Peabody Dance will hold its ninth annual Day of Master Classes and Ballet Teachers' Seminar on Sunday, Nov. 8, from 9:00 am to 5:30 pm in the Peabody Preparatory's downtown dance studios, 21 East Mount Vernon Place. Three distinguished guest artists, Marcia Dale Weary, Rhodie Jorgenson, and Laszlo Berdo, will lead classes along with Peabody Dance faculty members. This year's Ballet Teachers' Seminar will feature a session called Training the Male Student, in which Berdo will work with students in Peabody Dance’s new Estelle Dennis Dance Scholarship Program for Boys, a partnership between the Peabody Preparatory and the Estelle Dennis Scholarship Trust. For more information about the master classes and seminar, visit www.peabody.jhu.edu/dancemc.

Peabody Events

On Monday, Oct. 5, at 2:30 pm, Eric Redlinger and Sylvia Rhyne of early music duo Asteria will hold a free lecture and demonstration in Peabody's Leith Symington Griswold Hall. In 2004, Asteria won Early Music America's first Unicorn Prize for Medieval and Renaissance Music.

Musicology faculty member Richard Giarusso will present Music and Politics in the Twentieth Century on Thursday, Oct. 15, from 6:30 to 8:30 pm on the Homewood campus of The Johns Hopkins University. The talk is part of a new series of evening lectures called Odyssey on the Go offered by the Odyssey Program of the JHU Center for Liberal Arts. More information can be found at odyssey.jhu.edu.

On Thursday, Oct. 22, at 10:30 am, Gamelan Mitra Kusuma will give a free demonstration of Balinese music in Peabody's Hilda and Douglas Goodwin Recital Hall. In residence at World Arts Focus in Mount Rainier, Maryland, the group draws its members from Maryland, Virginia, and Washington, D.C.

A memorial concert for Conservatory and Preparatory faculty member Shirley Hsiao-Ni Pan (DMA ’02, Piano) will take place on Sunday, Oct. 25, at 3:00 pm in Leith Symington Griswold Hall.

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