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September 18, 2012 - 6:06PM -

Sharon Mansur

SHARON MANSUR, Dance Artist, UMD Assistant Professor, School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies

This is the moment when I knew I wanted to dance for the rest of my life: My high school boyfriend’s mother, Susan Dowling, was the executive producer for dance programming at public television station WGBH in Boston.

I wanted to … needed to … HAD to experience that intimate and compelling mingling of art and life.

September 18, 2012 - 6:06PM -

Sheri Parks

SHERI PARKS, UMD Professor of American Studies

At first, I was not even looking. I was just a little kid at her teenaged sister’s school performance, playing with some toy in my lap, when I felt the air go still. It was 1968, the end of segregated education in Asheville, North Carolina. My sister’s class would soon move from their all-black school to the much bigger, all-city white school, leaving behind a safe and caring community to go to a place that did not want them.

September 18, 2012 - 6:06PM -

David Dickey

DAVID DICKEY, BM in Oboe Performance, BA in Vocal Performance, UMD School of Music

It was the summer of my senior year of high school. I was at the Eastern Music Festival, playing the second oboe part in Shostakovich’s 5th Symphony, which I had never heard done before, which is stupid because it’s such a staple, such an amazing work. So the first time I was hearing the piece was as I was playing it.

May 28, 2012 - 3:03PM -

The host of WAMU 88.5’s Kojo Nnamdi Show is no stranger to provoking people to talk. As the host of our Creative Dialogue series, he encourages artists to talk about the creative process.

April 30, 2012 - 8:08AM -

As the conductor of the UMD Symphony Orchestra and the Artistic Director of the National Orchestral Institute, James Ross loves feeling like he’s somewhere nobody has been before.

April 30, 2012 - 12:12AM -

By Hanna Morgan

Colorful. My first experience at an opera was, well, colorful. The costumes of the eleven UMD students who performed in the Dominick Argento opera, Postcard from Morocco, represented every hue on the color wheel. The various characters were dressed in beautiful purple Victorian dresses and striped vests and carried around decorated pieces of luggage of different shapes, sizes and hues. Besides the visual color, the opera itself was colorful, or unique, in its plot. This kept me engaged throughout the opera, as I had no idea what would happen next.

April 18, 2012 - 12:12AM -

By Hannah Morgan

Students, parents, musicians and music aficionados alike crowded into CSPAC to groove with two UMD student jazz combos. The show was spectacular, and featured songs written by some of the combo members themselves.

April 11, 2012 - 12:12AM -

By Robert Lee Wolfe III

April 9, 2012 - 10:10AM -

By Robert Lee Wolfe III

April 9, 2012 - 12:12AM -

By Hannah Morgan

The last thing I thought about this morning when I turned on my computer was how far the energy that powered it had come from. Same thing when I got dressed; I was more concerned if my clothes matched than what distance they had traveled, or what had powered the factory they were made in. But that is the difference between me and Cassie Meador. She thinks about these things.

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