Celebrate Maryland Day at Oracle Hysterical featuring composer Majel Connery 

Oracle Hysterical in Concert. Part band, part book club, Oracle Hysterical transforms great books into concert experiences. The event features performer-composers Majel Connery (vocals, keys), Elliot Cole (vocals, keys) and twin brothers Doug and Brad Balliett (viola da gamba and bassoon).

Majel Connery is a composer, vocalist and roving musicologist combining the beauty of Classical music with the power of modern technology. Her voice has been called "superb" by the New York Times and her compositions "thoroughly Schubertian" by the Wall Street Journal. Connery’s environmental compositions have been performed around the world, including her own recent premiere of Elderflora at Seattle Symphony/Octave 9, and the 2023-24 tour of “The Rivers are our Brothers” by Grammy-winning choir Chanticleer. An educator working at the intersection of arts and scholarship, Connery has created incubator classrooms and productions with artists like Caroline Shaw and Ken Ueno on campuses like Stanford, UC Berkeley, Wellesley, and Princeton. In radio, Connery hosts the NPR/CapRadio podcast A Music of Their Own and Reverberations with New Amsterdam Records. She holds a PhD in musicology from the University of Chicago and a B.A. in music from Princeton.