The award-winning University of Memphis Opera at the Rudi E. Scheidt School of Music will present Leonard Bernstein's Trouble in Tahiti and Dominick Argento's Miss Havisham's Wedding Night on April 25 at 7:30 pm and 27, at 3:00 pm. In Trouble in Tahiti, during the ten years Sam and Dinah have been living in suburban Anywhere, USA, they have drifted apart, wondering where the person they married went and who is the person sitting across the breakfast table.  Then, literature's famous Miss Havisham stops time, literally, to hold onto an image of the man who duped her by leaving her at the altar. 

Memphis' First Annual Rhythm and Greens Festival will kick off Saturday, April 26 at 7 p.m. at The New Daisy Theatre, 330 Beale Street. This new, down-home, musical event celebrates Memphis' independent folk scene and showcases rising artists Mason Jar Fireflies. Their freshman album pre-releases exclusively at the festival and offers a refreshing twist on the stalwart Rhythm and Blues genre. Read more.

Announcing the 2014 Orff Summer Institute at the University of Memphis July 14 - 25. The Level I course is for anyone with musical training who wishes to acquire basic knowledge and pedagogic foundations in the Orff Schulwerk approach. Recommended for persons with no previous two-week training course. The course can be taken for-credit or non-credit. Learn more and register.