2013–2014 SEASON
MARTIN WOLLESEN
Executive Director Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center
e Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center is a place of discovery and exploration. It is a place where the future of the arts is happening through the engagement of new ideas, new ways of thinking and new ways of hearing. I find that very exciting. TRANSFORMATION We are committed to our audiences at the Clarice Smith Center, and because we are a university-based performing arts place, we especially care about the learning experiences for those audiences. I have personally witnessed and experienced the transformative power of the arts. ere are these moments of ‘aha’ that happen and there are moments of surprise, but I think the transformation happens over time and through accumulated ways of listening, seeing and participating. e arts can help change the way we think about our own place in the world. ey give us permission to explore new ways of being. e arts give us multiple ways to observe and practice how to be. And that’s transformation for me. STUDENT EXPERIENCE It is an essential mission of the Center to make sure that we are providing opportunities for student engagement and participation. We have an absolute obligation to make sure that the arts are part of the experience of every UMD student, and that means we have to think very broadly about how we unlock the experience of the arts. It’s about more than just inviting students to come to the Center. We need to be engaged in the places where students spend their time — where they live, work, study and play. We need to be mindful that the arts should be not only a destination point, but a traveler and explorer out in the world.
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The 2013–2014 season opening symposium, CIVIL
WAR | CIVIL RIGHTS: THE WELL-BEING OF A NATION, was
the first of many programs to be presented throughout this and the 2014–2015 seasons, examining the Civil War through the lens of civil rights and human rights. The program launched the Clarice Smith Center’s participation in
THE NATIONAL CIVIL WAR PROJECT, a multi-city, multi-year collaboration between four
universities and five performing arts organizations to create original works and innovative academic programming inspired by the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation and the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Throughout this guide, you will see this symbol, , which identifies performances and events that are part of this series.
Above, from left to right: Sergeant William Harvey Carney, United States Army. Recipient of the Medal of Honor for his actions in the American Civil War. Source: Wikimedia Commons; Abraham Lincoln. Alexander Gardner, 1821–1882, photographer/Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Washington DC; President Lyndon B. Johnson and Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., 1966. Source: Wikimedia Commons; Protest march against the segregation of U.S. schools. Source: Wikimedia Commons
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Experience the symposium online at UMDMarchesOn.org. This includes videos of many of the speeches and discussions, photographs, and Ellen Lovelidge’s images and time-lapse videos of their creation.
Related performances: Creative Dialogues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .page 8 David Roussève/REALITY . . . . . . . .page 12 for colored folks: An Adaptation . . . .page 12 Combat Paper Project: Papermaking Workshops with War Veterans and the Community . . .page 36
Other partnerships for The National Civil War Project include Alliance Theatre and Emory
College Center for Creativity & Arts at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia; American
Repertory Theater and Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts; and Arena Stage at
the Mead Center for American Theater and George Washington University in Washington DC.
This project was made possible by a grant from the Maryland Humanities Council, through
support from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Any views, findings, conclusions or
recommendations expressed in this program do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities or the Maryland Humanities Council.
Denis O’Hare: An Iliad . . . . . . . . . . .page 36 Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 . . . . . . . .page 39 PostClassical Ensemble: Mexican Revolution . . . . . . . . . . . . .page 40
The National Civil War Project is a multi-city, multi-year collaboration between four universities and five performing arts organizations to create original works and innovative academic programming inspired by the 150th anniversary of the Civil War.
Above, from left to right: March on Washington photo by Warren K. Leffler. Source: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. U.S. News & World Report Magazine Collection; Rosa Parks (ca. 1955); “We are all Trayvon” photo corbisimages.com
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The 2013–2014 Series Creative Dialogues is a free conversation series designed to spark cross-disciplinary conversations around issues that inspire and motivate artists to create their work.
Moderated by Kojo Nnamdi, these events are intended to raise awareness, while
encouraging debate and exploration of the subject matter. Panelists include artists and UMD faculty as well as voices from other academic institutions and organizations.
In honor of the 50th anniversary year of the March on Washington and the 150th
anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation, the Clarice Smith Center’s 2013–2014
Creative Dialogues explore the issues of civil rights in a modern-day context. The right
to pursue freedom of all kinds is a founding principle of our nation, but in today’s complex and changing society, freedom can be elusive.
The 2013–2014 Creative Dialogues series will address a range of ideas on liberty and justice in the United States — the imbalance of hunger and nutrition, gay rights and marriage, war and pacifism — all with an emphasis on the artists’ experience and
interpretation. Sparking discussion and new thinking around all civil liberties, the series will explore such questions as “Are we really free and equal?” and “How far have we come?”
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Dr. Ira Berlin, Department of History, University of Maryland
Colum McCann, Distinguished Professor of Creative Writing, Hunter College Dr. Patrick O’Shea, Vice President for Research, University of Maryland
Dr. Sheri L. Parks, Associate Dean, College of Arts and Humanities, University of Maryland Kojo Nnamdi, moderator
Tuesday, February 4, 2014 . 7:30PM . Dance Theatre . FREE
In 1845, as Ireland was descending into the despair of the great famine, Frederick Douglass arrived for a four-month lecture tour of the island to promote his recently published autobiography Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave. Seven years earlier, Douglass had escaped slavery in Maryland. He was greeted in Dublin, Belfast and Cork by enthusiastic crowds and formed many friendships on his trip. One of the most significant friendships was with Daniel O’Connell, a figure still revered in Ireland today for his role in Catholic emancipation and his fierce opposition to slavery. is conversation will feature writer and educator Colum McCann, author of TransAtlantic and cofounder of Narrative4, a global nonprofit dedicated to social change. He will be joined by Dr. Sheri L. Parks, Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Humanities, and UMD professors Ira Berlin and Patrick O’Shea as we explore the influence Douglass had on religious freedom, gender issues and slavery.
fAST fOOD, SLOW fOOD AND fOOD JUSTiCE: GLOBAL POLiCiES CREATiNG GLOBAL HUNGER
Above, from top to bottom: Frederick Douglass. Source: Wikimedia Commons; thinkstock.com
Dr. Luka Arsenjuk, School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, University of Maryland Dr. Perla M. Guerrero, Department of American Studies, University of Maryland Dr. Orlando R. Serrano Jr., Department of American Studies & Ethnicity, University of Southern California Dr. Psyche Williams-Forson, Department of American Studies, University of Maryland Kojo Nnamdi, moderator Monday, April 21, 2014 . 7:30PM . Gildenhorn Recital Hall . FREE
On Saturday, May 10, the Center will present PostClassical Ensemble performing the Silvestre Revueltas score to the 1936 film entitled Redes. Shot on location with a mix of professional actors and local fishermen and their families, the film focuses on the underprivileged Veracruz fishing community and its battles with big business, labor unions and politics. Connected to issues of workers’ rights and corporate greed are issues of food and food justice, all of which are illuminated in the film. Food insecurity exists in every state in America. In 2011, 17.9 million households were food insecure, and 50.1 million Americans struggle to put food on the table. In the United States, hunger isn’t caused by a lack of food, but rather the continued prevalence of poverty. Join UMD professors Perla M. Guerrero, Luka Arsenjuk and Psyche Williams-Forson, along with USC’s Orlando R. Serrano Jr., as they discuss how food is at the heart of major policy flaws and societal disparities in the United States and around the world. Continued next page
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BEYOND SLAVERY: fREDERiCk DOUGLASS AND THE QUEST fOR UNiVERSAL RiGHTS
HOMER’S ILIAD: AN ANTi-WAR MANifESTO?
Dr. Sudip Bose, Emergency Medicine Physician and Founder, The Battle Continues Drew Cameron, Director, Combat Paper Project
Dr. Lillian Doherty, Department of Classics, University of Maryland Denis O’Hare, actor Kojo Nnamdi, moderator Thursday, May 1, 2014 . 7:30PM . Dance Theatre . FREE
What does the oldest surviving work of Classic literature have to tell us about our inclination as humans to engage in war and violence? Can Homer’s Iliad, seen for centuries as exalting the glory of the warrior, be read as an anti-war statement? To what extent does it call into question the code its characters live by? is discussion of Homer’s epic will feature perspectives from actor Denis O’Hare, Iraq veteran and artist Drew Cameron, UMD Classicist and Homerist Lillian Doherty and emergency medicine physician and combat veteran Sudip Bose, who founded the organization e Battle Continues after his 15-month deployment to the front lines during the Iraq War. Left, from top to bottom: istockphoto.com; Denis O’Hare photo by Joan Marcus
ABOUT kOJO NNAMDi
Kojo Nnamdi is host of The Kojo Nnamdi Show, a live talk show produced by WAMU 88.5 that airs weekdays at noon. Nnamdi welcomes a lineup of interesting and provocative guests who offer new perspectives about current events, political issues, social policy, art, science and other topics. The show encourages listener calls, creating a dynamic dialogue about issues that are important or interesting to the Washington DC region. Nnamdi is a native of Guyana who immigrated to the United States in 1968 to attend college and explore the Civil Rights Movement.
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KHALID YAYA LONG, MA Doctoral Student, Teaching Assistant UMD School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies
“When I first got here as a graduate student, I saw Ysaye Barnwell’s picture
31ST ANNUAL CHOREOGRAPHERS’ SHOWCASE
on a banner outside. I love Sweet
Saturday, January 25, 2014 . 3PM & 8PM Dance Theatre . $30/$24 subscriber
Honey in the Rock, so I listen to them all the time and then one day, while
e Washington Post has called the Annual Choreographers’ Showcase “a rite of passage in the DC area dance community.” In its 31-year history, it has given audiences a sneak peek at the work of numerous artists who go on to become mainstays of the DC dance scene. Presented in collaboration with the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission, the showcase features six to seven distinct choreographic works in a range of styles each year including modern dance, contemporary ballet, aerial choreography, world dance, hip-hop and more. Performers are chosen through a rigorous adjudication process, and each program offers a unique combination of genres and visions — truly a feast of the unexpected.
doing some work in the grad office, I looked out the window to my right and I see her walking towards the building. I jumped up from my desk and I ran outside and stopped her. It startled her a little bit. I said, ‘I’m so sorry, but I just have to tell you, I love Sweet Honey in the Rock, I love you, I know who you are.’ I started to back up and she goes, ‘No, no, don’t back up now, might as well just have this
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conversation.’ And she was so warm and so welcoming and so humble. It was authentic and so in a sense it was like her music coming alive through my engagement with her.” EXTRAORDINARY MINDS . EXTRAORDINARY STORIES
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JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2014 DAViD ROUSSèVE/REALiTY WORLD PREMIERE STARDUST
January 31 & February 1, 2014 . 8PM Kay Theatre . $35/$28 subscriber
Choreographed, written and directed by David Roussève, Stardust follows an African American gay urban teenager’s dreams, misgivings and challenges. Never seen onstage, the protagonist is present only by the emotion-laden tweets and text messages he sends, which are projected onto multiple surfaces by Roussève’s long-time collaborator Cari Ann Shim Sham. Stardust juxtaposes fluidity and freneticism, in both its movement and musical score. Lush, jazz-inflected dancing is leavened by frenetic, angular representations of the teenager’s anxious states of mind, in movement performed by a mixed-age company of dancers. e soundscape pairs the intimate romanticism of Nat King Cole standards with rough-edged, hip-hop inflected original music by d. Sabela Grimes. Designer Christopher Kuhl’s lighting will support both the emotional textures and surreal quality of the work. Join the artists for a Talk Back following the January 31 performance.
The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center at the University of Maryland, the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and Peak Performances at Montclair State University co-commissioned Stardust, which will receive its world premiere at the Center. As part of his engagement at the Clarice Smith Center, Roussève was in residence during fall 2013, working with local ministries on issues of homosexuality and acceptance in the African American community.
This tour of David Roussève is made possible by a grant from Mid Atlantic Arts foundation with support from the National Endowment for the Arts.
This project also is supported in part by an Art Works award from the National Endowment for the Arts. The presentation of Stardust is made possible by the MetLife Community Connections fund of the New England foundation for the Arts’ National Dance Project. Major support of NDP is also provided by the Doris Duke Charitable foundation and The Andrew W. Mellon foundation.
UMD School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies presents its inaugural “Second Season” with works created, written, designed, produced and performed by our entrepreneurial undergraduate
for colored folks…
UMD School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies
Khalid Long, director Saturday, February 1, 2014 . 3PM & 7:30PM Sunday, February 2, 2014 . 3PM Dance Theatre . FREE
for colored folks… is a hybrid-performance of two choreopoems: Ntozake Shange’s for colored girls who have considered suicide when the rainbow is enuf and Keith Antar Mason’s for black boys who have considered homicide when the streets were too much. e end result is a cohesive choreopoem that explores love, loss, happiness, pain and self-worth. A TDPS Second Season Production. Join the artists for a Talk Back after the 7:30PM performance. FOR COLORED GIRLS WHO HAVE CONSIDERED SUICIDE WHEN THE RAINBOW IS ENUF is presented by special arrangement with SAMUEL fRENCH, iNC.
CREATiVE DiALOGUE BEYOND SLAVERY: fREDERiCk DOUGLASS AND THE QUEST fOR UNiVERSAL RiGHTS Tuesday, February 4, 2014 . 7:30PM Dance Theatre . FREE SEE PAGE 9 FOR EVENT DETAILS.
BOBBY McfERRiN AND CHiCk COREA
Saturday, February 8, 2014 . 8PM Dekelboum Concert Hall . $50/$40 subscriber
Pianist Chick Corea. Vocalist Bobby McFerrin. A performance by either of these stellar artists would be cause for celebration, but together onstage they create a truly momentous musical occasion. Now, more than 20 years after their first collaboration, these two extraordinary musicians revisit their legendary chemistry in a concert at the Clarice Smith Center. In past performances together, their unexpected riffs and pure joy in creation have made for an unparalleled live music experience — not only for the audience, but for themselves. In conjunction with this performance, Bobby McFerrin will be doing residency work with choral students from the UMD School of Music. funded in part by a generous gift from Barb and Charlie Reiher. Bobby McFerrin photo by Carol Friedman
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FEBRUARY 2014 BERLiN PHiLHARMONiC WiND QUiNTET
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Saturday, February 15, 2014 . 8PM Gildenhorn Recital Hall . $40/$32 subscriber
NEW WORk READiNG MARYLAND OPERA STUDiO LOVE/HATE by Jack Perla and Rob Bailis
SCALIA/GINSBURG
by Derrik Wang Friday, February 14, 2014 . 7:30PM Gildenhorn Recital Hall . FREE
Celebrate Valentine’s Day with the allure and passion of opera. On this concert, first-year Maryland Opera Studio students perform partially staged — but fully dramatic — new works for opera. In Love/Hate by Jack Perla and Rob Bailis, a couple at a bus stop lives through all the reasons they have for never meeting. In Derrik Wang’s Scalia/Ginsburg, music makes strange bedfellows as two diametrically opposed Supreme Court Justices express their opinions through song. *Program subject to change.
eir concert at the Center will include Mozart’s Fantasy for mechanical organ, K.608 arranged for wind quintet by Michael Hasel; Joseph Bohuslav Foerster’s Quintet in D Major, op. 95; and Kalevi Aho’s Windquintet. UMD’s Graduate Fellowship Woodwind Quintet, District5, will join the ensemble in a performance of Gounod’s Petite symphonie. Members of the Berlin Philharmonic Wind Quintet will also work with UMD School of Music chamber music students during their time at the Center. This performance is dedicated in memory of our father and grandfather, Henry Abplanalp, by Richard and Sarah Bourne, Michael and Louise Wall, and Steven Wall.
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THE WAITING ROOM BY LiSA LOOMER
Mary Coy, director Friday, February 14, 2014 . 7:30PM Saturday, February 15, 2014 . 7:30PM Sunday, February 16, 2014 . 2PM Wednesday, February 19, 2014 . 7:30PM Thursday, February 20, 2014 . 7:30PM Friday, February 21, 2014 . 7:30PM Saturday, February 22, 2014 . 2PM & 7:30PM Kogod Theatre . $25/$20 subscriber
Performance and Discussion
MUSiC, MALi AND CiTizEN DiPLOMACY: A PERfORMANCE AND DiSCUSSiON WiTH SPECiAL MUSiCAL GUESTS TRiO DA kALi
Thursday, February 20, 2014 . 12:15PM Atrium, Van Munching Hall . FREE
Lisa Loomer’s 1994 play is a dark comedy about the timeless quest for beauty — and its cost. ree women from different centuries meet in a modern doctor’s waiting room. Forgiveness From Heaven is an 18th-century Chinese woman whose bound feet are causing her to lose her toes. Victoria is a 19th-century English woman suffering from what is commonly known as “hysteria.” en there is Wanda, a modern gal from New Jersey who is having problems with her silicone breasts. Husbands, doctors, Freud, the drug industry and the FDA all come under examination in this wild ride through medical and sexual politics. e playwright — who also co-wrote the screenplay for the film Girl, Interrupted — often deals with the experiences of Latinos and Hispanic Americans and with various aspects of contemporary family life. THE WAITING ROOM is presented by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc., New York.
e Berlin Philharmonic Wind Quintet was founded in 1988 during the 35-year tenure of Berlin Philharmonic Music Director Herbert von Karajan. e first permanently established wind quintet in the famous orchestra’s rich tradition of chamber music, its members are living musical witnesses to the hugely productive and influential musical partnerships of the Berlin Philharmonic.
Amkoullel, Malian hip-hop artist mixing traditional instruments and modern sounds fodé Lassana Diabaté, Trio Da kali member and balafon player Heather Maxwell, Voice of America African music radio host, producer and ethnomusicologist Lucy Durán, Grammy-winning music producer and ethnomusicologist Moderated by David Crocker, UMD School of Public Policy professor specializing in international development ethics and democratization
What is the role of music in citizen diplomacy and civic engagement around the globe? How can it be a channel for offering multiple voices, especially those of young people, a place in public discourse? In this roundtable discussion, we will talk about the role of music and the griot in Malian history and contemporary culture. For a brief performance of this music and an ensuing discussion, join Trio Da Kali, known for their performance of traditional music and storytelling, and this remarkable panel of experts. A light lunch will be served. RSVP to policy-events@umd.edu.
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FEBRUARY 2014 kRONOS QUARTET STUDENT COMPOSiTiON READiNG
Thursday, February 20, 2014 . 7PM Gildenhorn Recital Hall . FREE
Kronos Quartet’s ongoing residency at the Center includes working closely with composition students in the UMD School of Music. For the fourth consecutive year, Kronos Quartet will partner with UMD School of Music composition students and faculty to write new works for string quartet, mentoring the students through the composition process. Kronos will perform the completed compositions in this public reading session. This project is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts. This performance is also made possible in part by support from The MARPAT foundation.
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GRADUATE fELLOWSHiP CHAMBER ENSEMBLE EXCELSA QUARTET Friday, February 21, 2014 . 8PM Gildenhorn Recital Hall . FREE
Excelsa Quartet performs two of the most extraordinary works in the string quartet literature. e evening will feature the incredible wit and effervescence of Haydn’s op. 76 no. 1 and Schubert’s dramatic tragedy of Death and the Maiden, D.810. Pre-Performance Discussion
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Lucy Durán, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London Donald Kettl, UMD School of Public Policy John Schratweiser, Maryland Citizens for the Arts Saturday, February 22, 2014 . 7PM Gildenhorn Recital Hall . FREE
A militia-imposed ban on music was recently lifted in Mali, Trio Da Kali’s home country. How is society impacted when art is removed? What is the role of art in the cultural identity of a nation? Panelists Lucy Durán of the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London, Donald Kettl of the UMD School of Public Policy and John Schratweiser of Maryland Citizens for the Arts will explore these questions at this free discussion. Join us before the Kronos Quartet and Trio Da Kali performance and learn what role you can play in keeping the arts vibrant here at home.
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Hawa Kassé Mady Diabaté, singer fodé Lassana Diabaté, 22-key balafon Mamadou Kouyaté, bass ngoni Saturday, February 22, 2014 . 8PM Dekelboum Concert Hall . $35/$28 subscriber
Kronos Quartet is known for eclectic musical interests that lead them to create rich and unexpected concert experiences — and that often lead them to collaborations with artists from around the globe. is season, in partnership with the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center and the Aga Khan Music Initiative, Kronos will join in concert with famed Malian vocalist Hawa Kassé Mady Diabaté and instrumentalists Fodé Lassana Diabaté and Mamadou Kouyaté, in the Trio Da Kali’s first visit to the United States. e three musicians of Trio Da Kali hail from the Mande culture of Mali, a heritage of distinguished griots (specialist hereditary musical artisans). Long-term collaborators, the artists aim to bring to the forefront neglected repertoires and performance styles of the griots, celebrating the African continent’s finest, most subtle and sublime music. In doing so, they bring a fresh, contemporary, creative twist to their musical art, breathing new life back into this ancient music. Trio Da Kali presents a performance that revolves around the soaring, rounded vibrato voice of Hawa Kassé Mady, who performs the songs she grew up with in Kela, one of the most musical centers of the griot world. e program includes dazzling solo balafon pieces by the group’s leader Lassana Diabaté on the 22-key balafon. Few can match his lyricism and virtuosity, and the resonant sound of the rosewood keys of his balafon. Mamadou Kouyaté underpins the music with punchy bass lines on a large ngoni, West Africa’s oldest string instrument. Join the artists for a Talk Back following the performance. This project is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts. The concert is presented in collaboration with the Aga khan Music initiative, a program of the Aga khan Trust for Culture.
This event is part of the Arts in My Neighborhood initiative by the Emerging Arts Advocates program of Maryland Citizens for the Arts. This initiative brings information about arts advocacy to artists and audiences at performances in the state of Maryland.
This event is part of the Arts in My Neighborhood initiative by the Emerging Arts Advocates program of Maryland Citizens for the Arts. This initiative brings information about arts advocacy to artists and audiences at performances in the state of Maryland.
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Kronos Quartet photo by Jay Blakesberg
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2013–2014 WORLDWiSE Arts & Humanities Dean’s Lecture Series
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Professor of History, Charles Warren Professor of American Legal History, Harvard Law School Thursday, February 27, 2014 . 5:30PM Gildenhorn Recital Hall . FREE but ticketed
Aaron Goldman, flute Sue Heineman, bassoon Audrey Andrist, piano Monday, February 24, 2014 . 8PM Gildenhorn Recital Hall . FREE
UMD School of Music faculty artists and National Symphony Orchestra principal musicians Sue Heineman and Aaron Goldman are joined by pianist Audrey Andrist on a concert of intimate works for flute, bassoon and piano. Above: UMD Wind Orchestra photo by Stan Barouh
Despite scholarly opposition toward her groundbreaking book, omas Jefferson & Sally Hemings: An American Controversy, historian, Harvard Law School professor and Pulitzer Prize winner Annette Gordon-Reed published an unrelenting body of research that led to a 1998 DNA test which proved a once-rumored relationship between Jefferson and the woman he owned. Her current work continues the story of the Hemings-Jefferson family. She serves as a humanities commission member for the “Heart of the Matter.” Co-sponsored by the ADVANCE Program for inclusive Excellence and Miller Center for Historical Studies.
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Associate Professors, UMD School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies
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Michael Votta, music director Friday, February 28, 2014 . 8PM Dekelboum Concert Hall . $25/$20 subscriber
Artistic Directors, PEARSONWIDRIG DANCETHEATER
Olivier Messiaen was commissioned by the French government to write a piece commemorating the dead of the Second World War. In Messiaen’s words, “I am a Catholic and I believe in neither war nor death. I therefore decided to write a piece about life.” e result was his monumental Et exspecto resurrectionem mortuorum, the centerpiece of this program. It is regarded as one of his most important works and one of the monumental works of the 20th century. Other works include John Mackey’s Frozen Cathedral and Mozart’s Serenade in C Minor.
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BASED ON THE PLAY BY FRANK WEDEKIND BOOKS & LYRICS BY STEVEN SATER MUSIC BY DUNCAN SHEIK
Brian MacDevitt, Sara Pearson and Patrik Widrig, directors William Yanesh, music director Friday, February 28, 2014 . 7:30PM Saturday, March 1, 2014 . 7:30PM Sunday, March 2, 2014 . 2PM Wednesday, March 5, 2014 . 7:30PM Thursday, March 6, 2014 . 7:30PM Friday, March 7, 2014 . 7:30PM Saturday, March 8, 2014 . 2PM & 7:30PM Kay Theatre . $30/$24 subscriber
“What makes the Clarice Smith Center different from other performing arts centers is that it’s so integrated. e educational aspects and the artistic aspects are integrated. Often it’s the case that somebody might open a great theater but they don’t have the
Spring Awakening is based on a controversial 1891 play by German playwright Frank Wedekind, which was banned for a time in Germany because of its frank portrayal of abortion, homosexuality, rape, child abuse and suicide. e rock musical caused a sensation when it premiered on Broadway in 2006. Set in late 19th-century Germany, it tells the story of teenagers discovering the inner and outer tumult of sexuality. Alternative and folk-infused rock music capture and reflect the emotional essence of the timeless experience of coming of age. SPRING AWAKENING is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI). All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI. 421 West 54th Street, New York, NY 10019 Phone: 212-541-4684 Fax: 212-396-4684 www.MTIShows.com.
ability to aestheticize or do costume designs but the Clarice Smith Center is replicating the professional world in a university setting. How it’s all incorporated into the school curriculum is not an easy thing but it’s incredibly exciting and productive.” EXTRAORDINARY MINDS . EXTRAORDINARY STORIES
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Thursday, March 6, 2014 . 8PM Gildenhorn Recital Hall . $40/$32 subscriber
UMD School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies in partnership with African Continuum Theatre Company
BLACk THEATRE SYMPOSiUM
Saturday, March 1, 2014 . All-Day Event $35/Free student tickets available February 1, 2014
How does Black theatre fit into the framework of our nation’s history and culture? Who are the dominant voices in Black theatre today? What can we expect from Black theatre in the 21st Century? is symposium will challenge assumptions about the boundaries of race and allow a diverse collective of students, scholars, and professionals to engage in a spirited dialogue about the past, present, and future of Black theatre. Sessions will include panel discussions, workshops, performances, and explorations of the Black theatre canon from the 19th century through the present day. Lunch is included in registration fee. To submit a break-out session proposal, email BlackTheatreSymposium@umd.edu
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Heralded for their chemistry and coordination, James Ehnes and Orion Weiss combine formidable technique with rich musical history. Ehnes’ playing fully embodies the phrasing and tonal spectrum of a piece. “Simply mastering violin technique is not his first priority. Rather, his playing serves as a bridge between the past and the present, producing a unique sound that is both modern and traditional” (OberlinReview.org). Weiss, just 30, “has an exceptionally clean technique with virtuosity to spare.” (Washington Post) eir program at the Center will include Aaron Copland’s Sonata for Violin and Piano, Edvard Grieg’s Sonata No. 2 in G Major, op. 13, Johannes Brahms’ Scherzo in C Minor, op. woo2, Sonatensatz F-A-E and Franz Schubert’s Fantasie in C Major, D.934.
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James Ross, music director John Devlin, guest conductor Saturday, March 1, 2014 . 8PM Dekelboum Concert Hall . $25/$20 subscriber
UMSO performs Ravel’s Daphnis and Chloe Suite No. 2 with wordless chorus and Bruckner’s majestic Symphony No. 5. Daphnis and Chloe is regarded as one of Ravel’s richest, most passionate compositions. Bruckner’s Symphony No. 5 creates its own sense of time, taking the listener on a journey through a huge spiritual edifice.
REFLECTIONS FROM THE KEYBOARD international Piano Archives at Maryland
Don Manildi Sunday, March 2, 2014 . 2PM Gildenhorn Recital Hall . FREE, but ticketed
A recital by Sara Daneshpour, silver medalist in the 2007 William Kapell Competition. Works by Chopin, Rachmaninoff, Ravel and others.
District5 performs a collection of works that explore different special arrangements of the quintet. Expect the musicians to be performing from all angles of the recital hall!
A CHILD’S GARDEN OF DREAMS UMD School of Music
UMD WIND ENSEMBLE
Michael Votta, music director Sunday, March 9, 2014 . 4PM Dekelboum Concert Hall . FREE
Composer David Maslaka says of his piece, A Child’s Garden of Dreams, “‘In deepest need I cry to you’ is a motto for this entire work, and a prayer for our time of crisis.” As the feature of the UMD Wind Ensemble’s program, A Child’s Garden of Dreams uses the modern wind band’s rich sonorities to illustrate the unsettling dream world of a child approaching death. e program balances Maslaka’s work with Herbert Haufrecht’s raucous Symphony for Brass and Timpani; Gordon Jacob’s cheerful setting of English folk songs, Old Wine in New Bottles; and a wind band arrangement of Ravel’s La Valeé des Cloches.
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SHARED MfA DANCE THESiS CONCERT Stephanie Miracle, choreographer Wednesday, March 12, 2014 . 7:30PM Thursday, March 13, 2014 . 7:30PM Friday, March 14, 2014 . 7:30PM Dance Theatre $15/$10 subscriber/$5 student Two-show special! Buy a ticket to both performances for $25.
SPRING BIG BAND SHOWCASE UMD School of Music
Chris Vadala, conductor, Jazz Studies Program Director Tuesday, March 11, 2014 . 7:30PM – Jazz Lab Band and University Jazz Band Wednesday, March 12, 2014 . 7:30PM – Jazz Ensemble and Alumni Jazz Band Kay Theatre . FREE
Join Chris Vadala and UMD jazz ensembles for a lively concert that features jazz standards and premieres of pieces by UMD alumni and current jazz students.
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John Devlin and James Ross, co-directors Piotr Pakhomkin, guitar Wednesday, March 12, 2014 . 8PM Dekelboum Concert Hall . FREE
Classical guitarist Piotr Pakhomkin’s flawless delivery and intuitive approach to music have thrilled audiences and critics around the world. On UMRO’s third concert of the year, Pakhomkin will perform Joaquin Rodrigo’s Concierto de Aranjuez (Concerto for Guitar). e concert also features Shostakovich’s monumental Fifth Symphony, one of the most popular works in the symphonic canon. Written during Stalin’s regime of terror, Shostakovich’s very life depended on the government’s reception of this symphony. Incredibly, the government was taken with the bombastic, seemingly patriotic elements of the piece, while the Russian people related with the harrowing, painful nature of the piece’s haunting moments.
Based on make-believe worlds, sibling rivalry and living-room dances, Pleated is a lively, imaginative choreography for three women. Daring physicality and humble gestures are (re)constructed from personal memories and old home movies, creating autobiographical work that explores the brutal and beautiful landscape of growing up with sisters.
MY TEMPEST
Ana Patricia Farfán, choreographer Wednesday, March 12, 2014 . 9PM Thursday, March 13, 2014 . 9PM Friday, March 14, 2014 . 9PM Dance Theatre $15/$10 subscriber/$5 student Two-show special! Buy a ticket to both performances for $25.
A Prospero whose spells do not work anymore, a Miranda who does not love Ferdinand and instead wants to become a magician herself, an Ariel who is not interested in being released by Prospero … these challenging situations for characters from Shakespeare’s e Tempest live in Ana Farfán’s choreography, My Tempest. rough movement, theatre and live music a tempest transforms their existence, while the audience witnesses the construction of the ship that will take everybody to an unexpected land.
2014 PRiNCE GEORGE’S COUNTY ANNUAL SPELLiNG BEE Friday, March 14, 2014 . 7PM Dekelboum Concert Hall . FREE
e county’s best middle school spellers vie for top honors and the opportunity to advance to the national bee. Presented in collaboration with The Gazette & The Star. Facing page: Stephanie Miracle photo by Zachary Z. Handler
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Friday, March 28, 2014 . 7PM & 9PM Kogod Theatre . $25/$20 subscriber
Somi is an American singer and songwriter of Rwandan and Ugandan descent who shares her time between New York City and Lagos, Nigeria. An international jazz vocalist, her original and hybrid sound is known as “New African Jazz.” Her progressive, soulful and imaginative style breaks barriers and personifies freedom. Somi says, “freedom means the ability to manifest all of whom you are at any given moment.”
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NEW CONCERT EXPERIENCE We’ll transform the Kogod eatre with table seating. Relax with a drink from the bar and let Somi take you away.
ANNUAL MEN’S CHORUS INVITATIONAL UMD School of Music
UMD MEN’S CHORUS
Joseph Shortall, conductor Friday, March 28, 2014 . 8PM Dekelboum Concert Hall . FREE
e UMD Men’s Chorus, directed by Joseph Shortall, hosts the 8th annual Men’s Chorus Invitational at the Clarice Smith Center. ey are joined by talented male choirs from Calvert Hall High School, Archbishop Curley High School and e Maryland State Boychoir.
“I’m a junior and the marketing coordinator for basketball but I wanted to try something new because I know I
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can do sports marketing. I probably will
Sam Mauceri, director Saturday, March 29, 2014 . 3PM & 7:30PM Sunday, March 30, 2014 . 3PM Cafritz Foundation Theatre . FREE
do that one day, but I wanted to feel something else, something I’m not familiar with that I know other people
How do you cope when everything you’ve learned begins falling apart? Sam Mauceri’s original work Seagirl utilizes theatre, dance and movement to explore a young woman’s attempts at unpacking her own prejudices in a world that wishes she wouldn’t. Feminist punk music and a longing for radical ideas invade a culture of conventionality in this partnership between TDPS and e Weekday Players. A TDPS Second Season Production.
are so passionate about. It’s so different here at the Center because I’m always in the business school and everyone’s wearing suits and rushing around. It’s a little daunting. Coming here is awesome because I can see everyone is so full of life and relaxed. is place is
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Eli R. Osterloh, conductor, University Band John Wakefield, conductor, Community Band Wednesday, April 2, 2014 . 8PM Dekelboum Concert Hall . FREE
who work here, you can tell they love that and thrive on that. at’s really refreshing. I love coming to work here.”
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APRIL 2014 A CELEBRATION OF BENJAMIN BRITTEN UMD School of Music
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KWAME OPARE, BFA/MFA Performing Artist, Dance Instructor, UMD School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies
Friday, April 4, 2014 . 8PM Gildenhorn Recital Hall . $25/$20 subscriber
e UMD Chamber Singers commemorate the centenary of Benjamin Britten in a concert of the composer’s works, featuring his Hymn to St. Cecilia and Five Flower Songs for unaccompanied chorus. Also hear individual voices of the ensemble shine as they collaborate with other student instrumentalists in Britten’s chamber works. ZERO COST HOUSE
PiG iRON THEATRE COMPANY April 4 & 5, 2014 . 8PM Kogod Theatre . $35/$28 subscriber
“My most memorable experience at the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center is teaching. My dance class is primarily non-majors and I really enjoy it, but it’s getting the emails from the guys, especially the men, who will email and say they have never danced before in their life. ey talk about how this experience changed them, how they got to see parts of themselves that they had never seen, how they discovered things as a part of their character that they may not have seen had it not been for this class.” EXTRAORDINARY MINDS . EXTRAORDINARY STORIES
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Zero Cost House was initially conceived as a meditation by Toshiki Okada on how Henry David oreau’s Walden changed the playwright’s life. e Japanese tsunami of 2011 occurred while Okada was writing the play, which left him reflecting even more deeply on the disruptions that come from natural disasters and the uneasy compromises between radical idealism and contemporary living. Known for its raucous performance spirit, Pig Iron eatre Company is the first English-language company to premiere Okada’s work and is making its Clarice Smith Center debut with Zero Cost House. Founded in 1995 as an interdisciplinary ensemble, the company is dedicated to the creation of new and exuberant performance works that defy easy categorization. e company calls itself a “dance-clown-theatre ensemble” whose focus moves from character to space to contact with the audience. Individual pieces have been called “soundscape and spectacle,” “cabaret-ballet” and “avant-garde shadow puppet dessert-theatre.” As one company member put it, “We have a hard time sitting still.” Join the artists for a Talk Back following the April 4 performance. This project is partially supported by a grant from Pennsylvania Performing Arts on Tour, a program developed and funded by The Heinz Endowments; the William Penn foundation; the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a state agency; and The Pew Charitable Trusts; and administered by Mid Atlantic Arts foundation.
EVELYN ELSING, CELLO UMD School of Music
BARBARA K. STEPPEL MEMORIAL FACULTY FELLOWSHIP IN CELLO FACULTY ARTIST RECITAL Colette Valentine, piano Saturday, April 5, 2014 . 5PM Gildenhorn Recital Hall . FREE
e cello sonata of Elliott Carter, a landmark composition for its time (1948), remains a major cornerstone in today’s repertoire. Beethoven’s great D Major sonata, the sultry Grand Tango by Piazzolla and Chopin’s effervescent Polonaise brillante, op. 3 round out a program in which cellist Evelyn Elsing is joined by her longtime friend and UMD alumna, pianist Colette Valentine. Kwame Opare photo by Mike Ciesielski. Facing page: Pig Iron Theatre Company
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Part I: Tuesday, April 8, 2014 . 7:30PM Part II: Wednesday, April 9, 2014 . 7:30PM Gildenhorn Recital Hall . FREE
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SHARED GRADUATE DANCE CONCERT
Swing with the UMD jazz combos as they play favorite jazz standards, as well as new tunes arranged by UMD jazz students.
SPRING CONCERT UMD School of Music
UNiVERSiTY CHORALE
Cindy Bauchspies and Allan Laino, conductors Friday, April 11, 2014 . 8PM Dekelboum Concert Hall . $25/$20 subscriber
e University of Maryland Chorale is a vital component in the UMD School of Music’s choral program and a popular ensemble on campus. is 50-voice ensemble comprises students from the UMD School of Music and across the University, chosen by audition each semester. e University Chorale performs with the University of Maryland Symphony Orchestra, and since 2003 has collaborated annually with the National Symphony Orchestra in performing works such as the Bach St. Matthew Passion under conductor Helmuth Rilling and Handel’s Messiah with Emil de Cou and Paul Goodwin. e spring concert will feature an array of music that gives full expression to the choral repertoire.
Saturday, April 12, 2014 . 3PM & 7:30PM Sunday, April 13, 2014 . 3PM Dance Theatre . FREE
is concert features provocative choreography by Master of Fine Arts students in dance, focusing on new works in development. As the first opportunity for them to put material onstage and see what develops, it often contains the seeds of movement ideas that will be featured in their MFA esis programs — an unguarded exploration of their talents and interests. A TDPS Second Season Production.
A NIGHT IN OLD VIENNA UMD School of Music
MARYLAND OPERA STUDiO
Saturday, April 12, 2014 . 7PM Tuesday, April 15, 2014 . 7PM Kay Theatre . FREE for a more immersive experience, make a $25 or more donation to the Maryland Opera Studio and sit on stage for the performance as part of the action. (Quantities limited. Donate today!) Your donation can be made as part of your online purchase process, over the phone, at the ticket office or by calling 301.405.5550.
Two bubbly evenings of cabaret. Faculty, alumni and special guests will join members of the Maryland Opera Studio and the Maryland Opera Workshop in performing songs and scenes from Vienna’s rich musical treasure trove. Operetta, lieder and arias included!
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MARYLAND OPERA STUDiO
Music by Johann Strauss II Libretto by Karl Haffner and Richard Genée Edward Maclary, conductor Nick Olcott, director Dialogue in English/Sung in German (with English surtitles) Friday, April 11, 2014 . 7:30PM Sunday, April 13, 2014 . 5PM Wednesday, April 16, 2014 . 7:30PM Saturday, April 19, 2014 . 7:30PM Kay Theatre . $25/$20 subscriber
ROBERT DILUTIS, CLARINET UMD School of Music
FACULTY ARTIST RECITAL
National Symphony Orchestra Woodwind Quintet Left Bank Quartet Adriane Fang, dance Sunday, April 13, 2014 . 3PM Gildenhorn Recital Hall . FREE
Witty pranksters, straying spouses and lilting melodies — it’s the ultimate Viennese confection. In Strauss’ beloved 1874 operetta, revenge for a cruel trick leads to a woman sending her lover to jail under her husband’s name, a man attempting to seduce his own wife (disguised as a Hungarian countess) and a chambermaid masquerading as a lady of quality. e complications get straightened out in a prison run by a drunken jailer, all to the sparkling music of the great Viennese master.
e National Symphony Orchestra Woodwind Quintet opens this program of dynamic collaborations with Francaix’s Quintet No. 2. en, solo works for clarinet are in motion when clarinet professor Robert DiLutis shares the stage with eater, Dance, and Performance Studies professor Adriane Fang. In the second half of this program, DiLutis performs Weber’s Clarinet Quintet with the Left Bank Quartet.
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CHAMBER MUSIC SHOWCASE UMD School of Music
ALBERTO SEGARRA, MFA
Part I: Monday, April 14, 2014 . 5:30PM Part II: Tuesday, April 15, 2014 . 7PM Gildenhorn Recital Hall . FREE
Small chamber groups of students perform repertoire for strings, woodwinds, brass and piano. e culmination of rehearsal and coaching during the spring semester, this concert is an integral part of coursework for UMD School of Music students and provides a glimpse into the training they receive for performing in major ensembles.
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2013–2014 WORLDWiSE Arts & Humanities Dean’s Lecture Series
ANTHONY ROMERO
Executive Director, American Civil Liberties Union Wednesday, April 16, 2014 . 5:30PM Gildenhorn Recital Hall . FREE, but ticketed
Named one of TIME magazine’s 25 Most Influential Hispanics in America, Anthony Romero is the executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union, the nation’s premier defender of civil and human rights. He is both the first Latino and openly gay man to serve in that capacity, and the first member of his family to graduate from high school. Under his leadership, the ACLU has challenged racial profiling, torture and abuse of detainees in U.S. custody, private ownership of human genes and threats to basic freedoms during times of crisis.
“My family was visiting me and I took my daughter to a show, a piece that was commissioned by the Clarice Smith Center and she had fun. At first, I was like a little bit worried because she started laughing really
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loud, but I think that laugh pushed
Sebastian Wang, director Saturday, April 19, 2014 . 7:30PM Dekelboum Concert Hall . FREE
the rest of the audience to laugh and really react to what was going on. It
Come see how UMD students and guest professional musicians perform this dynamic and exciting form of Korean traditional percussion: Samulnori! e concert is sure to energize and inspire. CREATiVE DiALOGUE fAST fOOD, SLOW fOOD AND fOOD JUSTiCE: GLOBAL POLiCiES CREATiNG GLOBAL HUNGER Monday, April 21, 2014 . 7:30PM Gildenhorn Recital Hall . FREE
was the trigger so that people could really relax and enjoy and feel, because sometimes we, as audience members, don’t know where the boundaries are between how much we can express our feelings in the show.” EXTRAORDINARY MINDS . EXTRAORDINARY STORIES
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APRIL 2014 NEW MUSIC AT MARYLAND UMD School of Music
Tuesday, April 22, 2014 . 8PM Gildenhorn Recital Hall . FREE
New works give young instrumentalists and singers the opportunity to learn from living composers, collaborate with them and gain insight into the composition process. is concert features original works by UMD student composers, performed by UMD music students.
IN THE HALL OF THE MOUNTAIN KING UMD School of Music
UMD REPERTOIRE ORCHESTRA
John Devlin and James Ross, co-directors Wednesday, April 23, 2014 . 8PM Dekelboum Concert Hall . FREE
UMRO’s final concert of the year will feature the incidental music from Edvard Grieg’s famous Peer Gynt. Audiences around the world are familiar with excerpts from this piece, such as Morning Mood and In the Hall of the Mountain King. UMRO will perform some of those audience favorites, along with much of the other, lesser-known gems from this score.
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GRADUATE FELLOWSHIP CHAMBER ENSEMBLE EXCELSA QUARTET
Wednesday, April 23, 2014 . 8PM Gildenhorn Recital Hall . FREE
Excelsa Quartet, in their final recital of this academic year, invites you to explore the more modern works for string quartet in conjunction with the classics.
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UNDERGRADUATE DANCE CONCERT
Patrik Widrig, director Thursday, April 24, 2014 . 7:30PM Friday, April 25, 2014 . 7:30PM Sunday, April 27, 2014 . 3PM & 7:30PM Dance Theatre . $25/$20 subscriber
e UMD School of eatre, Dance, and Performance Studies presents a concert featuring the emerging talent of the next generation of dance artists. e program includes original works created and/or performed by undergraduate students majoring in dance as they are finding their choreographic voice and vision, plus new works developed throughout the year by guest choreographers.
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Nyoman Suadin, director Friday, April 25, 2014 . 8PM Dekelboum Concert Hall . FREE
e complex interlocking rhythms of Balinese music and the dynamic expressions and stylized movements of Balinese dance unite in the gamelan.
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Kenny Barron, piano Marcus Strickland, tenor saxophone Lionel Loueke, guitar Linda Oh, bass Lee Pearson, drums Friday, April 25, 2014 . 8PM Kay Theatre . $40/$32 subscriber
One of the elder statesmen of jazz piano, Kenny Barron turned 70 on June 9, 2013. As part of his 70th birthday season, he will perform at the Clarice Smith Center with e Kenny Barron Platinum Quintet — a stellar group of musicians including Kenny Barron, piano; Marcus Strickland, tenor saxophone; Lionel Loueke, guitar; Linda Oh, bass; and Lee Pearson, drums. Barron’s career began in the ’60s with the Dizzy Gillespie Band and has included memorable recordings with trumpeter Freddie Hubbard, saxophonist Stan Getz, bassist Charlie Haden and many other jazz luminaries. When Barron was named a 2010 Jazz Master by the National Endowment for the Arts — the nation’s highest honor — he told interviewer Molly Murphy that he was originally drawn to jazz in part because of the satisfaction he gets from improvisation: “… it amazes me just to [be] able to grab a handful of notes out of thin air and make something out of it, to make a statement, to tell a story … to reach out to somebody. … If you can do that, then I think you’ve accomplished something.” Facing page: UMoves photo by Zachary Z. Handler. This page: Kenny Barron photo by Carol Friedman
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BOB GIBSON
Friday, April 25, 2014 . 8PM Gildenhorn Recital Hall . FREE
Director and Professor, UMD School of Music
District5 premieres new transcriptions of chamber works for wind quintet, including the Brahms Piano Quintet No. 1 in G Minor.
16TH ANNUAL MARYLAND DAY
Saturday, April 26, 2014 10AM – 4PM . FREE
is campus open house has something for the entire family with more than 40 different events throughout the Center — on stage, in the studios and behind the scenes.
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Kyoko Okamoto, director Sunday, April 27, 2014 . 2PM Dekelboum Concert Hall . FREE
“e Clarice Smith Center is a learning
e simple, clean and clear sounds of the Japanese Koto express nature’s beauty.
AN AMERICAN PORTRAIT
community. And what that means to me is that it is a place of exploration, where there is willingness to look at
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things from different perspectives and
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Joseph Shortall, conductor, UMD Men’s Chorus Kenneth Elpus, conductor & Rachel Carlson, assistant conductor, UMD Women’s Chorus Sunday, April 27, 2014 . 8PM Dekelboum Concert Hall . FREE
e UMD Men’s and Women’s Choruses explore the contribution of the Americas to the canon of choral literature. Featuring works by established and emerging American composers, the choirs perform a varied program of folk and art music hailing from these United States.
a desire to share in the exploration with members of the community or the people around us. e learning extends beyond just the boundaries of the School of Music out into the community, and I would hope that things from the community come back in. e School of Music is focused right now on the training of our musicians and the need to get
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them into situations that would be comparable to what they might
Monday, April 28, 2014 . 8PM Gildenhorn Recital Hall . FREE
experience in the professional world,
Established and run by graduate students at the UMD School of Music, TEMPO premieres new music happening beyond the walls of the University of Maryland.
so these ties and connections to our surroundings are crucial and meaningful.” EXTRAORDINARY MINDS . EXTRAORDINARY STORIES
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OPERA SCENE STUDY UMD School of Music
Papermaking Workshop
COMBAT PAPER PROJECT: PAPERMAkiNG WORkSHOPS WiTH WAR VETERANS AND THE COMMUNiTY
Tuesday, April 29, 2014 . NOON–7PM Wednesday, April 30, 2014 . NOON–7PM Thursday, May 1, 2014 . NOON–4PM Stamp Student Union’s Art and Learning Center . FREE
Both war veterans and civilians are invited to participate in papermaking workshops where uniforms worn in combat will be used to make paper. e workshops will be an opportunity to engage with veterans about their experiences, and create cathartic works of art. “Veterans use the transformative process of papermaking to reclaim their uniform as art and begin to embrace their experience as a soldier in war,” says Drew Cameron, director of Combat Paper Project. Veterans are encouraged to bring their own uniform to use to make paper. is event is related to the May 2 and 3 performance, An Iliad. Veteran Student Life at the Adele H. Stamp Student Union and the Art & Learning Center are community partners on this project.
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Chris Vadala, conductor, Jazz Studies Program Director Wednesday, April 30, 2014 . 5:30PM Theatre Courtyard . FREE (Rain location: Dekelboum Concert Hall)
Bring a picnic and celebrate spring with the UMD jazz ensembles in their outdoor Big Band Finale. As one of UMD jazz’s most popular concerts, the Big Band Finale drives you along with infectious energy and flair. CREATiVE DiALOGUE HOMER’S ILIAD: AN ANTi-WAR MANifESTO? Thursday, May 1, 2014 . 7:30PM Dance Theatre . FREE SEE PAGE 10 FOR EVENT DETAILS.
STAR WARS TRILOGY UMD School of Music
UMD WiND ENSEMBLE
Michael Votta, music director Thursday, May 1, 2014 . 8PM Dekelboum Concert Hall . FREE
e UMD Wind Ensemble features John Williams’ Star Wars Trilogy, plus works by popular wind band composers Percy Grainger, Mason Bates and JP Sweelinck.
MARYLAND OPERA STUDiO May 1 & 2, 2014 . 7:30PM Gildenhorn Recital Hall . FREE
After a year of deconstructing their craft and sculpting it from the ground up, Maryland Opera Studio first-year students are paired in operatic scenes from a wide variety of repertory. Accompanied only by piano and minimal props, these performances give our young artists a chance to shine in the purest of forms.
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Michael Votta, music director Friday, May 2, 2014 . 8PM Dekelboum Concert Hall . $25/$20 subscriber
is final program of the UMD Wind Orchestra’s 2013–2014 season pairs the playful rhythms and varied orchestral textures of Magnus Lindberg’s Gran Duo with the blended, consistent and serene qualities of Steve Reich’s Tehillim. Lindberg, who served as Composer-in-Residence with the New York Philharmonic from 2009–2011, is known for using musical language that is highly complex yet highly full of vim and verve. Reich is one of the pioneering composers of minimal music; his 1981 work Tehillim was the first major composition to reference his new-found interest in his Jewish heritage and it is seen as something of a departure from his earlier, more experimental, works. e concert opens with a preview of the UMD Symphony Orchestra’s original interpretation of Copland’s Appalachian Spring with movement design by UMD alumna and renowned choreographer Liz Lerman. AN ILIAD
DENiS O’HARE Lisa Peterson & Denis O’Hare/Homer’s Coat May 2 & 3, 2014 . 8PM Kay Theatre . $40/$32 subscriber
Actor Denis O’Hare and director Lisa Peterson telescope Homer’s great poem about the Trojan War into an intimate solo show illuminating both the heroism and the horror of warfare. Set in a contemporary milieu, the one-man performance stars an ageless Greek singer and poet. e script is rendered in contemporary vernacular language with occasional snatches of verse and even a few bellowed lines in Homer’s original Greek, and is accompanied by Mark Bennett’s beautiful score for solo upright bass. e play’s sole narrator, a battered-looking character who claims to have been recounting the yarn throughout the ages, combines the reverence and mystery of ancient Greek mythology with the dynamic urban rhythms of contemporary life. Join the artists for a Talk Back following the May 2 performance.
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CAROLINE CLAY
Actress, Teaching Assistant Alumni MFA Performance Studies UMD School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies Director, Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992
“e nature of storytelling and witness is what Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 is about. e inciting incident of this piece was the beating of a man and what sparked a riot. I’m working with young people who many of them don’t remember Rodney King. So where I can, I find spaces of creativity, of possibility for discourse around issues of race, around issues of gender, around issues of class, around issues of the community in which we live.” EXTRAORDINARY MINDS . EXTRAORDINARY STORIES
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gang members, police officers, lawyers, activists and shopkeepers from a diversity of class and racial backgrounds. Twilight offers a searing look at the impact of social, economic and political lines that divide not only a city, but also a nation, through the lens of a seminal moment in modern United States history.
THE LEFT BANK QUARTET
David Salness and Sally McLain, violins Katherine Murdock, viola Evelyn Elsing, cello Saturday, May 3, 2014 . 8PM Gildenhorn Recital Hall . FREE
Vienna’s incomparable musical legacy rests largely on the shoulders of two giants: Haydn, represented here by his glorious “Emperor” Quartet from his last cycle, and Beethoven, whose monumental late-period op. 131 quartet was his self-acknowledged favorite. Some 80 years after Beethoven and reputedly inspired by his late quartets, Webern (a pillar of the Second Viennese School) created the wondrously spare Six Bagatelles, still breath-taking today, a century after their inception.
ANNUAL POPS CONCERT UMD School of Music
UMD WIND ENSEMBLE COMMUNITY BAND UNIVERSITY BAND
Saturday, May 3, 2014 . 8PM Dekelboum Concert Hall . $30/$24 subscriber
For 38 years and running, the Annual Pops Concert has been a big hit with audiences. We guarantee you will walk out humming more than one tune from this lighter fare of great classic music.
TWILIGHT: LOS ANGELES, 1992 is presented by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc., New York.
APPALACHIAN SPRING
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James Ross, music director Liz Lerman, movement design Sunday, May 4, 2014 . 4PM Dekelboum Concert Hall . $30/$24 subscriber
Continuing their exploration of the relationship between movement and music, UMSO musicians will take a choreographic approach to Aaron Copland’s Appalachian Spring. UMD alumna and renowned choreographer Liz Lerman will develop the orchestra’s movements through improvisatory rehearsal technique. e program also includes Dutilleux’s Métaboles and Gershwin/Bennett’s Porgy and Bess: A Symphonic Picture. The Music in Mind series celebrates the role of music in our culture and our lives, explores sources of inspiration and points of intersection in musical traditions, and presents music in a context that encourages reflection and discovery. Proceeds from Music in Mind concerts benefit the UMD School of Music’s undergraduate scholarship fund.
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TWILIGHT: LOS ANGELES, 1992
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Sunday, May 4, 2014 . 7PM Gildenhorn Recital Hall . FREE
BY ANNA DEAVERE SMiTH Caroline Clay, director Saturday, May 3, 2014 . 7:30PM Sunday, May 4, 2014 . 2PM & 7:30PM Wednesday, May 7, 2014 . 7:30PM Thursday, May 8, 2014 . 7:30PM Friday, May 9, 2014 . 7:30PM Saturday, May 10, 2014 . 2PM & 7:30PM Kogod Theatre . $25/$20 subscriber
is concert showcases exceptional ensembles of the UMD School of Music’s chamber music program, as selected by faculty.
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In 1991, the violent police assault of African American Rodney King ignited international outrage after being captured on videotape and aired widely. A year later in 1992, in the aftermath of the trial and acquittal of the police officers charged with assault, protest and riots broke out in the streets of Los Angeles, where the incident took place. MacArthur ‘Genius,’ award-winning playwright and actress Anna Deavere Smith weaves a stunning, comprehensive portrait through the verbatim words of 40 people from the ashes of the riots in this explosive piece of documentary theatre.
Lee Hinkle, director Monday, May 5, 2014 . 8PM Dekelboum Concert Hall . FREE
Usually positioned at the back of the orchestra, the percussion section moves center stage to reveal the colorful, melodic potential of the instruments in this striking concert of contemporary music. In this concert, the UMD Percussion Ensemble premieres professor Tom DeLio’s work for percussion and flute, et avant/image.
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POSTCLASSiCAL ENSEMBLE
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with special guest Eugenia León Saturday, May 10, 2014 . 7:30PM Dekelboum Concert Hall . $35/$28 subscriber
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Dr. Lee Hinkle, percussion Wednesday, May 7, 2014 . 8PM Gildenhorn Recital Hall . FREE
Dr. Lee Hinkle performs works by several faculty and student composers. e featured composers’ pieces will include established works and world-premiere performances. Hinkle’s percussion playing has been called “rock-steady” by the Washington Post and having a “notable sense of flair [sic],” by Potomac Stages. An active percussion recitalist, he has presented solo recitals and master classes at universities and festivals across the United States. Recent performance highlights include concerts with the National Symphony Orchestra, 21st Centry Consort, Florida Orchestra and Left Bank Concert Society.
MEXICAN REVOLUTION
PostClassical Ensemble (PCE) presents vibrant cross-disciplinary programs that give audiences deeper context for musical works and the times in which they were written. is season PCE will present Mexican Revolution, a multi-event, multimedia program that explores themes of human rights and cultural expression. e first half of the May 10 performance will feature Mexican popular songs, performed by the legendary singer Eugenia León and PostClassical Ensemble. In the second half of the program, audiences experience the Mexican film masterpiece Redes (1936), an iconic product of the Mexican Revolution, accompanied by Silvestre Revueltas’ scorching symphonic score performed live by PCE. Redes is a 60-minute black-and-white film with lush cinematography by renowned photographer and cinematographer Paul Strand; it was co-directed by Emilio Gómez Muriel and Fred Zinnemann, who later directed High Noon, From Here to Eternity and A Man for All Seasons. In telling the story of poor fishermen victimized by monopoly control of their market, Redes argues for organized resistance as a necessary means of political reform. PCE will also record the score for a future release on the Naxos label. There will be a pre-show discussion with PostClassical Ensemble’s Artistic Director Joe Horowitz, Music Director Angel Gil-Ordóñez and Mexico-based Roberto kolb, the world’s leading Revueltas scholar, at 6:30PM, as well as a Talk Back following the performance.
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National Orchestral institute + Festival 2014 Now celebrating its 27th season, the National Orchestral Institute and Festival has helped nurture an entire generation of American orchestral musicians. Each year, a national audition tour selects outstanding performers for this month-long event, a laboratory for shaping the future of chamber and orchestral performance. Performances by the National Festival Chamber Orchestra and National Festival Orchestra take place every Saturday night between May 31 and June 28, 2014; additional free events are open to the public. Join the exploration!
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OPENiNG POPS CONCERT JOHN MORRiS RUSSELL, CONDUCTOR Saturday, May 31, 2014 . 8PM Dekelboum Concert . $35/$28 subscriber
John Morris Russell, conductor of the famed Cincinnati Pops Orchestra, opens the National Orchestral Institute in an all-American program featuring Gershwin’s beloved Rhapsody in Blue with piano soloist Emily White. This upbeat program of audience favorites also features music from Bernstein’s West Side Story, and music by film composer John Williams. Surely a program you don’t want to miss! National Orchestral Institute
fESTiVAL CHAMBER MUSiC RECiTAL Thursday, June 5, 2014 . 8PM Gildenhorn Recital Hall . $25/$20 subscriber
Drawn from the world of professional chamber music, the artist faculty of the National Orchestral Institute perform a diverse program of chamber music featuring Johannes Brahms’ String Sextet No. 2 along with works by Hovannes and Britten. National Orchestral Institute
NATiONAL fESTiVAL CHAMBER ORCHESTRA Saturday, June 7, 2014 . 8PM Dekelboum Concert Hall . $25/$20 subscriber
In this NOI concert, the musicians lead each other, performing challenging repertoire without a conductor, including Joseph Haydn’s Symphony No. 103 Drumroll, Ottorino Respighi’s Trittico botticelliano and Charles Ives’ Symphony No. 3 Camp Meeting. National Orchestral Institute
CHAMBER MUSiC MARATHON CONCERTS
Sunday, June 8, 2014 . 1PM & 5PM Gildenhorn Recital Hall . FREE
After less than two weeks of rehearsals and coachings, NOI participants masterfully perform a variety of chamber music repertoire for strings, winds and percussion. Drop in for any portion of this all-day event. National Orchestral Institute
JAMES ROSS, CONDUCTOR
ROSS CONDUCTS BEETHOVEN’S fifTH Saturday, June 14, 2014 . 8PM Dekelboum Concert Hall . $25/$20 subscriber
James Ross conducts a program of titans including Ludwig van Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5, Edgard Varèse’s Amériques and the Adagio from Gustav Mahler’s unfinished Symphony No. 10.
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SEAMAN CONDUCTS THE PLANETS CHRISTOPHER SEAMAN, CONDUCTOR
Saturday, June 21, 2014 . 8PM Dekelboum Concert Hall . $25/$20 subscriber
KAROL PROCHOTSKY Patron
Christopher Seaman, Conductor Laureate of the Rochester Philharmonic, leads the National Festival Orchestra in a program featuring Gustav Holst’s The Planets. Also on the program, Richard Strauss’ Till Eulenspiegel’s lustige Streiche and Benjamin Britten’s Four Sea Interludes. National Orchestral Institute
PETER AND THE WOLF fAMiLY CONCERT
Sunday, June 22, 2014 . 3PM & 5PM Grand Pavilion . FREE
In this family-friendly performance, members of the National Orchestral Institute bring to life Prokofiev’s beloved children’s tale, Peter and the Wolf, while also giving their own imaginative musical interpretations of classic children’s books. National Orchestral Institute
“Coming to the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center is important because it’s refreshing for me. I like to be around young people. It’s nostalgic.
SLATkiN CONDUCTS SHOSTAKOVICH’S FIFTH
I can relate because I grew up with
LEONARD SLATKIN, CONDUCTOR
Saturday, June 28, 2014 . 8PM Dekelboum Concert Hall . $25/$20 subscriber
To conclude the festival, world-renowned conductor and former music director of the National Symphony Leonard Slatkin leads the orchestra in a concert featuring Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 5. The program also includes Roberto Sierra’s Fandangos and Paul Hindemith’s Symphonic Metamorphosis.
musicians and I know how much you have to practice and everything. When I’m sitting here I see these young musicians doing their best job. ey’re very good. You can find a very good, very high professional level of artistry here. at’s probably the number one exciting thing for me.” EXTRAORDINARY MINDS . EXTRAORDINARY STORIES
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CiViL WAR TO CiViL RiGHTS: THE WELL-BEiNG Of A NATiON
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Observing the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington and the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation, the symposium was both commemorative and forward-looking by placing the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in its historic context, both as the culmination of the struggle since the Emancipation Proclamation and as the stage-setting for a new generation of struggles to address the important — but often hidden — inequalities of our time.
“I sincerely wish to extend my humble thanks, appreciation and gratitude for the George and Ruth Tretter Arts Scholarship that has been awarded me. As a student focusing within two individual fields of study, I am constantly battling to be as efficient as I can in meeting academic requirements, and thanks to donor support, I can afford the additional classes I need that will permit me to graduate within four years.” ViSiTiNG ARTiST PROGRAM
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BOBBY McfERRiN
The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center co-commissioned Stardust, which will receive its world premiere at the Center. Choreographed, written and directed by David Roussève, Stardust is a multi-disciplinary dance-theatre work that redefines the coming-of-age story for the electronic age. The piece follows the transformation of a black gay urban teenager who is shunned by his church, community and race. The unseen protagonist’s journey is conveyed by combining disparate elements. His narrative emerges in the words of his text messages and tweets that will be projected onto multiple surfaces in video.
In conjunction with his performance on February 8, Bobby McFerrin will participate in an artist residency with choral students from the UMD School of Music. The Clarice Smith Center is committed to presenting artists who are engaged in learning, exploration and growth.
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students recently graduated high school and is now attending the University of Maryland. She is working for F.A.M.E. this year in the music technology program. What a wonderful success for us all!”
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2013–2014 SEASON BY GENRE UMD School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies in partnership with African Continuum Theatre Company
BLACk THEATRE SYMPOSiUM Saturday, March 1, 2014 . All-Day Event . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .page 20
fAST fOOD, SLOW fOOD AND fOOD JUSTiCE: GLOBAL POLiCiES CREATiNG GLOBAL HUNGER Monday, April 21, 2014 . 7:30PM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .page 9
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HOMER’S ILIAD: AN ANTi-WAR MANifESTO? Thursday, May 1, 2014 . 7:30PM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .page 10
SPECiAL EVENTS Performance and Discussion
MUSiC, MALi AND CiTizEN DiPLOMACY: A PERfORMANCE AND DiSCUSSiON Thursday, February 20, 2014 . 12:15PM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .page 14 Pre-Performance Discussion
PRESERViNG ART, PRESERViNG CULTURAL iDENTiTY Saturday, February 22, 2014 . 7PM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .page 16
SEAGIRL Saturday, March 29, 2014 . 3PM & 7:30PM Sunday, March 30, 2014 . 3PM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .page 25 A TDPS Second Season Production PiG iRON THEATRE COMPANY ZERO COST HOUSE April 4 & 5, 2014 . 8PM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .page 26 DENiS O’HARE AN ILIAD May 2 & 3, 2014 . 8PM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .page 36 TWILIGHT: LOS ANGELES, 1992 BY ANNA DEAVERE SMiTH May 3–10, 2014 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .page 39 UMD School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies
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2013–2014 WORLDWiSE Arts & Humanities Dean’s Lecture Series ANNETTE GORDON-REED Thursday, February 27, 2014 . 5:30PM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .page 18
31ST ANNUAL CHOREOGRAPHERS’ SHOWCASE Saturday, January 25, 2014 . 3PM & 8PM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .page 11
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DAViD ROUSSèVE/REALiTY STARDUST . WORLD PREMiERE January 31 & February 1, 2014 . 8PM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .page 12
REfLECTiONS fROM THE kEYBOARD Sunday, March 2, 2014 . 2PM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .page 20 2014 PRiNCE GEORGE’S COUNTY ANNUAL SPELLiNG BEE Friday, March 14, 2014 . 7PM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .page 22 2013–2014 WORLDWiSE Arts & Humanities Dean’s Lecture Series
ANTHONY ROMERO Wednesday, April 16, 2014 . 5:30PM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .page 29 16TH ANNUAL MARYLAND DAY Saturday, April 26, 2014 . 10AM – 4PM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .page 33 Papermaking Workshop
COMBAT PAPER PROJECT: PAPERMAkiNG WORkSHOPS WiTH WAR VETERANS AND THE COMMUNiTY Tuesday, April 29, 2014 . NOON–7PM Wednesday, April 30, 2014 . NOON–7PM Thursday, May 1, 2014 . NOON–4PM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .page 36
THEATRE DAViD ROUSSèVE/REALiTY STARDUST . WORLD PREMiERE January 31 & February 1, 2014 . 8PM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .page 12 for colored folks… Saturday, February 1, 2014 . 3PM & 7:30PM Sunday, February 2, 2014 . 3PM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .page 12 A TDPS Second Season Production UMD School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies
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SHARED MfA DANCE THESiS CONCERT PLEATED Stephanie Miracle, choreographer Wednesday, March 12, 2014 . 7:30PM Thursday, March 13, 2014 . 7:30PM Friday, March 14, 2014 . 7:30PM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .page 22
MY TEMPEST Ana Patricia Farfán, choreographer Wednesday, March 12, 2014 . 9PM Thursday, March 13, 2014 . 9PM Friday, March 14, 2014 . 9PM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .page 22 UMD School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies
SHARED GRADUATE DANCE CONCERT Saturday, April 12, 2014 . 3PM & 7:30PM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .page 28 Sunday, April 13, 2014 . 3PM A TDPS Second Season Production UMD School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies
UNDERGRADUATE DANCE CONCERT UMOVES Thursday, April 24, 2014 . 7:30PM Friday, April 25, 2014 . 7:30PM Sunday, April 27, 2014 . 3PM & 7:30PM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .page 30
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THE WAITING ROOM BY LiSA LOOMER February 14–22, 2014 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .page 14
MARYLAND OPERA STUDiO NEW WORk READiNG LOVE/HATE AND SCALIA/GINSBURG Friday, February 14, 2014 . 7:30PM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .page 14
SPRING AWAKENING BASED ON THE PLAY BY fRANk WEDEkiND BOOkS & LYRiCS BY STEVEN SATER MUSiC BY DUNCAN SHEik February 28–March 8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .page 19
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UMD MEN’S CHORUS ANNUAL MEN’S CHORUS INVITATIONAL Friday, March 28, 2014 . 8PM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .page 25 UMD School of Music
UMD CHAMBER SiNGERS A CELEBRATION OF BENJAMIN BRITTEN Friday, April 4, 2014 . 8PM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .page 26
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CREATiVE DiALOGUES BEYOND SLAVERY: fREDERiCk DOUGLASS AND THE QUEST fOR UNiVERSAL RiGHTS Tuesday, February 4, 2014 . 7:30PM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .page 9
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UNiVERSiTY CHORALE SPRING CONCERT Friday, April 11, 2014 . 8PM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .page 28
JAMES EHNES, ViOLiN ORiON WEiSS, PiANO Thursday, March 6, 2014 . 8PM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .page 20
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MARYLAND OPERA STUDiO DIE FLEDERMAUS Friday, April 11, 2014 . 7:30PM Sunday, April 13, 2014 . 5PM Wednesday, April 16, 2014 . 7:30PM Saturday, April 19, 2014 . 7:30PM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .page 28
GRADUATE fELLOWSHiP WOODWiND QUiNTET DiSTRiCT5 s p a c e d o u t Friday, March 7, 2014 . 8PM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .page 20
MARYLAND OPERA STUDiO A NIGHT IN OLD VIENNA Saturday, April 12, 2014 . 7PM Tuesday, April 15, 2014 . 7PM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .page 28 UMD School of Music
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UMD MEN’S CHORUS UMD WOMEN’S CHORUS AN AMERICAN PORTRAIT Sunday, April 27, 2014 . 8PM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .page 33 UMD School of Music
UMD WiND ENSEMBLE A CHILD’S GARDEN OF DREAMS Sunday, March 9, 2014 . 4PM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .page 22 UMD School of Music
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SPRiNG BiG BAND SHOWCASE JAzz LAB BAND AND UNiVERSiTY JAzz BAND Tuesday, March 11, 2014 . 7:30PM JAzz ENSEMBLE AND ALUMNi JAzz BAND Wednesday, March 12, 2014 . 7:30PM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .page 22 UMD REPERTOiRE ORCHESTRA CONCIERTO DE ARANJUEZ Wednesday, March 12, 2014 . 8PM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .page 22 UMD School of Music
MARYLAND OPERA STUDiO OPERA SCENE STUDY Thursday, May 1, 2014 . 7:30PM Friday, May 2, 2014 . 7:30PM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .page 36
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BOBBY McfERRiN AND CHiCk COREA Saturday, February 8, 2014 . 8PM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .page 12
UNiVERSiTY BAND COMMUNiTY BAND Wednesday, April 2, 2014 . 8PM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .page 25 EVELYN ELSING, CELLO fACULTY ARTiST RECiTAL Saturday, April 5, 2014 . 5PM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .page 26 ROBERT DILUTIS, CLARINET fACULTY ARTiST RECiTAL Sunday, April 13, 2014 . 3PM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .page 28 UMD School of Music
kRONOS QUARTET . TRiO DA kALi Saturday, February 22, 2014 . 8PM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .page 16 SOMi Friday, March 28, 2014 . 7PM & 9PM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .page 25 UMD School of Music
UMD CHAMBER JAzz Part I: Tuesday, April 8, 2014 . 7:30PM Part II: Wednesday, April 9, 2014 . 7:30PM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .page 28 THE kENNY BARRON PLATiNUM QUiNTET Friday, April 25, 2014 . 8PM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .page 31
POSTCLASSiCAL ENSEMBLE MEXICAN REVOLUTION Saturday, May 10, 2014 . 7:30PM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .page 40
ORCHESTRAL AND CHAMBER BERLiN PHiLHARMONiC WiND QUiNTET Saturday, February 15, 2014 . 8PM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .page 14 kRONOS QUARTET STUDENT COMPOSiTiON READiNG Thursday, February 20, 2014 . 7PM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .page 16 UMD School of Music
GRADUATE fELLOWSHiP CHAMBER ENSEMBLE EXCELSA QUARTET DEATH AND THE MAIDEN Friday, February 21, 2014 . 8PM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .page 16 kRONOS QUARTET . TRiO DA kALi Saturday, February 22, 2014 . 8PM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .page 16 GOLDMAN, HEINEMAN AND ANDRIST fACULTY ARTiST RECiTAL Monday, February 24, 2014 . 8PM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .page 18 UMD School of Music
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UMD WiND ORCHESTRA RESURRECTION Friday, February 28, 2014 . 8PM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .page 19
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CHAMBER MUSiC SHOWCASE Part I: Monday, April 14, 2014 . 5:30PM Part II: Tuesday, April 15, 2014 . 7PM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .page 29 UMD School of Music
kOREAN PERCUSSiON ENSEMBLE Saturday, April 19, 2014 . 7:30PM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .page 29 UMD School of Music
NEW MUSiC AT MARYLAND Tuesday, April 22, 2014 . 8PM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .page 30 UMD School of Music
UMD REPERTOiRE ORCHESTRA IN THE HALL OF THE MOUNTAIN KING Wednesday, April 23, 2014 . 8PM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .page 30 UMD School of Music GRADUATE fELLOWSHiP CHAMBER ENSEMBLE
EXCELSA QUARTET CLASSIC TO CONTEMPORARY Wednesday, April 23, 2014 . 8PM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .page 30 UMD School of Music
UMD GAMELAN SARASWATi Friday, April 25, 2014 . 8PM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .page 30 UMD School of Music
GRADUATE fELLOWSHiP WOODWiND QUiNTET DiSTRiCT5 transcribed Friday, April 25, 2014 . 8PM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .page 33 UMD School of Music
UMD JAPANESE kOTO ENSEMBLE Sunday, April 27, 2014 . 2PM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .page 33 UMD School of Music
TEMPO: THE EXPERiMENTAL MUSiC PERfORMANCE ORGANizATiON Monday, April 28, 2014 . 8PM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .page 33
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UMD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA UMD CONCERT CHOiR RAVEL AND BRUCKNER Saturday, March 1, 2014 . 8PM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .page 20
UMD JAzz ENSEMBLE . UMD JAzz LAB BAND . UNiVERSiTY JAzz BAND BIG BAND FINALE Wednesday, April 30, 2014 . 5:30PM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .page 36
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UMD WiND ORCHESTRA CONTRASTS Friday, May 2, 2014 . 8PM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .page 36 UMD School of Music
LEfT BANk MiT SCHLAG Saturday, May 3, 2014 . 8PM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .page 39
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UMD WiND ENSEMBLE . COMMUNiTY BAND . UNiVERSiTY BAND ANNUAL POPS CONCERT Saturday, May 3, 2014 . 8PM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .page 39 UMD School of Music: MUSiC iN MiND
UMD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA APPALACHIAN SPRING Sunday, May 4, 2014 . 4PM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .page 39 UMD School of Music
HONORS CHAMBER MUSiC RECiTAL Sunday, May 4, 2014 . 7PM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .page 39 et avant/image UMD PERCUSSiON ENSEMBLE Monday, May 5, 2014 . 8PM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .page 39 UMD School of Music
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UMD COMPOSERS’ COMPOSiTiONS fOR PERCUSSiON WORkS BY DELiO, MOSS, GiBSON AND SHEiL Wednesday, May 7, 2014 . 8PM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .page 40
POSTCLASSiCAL ENSEMBLE MEXICAN REVOLUTION Saturday, May 10, 2014 . 7:30PM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .page 40
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OPENiNG POPS CONCERT JOHN MORRiS RUSSELL, CONDUCTOR Saturday, May 31, 2014 . 8PM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .page 42
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fESTiVAL CHAMBER MUSiC RECiTAL Thursday, June 5, 2014 . 8PM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .page 42
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NATiONAL fESTiVAL CHAMBER ORCHESTRA Saturday, June 7, 2014 . 8PM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .page 42 CHAMBER MUSIC MARATHON CONCERTS Sunday, June 8, 2014 . 1PM & 5PM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .page 42 National Orchestral institute
ROSS CONDUCTS BEETHOVEN’S FIFTH JAMES ROSS, CONDUCTOR Saturday, June 14, 2014 . 8PM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .page 42 National Orchestral institute
SEAMAN CONDUCTS THE PLANETS CHRiSTOPHER SEAMAN, CONDUCTOR Saturday, June 21, 2014 . 8PM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .page 43 National Orchestral institute
PETER AND THE WOLF fAMiLY CONCERT Sunday, June 22, 2014 . 3PM & 5PM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .page 43 National Orchestral institute
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SLATkiN CONDUCTS SHOSTAkOViCH’S fifTH LEONARD SLATkiN, CONDUCTOR Saturday, June 28, 2014 . 8PM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .page 43
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