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Fall Choral Showcase: University Chorale and UMD Chamber Singers • IN-PERSON

The University Chorale and the UMD Chamber Singers, will take listeners on an exquisite musical journey through the past, present and into the future. This program will look to the old masters while also giving audiences a glimpse of the music of today and tomorrow. The programming will harness the power of one's imagination to paint a picture of the musical world we want to share.  Come hear Purcell and Hailstork, to name a few, by these two exceptional choral groups.

Beethoven’s “Pastoral” Symphony: UMD Symphony Orchestra • IN-PERSON

Relax into the blissfulness of nature with Ludwig van Beethoven’s celebrated Symphony No. 6 in F major. Referred to as the “Pastoral” Symphony, the work contains five movements with the names “Joyful Feelings Upon Arriving in the Country,” “By the Brook,” “Peasant Merrymaking,” “The Thunderstorm” and “The Shepherd's Song After the Storm.” The symphony hints at Beethoven’s longing for a simple life in the country, a feeling that became more urgent as he lost his hearing and composing proved more difficult.

Lyric for Band: UMD Wind Orchestra • IN-PERSON

Initially titled Lament, George Walker’s Lyric for Strings is an impactfully poignant piece with a notable history that continues to resonate with audiences. Walker wrote the work as an elegy to his late grandmother and a testimony to her experience as an enslaved woman. In the face of racial discrimination and social injustice, Walker was a pioneer, becoming the first African American composer to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music. UMD wind conducting alum Lucia Disano D.M.A.

Tank and the Bangas

Join us in person at The Clarice! Please note that this performance will not be livestreamed.

Tank and The Bangas don’t go anywhere quietly. They are a beacon of life. And it’s that life that you hear in their music. That’s what makes this five-piece band one of the most thrilling, unpredictable and sonically diverse bands on the planet; a unit where jazz meets hip-hop, soul meets rock and funk is the beating heart of everything they do.

Unity: Coleman’s Umoja and Prokofiev’s Fifth Symphony: UMD Symphony Orchestra • IN-PERSON

Under the baton of David Neely, the UMD Symphony Orchestra opens its season with Valerie Coleman’s Umoja, Pavel Haas’ Study for String Orchestra and Sergei Prokofiev’s Symphony No. 5. “Umoja” means unity in Swahili, and is one of the seven principles of Kwanzaa. Commissioned by the Philadelphia Orchestra and performed at Carnegie Hall in 2019, Coleman’s composition is ethereal while also beautifully simple. A call for peace, it advocates for unity through social justice in the face of racism and hatred.

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