Tell us a story about a performance at the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center you couldn't forget. April 11, 2014

Stephanie Miracle

MFA Stephanie Miracle has been selected as Fulbright Fellow to Germany for 2014/2015. With this research grant she will experience the rich lineage of German Tanztheater — including the work of dance icon Pina Bausch — through embodied practice, including intensive training in choreography and performance at the world-renowned Folkwang University in Essen. Both Stephanie and her husband Jimmy Miracle look forward to this exciting year overseas.

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Stephanie Miracle

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Fulbright Fellow

Movement and Music: UMD Symphony Orchestra Presents Appalachian Spring, May 4

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CONTACT: Sarah Snyder
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301.405.8151

College Park, MD— The UMD Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of James Ross, will continue exploring the relationship between movement and music with a choreographic approach to Aaron Copland’s Appalachian Spring on Sunday, May 4 at 4pm in the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center’s Dekelboum Concert Hall. The UMD Symphony Orchestra is part of the School of Music.

UMD alumna and renowned choreographer Liz Lerman developed the orchestra’s movements through improvisatory rehearsal technique. The program also includes Dutilleux’s Métaboles and Gershwin/Bennett’s Porgy and Bess: Symphonic Picture.

Natasha Trethewey

U.S. Poet Laureate and Robert W. Woodruff Professor of English and Creative Writing, Emory University

As the United States Poet Laureate and the Robert W. Woodruff Professor of English and Creative Writing at Emory University, Natasha Trethewey writes poetry as social action, from the intersections of living memory and political, cultural and social history. The recipient of a Pulitzer Prize and a fellowship from the Guggenheim Foundation, her work speaks to many scholarly themes including race relations, identity, social activism and cultural memory.

Somi Makes an Impact

This post is by Lisa Driscoll, a Junior Vocal Performance and Broadcast Journalism double major. You can read more of her writing on her blog.

Somi

The clink of wine glasses and choruses of muffled chatter echoed throughout the Kogod Theatre as audience members mingled. Multi-colored lights revealed a stage bedecked with instruments and a single microphone waited patiently, front and center.

All the clinking and chattering was stifled when Somi began to sing into that microphone, filling the room with the richness of her voice.

As a music major and vocalist, I walked away from the performance feeling inspired to allow experiences to be more of the lifeline for the music I perform.

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Lisa Driscoll

Somi