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George Crumb's Celestial Mechanics is an iconic avant-garde masterwork for four-hand piano. Crumb's sonic tour-de-force makes the instrument sound in stunning and unimaginable ways: explosions, strange resonances, and cosmic clusters abound in a work that redefines the piano's entire soundscape.
Considered to be the cornerstone of the Hard Bop genre and the training grounds for many of the greatest jazz musicians of all time, Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers paved the way for the music of modern jazz. On March 6th at ArtHouse in College Park, Hart Guonjian-Pettit and his ensemble of fellow musicians pay homage to Art Blakey and his legendary band through a performance of selections from the group's standard repertoire. The group will perform compositions by Cedar Walton, Freddie Hubbard, Miles Davis and Thelonious Monk among others.
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Join us on Friday, March 13th for the 20th Annual Prince George’s County Spelling Bee!.
The Bee is open to all 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th graders in public, private and home school associations.
Our past Bees have been very exciting and well attended community events that are always FREE and open to the public.
February 25, 2020
Dear Colleagues:
Martin Wollesen has served as Executive Director of The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center since 2013 and he will be stepping down from the position effective immediately. As he departs this role, he will remain available to assist the Dean on special arts-related projects through June 2020.
Featuring all cello music performed by Maryland cellists. The program will be announced from the stage and will include a movement from William Kenlon’s Cello Quartet: Paper Birds.
Performers in Alphabetical Order:
Kimia Arsani
Nicole Boguslaw
Peter Franklin
Rachel Hagee
Peter Kibbe
Katie McCarthy
Erin Murphy Snedecor
Jonny Terry
NOI Auditions
UPDATE: This event has been cancelled, click here for more information.
Caroline Barron, professor emerita of history at Royal Holloway, University of London, and recipient of an Order of the British Empire (OBE) for her services to education, will give a lecture titled Was There a ‘Golden Age’ for Women in Medieval London?
The 2024 partnership brings exciting opportunities for students participating in the second National Seminario Ravinia: Orchestras for All, a four-day event that fosters growth and learning in students while promoting music education
We are committed to innovation, curiosity, creative and distinctive orchestral experiences. Help the National Orchestral Institute + Festival continue nurturing the development of America's most gifted young orchestral musicians, composers and administrators.
George E. Lewis of Columbia University and composer for Ensemble Dal Niente presents a lecture titled New Music, New Subjects: The Situation of a Creole. Sir Donald Francis Tovey’s 1949 essay “The Main Stream of Music” posited an end to the history of music.
