Concert #1: TEMPO
TEMPO, the graduate student-led new music ensemble at UMD, presents a wide variety of recent works that use the human voice in fresh and creative ways.
Chamber Music Showcase
School of Music student artists perform a moving collection of chamber music repertoire for strings, woodwinds, brass and piano. The culmination of rehearsal and coaching during the spring semester, this concert is an integral part of coursework for UMD School of Music students and provides a glimpse into the training they receive for performing in major ensembles.
Spring Big Band Showcase
The UMD jazz ensembles give a lively concert that features jazz standards and premieres of pieces by UMD alumni and current jazz students.
Strauss' Four Last Songs: UMD Symphony Orchestra
As part of her residency at the School of Music, leading American soprano Tamara Wilson joins UMSO and guest conductor Matthew Halls for Strauss's Four Last Songs. Halls also leads UMSO in the Overture to Don Giovanni and Brahms's Symphony No. 2.
The Sounds of Silence
Poulenc’s Aubade, originally composed as a ballet about women’s solitary experiences, features faculty piano soloist Rita Sloan. Zhou Long’s Concerto for Wind Symphony evokes ancient Chinese rituals and sounds in a tour-de-force for the ensemble, contrasted by Stravinsky's Octet for Winds, a neoclassical masterpiece.
Maryland Opera Studio: Dialogues of the Carmelites
Premiered in 1957, Poulenc's opera explores religious devotion and self-sacrifice through the story of Blanche de la Force, a young aristocratic woman who joins the Carmelite Order to escape the violence of the French Revolution's Reign of Terror.
The opera will be performed in French with English surtitles.
Korean Drumming Concert
Experience the sights, sounds, and rhythms of Korean percussion — Samulnori!
Samulnori is an ensemble of four percussion instruments: an hourglass drum, a barrel drum, a small gong and a large gong. This exhilarating contemporary form of Korean music will be performed by the UMD Korean Percussion Ensemble. In addition, director Sebastian Wang will be accompanied by trained professionals who will perform some of the great repertoire of Samulnori.
Music in Mind: Simon James, violin
Simon James is joined by faculty pianist Rita Sloan for a program of works by Schnittke, Schumann and Mozart.
Cappella Pratensis: Missa Lutherana
In 2017, the world celebrates the 500th anniversary of the symbolic start of the Reformation, when Luther nailed his famous 95 theses to the door of All Saints Church in Wittenburg. Cappella 500th anniversary of the symbolic start of the Reformation, when Luther nailed his famous 95 theses to the door of All Saints Church in Wittenburg. Cappella Pratensis marks this year with a program devoted to the very first music of the Protestant movement. The program will show that Luther retained much more of the liturgical and musical tradition than is normally assumed.
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