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The Peabody Institute of The Johns Hopkins University presents Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana in a free, large-scale concert at the Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall. Known for its iconic opening “O Fortuna,” this exhilarating cantata sets 13th-century poetry to music, exploring themes of fate, fortune, and the human condition.

Guest conductor Andrew Grams leads the Peabody Symphony Orchestra, Peabody Hopkins Conservatory Chorus, NEXT Ensemble, Peabody Camerata, and Peabody Children’s Chorus. Peabody alumni Christina O’Malley, Jason Gonzalez, and Tim Mix will join the performance as vocal soloists.

Don’t miss this powerful musical experience, performed by the next generation of world-class artists.

Admission is free and open to all. 
Reserve tickets now at bit.ly/4ieQp3m.

Friday, May 2, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall
1212 Cathedral Street Baltimore, MD

This evening-length multimedia work theatrically explores displacement, longing and the optimism of refugees. A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Music, Mary Kouyoumdjian’s Paper Pianos combines narratives from four refugees and resettlement workers with intricate hand-drawn animations by artist Kervork Mourad that dramatically depict emotions experienced around the world.

This event is made possible with support from the Randy Hostetler Living Room Music Project. This performance is also supported in part by the Maryland State Arts Council and The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation.

This concert of 1950s works highlights post-war America’s musical diversity. Selections from Bernstein’s West Side Story pulse with urban energy, blending jazz, Latin, and classical styles sung by Lourdes Rodriguez and Matthew Hill. Piston’s Symphony No. 4 sheds his usual academic tone for a vibrant tribute to industrial power. In contrast, Oboist Bethany Slater will perform Kay’s Pietà, a lyrical concerto for English horn and strings, draws inspiration from Michelangelo’s Madonna della Pietà, offering moments of deep reflection.

Feel the joy in the choral favorites from London to Baltimore! Featuring works by Vaughan Williams, Whitacre, and Britten, you are invited to take an emotional journey across the pond as we explore the connections of joy and peace through inspirational choral music.

Artists:
Baltimore Choral Arts Society
Anthony Blake Clark, Music Director and Conductor
Leo Wanenchak, Associate Conductor

Program:
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Five Mystical Songs

Benjamin Britten
A Hymn to the Virgin
Hymn of Saint Colomba
Carry Her Over the Water from Paul Bunyan

Eric Whitacre
Seal Lullaby
Leonardo Dreams of his Flying Machine

Alice Parker
Hark I Hear the Harps Eternal

James Erb
Shenandoah

Rosephanye Powell
Still I Rise

Jasmine Barnes
Every Great Dream

Eriks Esenvalds
Stars

Randall Thompson
Choose Something Like a Star
Alleluia

Shriver Hall Concert Series presents Richard Goode, who has set an international standard of musicianship for decades with his "unfailingly beautiful tone, effortless technical command, interpretive insight and total emotional commitment to the music" (The Washington Post). A lauded performer of Classical and Romantic repertoire, he presents the vast emotional landscape of Beethoven’s magnificent Diabelli Variations, as well as Mozart’s Baroque-inspired Sonata in F major and astonishingly wild Fantasia.

Richard Goode, piano

WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART: Fantasia in C minor, K. 475
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART: Sonata No. 15 in F major, K. 533
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN: Thirty-Three Variations on a Waltz by Diabelli, Op. 120

Featuring a pre-concert talk at 4:30 PM