Express yourself! December 10, 2016
POPS EXTRAVAGANZA - A Night at the Theater
John Morris Russell returns to lead the National Orchestral Institute Philharmonic in the opening concert of the 2017 festival. Featuring an array of audience favorites from the world of opera, theatre, and broadway, this high-energy evening is not to be missed!
Orchestra Unbound
Strings, woodwinds, brass and percussion - all the sections of the orchestra unbound and heard in vibrant works that showcase their color and virtuosity.
Program:
Béla Bartók: Divertimento for Strings
Richard Strauss: Serenade for Winds
André Caplet: Suite persane
Samuel Barber: Mutations for Brass
Osvaldo Lacerda: Trilogia for Brass
With James Stern and Chris Gekker, conductors
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TDPS New Play Workshop Workshop Reading
This staged reading of new plays is the culmination of the weeklong TDPS New Play Workshop. Student playwrights at UMD were given the opportunity to develop a short play in a supportive environment. Each selected playwright works with a mentor—a professional dramatist living and working in the Baltimore-DC corridor. Mentors serve as guides through the process of rehearsing with a director and actors, filtering and implementing feedback, and revising.
The TDPS New Play Workshop is supported in part by the Dramatists Guild of America.
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Meaningful Connections Chamber Music Concert
Chamber music, poetry, spoken word and artwork portray the coming-of-age stories of renowned women composers from history and the present. The program includes works by Clara Schumann, Rebecca Clarke, Sofia Gubaidulina, Jennifer Higdon, Sanam Gharacheh and Shlamit Ran.
Curated by and featuring School of Music students, this concert is the culminating project of the Meaningful Connections chamber music course, which teaches the process of creating socially relevant and artistically potent performances.
Big Ten Bhangra
Big 10 Bhangra competition will be held on February 25, 2017! Bhangra is a traditional folk dance that originates from the Northern part of India, Punjab. Though Bhangra began as a way to celebrate harvests, it has evolved to being a way of celebrating many diverse occasions and festivities. In recent years, Bhangra has enjoyed a spike in popularity worldwide, and though it has come far from its initial humble beginnings, it has really left a mark on many Western countries, as they try to incorporate their own flavor to it.
Express yourself! November 22, 2016
Voices in the Dark
In 1936, 70 years after the legal end of slavery in the United States, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt approved a historical research project commissioned by the Library of Congress. The goal of this enormous project was to locate and interview African Americans who had been born into slavery during the early to mid-1800s.
Oscar Hawkins Ballet Arts Academy "NUTCRACKER" Ballet Winter Gala 2016
Oscar Hawkins Ballet Arts Academy's Nutcracker Winter Gala 2016 is a wonderful winter holiday ballet.
The ballet tells the story of the young Masha's love for her first Nutcracker doll, which was given to her as a gift at her family's annual Christmas party. After the party ends, Masha falls into a deep sleep, dreaming of scary little mice with their Mouse King, snowflakes falling, a Prince Cavalier (danced by Artistic Director Oscar Hawkins), a beautiful Sugar Plum Fairy and her beloved Nutcracker doll coming to life.