Divergent Perspectives is a yearlong discussion series reflecting on the Festival of Subversive Artists and Minds.
In our second roundtable join various stakeholders to consider subversion in the production and consumption of our food.
Funded by College of Arts and Humanities Artist-in-Residence (AiR) Initiative
Taught by James Ross and Liz Lerman, the School of Music’s first course on improvisation, collaboration and art-making culminates on stage with a conductorless performance that integrates music and movement.
The Maryland Opera Studio joins UMSO on the second half of the concert to perform highlights from their spring production of Rossini’s one-act opera, L’occasione fa il ladro (Opportunity makes a thief).
UMD Repertoire Orchestra performs Rimsky-Korsakov's Capricicio Espagnol along with two of Mexico's most popular and frequently performed classical compositions for orchestra: José Pablo Moncayo's Huapango and Arturo Márquez's Danzon No. 2.
Also on the program: Laura Kaufman, the third-prize winner in the 2013 UMSO Concerto competition, joins the orchestra to perform the Liebermann Flute Concerto.
UMD Wind Ensemble opens this concert with Frank Ticheli’s regal Pacific Fanfare, and an adaptation of J.S. Bach’s Fantasia and Fugue in C Minor.
In Leonard Bernstein's “Profanation” from Symphony No. 1, disjointed fragments of liturgical melodies evolve into a riotous pagan ritual to dramatize the biblical story of Jeremiah, a prophet who was mocked for predicting the destruction of Jerusalem.
The final piece on the program, H. Owen Reed’s La Fiesta Mexicana, depicts a typical fiesta through adaptations of Mexican folk music.
Members of the Army Field Band and artists from the UMD School of Music join forces for a dynamic concert that depicts movement through music: a military march, ballet suite, an original work based on 17th-century dances, a new arrangement of Bjork’s Overture to Dancer in the Dark and an original piece based on the exciting scenes at a circus.
Excelsa String Quartet makes their debut performance of the season with Anton Webern’s Langsamer Satz, Alfred Schnittke’s String Quartet No. 3 and Bedrich Smetana’s String Quartet No. 1 in E Minor “From My Life.”
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College Park, MD – For the first time ever, The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center (The Clarice) is kicking off our season with four days of fun and frolic with the NextNOW Fest, September 11-14, 2014.
