For 30 years, the National Orchestral Institute + Festival has been a training ground for orchestral musicians on the precipice of their professional careers. NOI alumni occupy positions in nearly every major American orchestra as well as numerous positions in premiere service bands. Many others are teachers, college professors and arts administrators.
Lincolnshire Posy, the iconoclast composer Percy Grainger's seminal work for winds, is a suite of what the composer termed "musical wildflowers," his own unorthodox arrangement of folk tunes collected from rural English singers. Later, Jules Strens' Danse Funambulesque gives a musical depiction of the death-defying feats of a high-wire artist.
Program:
Augusta Read Thomas: magneticfireflies
Michael Torke: Grand Central Station
Grainger: Lincolnshire Posy
Get after-hours access to exhibits and socialize with friends at the College Park Aviation Museum's monthly happy hour. Each month features different libations and activities. This month will feature a chamber ensemble from The Clarice's National Orchestral Institute+Festival.
UMD’s popular choral ensembles present an evening of eclectic repertoire ranging from chant to Barbershop arrangements.
A Month-Long Festival of Electrifying Performances
The Clarice @ University of Maryland, College Park
Lineup to be announced July 2017
alight dance theater will create a fantastical and mythical dance work exploring the under-considered culture and belief in fairy lore. Faerie – referencing the world in which fairies inhabit – will examine the prevalence of fairies, their connection with humans and common misconceptions of both types of creatures. In a realm of “in-between,” existing alongside our version of reality, fairies and humans encounter one another.
An expansion of Orange Grove Dance’s 16-17 NextLOOK residency, part two of the 1 Mile Radius Project allows for deeper exploration of the unique spaces within a one-mile radius of Joe's Movement Emporium in Mount Rainier, MD. Through dance, film and projections, it will investigate the personal and uniquely traversed spaces of the community, zooming into and magnifying the intimate nooks and crevices of seemingly familiar areas.
termiNATION is an in-process movement-based solo work investigating life and death through the lens of a pregnant war widow. Inspired by an adolescence and early adulthood steeped in the events of post-9/11 and the recent inauguration of Donald Trump, this piece explores the role women have to play as we carry this new era of politics to term.
