A Bows Duel in Venice
Before electric guitars, Venice had violin gods.
Early eighteenth century Venice was a global capital of Baroque music, with audiences who attended performances as informal, rowdy entertainment. Concertgoers were loud and opinionated, quick to applaud for a brilliant passage and quicker to jeer at failure.
At the center of it all was a relatively new instrument that hadn’t yet learned to behave: the violin.
The violin was fast. It was flashy. And it was a little confrontational. It could whisper or it could scream. It could show off in ways many older instruments couldn’t. And in Venice — a city of egotistical, ferociously competitive violinists who would go on to become some of the biggest Baroque composers — it became the perfect vehicle for ambition.
Lea Salonga: Stage, Screen & Everything In Between
One of Broadway’s biggest and most beloved stars delivered an extraordinary evening at the Frederick C. Tillis Performance Hall on December 4, drawing a packed house of fans from across the state. From Broadway favorites to Disney classics and iconic pop hits, Salonga’s Stage, Screen & Everything In Between was pure joy!
37th Annual Fine Arts Center Gala
Saturday, March 21
6–11:30 p.m.
Student Union Ballroom
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Wicked cOZplay: A Magical Night in the Emerald City
For our third annual cosplay celebration, we took the community down the yellow brick road for a cosplay and singalong screening of the movie Wicked. The Randolph W. Bromery Center transformed into the merry old land of Oz, complete with a yellow brick road, a hot air balloon, lots of bubbles, and many Elphabas, Glindas, Fiyeros, Ozians, and even a few flying monkeys.
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Fine Arts Center residency program sparks creative exchange
Four artists in residence spent a week on campus laying the foundation for spring exhibitions and performances that will reflect months of research and collaboration across campus.
Students help shape museum's permanent collection
Norah Nguyen has always been drawn to museums and curation. But as a chemical engineering student, Nguyen never imagined that she’d have the opportunity to explore that interest academically at UMass.
That changed when she signed up for Collecting 101, the University Museum of Contemporary Art’s course that brings undergraduate students into the rarely seen world of museum acquisition. Students learn about how museums build their collections, and by the semester’s end, help decide what the museum should purchase next.