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This blog post is Emily Schweich, a sophomore Broadcast Journalism major.
From France to India and Japan to Spain, the audience was musically transported around the globe in Exotic Voices, the latest installment of the “Music in Mind” series held in Gildenhorn Recital Hall on October 20. Featuring faculty artists and School of Music (SOM) alumni, the concert highlighted rare works for voice and chamber ensembles from around the world.
Influenced by the sounds of other lands and by their own musical nationalism, many of the prolific composers featured in the concert were able to create a unique taste of the exotic through their lesser-known chamber music.
The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and the UMD School of Music’s Concert Choir will combine voices to perform Benjamin Britten’s moving anti-war masterpiece, The War Requiem on Thursday, November 14, 2013 at 8PM and Friday, November 15, 2013 at 8PM in the Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall and Saturday, November 16, 2013 at 8PM at the Music Center at Strathmore.
The National Academy of Chinese Theatre Arts (NACTA) and the School of Theatre, Dance and Performance Studies (TDPS) embarked on a new collaboration on October 28 as part of the five-year partnership that created the bi-lingual co-production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
A NACTA contingent, including two junior professors and one graduate student will spend three weeks working in the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center with TDPS faculty, students and production staff, sharing each culture’s fundamental approach to theatrical production, stage management and theatre technology.
Innovation and musical exploration are trademarks of the UMD School of Music, so it’s no surprise that two SOM staff members, both alumni of the school, have embodied that concept in the inventive music of Inscape Chamber Orchestra.
This post is by Lisa Driscoll, a Junior Vocal Performance and Broadcast Journalism double major. You can read more of her writing on her blog
The Kronos Quartet celebrated its 40th anniversary on October 24 at the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center with a vast variety of musical styles and an East Coast premiere of Philip Glass’ String Quartet No. 6, which was co-commissioned by the Center for the occasion. The performance was also the Center debut of new member and cellist Sunny Yang.
Sim Sholom by Alter Yechiel Karniol was probably my favorite piece of the evening, as it showed how expressive the quartet is as a whole, but particularly Yang. Her dynamics and virtuoso musicianship were stunning.
This post is by Lisa Driscoll, a Junior Vocal Performance and Broadcast Journalism double major. You can read more of her writing on her blog.
The Kogod Theatre transformed into the likes of a D.C. lounge to host the Pedrito Martinez Group on October 18. It was a night of colorful and percussive music and dancing, an experience that brought several classical music students like myself out of our shells and onto the dance floor.
All four members of the group come from unique musical backgrounds and together produce a lively fusion of Latin sounds. Pedrito Martinez, a world-renowned percussionist, and Ariacne Trujillo, pianist and vocalist, both come from Havana, Cuba; bassist Alvaro Benavides is from Caracas, Venezuela; and percussionist Jhair Sala is from Lima, Peru.
It was truly a unique experience to venture out of a classical music setting into such a lively, relaxed atmosphere where we were warmly welcomed into the Rumba de la Isla.
This blog post is Emily Schweich, a sophomore Broadcast Journalism major.
Vibrant costumes and perfectly coiffed hairstyles shone on the Kay Theatre stage as the School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies presented Thornton Wilder’s The Matchmaker this October. As the actors moved effortlessly around the stage in their 1880s attire, one could hardly believe that many of them walked into the dressing room bare-faced, wearing sweatpants and some ponytails, just an hour before the show.
It’s like this pressure hour. They come in in sweatpants, with no makeup on, no pin curls, nothing. They have to completely redo their hair, do their face and put on this multi-layered, multi-piece costume.
The Clarice Smith Center and the Maryland-National Capital Parks and Planning Commission invite choreographers 18 years and older to submit applications to audition for the 31st Annual Choreographers’ Showcase. The deadline to apply is Saturday, November 30, 2013.
From Thursday, October 24 through Sunday, November 3, you can experience the Visible Seams video installation in our Grand Pavilion:
Due to other on-campus events, we anticipate that parking will be difficult on the evenings of Friday, October 18 and Saturday, October 19. Please plan on arriving early and allow extral travel time.
Because we anticipate that Lots 1B and Z will be congested, we recommend parking in Stadium Drive Garage.
You can skip the long lines at the parking pay stations by setting up a Parkmobile app account in advance. For Stadium Drive Garage, use Parkmobile zone number 6105 and your parking space number.