Upcoming Program
Sound Immersion #3: Birdsongs
7:00 pm, Friday, March 5, 2027
Recital Hall, Dodge Performing Arts Center
St. Mary’s College of Maryland
Jordan Price, Ph.D., Professor of Biology, lecture
Jennifer Cognard-Black, Ph.D., Professor of English, reading
Benjamin Springer, Vice President, Southern Maryland Audubon Society
Mercedes Pope, piano
Rie Moore, piano
Poems by Robert Frost, Mary Oliver, and Michael Collier
Music composed by François Couperin, Louis-Claude Daquin, Camille Saint-Saëns, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Louis Vierne, Maurice Ravel, Federico Mompou, and Olivier Messiaen
Sound Immersion is a series of interactive performances where music is united with other worlds to explore certain themes. Audience members are invited to create artworks in response to the music featured in the Sound Immersion programs.
This project is supported in part by Arts Alliance of St. Mary’s College of Maryland.
Recent Programs
The Italian Baroque
– and an Excursion
Sound Immersion #2: Longing
~ What it means to reach for the unreachable ~
Music by Ludwig van Beethoven, Robert Schumann, Johannes Brahms, Morten Lauridsen, and James MacMillan
Poems by Pablo Neruda and William Soutar
Lecture on Longing and Theater
7:00 pm, Friday, March 6, 2026
Recital Hall
Nancy R. & Norton T. Dodge Performing Arts Center
St. Mary’s College of Maryland
Sound Immersion #1: Nightscapes
~ Melting sensorial boundaries ~
Music united with poetry reading and a lecture on synesthesia
7:00 pm, Friday, October 24, 2025
Recital Hall
Nancy R. & Norton T. Dodge Performing Arts Center
St. Mary’s College of Maryland
7:00 pm, Saturday, November 15, 2025
St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church
A Glimpse of Performances
Project Decaying
~ Expression of Beauty in What is Decaying ~
“All in all, the creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his contribution to the creative act.”
Marcel Duchamp, artist
