Divergent Perspectives is a yearlong discussion series reflecting on the Festival of Subversive Artists and Minds.

In our second roundtable join various stakeholders to consider subversion in the production and consumption of our food.

Funded by College of Arts and Humanities Artist-in-Residence (AiR) Initiative

Taught by James Ross and Liz Lerman, the School of Music’s first course on improvisation, collaboration and art-making culminates on stage with a conductorless performance that integrates music and movement.

The Maryland Opera Studio joins UMSO on the second half of the concert to perform highlights from their spring production of Rossini’s one-act opera, L’occasione fa il ladro (Opportunity makes a thief).

UMD Wind Ensemble opens this concert with Frank Ticheli’s regal Pacific Fanfare, and an adaptation of J.S. Bach’s Fantasia and Fugue in C Minor.

In Leonard Bernstein's “Profanation” from Symphony No. 1, disjointed fragments of liturgical melodies evolve into a riotous pagan ritual to dramatize the biblical story of Jeremiah, a prophet who was mocked for predicting the destruction of Jerusalem.

The final piece on the program, H. Owen Reed’s La Fiesta Mexicana, depicts a typical fiesta through adaptations of Mexican folk music.