Under the baton of interim music director José-Luis Novo, the UMD Symphony Orchestra presents Mozart's Overture to The Abduction from the Seraglio, Gabriela Lena Frank's Three Latin American Dances and Strauss' Death and Transfiguration.
Encouraged to nurture their authentic artistic voices, undergraduate dance students from the UMD School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies set new works of art into motion in this concert of original choreography. Paired with faculty and graduate student mentors and in collaboration with student designers, these short works span multiple dance styles and are as diverse as the students themselves.
The internationally acclaimed University of Maryland Chamber Singers will offer a program of choral masterworks highlighting a cappella music from the late 19th, and early 20th centuries. The concert will include the virtuosic and rarely performed Friede auf Erden by Arnold Schönberg, Five Choral Songs, op. 104 by Johannes Brahms (his final choral compositions), and the set of Three Motets, op.
Two of the world's leading dance companies, Dancenorth and Lucy Guerin Inc. collaborate with tour-de-force Indonesian music duo Senyawa in this cross-cultural event. Drawing influences from both Indonesian folk ritual idioms and western metal bands, Senyawa's unusual sound reinvents the Javanese spiritual tradition of entering trance through dance and music by fusing hand-made electric string instruments with operatic melodies, metal vocals and contemporary choreography.
Enjoy a mix of standards, contemporary hits arranged for band, Broadway tunes, American songbook classics and more at this annual celebration of pops music. Showcasing the lighter side of classical music, it’s been an audience favorite for more than four decades.
Program:
University Band
Alfred Reed's The Hounds of Spring
Aaron Copland's Variations on a Shaker Melody
Percy Grainger's The “Gum-suckers" March
John Philip Sousa's Manhattan Beach
In this witty, amusing and heartfelt coming-of-age story, Heidi Holland grows up before our eyes. Starting out as a bright, idealistic college student of the 1960s, the world around her rapidly changes. With feminist guiding principles, she strives to build a fulfilling life and is forced to confront, through her work, friendship and relationships, the true cost of “having it all.”
The Left Bank Quartet presents works linked by their connection to the human voice. Schubert's tuneful lyricism is paired with an emotional new work by Mark Wilson, and Samuel Barber's "Dover Beach," for string quartet and baritone.
Left Bank Quartet:
David Salness, Sally McLain, violins
Katherine Murdock, viola
Eric Kutz, cello
Guest Artists:
Linda Mabbs, soprano
Kevin Short, bass-baritone
Rita Sloan, piano
Returning to The Clarice after their sold-out performance in 2017, Sébastien Ramirez and Honji Wang’s expanded choreographic language explores the tension of physical forces and social boundaries that reflect the reality of being tethered together in complex communities. Attached to cables, yet with great fluidity, five virtuosic dancers thwart gravity through hip-hop, acrobatics, levitation and stunning visual poetry.
