Explore the freedom of classical music improvisation with bassoonist John Falcone from Oviedo, Spain. Be mesmerized by musical accompaniments created spontaneously as you watch historic films of the legendary director, Segundo de Chomón.
Join us for Discover Music: School of Music Current Student Panel
Join Pamela Frank and Howard Nelson for an Injury Prevention Clinic for String Students.
Join us for Renegade Series with Stanford Thompson.
The Telegraph Quartet reads new works by UMD School of Music student composers.
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.
yMusic reads new works by UMD School of Music student composers.
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.
Maryland Lyric Opera presents Donizetti's most compelling romantic drama, Lucia di Lammermoor. The MDLO Orchestra and Chorus are conducted by Louis Salemno. Nick Olcott directs the seductively beautiful, tragic tale of love fraught with power and deception. Lighting design by Joan Sullivan-Genthe. Visit www.MDLO.org for more information.
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.
