Art Case Concert Grand Piano Makes a Home at Peabody Reply

Photography by Ben Johnson

A new piano has been added to the Peabody Institute; specifically, an art case concert grand made by Wm. Knabe & Co. in Baltimore in 1899 and donated to Peabody in memory of Michela Mitchell Halpern.

Tuned-In Alumni Share Their Passion for Music with the Next Generation of Baltimore City Students Reply

What do Mozart’s Bassoon Concerto, Kaz Rodriguez’s 7to6, James Arthur’s Say You Won’t Let Go, and Royal Tailor’s We got that Fire have in common? About 225 local elementary and middle school students sitting in Goodwin Hall on a Tuesday morning—on a school day following a three day weekend.

INTERPLAY: A Collaborative Teaching and Performance Project Reply

This is a guest post by UMBC Music Professor Airi Yoshioka.

When UMBC President Freeman Hrabowski and Peabody Dean Fred Bronstein met in 2015 upon the opening of UMBC’s Performing Arts and Humanities Building, the seed was planted for a possible collaborative project between the two institutions.  Dr. Sarah Hoover (Special Assistant to the Dean at Peabody), Dr. Linda Dusman (Chair of the Music Department at UMBC), and I met in the fall of 2015 to brainstorm possible ways to tap into each institutions’ strengths.

School Children Experience Opera at Peabody Reply

Megan Heavner picks audience members to perform in Papageno.

Peabody Opera Outreach hosted several Baltimore area schools – some as far away as Annapolis and one from the Mount Vernon neighborhood – for its performance of Papageno at Peabody’s Miriam A. Friedberg Hall on Friday, April 7. Papageno is a shortened and English version of Mozart’s The Magic Flute from the point of view of Papageno.

Peabody Dance 2017 Spring Showcase “Reactions” Reply

Three world premieres, iconic classics, and a host of Peabody Dance and Washington School of Ballet students graced the stage in Miriam A. Friedberg Concert Hall last week for “Reactions,” the Peabody Dance 2017 Spring Showcase.