Matthew Halls leads J.S. Bach's intimate cantata 204 from the keyboard as part of his weeklong UMD School of Music residency. Featuring UMD Choral Activities alumna Amy Broadbent as soprano soloist, this underperformed secular cantata brings to life contemplative Christian Friedrich Hunold texts about inner contentment and serenity through varied instrumental combinations with voice.
Evangeline Athanasiou, a musicology graduate student, and a panel of social and religious scholars from across campus explore the complex issue of religious persecution as framed in Poulenc’s Dialogues of the Carmelites. Premiered in 1957, Poulenc’s post-WW II opera tells of the martyrdom suffered by a group of Carmelite nuns by French revolutionary authorities in 1794. The discussion will focus on how themes of these historical events continue to resonate today.
Come see the Maryland Shakespeare Player's production of Twelfth Night! The Bard's classic comedy grabs some giggle water and showcases some goofs and lollygags in the Roaring Twenties.
The 1920's in America were times of great precarity. Stuck between the First World War and the Great Depression, Americans enjoyed a period of unchecked wealth, culture, and social change.
Introduced to the bassoon in the Massapequa, NY public schools, Frank Morelli studied with Stephen Maxym at the Manhattan School of Music and later became the first bassoonist to be awarded a doctorate by the Juilliard School. He has made nine appearances as soloist in New York’s Carnegie Hall playing concertos, Sinfonias concertantes, and even a solo ballad with the Carnegie Hall Jazz Band.
Come enjoy a culmination of Ballet Company's work this semester! This will be a show of ballet, contemporary, and jazz pieces. All of our work is student choreographed and produced, please come support our hard work!
The student-run Gamer Symphony Orchestra is the first collegiate ensemble exclusively devoted to performing orchestral arrangements of video game music and using that music as an educational tool. All of our arrangements are created by GSO members and alumni. We now boast a roster of more than 100 musicians, including 30 singers, and play to packed houses at the University of Maryland's largest performing arts venue, the 1,100 seat Dekelboum Concert Hall! Our mission is to bridge the worlds of video games and the performing arts and promote orchestral VGM as an art form.
Barre is a low impact, full body workout that helps you lengthen your muscles and strengthen your core. Join OpenBarre for a fun class, then stay for brunch afterwards! Registration includes the barre class and one mimosa, or a juice/coffee for those under 21.
Supermassive black holes, which are a million to 10 billion times the mass of the sun, lurk in the center of most galaxies, including our own Milky Way. How do we study these dark and mysterious objects in the universe? Dr. Suvi Gezari will describe how astronomers use wide-field optical telescopes to monitor the night sky and catch supermassive black holes that light up in the act of feeding on stars and gas. Watching how these “hungry” black holes digest their meals can reveal their mass, spin and binarity—the fundamental parameters of an astrophysical black hole. Dr.
