The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center Season Guide 2012-2013

2012-2013 SEASON GUIDE

IT MAKES YOUR HEART BEAT FASTER. IT AWAKENS YOUR SENSES. IT TAKES YOU OUTSIDE OF YOUR COMFORT ZONE. IT GETS INSIDE YOUR HEAD.

THE EXTRAORDINARY No matter how you experience the extraordinary — with your eyes, ears, heart or mind — you’ll recognize it throughout the 2012-2013 season at the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center.

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2012-2013 SEASON GUIDE Our multi-disciplinary season includes classical music, jazz, opera, theatre and dance, as well as some work that defies genres. This season, we have organized performances by theme, offering audiences a dynamic synergy of ideas across conventional boundaries. These themes are: MINDS AND BODIES IN MOTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7 Renowned artists and emerging new talent reach maximum creative velocity.

ART INSPIRED . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13 For visionary artists in dance and theatre, familiar work sparks the next generation of ideas.

AND YOU THOUGHT YOU KNEW CHINA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .18 Chinese tradition is transformed through contemporary performances.

NEW LIGHTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .23 Renaissance and renewal of the classical tradition.

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WOMEN MAKING WAVES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .31 Exceptional women who are making artistic history share their creative visions.

CLASSICAL, STRAIGHT UP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .34 The rich traditions of classical music, fully expressed in concert.

AFRICAN HEART . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .39 African-American culture and history take center stage.

JAZZ WITH A TWIST . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .43 Unique partnerships lead to intriguing musical adventures.

MASTERS RE-IMAGINED . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .47

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Contemporary performances provide new perspectives on the masterworks of musical legends.

OPENING DOORS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .51 Programs with universal appeal.

NATIONAL ORCHESTRAL INSTITUTE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .53 SUPPORT THE EXTRAORDINARY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .54 SUBSCRIBE AND SAVE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .60

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“It is not the voice that commands the story: It is the ear.”

– ITALO CALVINO

Stories lie at the heart of every great work of art. The heart and mind of the maker permeate every musical phrase, every passage of dialogue and every moment of movement. But those stories truly come to life only when there is an engaged listener who is open to what they reveal.

In our 10th anniversary season, the Clarice Smith Center launched our storytellers project to highlight the extraordinary individuals who make us what we are — the patrons, artists, students, faculty and donors who share with us a belief in the power of the performing arts. This season, you’ll meet a new group of people, each with fascinating ideas and a unique take on the world. Our first storytellers of the 2012-2013 season are featured in this guide.

Our story could not be told without you. We invite you to participate — in the listening and in the telling — by getting to know our storytellers this season and by sharing your own stories in our storytellers booth. Look for it in the Grand Pavilion of the Center, open all day, every day.

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2012-2013 SEASON GUIDE

top row: Bill Dorland, page 6; Scott AuCoin, page 30; Victor and Debby Vargas, page 22; Faedra Carpenter, page 10; middle row: Hasan Elahi, page 46; Helen Huang, page 19; Sheri Parks, page 42; bottom row: Robert Garner, page 56; Cary Gillett, page 14; David C. Driskell, page 38 photos by Alison Harbaugh

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Bill Dorland UMD PROFESSOR OF PHYSICS HONORS COLLEGE DIRECTOR

I grew up in rural Arkansas trailer parks. Our house had wheels and we used them! By the time I was eight, we had lived in 16 different towns and probably because of this nomadic lifestyle, I had no connection to the performing arts.

But in Texarkana in 1980, the run-down theatre on Main Street was fully restored with a gift from billionaire H. Ross Perot.

Texarkana had finally taken the wheels off of the trailer and I signed up to be an usher at the newly christened Perot Theatre.

For the first time in my life, I saw great performances live.

The first thrilling moment I ever experienced in that theatre — or any theatre — was a performance by the Alvin Ailey Dance Company. As I recall, they performed to music from Emerson, Lake and Palmer. I had never seen modern dance or heard music quite like that. Chills ran up and down my spine!

I was transfixed. I have never turned down an offer to go to a live performance since — music, dance, drama, musicals — I love them all!

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MINDS AND BODIES IN MOTION

MINDS AND BODIES IN MOTION Renowned artists and emerging new talent reach maximum creative velocity.

Season Opening Event! Paul Taylor Dance Company photo by Lois Greenfield; facing page photo of Bill Dorland by Alison Harbaugh

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Season Opening Event!

PAUL TAYLOR DANCE COMPANY Saturday, September 8, 2012 . 8PM Kay Theatre

In almost 60 years of trailblazing choreography, Paul Taylor has defied easy categories.

He may propel his dancers through space for the sheer beauty of it or use them to illuminate war, spirituality, sexuality, morality and mortality. His cogent, wordless stories feature dysfunctional families, ex-lovers, fallen preachers, rapists, angels and insects — each one unforgettable. Of his work, he says, “I make dances because I can’t help it. Working on dances has become a way of life, an addiction that at times resembles a fatal disease. Even so, I’ve no intention of kicking the habit. I make dances because I believe in the power of contemporary dance, its immediacy, its potency, its universality.” His 17-member company will open the Center’s 2012-2013 season with a mix of old and new works. $40/$32 subscribers

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MARYLAND DANCE ENSEMBLE Breath, Rhythm, Flight

Alvin Mayes, director Friday, November 30, 2012 . 8PM Saturday, December 1, 2012 . 2PM & 8PM Kay Theatre

This first of two Maryland Dance Ensemble concerts during the season focuses on the cutting-edge visions of dance faculty members Alvin Mayes, Sara Pearson and Patrik Widrig; visiting artist Adriane Fang; and guest choreographer Susan Marshall. $20/$16 subscribers

Like a Unicorn in Captivity: Love Letters and Other Short Stories Shannon Dooling, choreographer

A Heartbeat Away... A World Apart

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Xuejuan Feng, choreographer

Thursday, October 18, 2012 . 8PM Friday, October 19, 2012 . 8PM Dance Theatre

What happens when you realize that your idol isn’t perfect? Or, when you recognize her flaws in yourself? Inspired by these questions, Shannon Dooling created Like a Unicorn in Captivity, a response to and an interpretation of the work of writer and aviator Anne Morrow Lindbergh. The piece incorporates multimedia, spoken word and movement in an exploration of celebrity, hero-worship, identity, relationship, ambition, creativity and duty.

Like a first language, one’s sense of ideal feminine aesthetic is embedded in one’s conscious and subconscious mind as one grows up. Using movement, Xuejuan Feng compares the revered characteristics of strength, candor and outspokenness in the modern American woman with Chinese female archetypes who embody fragility, reserve and reticence. Using sound and speech, she reconstructs in A Heartbeat Away... A World Apart her own initial feelings of confusion and displacement when caught between these two very different aesthetics. $20/$16 subscribers

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MINDS AND BODIES IN MOTION

Maryland Dance Ensemble photo by Stan Barouh

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Faedra Carpenter DRAMATURG UMD ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, SCHOOL OF THEATRE, DANCE, AND PERFORMANCE STUDIES

In 1995 my dear friend and mentor took me to see the Off-Broadway production of Bring in ’da Noise, Bring in ’da Funk.

It was early in my career as a professional dramaturg and my mentor thought this much-touted piece would help me gain a greater understanding of the possibilities of devised theatre.

The outing was intended to be a lesson of sorts but I became totally enraptured by the performance. I can still feel the electricity in that room. I was so moved by the explosive talent on stage and awed by the way the performance fused so many art forms.

It was tap dance, poetry, song, visual spectacle — and all the while, ruminating on substantive themes and issues within African-American history.

This total merging of the sensory and the cerebral helped me realize, fully, the power of performance to translate sensations and ideas. I remember jumping up on my feet, applauding crazily and being so certain I was in the right place and doing the right thing in my life, that is, working in theatre and working toward the creation of projects that could be equally transformative, illuminating — and just plain thrilling!

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MINDS AND BODIES IN MOTION

30TH ANNUAL CHOREOGRAPHERS’ SHOWCASE

UMD School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies

Saturday, January 26, 2013 . 3PM & 8PM Dance Theatre

The 30th anniversary production of this adjudicated showcase — a joint project of the Center and the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission — celebrates the diverse talents of a new generation. $25/$20 subscribers

Paul D. Jackson, director Thursday, February 21, 2013 . 8PM Friday, February 22, 2013 . 8PM Dance Theatre

This concert features provocative choreography by first- and second-year 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 Thesis programs — an unguarded exploration of their talents and interests.

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MFA IN PERFORMANCE Festival of New Works

Friday, February 1, 2013 . 8PM Saturday, February 2, 2013 . 2PM & 8PM Friday, February 8, 2013 . 8PM Saturday, February 9, 2013 . 2PM & 8PM Friday, February 15, 2013 . 8PM Saturday, February 16, 2013 . 2PM & 8PM Kogod Theatre

The seven members of the inaugural class of the MFA in Performance (MFAP) program will celebrate the culmination of their three years of study with theatrical presentations that draw from their personal experiences, their artistic visions and their three years of MFAP training. The MFAP program is for the artist who wishes to write, direct, compose, perform and produce his or her own work and it encourages students to incorporate influences from cultures beyond the traditional Western and European canon into their work. Each evening will feature only two of the seven performances. $25/$20 subscribers

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MFA in Performance cohort photos by Walter Dallas: left, Anu Yadav; middle, Nicholas Horan, Teresa Ann Virginia Bayer and Rob Jansen; top right, Anu Yadav and Claudia Rosales; bottom right, Caroline Clay; facing page photo of Faedra Carpenter by Alison Harbaugh

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SHARED MFA THESIS CONCERT Apple Falling

Graham Brown, choreographer

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DEAD MAN’S CELL PHONE KJ Sanchez, director Friday, March 1, 2013 . 8PM Saturday, March 2, 2013 . 8PM Sunday, March 3, 2013 . 2PM Wednesday, March 6, 2013 . 7:30PM Thursday, March 7, 2013 . 7:30PM Friday, March 8, 2013 . 8PM Saturday, March 9, 2013 . 2PM & 8PM Kay Theatre

Sarah Rule’s 2008 play finds comedy in the most unlikely of circumstances: a romance between a young woman and a dead man carried out via his still-active cell phone.

Mousy Jean becomes irate when her solitary lunch is interrupted by the insistent ringing of a nearby diner’s cell phone and in an uncharacteristic fit of boldness, she approaches him only to find that his ringing phone is the only spark of life he has left.

When the phone continues to ring, she flips it open and answers it. Thus begins her oddly intimate relationship with the man, unfolding solely through the people who knew him. In a New York Times review of the play’s premiere, Charles Isherwood noted that the playwright “blends the mundane and the metaphysical, the blunt and the obscure, the patently bizarre and the bizarrely moving” to extraordinary effect. $25/$20 subscribers

Triumph of Disruption

Kwame Opare, choreographer Thursday, March 14, 2013 . 8PM Friday, March 15, 2013 . 8PM Dance Theatre

In Graham Brown’s Apple Falling, the lives of seven individuals intersect as they each interact with their familial histories, musing over the stories and characters that have, over the generations, helped shape who they are and who they will become. Can we control how far the apple falls from the tree?

Kwame Opare uses pop iconic imagery and popular music in Triumph of Disruption, a funky, hip and engagingly fantastical journey through time and space. The choreographer entertains the concept of disruption as a method to alleviate the problems facing a particular group of young people — an artful attempt to show, through dance, iconic pop imagery and music, an epidemic of failure in America’s methods of educating its youth. $20/$26 subscribers

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MARYLAND DANCE ENSEMBLE Demiurges

Adriane Fang, director Thursday, April 18, 2013 . 8PM Friday, April 19, 2013 . 8PM Saturday, April 20, 2013 . 8PM Sunday, April 21, 2013 . 3PM Dance Theatre

This lively, diverse concert provides a preview of the emerging talent of the next generation of dance artists. The program includes original dances created and/or performed by undergraduate students majoring in Dance as they begin to find their choreographic voice and vision, plus new works developed throughout the year by guest choreographers. $20/$16 subscribers

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ART INSPIRED

ART INSPIRED For visionary artists in dance and theatre, familiar work sparks the next generation of ideas.

SITI Company photo by Paul Marotta

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Cary Gillett PRODUCTION MANAGER, UMD SCHOOL OF THEATRE, DANCE, AND PERFORMANCE STUDIES

I love the moment where you see something happen on stage, or backstage, when the person gets it, when it clicks. Moments like that happen all the time at the Clarice Smith Center. As a Production Manager I’m very close to the process and get to sit in on a lot of rehearsals and performances. I get to watch students have those ‘aha’ moments and I see all the work that has gone into it and led them there. Like in a rehearsal, sitting next to a stage manager and seeing them just all of a sudden understand what they’re supposed to be doing at that moment and how to do it.

Literally, sometimes their eyes light up.

The opportunity to come here and help train the next generation of professionals — to see those moments of pure understanding — is the most rewarding thing to me. It’s what I love about my job.

Cary Gillett photo by Alison Harbaugh; facing page photo of Lucky Plush Productions by William Frederking; photo of Rinde Eckert by Caleb Wertenbaker

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ART INSPIRED

SITI COMPANY Café Variations

Thursday, September 20, 2012 . 8PM Friday, September 21, 2012 . 8PM Kogod Theatre

Café Variations weaves longing, lust, lost love, found love and budding romantic adventure through dance, music and theater within the social arena where anything can happen: a café. This new theatre piece based on short plays by Charles Mee features songs from the American Songbook — familiar tunes that evoke a time, place and way of life. Each story stands on its own, with a beginning, middle and end; together, the stories create a rich tapestry of shared experience. $40/$32 subscribers

SITI Company most recently appeared at the Center in Radio MacBeth (2010-2011).

LUCKY PLUSH PRODUCTIONS The Better Half

Julia Rhoads, artistic director Leslie Buxbaum Danzig, stage director co-commissioned by the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center Thursday, October 4, 2012 . 8PM Friday, October 5, 2012 . 8PM Dance Theatre

Lucky Plush Productions presents a dance/theatre hybrid based on — and poking fun at — the classic stage melodrama Angel Street and the film Gaslight, about a villainous husband who tries to drive his wife insane. In the hands of artistic director Julia Rhoads and director Leslie Buxbaum Danzig, this rowdy, witty dance-theater piece transcends its sources to examine wedded (or unwedded) “bliss” from unexpected physical and emotional angles. Join the artists for a Talk Back after the October 4 performance. $30/$24 subscribers

Stage director Leslie Buxbaum Danzig was at the Center with 500 Clown and the Elephant Deal (2008-2009).

This project is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.

RINDE ECKERT

And God Created Great Whales Wednesday, October 17, 2012 . 8PM Thursday, October 18, 2012 . 8PM Friday, October 19, 2012 . 8PM Kogod Theatre

This musical adventure follows Nathan, a piano tuner and composer, on a mad quest to finish his final opus, an opera based on Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick, before losing his mind and his memory. As Mark Swed wrote in the Los Angeles Times, “Whales is not about whales. Yet as Moby-Dick consumes Nathan, a great whale symbolizes boldly and affectingly the ways obsession and memory can help us — at least for a while — keep ourselves together.” Join the artists for a Talk Back after the October 17 and 18 performances. $35/$28 subscribers

Rinde Eckert most recently appeared at the Center with eighth blackbird and Steve Mackey in Slide (2009-2010).

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IN TIME OF ROSES

BILL T. JONES/ARNIE ZANE DANCE COMPANY SITI COMPANY A Meditation on The Rite of Spring Friday, February 8, 2013 . 8PM Saturday, February 9, 2013 . 8PM Kay Theatre

Choreographer Bill T. Jones is known for theatrical dance works that explore the world that is, while envisioning the world that could be. SITI Company’s Anne Bogart collaborates with Jones in this new piece coinciding with the 100th anniversary of the premiere of Igor Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring. The new work will explore the impact of this revolutionary piece of music, imagining the consequence of hearing the score played for the very first time. Join the artists for a Talk Back after the February 8 performance. $50/$40 subscribers

SITI Company most recently appeared at the Center in Radio MacBeth (2010-2011).

This project is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.

POST-CLASSICAL ENSEMBLE Dvořák’s American Works

Ashley Smith, director Friday, April 26, 2013 . 8PM Sunday, April 28, 2013 . 2PM & 7:30PM Wednesday, May 1, 2013 . 7:30PM Thursday, May 2, 2013 . 7:30PM Friday, May 3, 2013 . 8PM Saturday, May 4, 2013 . 2PM & 8PM Kogod Theatre

In Time of Roses is a sexy, fast-paced, political thriller, based on the true story of Margaret of Anjou, a woman forced to lead an army to save her family. Most of the play’s text was taken directly from William Shakespeare’s Henry VI trilogy and from his sonnets.

Playwright Ashley Smith, who also directs the performance, says, “My goal is to distill the story of Margaret of Anjou in chronological sequence, focusing on the love triangle between her, King Henry VI and the Earl of Suffolk. I find that this story thread, which I’ve pulled from Shakespeare’s much larger Wars of the Roses tapestry, makes for a great play all by itself.” $25/$20 subscribers

Friday, March 1, 2013 . 8PM Dekelboum Concert Hall

Post-Classical Ensemble, now in its ninth season, is an experimental musical laboratory testing the limits of orchestral programming. Joseph Horowitz, co-founder and artistic director, said in a 2010 interview for the Clarice Smith Center website, “We call ourselves Post-Classical Ensemble because we inhabit a broad swath of music. Our concerts regularly incorporate popular music, folk music, vernacular music.” Horowitz has done extensive research on Dvořák and has created several projects on the composer including the multimedia “Dvořák in America” project — a National Education Project that explores the search for American identity at the turn of the twentieth century. Join the artists for a pre-performance discussion at 7PM in Gildenhorn Recital Hall. $35/$28 subscribers

The Post-Classical Ensemble most recently appeared at the Center in The Gershwin Project (2010-2011).

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ART INSPIRED

clockwise from top left: Bill T. Jones; Angel Gil-Ordonez, Post-Classical Ensemble, photo by Tom Wolff; TDPS spring 2012 production of Sandwalk photo by Alison Harbaugh

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AND YOU THOUGHT YOU KNEW CHINA Chinese tradition is transformed through contemporary performances.

A Midsummer Night’s Dream| costume design by Laree Ashley Lentz, MFA Candidate in Costume Design; facing page photo of Helen Huang by Alison Harbaugh

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AND YOU THOUGHT YOU KNEW CHINA

Helen Huang COSTUME AND SET DESIGNER UMD PROFESSOR, SCHOOL OF THEATRE, DANCE, AND PERFORMANCE STUDIES

As a costume designer who emigrated from China to the United States, I always find a personal connection with plays in which the protagonist is searching for his or her place in the world.

Many years ago I saw a Broadway show called Bombay Dreams.

One line really struck me: “Where is home? Home is a place where your soul can find peace.” For years I was battling in my mind with where to call home because I grew up in China, but have lived in America for the last 27 years. The experience of this play changed my perspective on the meaning of home, and I continue to search for it.

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clockwise from top left: A Midsummer Night’s Dream| A Midsummer Night’s Dream|

costume design by Laree Ashley Lentz; Wu Man photo by Stephen Kahn;

costume design by Laree Ashley Lentz; Shanghai Quartet photo by Bard Martin

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AND YOU THOUGHT YOU KNEW CHINA

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A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM/

a co-production of UMD School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies and The National Academy of Chinese Theatre Arts Mitchell Hébert (TDPS), co-director Yu Fanlin (NACTA), co-director Thursday, September 27, 2012 . 7:30PM Friday, September 28, 2012 . 8PM Saturday, September 29, 2012 . 2PM & 8PM Sunday, September 30, 2012 . 2PM Kay Theatre

William Shakespeare’s whimsical tale of love and mistaken identity comes to life in a completely new way in this bilingual Chinese and American co-production. The performance is the culmination of a multi-year collaboration between the UMD School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies and the National Academy of Chinese Theatre Arts. Staging, costumes, lighting and direction were jointly realized in the United States and China and the cast includes Chinese and American actors, who will each perform in their native language. After its premiere at the Clarice Smith Center, this production will be performed at The National Academy of Chinese Theatre Arts in Beijing. $35/$28 subscribers

SHANGHAI QUARTET Thursday, November 15, 2012 . 8PM Gildenhorn Recital Hall

The Shanghai Quartet melds the delicacy of Eastern music with the emotional breadth of Western repertoire, allowing it to traverse musical genres from masterpieces of Western music to cutting-edge contemporary works. Their program at the Center will include Schubert’s Quartettsatz; Bartok’s Quartet #4; Beethoven’s String Quartet No. 15 in A Minor, Op. 132 and selections from ChinaSong, a suite of Chinese folksongs arranged for string quartet by the Shanghai Quartet’s violinist Yi-Wen Jiang. Formed at the Shanghai Conservatory in 1983, the Quartet has a long history of championing new music and has worked with distinguished classical artists including the Tokyo, Juilliard and Guarneri quartets; Yo-Yo Ma; Lynn Harrell and Peter Serkin. $40/$32 subscribers

WU MAN, SOLO PIPA Thursday, March 28, 2013 . 8PM Gildenhorn Recital Hall

Recognized as the world’s premier pipa virtuoso and as a leading ambassador of Chinese music, Chinese-born musician Wu Man creates and fosters projects that give this ancient instrument a new role in today’s musical world. She has introduced the pipa to new audiences around the world and has commissioned and premiered more than a hundred new works to add to the core repertoire.

Her adventurous musical spirit has also led to her becoming a respected expert on the history and preservation of Chinese musical traditions, reflected in her recorded and live performances and multi-cultural collaborations. $35/$28 subscribers Wu Man most recently appeared at the Center in A Chinese Home with Kronos Quartet (2009-2010).

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Victor and Debby Vargas

VICTOR: NETWORK ARCHITECT DEBBY: ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF INSTITUTIONAL GIVING, CLARICE SMITH PERFORMING ARTS CENTER DONORS

We went to a benefit concert in Baltimore at The Peabody for the Baltimore Animal Rescue and Care Shelter. Leon Fleisher and his wife were playing; they are animal lovers so they did the concert for free. Leon Fleisher played just a few songs and his wife played several really fast pieces — amazingly difficult and wonderfully performed. But his songs were more memorable to me, especially when he stated from the stage that “Anyone who is here knows how much an animal has touched their lives.” He played with such emotion that I lost it. I just could not get it together. The highlight for me, Bach’s Sheep May Safely Graze, is now irrevocably linked to my dog Jasper. I loved the song so much that we played it at our wedding last summer. That concert — the experience meant the world to me.

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NEW LIGHTS

NEW LIGHTS Renaissance and renewal of the classical tradition. eighth blackbird photo by Fadil Berish; facing page photo of Victor and Debby Vargas by Alison Harbaugh

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UMD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Tzigane

James Ross, conductor Nicholas Montopoli, violin Friday, October 5, 2012 . 8PM Dekelboum Concert Hall

The UMD Symphony Orchestra opens its season with Nicholas Montopoli, winner of the 2011 UMSO Concerto Competition, performing Ravel’s exotic and colorful violin concerto Tzigane. The program also includes Lutoslawski’s Symphonic Variations, Barber’s 1st Essay and Rachmaninoff ’s 2nd Symphony. $25/$20 subscribers

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UMD WIND ORCHESTRA

Something Old. And New. And Maybe Borrowed Too. Michael Votta, conductor Sunday, October 7, 2012 . 3PM Dekelboum Concert Hall

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The UMD Wind Orchestra offers a lively program including Michalsky’s Fanfare After 17th Century Dances, Tomasi’s Fanfares Liturgiques, Lampe’s Serenade and Schwantner’s Recoil. $25/$20 subscribers

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Sunday, October 28, 2012 . 7PM Kay Theatre

Todd Rundgren was at the top of the pop charts in the early 1970s with his inventive work as a solo rock artist. He later branched out to become a sought-after producer for major rock groups and continues to expand his artistic scope with new ideas and new projects. In 2005 the contemporary string quartet ETHEL, an ensemble acclaimed by Andante.com as “...a mighty amplified force, with style, breadth, power, chops and rock ’n roll spirit,” teamed up with Rundgren for a tour of the United States and Europe.

These boundary-busting artists reunite in a ’70s-inspired program that showcases the breadth of their collective musical vision. For this tour, ETHEL put together a program that is scheduled to include Lou Harrison’s Quartet Set; Kimo Williams’s Quiet Shadows; arrangements of music by Sun Ra; and a new work by Judd Greenstein that incorporates the sound of synthesizers from the 1970s. $45/$36 subscribers

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NEW LIGHTS

ETHEL photo by James Ewing; facing page photo of Todd Rundgren courtesy of Baylin Artists

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eighth blackbird

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UMD WIND ORCHESTRA Graffito in Gabrieli’s Garden Michael Votta, conductor Friday, November 2, 2012 . 8PM Dekelboum Concert Hall

UMWO performs Giovanni and Andrea Gabrieli’s Canzonas and Sonatas; Adams’ Chamber Symphony; Strauss’s Serenade, Op. 7; and Rands’ Ceremonial. $25/$20 subscribers

Tim Munro, flutes Michael J. Maccaferri, clarinets Yvonne Lam, violin & viola Nicholas Photinos, cello Matthew Duvall, percussion Lisa Kaplan, piano Friday, March 8, 2013 . 8PM Gildenhorn Recital Hall

The Chicago-based sextet eighth blackbird combines the finesse of a string quartet with the energy of a rock band and the audacity of a storefront theater 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. $30/$24 subscribers

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eighth blackbird most recently appeared at the Center with Rinde Eckert and Steve Mackey in Slide (2009-2010).

Music from Bach’s iPod

Michael Votta, conductor James Stern, violin Evelyn Elsing, cello Thursday, December 6, 2012 . 8PM Dekelboum Concert Hall

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UMD WIND ORCHESTRA

The Poetry of Joseph Schwantner

UMWO performs Pergolesi’s Carnevale; Kirchner’s Concerto for Violin, Cello, 10 Winds and Percussion; Britten’s Fanfare for St. Edmondsbury; and Dahl’s Sinfonietta and Dance Variations. $25/$20 subscribers

Michael Votta, conductor Friday, March 8, 2013 . 8PM Dekelboum Concert Hall

The program will include Schwantner’s Trilogy plus the world premiere of a new work composed by the winner of the School of Music’s Walsum Award for New Music. Through the generous gift of Walter Summer — composer, musician, artist and philanthropist — the Walsum Award is offered biennially and is given to foster excellence in the field of new music and advance the careers of young composers. $25/$20 subscribers

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NEW LIGHTS

clockwise from top left: eighth blackbird; Michael Votta photo by Mike Ciesielski; Kronos Quartet photo by Michael Wilson

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ORPHEUS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA WITH GABRIEL KAHANE Saturday, April 20, 2013 . 8PM Dekelboum Concert Hall

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American composer and singer-songwriter Gabriel Kahane, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra’s first composer-in-residence, combines his classical music training with modern folk-pop influences. Often compared to Sufjan Stevens and Rufus Wainwright, he has collaborated with both of these artists. This season, he will work with Orpheus as the Orchestra continues its collaboration with the UMD School of Music and expands its interaction with the UMD School of Business and other campus/community programs. $35/$28 subscribers

Orpheus Chamber Orchestra served as artists-in-residence with the School of Music in 2011-2012 and performed several times during the season.

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NEW LIGHTS KRONOS QUARTET

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Thursday, April 25, 2013 . 8PM Gildenhorn Recital Hall

MEMBERS OF ORPHEUS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA

UMD WIND ORCHESTRA

Student Composition Reading

… of a rare and special type …

Michael Votta, conductor Sunday, May 5, 2013 . 3PM Dekelboum Concert Hall

Kronos Quartet’s ongoing residency at the Center includes working closely with composition students in the School of Music. Each season Kronos selects several student compositions, works with the young composers to refine the pieces for maximum musical impact and then presents initial readings of the works in a public event.

Two sound worlds collide in a program that pairs Mozart’s Serenade in B-flat (“Gran Partita”) K. 361 and Varese’s Octandre, Intégrales, Deserts, Hyperprism and Density 21.5.

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Kronos Quartet has performed and served as resident artists at the Center since the 2007-2008 season.

Orpheus Chamber Orchestra photo by Ken Nahoum

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Scott AuCoin BM CANDIDATE IN COMPOSITION AND BME IN MUSIC EDUCATION UMD SCHOOL OF MUSIC

One of the most moving experiences I’ve ever had was hearing a recording of the Britten War Requiem. It was my sophomore or junior year in high school, an informal assignment from my composition teacher. I don’t think he knew it would turn into this profound thing for me.

I listened to it twice in one sitting. I listened to it and was like, “Whoa, what just happened?” after the second time. It’s such a wonderful, beautiful piece. I’ll never get tired of it.

That experience changed my ideas about music and the way music can affect you. Up to that point I never had a piece affect me so deeply and that experience confirmed that I really wanted to reach people the same way that Britten reached me.

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WOMEN MAKING WAVES

WOMEN MAKING WAVES Exceptional women who are making artistic history share their creative visions. photo of Laurie Anderson by Tim Knox; facing page photo of Scott AuCoin by Alison Harbaugh

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Nora Chipaumire photo by Olivier Clausse; facing page photo of Kronos Quartet by Michael Wilson

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WOMEN MAKING WAVES

LAURIE ANDERSON AND KRONOS QUARTET Friday, February 1, 2013 . 8PM Saturday, February 2, 2013 . 8PM Kay Theatre

In addition to her groundbreaking solo work, Laurie Anderson has undertaken collaborative projects with artists of all kinds, including William S. Burroughs, Lou Reed, Marisa Monte and Colin Stetson, among others. Kronos Quartet, musical mavericks who shatter conventional wisdom about string quartets, has partnered with Eiko & Koma, Philip Glass, Alim Qasimov, Astor Piazzola and many more. For the first time, these artists join their distinct personalities and musical styles in a new work composed by Laurie Anderson and commissioned by the Clarice Smith Center. Kronos joins Anderson in this world-premiere performance. Join the artists for a Talk Back following the February 1 performance. $50/$40 subscribers

Laurie Anderson most recently appeared at the Center in her solo work Delusion (2010-2011).

Kronos Quartet has performed and served as resident artists at the Center since the 2007-2008 season.

This project is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.

NORA CHIPAUMIRE OKWUI OKPOKWASILI MIRIAM

Eric Ting, director Omar Sosa, composer Olivier Clausse, lighting design Thursday, April 4, 2013 . 8PM Friday, April 5, 2013 . 8PM Saturday, April 6, 2013 . 8PM Kogod Theatre

With MIRIAM, the renowned choreographer and dancer Nora Chipaumire creates her first character-driven work — a deeply personal dance-theater performance that looks closely at the tensions women face between public expectations and private desires; between selflessness and ambition; and between the perfection and sacrifice of the feminine ideal. The inspiration for MIRIAM springs from the cultural and political milieu of Chipaumire’s southern African girlhood, her self-exile to the U.S. and her self-discovery as an artist. But MIRIAM also reverberates with other literary and legendary influences: the writings of Joseph Conrad and Chenjerai Hove; the life of South African singer and activist Miriam Makeba; and the Christian iconography of Mary. The staged work features an interplay of light and shadow that infers the presence of others, real and imagined, within a suggestive environment that calls to mind the site of a crime, a mysterious land or a sacred place of ritual and retreat. Join the artists for a Talk Back following the April 5 performance.

MEREDITH MONK On Behalf of Nature

Saturday, May 4, 2013 . 8PM Kay Theatre

Meredith Monk is a composer, singer, director/choreographer and creator of new opera, music theater works, films and installations.

A pioneer in what is now called “extended vocal technique” and “interdisciplinary performance,” Monk creates works at the intersection of music and movement, image and object, light and sound in an effort to discover and weave together new modes of perception. On Behalf of Nature, a new music theater work inspired by the writings of Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, essayist and environmental activist Gary Snyder, will portray the human realm as just one layer in a multitude of realms within the natural world. This poetic meditation on the environment will focus on what the global community is in danger of losing, to challenge all who experience it to be more conscious of preserving and advocating on behalf of our shared natural world. Join the artists for a Talk Back following the performance. $35/$28 subscribers

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CLASSICAL, STRAIGHT UP The rich traditions of classical music, fully expressed in concert.

UMD Chamber Singers photo by Alison Harbaugh; facing page photo of Martinez-Urioste-Brey Trio by John Moore

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CLASSICAL, STRAIGHT UP

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MARYLAND OPERA STUDIO

Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, composer Nick Olcott, director Friday, November 16, 2012 . 7:30PM Sunday, November 18, 2012 . 3PM Monday, November 19, 2012 . 7:30PM Tuesday, November 20, 2012 . 7:30PM Kay Theatre

MARTINEZ-URIOSTE-BREY TRIO Gabriela Martinez, piano Elena Urioste, violin Carter Brey, cello Thursday, November 1, 2012 . 8PM Gildenhorn Recital Hall

Cellist Carter Brey, violinist Elena Urioste and pianist Gabriela Martinez will perform works by Beethoven, Arensky and Ravel in their first appearance at the Center. The artists — each of whom has a wealth of musical experience and numerous accolades — formed as a chamber trio in the summer of 2011 and within days were invited to perform at the 2012 Ravinia Festival. Martinez is a prizewinner in the Anton G. Rubinstein and Van Cliburn international piano competitions; Urioste is a two-time laureate of the Sphinx Competition; and Brey, the 1981 prizewinner in the Rostropovich International Cello Competition, has also received the Gregor Piatigorsky Memorial Prize, an Avery Fisher Career Grant and Young Concert Artists’ Michaels Award. $40/$32 subscribers

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UMD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Mayron Tsong Plays Brahms

The Maryland Opera Studio’s annual piano opera — a staged work with minimal costumes and sets, accompanied only by piano — puts the voices of the young performers squarely in the spotlight.

Die Zauberflöte, Mozart’s last opera, is a mysterious fairy tale of good and evil. Innocents Tamino and Pamina search for the truth in a confusing landscape full of serpents, spirits, sorcerers and priests.

Who can they trust? On what can they rely?

And will Papageno ever find a girl of his very own?

The Magic Flute (as it is known in English) sounds as fresh today as it did in 1791 and is the perfect introduction for the first-time operagoer, whether child or adult. $25/$20 subscribers

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UMD CHAMBER SINGERS UNIVERSITY CHORALE

Masterworks from 20th Century France

Edward Maclary, conductor, UMD Chamber Singers Scot Hanna-Weir & Cindy Bauchspies, conductors, University Chorale Sunday, November 18, 2012 . 7:30PM Dekelboum Concert Hall

The School of Music’s two critically acclaimed groups join forces in a concert that includes Poulenc’s Quatre motets pour le temps de Noël and Figure humaine; Duruflé’s Quatre motets and Ravel’s Trois Chansons.

James Ross, conductor Mayron Tsong, piano Sunday, November 4, 2012 . 3PM Dekelboum Concert Hall

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Faculty artist Mayron Tsong plays Brahms’s Piano Concerto No. 1. Also on the program: Debussy’s Nuages and Fêtes from Nocturnes and Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 1.

Concerto for 2 Oboes and Till Eulenspiegel

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UMD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA James Ross, conductor Emily Knaapen, oboe Emily Tsai, oboe Saturday, December 8, 2012 . 8PM Dekelboum Concert Hall

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UMD School of Music: Music in Mind

UMD CHAMBER SINGERS The Festive Baroque

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MARYLAND OPERA STUDIO UMD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA La Bohème

Kenneth Slowik, conductor Sunday, December 9, 2012 . 3PM Dekelboum Concert Hall

Students and faculty join together for a performance of Bach’s Magnificat, also known as the Song of Mary or Canticle of Mary. Bach first composed a version for Christmas in 1723 and then reworked that music 10 years later for the Feast of the Visitation.

The Latin text is the canticle of Mary, mother of Jesus, as told in the Gospel of Luke. Proceeds from Music in Mind concerts benefit the School of Music’s undergraduate scholarship fund. $25/$20 subscribers

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MARYLAND OPERA STUDIO UMD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Idomeneo

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, composer Giambattista Varesco, libretto Friday, April 12, 2013 . 7:30PM Sunday, April 14, 2013 . 3PM Thursday, April 18, 2013 . 7:30PM Saturday, April 20, 2013 . 7:30PM Kay Theatre

Revenge, jealousy, love, betrayal and forgiveness — it’s the very stuff of opera. Mozart’s brilliance weaves them into a stunning musical and dramatic event.

Buffeted by the gods, survivors of the Trojan War move from the agony of loving your enemy to the joy of finding your love. Idomeneo premiered in Munich on January 29, 1781, conducted by the 25-year-old composer.

Giacomo Puccini, composer Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica, libretto Saturday, April 13, 2013 . 7:30PM Wednesday, April 17, 2013 . 7:30PM Friday, April 19, 2013 . 7:30PM Sunday, April 21, 2013 . 3PM Kay Theatre

Before RENT, there was La Bohème, perhaps the world’s most beloved opera. In the tempestuous demimonde of Parisian artists, poets and philosophers, Mimi and Rodolfo pursue their ill-fated love. La Bohème was a huge hit when Puccini premiered it in 1896 and its popularity has not waned. $35/$28 subscribers

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GRADUATE FELLOWSHIP CHAMBER ENSEMBLES French Impressions

Sunday, April 28, 2013 . 3PM Gildenhorn Recital Hall

The School of Music’s premier chamber ensembles, Aeolus String Quartet and SIREN Woodwind Quintet, have swiftly gained renown for their artistry. They share the stage for an afternoon of shimmering French repertoire, including Ravel’s String Quartet and Francaix’s Dixtuor. Proceeds from Music in Mind concerts benefit the School of Music’s undergraduate scholarship fund. $25/$20 subscribers

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UMD CONCERT CHOIR UMD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Maryland Opera Studio, La Bohème (2005), photo by Cory Weaver

Firebird

Edward Maclary, conductor, UMD Concert Choir James Ross, conductor, UMD Symphony Orchestra Friday, May 3, 2013 . 8PM Dekelboum Concert Hall

The UMD Concert Choir and the UMD Symphony Orchestra perform a concert of music

by Verdi and Stravinsky, including Sacred Pieces

by Verdi and The Firebird (complete ballet, 1910) by Stravinsky. $25/$20 subscribers

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David C. Driskell ARTIST AND ART HISTORIAN

It was 1964 and, as a young professor at Howard University in the Department of Art, I had a grant to travel to Europe. It was my first visit to Europe; I started out in Greece. And I wanted to recount some of my classical education, specifically Greek theater, so I went to the amphitheater at the base of the Acropolis to see a performance of The Birds by Aristophanes.

I couldn’t speak Greek, didn’t really understand the language, so I was surprised that I understood the emotions, the passion of the actors. I found myself laughing when everybody else was laughing, responding in the same way they did to the drama and the humor.

It gave me a sense of knowing that the arts are universal.

They move beyond barriers of language, of ethnicity, of anything else that seems to divide us.

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NAME AFRICAN HEART

AFRICAN HEART African-American culture and history take center stage.

Nolan Williams, Jr. photo courtesy of NEWorks Productions; facing page photo of David C. Driskell by Alison Harbaugh

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UMD School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies

IN THE RED AND BROWN WATER Scot Reese, director Friday, November 9, 2012 . 8PM Saturday, November 10, 2012 . 2PM & 8PM Sunday, November 11, 2012 . 2PM Tuesday, November 13, 2012 . 7:30PM Wednesday, November 14, 2012 . 7:30PM Thursday, November 15, 2012 . 7:30PM Friday, November 16, 2012 . 8PM Kogod Theatre

In the Red and Brown Water, the first work in Tarell Alvin McCraney’s The Brother/Sister Plays trilogy, draws on folk tales, Yoruba mythology and contemporary poets and playwrights to tell a coming-of-age story set in a Louisiana bayou housing project. The main character, Oya, is a teenage sprinter looking for a way out of her limited circumstances. McCraney’s spare, muscular language and inventive approach elevates Oya’s ordinary life — and the lives of those around her — into a semi-mythic story of universally shared human experience. $25/$20 subscribers

NOLAN WILLIAMS, JR. VOICES OF INSPIRATION SHIRLEY MURDOCK JOHN STODDART

“Christmas Gift” A Celebration of African-American Holiday Traditions through Music and Spoken Word Nolan Williams, artistic director Friday, December 14, 2012 . 8PM Saturday, December 15, 2012 . 8PM Kay Theatre

Nolan Williams, Jr. has been immersed in the sounds and rhythms of African-American song throughout his life. A composer, director and the CEO of NEWorks Productions, he has collaborated with artists from Aretha Franklin to the National Symphony Orchestra and was a community partner in the Fortune’s Bones project during the 2011-2012 season.

He premieres at the Center this holiday presentation of new and time-honored Christmas music — from African-American spirituals and gospel to jazz and R&B — woven together with selected readings from African-American poets like Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston and Paul Laurence Dunbar.

Inspired by the groundbreaking publication, Christmas Gif’: An Anthology of Christmas Poems, Songs, and Stories written by and about African-

Americans, this is an inspiring holiday production for the entire family featuring musical performances

by R&B legend Shirley Murdock, singer/songwriter John Stoddart and the Voices of Inspiration.

Join the artists for a Talk Back after the December 14 performance. $35/$28 subscribers

BRANFORD MARSALIS DAVID C. DRISKELL

Pre-performance Discussion Friday, February 15, 2013 . 6:30PM Dekelboum Concert Hall

Two artists with abiding connections to African-American visual art will discuss the influence of jazz on the artists who create this work.

David C. Driskell has taken a leading role in bringing African-American art into the mainstream of American society through his own artwork and writing. Since 1977, as a professor of art at the University of Maryland, he has focused attention on black artists as they fight for survival and search for identity in the United States. Saxophonist Branford Marsalis has a particular interest in the works of renowned artist Romare Bearden and in 2003 produced a jazz album paying tribute to Bearden in conjunction with a major Bearden retrospective at the National Gallery of Art. FREE

AN EVENING WITH BRANFORD MARSALIS Friday, February 15, 2013 . 8PM Dekelboum Concert Hall

Branford Marsalis and his quartet will perform an evening of music in conjunction with the opening of a new exhibit at the David C. Driskell Center, highlighting African-American artists inspired by jazz. A man of numerous musical interests — including jazz, blues, funk and modern classical works — Marsalis first gained acclaim through his work with Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers and his brother Wynton’s quintet before forming his own ensemble. The three-time Grammy winner continues to expand his skills as an instrumentalist and composer. As head of Marsalis Music, the label he founded in 2002, he produces both his own projects and those of the jazz world’s most promising new and established artists. $35/$28 subscribers Additional sponsoring partnership with the American Jazz Museum in Kansas City.

Branford Marsalis most recently appeared at the Center in the 2005-2006 season.

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AFRICAN HEART

Branford Marsalis photo by Eric Ryan Anderson

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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.

‘There’s a place for us, somewhere a place for us …

Wait for us, somewhere.’

The eyes of my fierce big sister shone bright with fear as she and her friends faced the audience, holding hands tightly as they sang Stephen Sondheim’s lyrics to Leonard Bernstein’s music from West Side Story.

‘We’ll find a new way of living, we’ll find a way of forgiving, somewhere. …Hold my hand and we’re halfway there, hold my hand and I’ll take you there.

Somehow, someday, somewhere.’

I understood, down to my bones, how the stage allowed them to say what they would not be allowed to say any other way. Every performance I see is still filtered through that first, fundamental lesson of the voice-giving power of the stage.

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JAZZ WITH A TWIST

JAZZ WITH A TWIST Unique partnerships lead to intriguing musical adventures.

UMD Jazz Ensemble photo by Alison Harbaugh; facing page photo of Sheri Parks by Alison Harbaugh

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UMD School of Music: Music in Mind

THE JAZZ PROFESSORS Chris Gekker, trumpet Chris Vadala, saxophone Sunday, November 18, 2012 . 3PM Gildenhorn Recital Hall

NINETY MILES

A recital in two parts featuring the music of traditional composers influenced by the jazz idiom, including works by David Heinick, Larry Bell and Aaron Copland. The second half features the “Jazz Professors” in music by Jelly Roll Morton, Duke Ellington, Dave Brubeck and Thelonius Monk. Proceeds from Music in Mind concerts benefit the School of Music’s undergraduate scholarship fund. $25/$20 subscribers

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UMD JAZZ ENSEMBLE UMD LAB JAZZ BAND UNIVERSITY JAZZ BAND Winter Big Band Showcase

Chris Vadala, music director Wednesday, December 5, 2012 . 7:30PM Kay Theatre

Director Chris Vadala brings together three ensembles in innovative interpretations of classic and contemporary jazz works in this annual event. $30/$24 subscribers

Stefon Harris, vibraphone Nicholas Payton, trumpet David Sánchez, saxophone Friday, April 26, 2013 . 8PM Kay Theatre

The distance between the coastal United States and Cuba is a short 90 miles but politics and history have sometimes made the distance seem insurmountable. The Ninety Miles Project brought leading Cuban and American jazz musicians together to make music that both highlights and synthesizes their different cultures.

The program at the Center features three American-based artists — vibist Stefon Harris, trumpeter Nicholas Payton and saxophonist David Sánchez — who perform a distinctly unique collection of songs inspired by this Cuban-American collaboration. $35/$28 subscribers

BRAD MEHLDAU, PIANO CHRIS THILE, MANDOLIN

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Friday, April 12, 2013 . 8PM Gildenhorn Recital Hall

Pianist Brad Mehldau is first and foremost an improviser who cherishes the surprise and wonder that can occur from a spontaneous musical idea expressed directly, in real time.

But he also has a deep fascination for the formal architecture of music. Chris Thile is best known as the mandolinist and a singer for the progressive alt-bluegrass trio Nickel Creek but he has also collaborated with artists like Béla Fleck, Mark O’Connor, Aoife O’Donovan, Edgar Meyer and Yo-Yo Ma. Together, these two artists take music in unexpected directions. John Fordham of The Guardian (UK) remarked of one of their recent performances, “… their musicality and sympathy for each other’s emerging ideas made [this concert] an unexpected tour de force.” $35/$28 subscribers

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JAZZ WITH A TWIST

clockwise from top left: Chris Gekker; Stefon Harris photo by Jimmy Katz; Brad Mehldau; Chris Thile

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Hasan Elahi MEDIA ARTIST UMD PROFESSOR OF DIGITAL MEDIA

I work in a field where I don’t really know what field I work in.

And I’m okay with that. I’m fascinated by work that challenges my ideas and my preconceived notions, things that really take me out of a comfort zone. I’m okay with just being an artist. It allows me to jump from place to place to place to place to place, or from content to content, without having to categorize what kind of response people should have to what it is that I do.

One of my most formative experiences was the first time I heard Kronos Quartet. I was just a punk teenager in one of these noise death metal bands and a friend of mine said, “Hey, check this out.”

We had these piles of cassettes at his house in New York.

He always had very eclectic tastes in music.

So I was a teenager — which meant I knew everything — and I had my idea of what music was. I knew what I liked and what I didn’t like. And then I heard Kronos and I’m thinking “What is this? Wait, you mean this is possible?” It really challenged me to try to understand how the music made sense. It really made me rethink what music is.

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MASTERS RE-IMAGINED

MASTERS RE-IMAGINED Contemporary performances provide new perspectives on the masterworks of musical legends.

Marie Lenormand of New York Festival of Song photo by Fadil Berish; facing page photo of Hasan Elahi by Alison Harbaugh

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ANTHONY DE MARE, PIANO

Liaisons: Re-imagining Sondheim from the Piano Friday, September 21, 2012 . 8PM Gildenhorn Recital Hall

Theatre lovers and music lovers alike know the works of Stephen Sondheim.

But how many fully appreciate the power and complexity of Sondheim’s familiar compositions? In a multi-year project undertaken with the composer’s blessing, Anthony de Mare has invited 36 of the world’s foremost contemporary composers to each re-imagine a Sondheim song of their choosing, scored for solo piano.

This performance will feature 20 pieces, including a Center-commissioned work by Frederic Rzewski entitled The News inspired by “I’m Still Here” from Follies.

Other works include “Epiphany” from Sweeney Todd, re-imagined by John Musto; “Being Alive” from Company, re-imagined by Gabriel Kahane; and “Send in the Clowns” from A Little Night Music, re-imagined by Ethan Iverson. $35/$28 subscribers

Anthony de Mare presented the Center premiere of Liaisons, featuring Center-commissioned works by composers Jake Heggie, Bernadette Speach and Kenji Bunch (2010-2011).

SFJAZZ COLLECTIVE

The Music of Chick Corea and New Compositions David Sánchez, tenor saxophone Avishai Cohen, trumpet Robin Eubanks, trombone Stefon Harris, vibraphone Edward Simon, piano Matt Penman, bass Jeff Ballard, drums Miguel Zenón, alto saxophone Friday, October 12, 2012 . 8PM Kay Theatre

The SFJAZZ Collective, an all-star ensemble of leading jazz performers/composers, will be in residency for a week at the Center, rehearsing and preparing for this new program. The Music of Chick Corea and New Compositions, which will receive its world premiere here on October 12, will include eight new arrangements of Corea works as well as eight new compositions by Collective members, commissioned by SFJAZZ. In past seasons, the Collective has performed works by Stevie Wonder, Horace Silver, Wayne Shorter, Thelonious Monk, Ornette Coleman and other musical masters. $35/$28 subscribers

SFJAZZ Collective most recently appeared at the Center in The Music of Horace Silver (2010-2011).

from top: Anthony de Mare; Stefon Harris and Jeff Ballard of SFJAZZ Collective photos by Walt Denson

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MASTERS RE-IMAGINED

UMD Symphony Orchestra by Alison Harbaugh

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NEW YORK FESTIVAL OF SONG Jacques Brel and Charles Trenet Revisited Thursday, February 21, 2013 . 8PM Gildenhorn Recital Hall

New York Festival of Song is renowned for its intimate, original ensemble song programs consisting almost exclusively of rarely heard songs of all kinds. This program celebrates two of the twentieth century’s greatest balladeers, the Belgian-born Jacques Brel and Frenchman Charles Trenet. Brel’s literate, thoughtful and theatrical songs generated a large, devoted following, initially in France and later throughout the world. Trenet, whose best-known song is La mer, wrote nearly a thousand songs in his lifetime and in an era in which it was exceptional for a singer to write his or her own material, he declined to record any but his own songs. The program will include some of the most famous pieces by these two artists: Brel’s Ne me quitte pas and Madeleine and Trenet’s Que reste-t-il de nos amours and La mer, along with many of their lesser-known treasures. $45/$36 subscribers

The New York Festival of Song most recently appeared at the Center in Manning the Canon (2011-2012).

UMD School of Music: Music in Mind

UMD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Les Illuminations

James Ross, conductor Doug Fitch, designer Gran Wilson, tenor Saturday, March 9, 2013 . 8PM Dekelboum Concert Hall

The program will include Britten’s Les Illuminations, with lighting and stage design by Doug Fitch. Renowned for his multimedia spectacles for symphonic and opera productions — including work with the New York Philharmonic, Santa Fe Opera, Tanglewood and others — Fitch previously collaborated with UMSO conductor James Ross on UMSO’s 2008 presentation of Petrushka. Les Illuminations also features new School of Music voice faculty member, tenor Gran Wilson. Also on the program: Mahler’s Symphony No. 7. Proceeds from Music in Mind concerts benefit the School of Music’s undergraduate scholarship fund. $25/$20 subscribers

WINDSCAPE QUINTET Tara Helen O’Connor, flute Randall Ellis, oboe Alan R. Kay, clarinet Frank Morelli, bassoon David Jolley, horn Thursday, April 4, 2013 . 8PM Gildenhorn Recital Hall

An ever-evolving group of musical individualists, Windscape is an “unquintet” whose innovative programs and presentations take listeners on a musical and historical world tour. They will perform Bach/Kay Fantasia and Fugue in G Minor; Ginastera/Kay Danzas argentinas; and Dvořák/Jolley Quintet in E-flat Major, Op. 51. The UMD School of Music graduate wind quintet SIREN will join Windscape in performing Émile Bernard’s Divertissement for Double Wind Quintet. $30/$24 subscribers

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OPENING DOORS

OPENING DOORS Programs with universal appeal.

UMD Wind Ensemble by Alison Harbaugh; facing page photo of Windscape by Jeffrey Hornstein

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UMD School of Music

UMD WIND ENSEMBLE UNIVERSITY BAND COMMUNITY BAND

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Kaleidoscope of Bands

Friday, December 7, 2012 . 8PM Dekelboum Concert Hall

Praised by our audiences for its varied repertoire and high-quality performances, this annual event has a loyal following. Spirit and spectacle combine in a two-hour extravaganza that features the finest wind repertoire plus the ever-popular Mighty Sound of Maryland Marching Band. $30/$24 subscribers

MARYLAND DAY Saturday, April 27, 2013 . 10AM–4PM

This community open house has something for the entire family at sites throughout the Center, including performance venues, studios and backstage shops.

FREE

UMD School of Music

UMD WIND ENSEMBLE UNIVERSITY BAND COMMUNITY BAND Annual Pops Concert

L. Richmond Sparks, music director Saturday, May 4, 2013 . 8PM Dekelboum Concert Hall

With 37 years and running, the Annual Pops Concert is a big hit with audiences. We guarantee you will walk out humming one or more tunes from this lighter fare of great classic music. $25/$20 subscribers

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FREE PARKING FOR THE SEASON! See page 60 for details

NATIONAL ORCHESTRAL INSTITUTE

JUNE 8–29, 2013 JA M E S RO S S ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

Now celebrating its 26th 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 June 8 and June 29, 2013; additional free events are open to the public. Join the exploration!

photos by Stan Barouh and Alison Harbaugh

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SUPPORT THE EXTRAORDINARY The performing arts have extraordinary power. They give us new ways of seeing ourselves.

They inspire us to connect with others. They change us — and through us, the world.

The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center has set the standard for university performing arts centers by integrating a vibrant visiting artist program with resident academic programs and community engagement, thus deepening the artistic and educational experience for everyone.

Your contribution ensures that the Center has the resources to provide opportunities for learning, exploration and growth and to foster innovation at the highest level.

These opportunities reflect the excellence that our community has come to expect.

We invite you to embark upon this extraordinary journey with us!

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DONORS

A favorite thing of ours is to see new operas. We go a lot of places — Houston, Chicago, New York — but one of the best performances we ever saw anywhere was right here at the Clarice Smith Center several years ago when we saw Tales of Hoffman.

Harold and Martha Quayle DONORS

donors, clockwise from top left: Eirik & Brenda Cooper, Harold and Martha Quayle, Robert and Patricia Knight, Gene and Esther Herman. Photos by Alison Harbaugh

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Robert Garner DONOR

I first arrived at College Park in August 2002 to rehearse with the marching band. There’s no real way to describe the joy and sense of belonging you get immediately upon finding a group of 250 people who all feel the same passion that you do. It essentially is a very large family, and at an institution like Maryland it’s really important to find a family to be a part of. And I found one.

In 2007, the marching band went down to New Orleans as part of Habitat for Humanity’s relief efforts for Hurricane Katrina.

By day our instruments were hammers and drills and miter boxes.

And in the evening our instruments were what we were most familiar with, horns and clarinets and things like that. The reaction the community had to all of us being down there is something I’m going to take with me the rest of my life, and it wouldn’t have been possible without my marching band family.

Robert Garner photo by Alison Harbaugh

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YOUR CONTRIBUTIONS CHANGE LIVES AUDIENCE ENGAGEMENT

COMMISSIONS AND PREMIERES

NORA CHIPAUMIRE

LAURIE ANDERSON AND KRONOS QUARTET

African-born choreographer and dancer Nora Chipaumire will present her new work MIRIAM and will engage in a year-long residency involving the Prince George’s African American Museum & Cultural Center, the Maryland Women’s Heritage Center and the new National Museum of Women’s History.

These boundary-breaking artists will return in the 2012-2013 season to collaborate on the world-premiere performance of an original piece by Anderson, commissioned by the Center.

In the last 10 years, the Center has commissioned more than 40 new works and debuted many of them with the creative input of both students and faculty.

MIRIAM

VISITING ARTISTS PROGRAM

SFJAZZ COLLECTIVE

SFJAZZ Collective will be in residency for a week before their October 12 performance here, rehearsing and preparing for the world-premiere presentation of The Music of Chick Corea and New Compositions. This residency marks the first time the company will create and rehearse one of its tours outside of its home space in San Francisco or in a professional studio in New York.

SCHOLARSHIPS

CONOR VOSS Undergraduate in Dance, School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies “Scholarships have allowed me to supplement the strong training I am receiving at Maryland with workshops, intensives, study-abroad opportunities and professional projects.

Recognition from the UMD School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies validates the work I am doing and encourages me to take even larger risks with my artistry.”

ALL GIFTS, REGARDLESS OF SIZE, HAVE THE POWER TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE. CALL 301.405.5550 TO MAKE YOUR GIFT TODAY. Gifts in support of the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center are managed by the University of Maryland College Park Foundation, Inc., an affiliated 501(c)(3) organization authorized by the Board of Regents.

Contributions to the University of Maryland are tax deductible as allowed by law. Please see your tax advisor for details.

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WE ARE GRATEFUL TO THESE INSTITUTIONAL SPONSORS FOR THEIR GENEROUS INVESTMENT IN OUR SEASON The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center is supported by a grant from the MARYLAND STATE ARTS COUNCIL, an agency dedicated to cultivating a vibrant cultural community where the arts thrive. Funding for the Maryland State Arts Council is also provided by the NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS, a federal agency.

This season is supported in part by an award from the NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS.

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Meriam Rosen

THE FOUNDERS SOCIETY Given the opportunity, most of us would like to leave a legacy to organizations we valued in our lifetime. Planned giving is a constructive way to consider gifts that exceed outright gifts of cash or appreciated securities.

The Founders Society at the University of Maryland honors all benefactors, living and deceased, whose gifts through bequests, trusts or other planned gifts — such as charitable gift annuities, charitable remainder trusts, charitable lead trusts, life insurance, etc. — help to ensure the excellence of the University and its programs.

For the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, a planned gift gives us the opportunity to partner with donors who wish to ensure that future audiences have transformational performing arts experiences at Maryland. Every donor can make an impact through a planned gift!

FOR MORE INFORMATION, PLEASE CONTACT EDWARD LEWIS AT 301.405.8178.

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20% OFF ALL TICKETS

We reserve our best seats for our most loyal customers.

You receive 20% off your subscription tickets as well as any additional tickets you purchase throughout the season.

Parking passes are valid for all Center performances after 4PM on weekdays and any time on weekends.

See page 65 for rules and restrictions. Add your parking pass to the ticket order form on page 63.

PURCHASING TICKETS ACCESSIBILITY SEATING AND ACCOMMODATIONS

Online:

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By phone:

301.405.ARTS (301.405.2787)

In person:

The ticket office, located in the lobby of the Center, is open 11AM – 9PM, 7 days a week during the season. Hours are reduced during breaks in the academic year and on non-performance days.

Reduced hours are posted to our website as well as available through our automated phone system.

By mail:

Patron Services 3800 Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center University of Maryland College Park, MD 20742-1625

We accept Visa, MasterCard, Discover and American Express, Terrapin Express, cash and personal checks.

Make checks payable to the University of Maryland.

Subscriptions are processed in the order in which they are received.

The Clarice Smith Center is committed to making its performances and facilities accessible to all visitors.

Accessibility services offered include large-print programs, assistive listening devices, sign language interpretation upon request (three weeks notice, please), wheelchair accessible seating and accessible parking.

A complete list of services and accommodations can be found online (click About the Center / Accessibility) or in our accessibility services brochure. For additional information or to request a specific accommodation please contact Patron Services at 301.405.ARTS (voice) or access.claricesmith@umd.edu.

EXCHANGES, RETURNS AND TICKET DONATIONS Unless otherwise noted, tickets may be exchanged or returned up to 24 hours before performance time. On the day of a performance, there is a fee of $2 per ticket for changing seat assignments.

3 WAYS TO SAVE BUILD YOUR SUBSCRIPTION PACKAGE ONLINE at

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GROUP SALES

A great performing arts event is even better in the company of your friends.

Experience a performance together, talk about your reactions — AND get a discount.

Here are some excellent reasons to take advantage of our group sales program.

DEEP DISCOUNTS Groups of 10 or more are eligible for our group discount of 20% for all tickets. Children under 18 and college You may donate your tickets up to 24 hours in students with a student ID are always eligible for our $10 student tickets and would not be included in the group. advance of the performance to the Center and the value of your tickets is tax-deductible.

PRIORITY SEATING AND PERSONAL ATTENTION

You’ll receive personal service from the Ticketing Coordinator, who will ensure that your group gets the best seats and that we meet your accessibility needs.

We’ll provide detailed seating maps, dining advice and directions, including parking information for buses. There are also opportunities for groups to have pre- or post-performance receptions (additional fees may apply).

FLEXIBLE PAYMENT PLAN FOR GROUPS

Pay a 50% deposit at time of reservation and 50% one month prior to the performance.

A group can be anyone: church groups, clubs, corporate entities or just a group of friends getting together to enjoy a night out.

Group tickets may not be exchanged or refunded.

CALL 301.405.7236 TO DISCUSS YOUR GROUP’S ATTENDANCE AT THE CLARICE SMITH PERFORMING ARTS CENTER TODAY!

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Ruth Watkins THEATRE MAJOR, UMD SCHOOL OF THEATRE, DANCE, AND PERFORMANCE STUDIES MARKETING MAJOR, UMD ROBERT H. SMITH SCHOOL OF BUSINESS

I spent my last semester abroad in London, which was fantastic and I was able to do it partially because I had received a scholarship from the donors at the Clarice Smith Center. Towards the end of my trip I made sure I went to see War Horse, which blew my mind — and that’s actually a bit of an understatement because I cried the entire 20 minutes walking home from the West End to my flat. And I called my friend Johnny who had seen it before and here I was, making an international call, crying and in absolute hysterics about how beautiful the show was — the aesthetics, the storytelling and, of course, the puppetry.

I’m part of Pointless Theatre Company, which was founded by UMD students and does a lot of puppet work in DC. And it was just incredibly inspiring for me as a young artist and as a young college kid to see something on a commercial stage, where puppets are typically marginalized, that uses puppets in an area of mass appeal. The best part was seeing that there is an audience for the kind of theater I want to do. It showed me you can tell a simple story about human goodness, human kindness and relationships and it can be beautiful and it can sell.

Ruth Watkins photo by Alison Harbaugh

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VISITING THE CENTER DIRECTIONS Visit claricesmithcenter.umd.edu/parking for specific directions to the Center by car and by public transportation.

USING A GPS? Campus buildings do not have street addresses, but most Global Positioning Systems can locate the Clarice Smith Center with the following data: • The intersection of Stadium Drive and Route 193, College Park, MD 20742 Ludwig Field & Kehoe Track

• Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center (for systems using Google Maps) • Latitude & Longitude: (38.990777, -76.950611)

PARKING OPTION 1: FREE PARKING IN LOT 1 After 4PM Monday-Friday and any time on Saturday and Sunday, visitors may park for free in Lot 1, the large surface lot just beyond the Center.

OPTION 2: PAY STATIONS IN STADIUM DRIVE GARAGE Stadium Drive Garage is equipped with pay stations to purchase parking in increments of 15 minutes, hours or the whole day.

There are 5 pay stations located at the pedestrian entrances/exits to the garage. You can pay for time with credit card or cash at any of the pay stations or with credit card only by calling 888.580.PARK [7275].

1. Park in garage.

2. Take note of your space number.

3. Make payment.

4. Optional: Add additional time later either at a pay station or by using your cell phone.

The pay stations will issue a paper receipt for your records, which you do not need to display in your vehicle.

We also offer season parking in the Stadium Drive Garage for only $30.

To learn more, visit claricesmithcenter.umd.edu/parking.

Note: Pay stations do not issue change.

Lost or stolen parking passes cannot be replaced.

New passes may be purchased for $30.

OPTION 3: PURCHASE A SEASON PARKING PASS FOR THE STADIUM DRIVE GARAGE

Parking passes are valid after 4PM Monday through Friday and all day Saturday and Sunday.

If you will be attending more than 3 performances at the Center, free or ticketed, purchasing a parking pass for the Stadium Drive Garage may be your best bet. Parking passes are available for $30 and are valid in the Stadium Drive Garage after 4PM Monday through Friday and any time on Saturday and Sunday, except during home football games.

Parking passes may not be sold or transferred.

FULL DETAILS ON PARKING CAN BE FOUND AT CLARICESMITHCENTER.UMD.EDU/PARKING OR BY CALLING OUR BOX OFFICE AT 301.405.ARTS (2787).

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2012-2013 SEASON SEPTEMBER Season Opening Event!

PAUL TAYLOR DANCE COMPANY page 8

UMD School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies

UMD School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies

Like a Unicorn in Captivity: Love Letters and Other Short Stories

Breath, Rhythm, Flight

SHARED MFA THESIS CONCERT page 8

Saturday, September 8, 2012 . 8PM

Shannon Dooling, choreographer

SITI COMPANY page 15

Xuejuan Feng, choreographer Thursday, October 18, 2012 . 8PM Friday, October 19, 2012 . 8PM

Café Variations

Thursday, September 20, 2012 . 8PM Friday, September 21, 2012 . 8PM

ANTHONY DE MARE, PIANO page 48 Liaisons: Re-imagining Sondheim from the Piano Friday, September 21, 2012 . 8PM

UMD School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies

A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM/ page 21

A Heartbeat Away... A World Apart

ETHEL

page 24 WITH SPECIAL GUEST TODD

Tell Me Something Good

Thursday, November 1, 2012 . 8PM

UMD School of Music

LUCKY PLUSH PRODUCTIONS page 15 The Better Half

Thursday, October 4, 2012 . 8PM Friday, October 5, 2012 . 8PM

RUNDGREN

MARTINEZ-URIOSTE-BREY TRIO page 35

Thursday, September 27 — Sunday, September 30, 2012

OCTOBER

UMD School of Music

NOVEMBER UMD School of Music

UMD WIND ORCHESTRA page 26 Graffito in Gabrieli’s Garden Friday, November 2, 2012 . 8PM

UMD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA page 35 Mayron Tsong Plays Brahms Sunday, November 4, 2012 . 3PM

UMD School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies

IN THE RED AND BROWN WATER page 40

UMD School of Music

Friday, November 9 — Friday, November 16, 2012

Tzigane

SHANGHAI QUARTET page 21

UMD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA page 24 Friday, October 5, 2012 . 8PM

UMD School of Music

UMD WIND ORCHESTRA page 24 Something Old. And New. And Maybe Borrowed Too. Sunday, October 7, 2012 . 3PM

SFJAZZ COLLECTIVE page 48 The Music of Chick Corea and New Compositions Friday, October 12, 2012 . 8PM

RINDE ECKERT page 15

And God Created Great Whales Wednesday, October 17, 2012 . 8PM Thursday, October 18, 2012 . 8PM Friday, October 19, 2012 . 8PM

Friday, November 30, 2012 . 8PM Saturday, December 1, 2012 . 2PM & 8PM

DECEMBER

Sunday, October 28, 2012 . 7PM

a co-production of UMD School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies and The National Academy of Chinese Theatre Arts

MARYLAND DANCE ENSEMBLE page 8

Thursday, November 15, 2012 . 8PM

UMD School of Music

MARYLAND OPERA STUDIO page 35 Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute) Friday, November 16, 2012 . 7:30PM Sunday, November 18, 2012 . 3PM Monday, November 19, 2012 . 7:30PM Tuesday, November 20, 2012 . 7:30PM

UMD JAZZ ENSEMBLE UMD LAB JAZZ BAND UNIVERSITY JAZZ BAND page 44 Winter Big Band Showcase

Wednesday, December 5, 2012 . 7:30PM

UMD School of Music

UMD WIND ORCHESTRA page 26 Music from Bach’s iPod

Thursday, December 6, 2012 . 8PM

UMD School of Music

UMD WIND ENSEMBLE page 52 UNIVERSITY BAND COMMUNITY BAND Kaleidoscope of Bands

Friday, December 7, 2012 . 8PM

UMD School of Music

UMD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA page 35 Concerto for 2 Oboes and Till Eulenspiegel Saturday, December 8, 2012 . 8PM

UMD School of Music: Music in Mind

UMD CHAMBER SINGERS page 36 The Festive Baroque

Sunday, December 9, 2012 . 3PM

NOLAN WILLIAMS, JR. VOICES OF INSPIRATION SHIRLEY MURDOCK JOHN STODDART page 40

“Christmas Gift” A Celebration of African-American Holiday Traditions through Music and Spoken Word Friday, December 14, 2012 . 8PM Saturday, December 15, 2012 . 8PM

UMD School of Music: Music in Mind

JANUARY

Sunday, November 18, 2012 . 3PM

30TH ANNUAL CHOREOGRAPHERS’ SHOWCASE page 11

THE JAZZ PROFESSORS page 44 UMD School of Music

UMD CHAMBER SINGERS UNIVERSITY CHORALE page 35

Masterworks from 20th Century France Sunday, November 18, 2012 . 7:30PM

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Saturday, January 26, 2013 . 3PM & 8PM

FEBRUARY LAURIE ANDERSON AND KRONOS QUARTET page 33 Friday, February 1, 2013 . 8PM Saturday, February 2, 2013 . 8PM

UMD School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies

MFA IN PERFORMANCE page 11 Festival of New Works

Friday, February 1 — Saturday, February 16, 2013

BILL T. JONES/ARNIE ZANE DANCE COMPANY SITI COMPANY page 16

A Meditation on The Rite of Spring Friday, February 8, 2013 . 8PM Saturday, February 9, 2013 . 8PM

AN EVENING WITH BRANFORD MARSALIS page 40 Friday, February 15, 2013 . 8PM

NEW YORK FESTIVAL OF SONG page 50

Jacques Brel and Charles Trenet Revisited Thursday, February 21, 2013 . 8PM

UMD School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies

SHARED GRADUATE DANCE CONCERT page 11 Thursday, February 21, 2013 . 8PM Friday, February 22, 2013 . 8PM

UMD School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies

SHARED MFA THESIS CONCERT page 12 Apple Falling

Graham Brown, choreographer

Triumph of Disruption

Kwame Opare, choreographer Thursday, March 14, 2013 . 8PM Friday, March 15, 2013 . 8PM

WU MAN, SOLO PIPA page 21 Thursday, March 28, 2013 . 8PM

WINDSCAPE QUINTET page 50 Thursday, April 4, 2013 . 8PM

NORA CHIPAUMIRE OKWUI OKPOKWASILI page 33 MIRIAM

eighth blackbird page 26 Friday, March 8, 2013 . 8PM

UMD School of Music

UMD WIND ORCHESTRA page 26 The Poetry of Joseph Schwantner Friday, March 8, 2013 . 8PM

UMD School of Music: Music in Mind

UMD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA page 50 Les Illuminations

Thursday, April 25, 2013 . 8PM

NINETY MILES page 44 Friday, April 26, 2013 . 8PM UMD School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies

IN TIME OF ROSES page 16 MARYLAND DAY page 52 Saturday, April 27, 2013 . 10AM–4PM

UMD School of Music: Music in Mind

GRADUATE FELLOWSHIP CHAMBER ENSEMBLES page 36

MAY

BRAD MEHLDAU, PIANO CHRIS THILE, MANDOLIN page 44 Friday, April 12, 2013 . 8PM

UMD School of Music

UMD CONCERT CHOIR UMD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA page 36 Firebird

UMD School of Music

MARYLAND OPERA STUDIO UMD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA page 36 Idomeneo

UMD School of Music

DEAD MAN’S CELL PHONE page 12 Friday, March 1 — Saturday, March 9, 2013

Student Composition Reading

Sunday, April 28, 2013 . 3PM

Friday, March 1, 2013 . 8PM

UMD School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies

KRONOS QUARTET page 29

French Impressions

Thursday, April 4, 2013 . 8PM Friday, April 5, 2013 . 8PM Saturday, April 6, 2013 . 8PM

POST-CLASSICAL ENSEMBLE page 16 Dvořák’s American Works

Saturday, April 20, 2013 . 8PM

Friday, April 26 — Saturday, May 4, 2013

APRIL

Friday, April 12, 2013 . 7:30PM Sunday, April 14, 2013 . 3PM Thursday, April 18, 2013 . 7:30PM Saturday, April 20, 2013 . 7:30PM

MARCH

ORPHEUS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA WITH GABRIEL KAHANE page 28

MARYLAND OPERA STUDIO UMD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA page 36 La Bohème

Friday, May 3, 2013 . 8PM

MEREDITH MONK page 33 On Behalf of Nature

Saturday, May 4, 2013 . 8PM

UMD School of Music

UMD WIND ENSEMBLE UNIVERSITY BAND COMMUNITY BAND page 52 Annual Pops Concert

Saturday, May 4, 2013 . 8PM

Saturday, April 13, 2013 . 7:30PM Wednesday, April 17, 2013 . 7:30PM Friday, April 19, 2013 . 7:30PM Sunday, April 21, 2013 . 3PM

UMD School of Music

UMD School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies

… of a rare and special type …

MARYLAND DANCE ENSEMBLE page 12

UMD WIND ORCHESTRA MEMBERS OF

ORPHEUS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA page 29 Sunday, May 5, 2013 . 3PM

Demiurges

Thursday, April 18, 2013 . 8PM Friday, April 19, 2013 . 8PM Saturday, April 20, 2013 . 8PM Sunday, April 21, 2013 . 3PM

Saturday, March 9, 2013 . 8PM

E X T R AO R D I N A RY M I N D S . E X T R AO R D I N A RY S T O R I E S

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