earth is up. When life is in the balance, what will save you? Love, music or waking from the nightmare? Let the performance of a lifetime begin!
“Terror and love and the blurred lines between fantasy and reality are at the heart of Death's Cabaret - A Love Story. When I was making the piece with Martin Riley and Stephen Deazley - trying to conjure and hammer out what a cabaret concerto might be - I found myself drawn to the shaman-like charisma of performer/creators like Brel and Piazzolla and also to the bardic qualities of great story-telling songs like Der Erlkönig. Death's Cabaret - A Love Story is raw, unguarded and bardic. Terror and love exist cheek by jowl. We were trying to make something new - a cabaret concerto. And found that we had made something ancient, something ritualised where music, song and story-telling come together to tell a tale of love and loss.” comments Matthew Sharp.
For a sneak preview, click here.
Matthew Sharp, an internationally recognized classical artist and a fearless pioneer brings his multi-faceted artistry to UMBC. An ‘unrivaled’ and ‘unprecedented’ artist working in music and across disciplines, Sharp blends provenance and vision in a unique and potent way. He studied cello with Boris Pergamenschikow in Cologne, voice with Ulla Blom in Stockholm and English at Trinity College, Cambridge. He was taken to Jacqueline du Pré when he was 12, Galina Vishnewskaya when he was 18, and studied chamber music with the Amadeus Quartet. Sharp has appeared as solo performer with the RPO, LPO, RLPO, CBSO, Orchestra of Opera North, SCO, EUCO, ESO, Manchester Camerata, Orchestra of the Swan, Orchestra X, Arensky Chamber Orchestra, and Ural Philharmonic. He has recorded for Sony, EMI, Decca, Naxos, Somm, NMC, Avie and Whirlwind and has appeared in recital as both cellist and singer at Wigmore Hall, SBC and Salle Gaveau
This event is made possible through sponsorship from CIRCA, the Department of Music, Department of Dance, Department of Theatre, and Department of English.
The UMBC Ancient Studies Department will conduct its 52nd annual study tour in Greece, March 16-25, 2018. The cost of $3,000 includes all air and land travel, twin-share accommodation for eight nights at four-star hotels, eight buffet breakfasts, three dinners, two lunches, and entrance to all archaeological sites and museums on the itinerary. Single rooms are available at an additional cost of $335. ANCS majors and minors, UMBC students, faculty, staff, alumni, and members of the community are invited to join us. The trip can be taken as a three-credit course taught by Dr. Michael Lane and Dr. Molly Jones-Lewis in the Winter 2018 term (ANCS 301). Scholarships to help pay for the costs of the trip are available to Ancient Studies majors who enroll in the course; one scholarship is available to pay the costs of the course. Places are limited, so reserve yours today! This is a wonderful opportunity to see Greece in the off season in fine spring weather. If you are interested in joining us, please contact Domonique Pitts (dpitts@umbc.edu) and include your registration form. An initial deposit of $350.00 will be due Monday, October 16, 2017.
The tour will begin with a three-night stay in Athens, followed by one night in Itea, two nights in Nauplion, and one night in Heraklion, on the island of Crete, before spending the last night in Athens. The stay in Athens will include visits to the Acropolis and the new Acropolis Museum, the Agora and Agora Museum, the National Archaeological Museum, and Cape Sounion, where we will view the temple of Poseidon and watch the sunset. We will then travel to Delphi, visiting the Archaeological Museum of Thebes and the mountain village of Arachova on the way. After spending the following day at the sanctuary of Apollo at Delphi, we will travel to Nauplion for visits to bronze-age fortresses at Tiryns and Mycenae, as well as to the Nauplion Archaeological Museum. Then we return to Athens for a flight to Crete, where we will take in the Heraklion Archaeological Museum and Minoan sites at Knossos and Malia before returning to Athens and flying back to Baltimore the following day.
SOCIOLOGY OF AGING
SOCY 430/630
Instructor: Dr. Takashi Yamashita
Time: Tuesdays from 4:30 – 7:00 p.m.
Location: PUP 204
Description
The Sociology of Aging provides an overview of processes of aging. Students examine sociological theories and data to explore the aging individual, the social context of aging, and societal responses to an aging population. Specific course topics include the demography of aging, biopsychosocial aspects of aging, health and well-being over the life course, changing family roles and living arrangements, and finance in later life.