Performance

Frostburg State University’s Department of Music presents "May the Fourth Be With You", a concert by the FSU Wind Ensemble, conducted by Peter B. Lewis, on Sunday, May 4, at 3:00 p.m. in the Pealer Recital Hall of FSU’s Woodward D. Pealer Performing Arts Center. Admission is $10 for adults; $5 for seniors, military, and FSU faculty and staff; and free for students and children. Advance tickets can be purchased online at tickets.frostburg.edu or at the University Box Office, Lane University Center 203 (M-F 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.). They will also be available at the door the evening of the performance. This event will not be livestreamed.The concert will feature music from soundtracks for the epic, blockbuster movies "Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith", "Indiana Jones", "Star Trek", and (maybe not epic, but a great animated movie) "How to Train Your Dragon". The program also includes Gandalf and Journey in the Dark from "The Lord of the Rings Symphonic Suite" by Johann de Meij.The FSU Wind Ensemble is the premiere wind concert organization on campus, consisting of a select group of players in a smaller, generally one-on-a-part setting, that presents two concerts a semester. This popular group performs a variety of exciting, diverse, and challenging music from the Renaissance to the present, with most selections coming from the symphonic band and chamber wind repertoire.For more information, contact FSU’s Department of Music at 301-687-4109.Situated in the mountains of Allegany County, Frostburg State University is one of the 12 institutions of the University System of Maryland. FSU is a comprehensive, residential regional university and serves as an educational and cultural center for Western Maryland. For more information, visit www.frostburg.edu or facebook.com/frostburgstateuniversity. Follow FSU on X @frostburgstate.

FSU Department of Music Presents Student Composers in “New Music From the Mountains III”FSU Department of Music presents "New Music From the Mountains III”, a recital of new music by FSU student composers, on Monday, May 5, at 7:30 p.m. in the Pealer Recital Hall of FSU’s Woodward D. Pealer Performing Arts Center. The concert is free and open to the public. This event will also be livestreamed; click the red “Join Stream” button on this page to view the live performance.For more information, contact FSU’s Department of Music at 301-687-4109.

CARL ORFF'S MASTERWORK "CARMINA BURANA" TO BE PRESENTED AT FSUOn the weekend of May 9–11, the Frostburg State University Department of Music, in conjunction with B’er Chayim Congregation in Cumberland, the FSU Departments of Visual Arts and Theatre and Dance, as well as the Butterfly Ridge Elementary School Chorus, the Allegany County Public Schools, FSU faculty and alumni, and professional musicians from around the country, will present Carl Orff’s masterwork, "Carmina Burana", his evocative—and almost primal—setting of secular medieval poetry from the region now called Germany.Performed “in the round,” in the Cordts PE Center gymnasium, audience members and performers will be intermixed around an arena for dancing, featuring original choreography by Jamie McGreevy. Original artwork, contextual to the work, its composer, and its larger societal and cultural impact, by FSU students and faculty, will be projected on screens surrounding the venue throughout the performance.Funded by a substantial grant from the Frostburg State University Foundation and contributions from many generous donors, the performances are presented free-of-charge and are open to the general public.Please join us: Friday, May 9, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, May 10, 7:30 p.m.; or Sunday, May 11, 3:00 p.m. Tickets are required, though FREE, due to space constraints, and may be acquired in advance either online at tickets.frostburg.edu or in-person at the University Box Office, Lane University Center 203 (M-F 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.), 301-687-3137. (This event will not be livestreamed.)

CARL ORFF'S MASTERWORK "CARMINA BURANA" TO BE PRESENTED AT FSUOn the weekend of May 9–11, the Frostburg State University Department of Music, in conjunction with B’er Chayim Congregation in Cumberland, the FSU Departments of Visual Arts and Theatre and Dance, as well as the Butterfly Ridge Elementary School Chorus, the Allegany County Public Schools, FSU faculty and alumni, and professional musicians from around the country, will present Carl Orff’s masterwork, "Carmina Burana", his evocative—and almost primal—setting of secular medieval poetry from the region now called Germany.Performed “in the round,” in the Cordts PE Center gymnasium, audience members and performers will be intermixed around an arena for dancing, featuring original choreography by Jamie McGreevy. Original artwork, contextual to the work, its composer, and its larger societal and cultural impact, by FSU students and faculty, will be projected on screens surrounding the venue throughout the performance.Funded by a substantial grant from the Frostburg State University Foundation and contributions from many generous donors, the performances are presented free-of-charge and are open to the general public.Please join us: Friday, May 9, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, May 10, 7:30 p.m.; or Sunday, May 11, 3:00 p.m. Tickets are required, though FREE, due to space constraints, and may be acquired in advance either online at tickets.frostburg.edu or in-person at the University Box Office, Lane University Center 203 (M-F 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.), 301-687-3137. (This event will not be livestreamed.)

CARL ORFF'S MASTERWORK "CARMINA BURANA" TO BE PRESENTED AT FSUOn the weekend of May 9–11, the Frostburg State University Department of Music, in conjunction with B’er Chayim Congregation in Cumberland, the FSU Departments of Visual Arts and Theatre and Dance, as well as the Butterfly Ridge Elementary School Chorus, the Allegany County Public Schools, FSU faculty and alumni, and professional musicians from around the country, will present Carl Orff’s masterwork, "Carmina Burana", his evocative—and almost primal—setting of secular medieval poetry from the region now called Germany.Performed “in the round,” in the Cordts PE Center gymnasium, audience members and performers will be intermixed around an arena for dancing, featuring original choreography by Jamie McGreevy. Original artwork, contextual to the work, its composer, and its larger societal and cultural impact, by FSU students and faculty, will be projected on screens surrounding the venue throughout the performance.Funded by a substantial grant from the Frostburg State University Foundation and contributions from many generous donors, the performances are presented free-of-charge and are open to the general public.Please join us: Friday, May 9, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, May 10, 7:30 p.m.; or Sunday, May 11, 3:00 p.m. Tickets are required, though FREE, due to space constraints, and may be acquired in advance either online at tickets.frostburg.edu or in-person at the University Box Office, Lane University Center 203 (M-F 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.), 301-687-3137. (This event will not be livestreamed.)