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Sheri Parks, Storyteller

Sheri Parks

SHERI PARKS, UMD Professor of American Studies

At first, I was not even looking. I was just a little kid at her teenaged sister’s school performance, playing with some toy in my lap, when I felt the air go still. It was 1968, the end of segregated education in Asheville, North Carolina. My sister’s class would soon move from their all-black school to the much bigger, all-city white school, leaving behind a safe and caring community to go to a place that did not want them.

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David Dickey, Storyteller

David Dickey

DAVID DICKEY, BM in Oboe Performance, BA in Vocal Performance, UMD School of Music

It was the summer of my senior year of high school. I was at the Eastern Music Festival, playing the second oboe part in Shostakovich’s 5th Symphony, which I had never heard done before, which is stupid because it’s such a staple, such an amazing work. So the first time I was hearing the piece was as I was playing it.

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Lucky Plush Production's The Better Half puts a lively spin on the film noir classic, Gaslight, on October 4-5 at the Clarice Smith Center

Lucky Plush Productions: The Better Half Dance/theatre production puts a lively spin on the film noir classic, Gaslight, on October 4-5 at the Clarice Smith Center

 

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eighth blackbird

The Chicago-based sextet eighth blackbird combines the finesse of a string quartet with the energy of a rock band and the boldness of a storefront theatre company.

In their concert at the Center, this audacious band of musicians will perform Steve Reich’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Double Sextet, with students from the UMD School of Music forming a second sextet.

This tour of eighth blackbird is made possible by a grant from Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation with support from the National Endowment for the Arts.

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