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TEMPO: Between the Lines

TEMPO is a contemporary music ensemble run entirely by graduate students of the University of Maryland School of Music. Concerts specialize in performance of music written post-1950. TEMPO had its first call for musical scores this fall and received music from students across the world!

Works to be performed include the two winning pieces chosen from our call, one work by future graduate student Petra Anderson and works by American born composers Margaret Brouwer and Roy Harris.

UMD Repertoire Orchestra: Unfinished Business

The UMD Repertoire Orchestra performs two incomplete works: Schubert's Unfinished Symphony, of which only two movements are known, and "Ich bin der welt", a movement from Mahler's Rückert-Leide. This unfinished business is resolved with full performances of Rachmaninoff's First Piano Concerto and Sibelius's Finlandia.

UMD Wind Orchestra in Gabrieli’s Garden on November 2 at the Clarice Smith Center

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT: Sarah Snyder
ssnyder3@umd.edu
(301) 405-8151

October 12, 2012 – College Park, MD – Gabrieli’s Garden will take listeners on a daring musical journey, as the University of Maryland Wind Orchestra (UMWO) performs wind music from the late 16th century to the early 1990s. The concert takes place on November 2 at 8 p.m. at the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center.

David Alan Grier

The multitalented comedian and film, television, and Broadway star discusses the creative process, comedy and improvisation, music, and his life experiences with culture and race.

Named one of Comedy Central’s “100 Greatest Stand-ups of All Time,” Grier was most recently nominated for a 2012 Tony Award for his performance in the critically acclaimed Broadway revival of The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess.

Moderated by Associate Dean and Professor of American Studies, Sheri L. Parks

UMD Wind Ensemble & U.S. Air Force Band

The U.S. Air Force Band honors those who have served, inspires American citizens to heightened patriotism and service, and positively impacts the global community on behalf of the U.S. Air Force and the United States of America.

On this night everyone in attendance will be inspired as Colonel Larry H. Lang, commander and conductor of the United States Air Force Band, shares the stage with the University of Maryland Wind Ensemble.

SIREN at the Turn of the Twentieth Century

Hear music influenced by jazz and folk tunes on SIREN's concert of works by composers from the early twentieth-century: Milhaud, Haas, Villa-Lobos and Szervánszky.

SIREN is a Graduate Fellowship Chamber Ensemble at the School of Music.

UMD Symphony Orchestra: Mayron Tsong Plays Brahms, November 4 at Clarice Smith Center

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT: Sarah Snyder
ssnyder3@umd.edu
(301) 405-8151

October 8, 2012 – College Park, MD – On Sunday, November 4 at 3 p.m., Mayron Tsong performs Brahms’s Piano Concerto No. 1 in D minor, Op. 15 with the UMD Symphony Orchestra. The program also includes Debussy’s imaginative Nocturnes and Shostakovich’s bold Symphony No. 1 in F minor, Op. 10.

Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols

This service is modeled after the world-famous Christmas Eve tradition of King's College in Cambridge, England, which is broadcast annually on National Public Radio.

This year's event will use the original format of the first festival service in 1918. The service features the UMD Men's & Women's Choruses, readers from the University campus, and audience participation.

Advance tickets may be purchased through December 6 at the Clarice Smith Center Ticket Office. On the day of the performance, tickets will be available only at the Memorial Chapel, beginning at 7PM.

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