To University of Maryland students, Scot Reese is known as an outgoing and well-loved professor from the School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies. But to a national audience, he is better known as a prominent actor and director of Black Theatre, appearing in theatres from LA to New York, and locally at the Kennedy Center and Arena Stage.
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Partnering with University of Maryland’s School of Public Health, New Program Combines Performing Arts Research and Health to Benefit Local Underserved Communities
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February 20, 2013 – College Park, MD – On March 10 at 3pm, the University of Maryland Wind Orchestra (UMWO), under the direction of Dr. Michael Votta, will honor Joseph Schwantner and celebrate his 70th birthday with the world premiere of the composer’s Trilogy at the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center.
Benjamin Pasternack will conduct a piano masterclass with select students from the UMD School of Music. In this informal event that is open to the public, Pasternack will give students feedback on works by Beethoven, Granados and Liszt.
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Sextet Engages School of Music Students in Innovative Residency and Performance Experience
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February 15, 2013 – College Park, MD – PostClassical Ensemble (PCE) celebrates the distinctive and influential “American style” of Dvořák with a series of performances at the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center as part of their Dvořák and America Festival.
This concert features music by the “Three B’s” but not the usual Bach-Beethoven-Brahms combination. Instead, hear works by Bach, Bernstein and Badings.
The choirs also perform the premiere of Correspondences by Bryan Vanek and an encore performance of Figure humaine by Francis Poulenc.
On their first recital of the spring semester, critically acclaimed Graduate Fellowship Woodwind Quintet SIREN performs a recital of suites by these renowned 20th century composers: Ravel, Tomasi, Valjean and d’Rivera.
