UMD Percussion Ensemble: Wet Ink
Usually positioned at the back of the orchestra, the percussion section moves center stage to reveal the colorful, melodic potential of their instruments in this striking concert of contemporary music.
UMD Men's & Women's Choruses: Fall Showcase
The UMD Women’s Chorus and the UMD Men’s Chorus explore repertoire spanning several eras, genres and styles, including a recent work by contemporary Norwegian-American choral composer Ola Gjeilo.
UMD Chamber Singers: The Festive Baroque
Students and faculty join together for a performance of Bach’s Magnificat, also known as the Song of Mary or Canticle of Mary. Bach first composed a version for Christmas in 1723 and then reworked that music ten years later for the Feast of the Visitation. The Latin text is the canticle of Mary, mother of Jesus, as told in the Gospel of Luke.
UMD Chamber Singers and U Chorale: Masterworks from 20th Century France
What many regard as the greatest and most challenging a cappella choral work of the last one hundred years, Francis Poulenc’s Figure Humaine, is the major work of this program, which also features music by Marcel Duruflé and Olivier Messiaen.
UMD Chamber Jazz
Swing with the UMD jazz combos as they play beloved standards and new tunes arranged by UMD jazz students.
- Part I: Wednesday, November 7, 2012 . 7:30PM
- Part II: Thursday, November 8, 2012 . 7:30PM
Trios (CANCELLED)
Faculty artists David Salness, violin, Evelyn Elsing, cello, and Mayron Tsong, piano join to perform Beethoven’s lean and dramatic “Ghost Trio” (in D major, Op. 70, No. 1), Rachmaninoff’s sweetly melancholic Trio élégiaque (No. 1 in G minor) and Dvořák’s opulently ethnic Trio in E minor, the “Dumky.”
A Soldier’s Tale
Michael Votta leads the U.S. Army Field Band and Soldiers’ Chorus, along with members of UMD Chamber Singers, in an all-Stravinsky program featuring L’Histoire du Soldat (A Soldier’s Tale).
A work the composer said should be “read, played, and danced,” A Soldier’s Tale uses three actors to tell the story of a soldier who trades his fiddle to the devil for a book that predicts the future of the economy.
Shared MFA Thesis Concert: Dooling and Feng
What happens when you realize that your idol isn’t perfect? Or, when you recognize her flaws in yourself? Inspired by these questions, Shannon Dooling created Like a Unicorn in Captivity, a response to and an interpretation of the work of writer and aviator Anne Morrow Lindbergh. The piece incorporates multimedia, spoken word and movement in an exploration of celebrity, hero-worship, identity, relationship, ambition, creativity and duty.
Shared MFA Thesis Concert: Brown and Opare
In Graham Brown’s Apple Falling, the lives of seven individuals intersect as they each interact with their familial histories, musing over the stories and characters that have, over the generations, helped shape who they are and who they will become. Can we control how far the apple falls from the tree?
Shared Graduate Dance Concert
This concert features provocative choreography by first- and second-year Master of Fine Arts students in Dance, focusing on new works in development.
As the first opportunity for them to put material onstage and see what develops, it often contains the seeds of movement ideas that will be featured in their MFA Thesis programs — an unguarded exploration of their talents and interests.
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