The Muses - Original Works Project (Fall)
The Muses proudly present their Original Works Projects, a memorable night of short plays created and produced by students.
Lydia Consilvio
Featured artist of the Terrapin Record Label, oboist and singer/songwriter Lydia Consilvio presents original pop/folk tunes with classical instrumentation. The program takes us through seasons of the heart, featuring songs from her upcoming album.
Glow Flow
Celebrate the end of the UMD semester, whether you are a student, staff, faculty, or neighbor! Join Yogi Terps and Numi Yoga for a Glow Flow at MilkBoy ArtHouse. There'll be glow sticks, music, and the flow.
Enjoy special happy hour pricing on drinks and snacks available after class. There'll be some mats there to share but please bring your own (or a towel) if you have one!
Unspoken Stories
The Taratibu Youth Association (TYA) celebrated Black History Month telling the unspoken stories of perseverance, resistance and freedom. TYA uses song, poetry, dance and music to tell the stories of perseverance by Anarcha, Betsy and Lucy, slave youth that underwent multiple surgeries by James Marion Simms, without anesthesia; the South African resistance against apartheid, the resistance of color and class in Brazil; to the struggles for freedom of African Americans.
Fellowship Ensemble Recital: Wavelength Winds
Wavelength Winds is the University of Maryland’s premier fellowship wind quintet. The ensemble commissions new works, creates innovative projects, and engages in collaborations that put classical music in a culturally relevant context. This year Wavelength Winds co-commissioned a new quintet by John Steinmetz, a work for which they have exclusive performing and recording rights for a year. A total of four new commissions will be featured on this recital.
Gamer Symphony Orchestra
Join us for a wonderful and epic experience celebrating the art of video game music in our Fall Concerts!
The student-run Gamer Symphony Orchestra is the first collegiate ensemble exclusively devoted to performing orchestral arrangements of video game music. It boasts a roster of 130 members and features the full instrumental and choral experience.
UMD Symphony Orchestra Pre-Concert Discussion: Meghan Creek
How does Beethoven’s Coriolan Overture represent the tragic hero? Why did Clara Schumann refer to Brahm’s Double Concerto as “not brilliant for the instruments”? How does Bartók’s Concerto for Orchestra challenge traditional concerto conventions? Join PhD Musicology student Meghan Creek to explore these questions.
Join us for the performance Brahms and Bartok: UMD Symphony Orchestra at 8PM!
Opera Composer's Showcase
The Coalition for African Americans in the Performing Arts (CAAPA), in partnership with the Prince George’s Arts and Humanities Council (PGAHC), presents the Opera Composer’s Showcase featuring excerpts by composers Scott Patterson, Steven M. Allen, and duo Jasmine Barnes and librettist Joshua Banbury. Three / 20-minute segments of original operas are presented then followed by an on-stage interview by arts journalist Patrick D. McCoy, with composers sharing a brief overview and synopsis of their opera, description of characters, plot, and theme, as well as their inspiration.
Faculty Artist Series: A Bernstein Celebration
Voice faculty Delores Ziegler and Kevin Short, joined by the Capital City Symphony, present an all-Bernstein program in honor of the Leonard Bernstein Centennial. This special vocal program includes the charming Arias and Barcarolles song cycle, and a semi-staged presentation of the one-act opera Trouble in Tahiti – the only work for which Bernstein wrote the words as well as the music.
Guest Artist Series: Hasse Borup, violin
Experience a program featuring the complete works for violin and piano and violin solo by Carl Nielsen. Part of a project to record the works for Naxos the program features violinist Hasse Borup and Andrew Staupe on piano.
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