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Mamela Nyamza: Performance and Conversation

Join South African guest artist Mamela Nyamza in conversation, celebration, and performance of "PARKS OF ROSES," the new dance theater work she has been creating throughout her three-week TDPS residency in collaboration  with students and alums. 

Inspired by Rosa Parks and the histories the US and South Africa share of apartheid and segregation, the audience will have an opportunity to experience Nyamza's extraordinary alchemy in transforming oppression into art that challenges, confronts, disarms, heals.

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Music in Mind: Beethoven at the Threshold - Opuses 95, 96, and 97

Three of Beethoven’s most consequential works encompassing three different chamber music genres and wildly contrasting landscapes are dramatically juxtaposed in one exciting evening.

Working in reverse order and affirming the broad, pivotal stylistic changes afoot, the expansive, soaring “Archduke” Trio will feature Bucknell piano professor Qing Jiang, UMD cello professor Eric Kutz, and David Salness, violinist and Director of Chamber Music Activities in the School of Music.

Music in Mind: Commissions and Classics

In preparation for their international tour to Europe and the Middle East, The Murasaki Duo perform beloved classics and newly commissioned pieces. The program includes British composer David Obson’s frenetically energetic Sonata for Cello and Piano, as well as  a new work by Ethan Haimo, which Eric Kutz describes as “dark in many ways, like all the facets of a smokey diamond.”

Eric Kutz is the recipient of The Barbara K. Steppel Memorial Faculty Fellowship in Cello.

 

Music in Mind: Xiang Gao, violin

Xiang Gao is recognized as one of the world's most successful performing artists of his generation from the People's Republic of China. His musical integrity and virtuoso technique have gained accolades from audiences and reviewers around the world, and he has performed for many world leaders. Most recently, Gao was a featured soloist performing for the Chinese President Hu JinTao and the visiting King Carlos I of Spain.

Music in Mind: Duo Down the Danube

The Stern/Andrist Duo takes a musical cruise from Vienna to Bratislava to Budapest to Bucharest. The river carries us predictably eastward, but there is no even keel with this music. Schubert hides the greatest profundity and intimacy behind flashiness and humorously overblown grandeur in his Rondo in B Minor. Dohnányi follows the path of decadence only to arrive at childlike innocence in his Sonata in C-sharp Minor. Bartók finds opportunities for suave voice-leading in the gritty outpourings of a gypsy band in his Rhapsody No.1. Enescu's Sonata No.

The Community Foundation in Prince George's County 2016 Civic

The Civic Leadership Awards were established to recognize, honor and promote outstanding community leadership in Prince George's County, Maryland. The Awards salute individual servant leaders who work tirelessly to enhance the quality of life in the county. These community guardians steadfastly commit and dedicate themselves in service to Prince George's County and its residents. The Awards reception provides an opportunity to celebrate the invaluable contributions of honorees and County's nonprofit sector.

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