Join us for Renegade Series with Stanford Thompson.

Varsity Vocals presents the International Championship of Collegiate A Cappella. In this Mid-Atlantic Quarterfinal, 10 a cappella groups from local colleges and universities will compete for a chance to prove they are one of the top collegiate a cappella groups in the world. The top two groups from the event move on to the regional Mid-Atlantic Semifinal. The winner of each regional Semifinal will go on to compete at the Finals in New York City.

Experience all of the Six Solo Sonatas for Violin (1923) by Eugène Ysaÿe performed by graduate and undergraduate students as part of a total-immersion, semester learning project. Students will share the story of their direct lineage to the Belgian master and explain how he entirely revolutionized the craft and the art. Then they will play, tag-team style, this daring magnum opus—the most challenging in the genre since J.S. Bach’s model 200 years earlier.

Why does Hamlet continue to speak to generation after generation? In many ways, he is the first truly modern literary character. He is enmeshed in inner conflicts, and knows he is his own worst problem. Hamlet's problem, and ours, is essentially psychological. This introduction to Hamlet will briefly survey the history of the play, and then zero in on Hamlet's problem, and ours.

James Hollis, PhD, is a Jungian Analyst, Executive Director of the Jung Society of Washington, and author of fifteen books.