The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center 2009-10 Spring Season Guide

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ALCHEMY AND OTHER REPERTOIRE

L.A. THEATRE WORKS

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Friday, February 5, 2010 . 8PM Saturday, February 6, 2010 . 8PM

RFK: THE JOURNEY TO JUSTICE Friday, January 29, 2010 . 8PM Saturday, January 30, 2010 . 8PM

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SHARED GRADUATE CONCERT

UM DEPARTMENT OF THEATRE IN ASSOCIATION WITH ROUND HOUSE THEATRE

HOTEL CASSIOPEIA

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Thursday, February 18, 2010 . 8PM Friday, February 19, 2010 . 8PM 10

Friday, February 12, 2010 . 8PM Saturday, February 13, 2010 . 8PM Sunday, February 14, 2010 . 2PM Wednesday, February 17, 2010 . 7:30PM Thursday, February 18, 2010 . 7:30PM Friday, February 19, 2010 . 8PM Saturday, February 20, 2010 . 2PM Saturday, February 20, 2010 . 8PM

UM DEPARTMENT OF DANCE

GEMINUSPACE and AMERICAN, AFRICAN – LINKED BY FATE, BY CHOICE AND BY BLOOD

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Thursday, March 4, 2010 . 8PM Friday, March 5, 2010 . 8PM

GESEL MASON

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WOMEN SEX & DESIRE: SOMETIMES YOU FEEL LIKE A ’HO, SOMETIMES YOU DON’T

UM DEPARTMENT OF THEATRE

THE BLUEST EYE

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Friday, March 5, 2010 . 8PM Saturday, March 6, 2010 . 2PM Saturday, March 6, 2010 . 8PM Sunday, March 7, 2010 . 2PM Tuesday, March 9, 2010 . 7:30PM Wednesday, March 10, 2010 . 7:30PM Thursday, March 11, 2010 . 7:30PM Friday, March 12, 2010 . 8PM

HAPPENSTANCE THEATER FARFAR OASIS and LOW TIDE HOTEL

Thursday, March 25, 2010 . 8PM Friday, March 26, 2010 . 8PM Saturday, March 27, 2010 . 8PM

UM DEPARTMENT OF DANCE

MARYLAND DANCE ENSEMBLE

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Thursday, April 15, 2010 . 8PM Friday, April 16, 2010 . 8PM Saturday, April 17, 2010 . 8PM Sunday, April 18, 2010 . 7:30PM 13

Music

Wednesday, March 10, 2010 . 8PM Thursday, March 11, 2010 . 8PM Friday, March 12, 2010 . 8PM

Orchestral Music

AMERICAN VOICES

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MUSIC IN MIND

UM DEPARTMENT OF THEATRE

Sunday, February 7, 2010 . 3PM

GILGAMESH

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Friday, April 23, 2010 . 8PM Sunday, April 25, 2010 . 2PM Wednesday, April 28, 2010 . 7:30PM Thursday, April 29, 2010 . 7:30PM Friday, April 30, 2010 . 8PM Saturday, May 1, 2010 . 2PM Saturday, May 1, 2010 . 8PM Sunday, May 2, 2010 . 2PM

THE SOUND OF LIGHT

DAVID GONZALEZ

THE HERO’S LIFE

WOUNDED SPLENDOR

UM SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

Friday, May 7, 2010 . 8PM

Friday, February 19, 2010 . 8PM

SOARING VOICES Saturday, February 20, 2010 . 8PM

Dance Saturday, January 30, 2010 . 3PM Saturday, January 30, 2010 . 8PM

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UM SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

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27TH ANNUAL CHOREOGRAPHERS’ SHOWCASE

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UM WIND ORCHESTRA

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Friday, March 26, 2010 . 8PM

FRIENDSHIP, LOVE AND A WORLD: THE TWO VIENNESE SCHOOLS 5

UM WIND ORCHESTRA Saturday, March 27, 2010 . 8PM

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MUSIC IN MIND Sunday, March 28, 2010 . 3PM

TITANS

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MUSIC IN MIND: UM SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Friday, April 30, 2010 . 8PM

ANNUAL "POPS" CONCERT

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6 Performance Venues in One Building All of the Center’s performance spaces are accessible from the main lobby.

Saturday, May 1, 2010 . 8PM

POST-MODERN/ROMANTIC-ISM

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UM WIND ORCHESTRA Thursday, May 6, 2010 . 8PM

NOI CHAMBER ORCHESTRA

The ELSIE & MARVIN DEKELBOUM CONCERT HALL (970 seats) enhances the sweeping sounds of large ensembles while providing each audience member with a wonderful view of the stage.

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Saturday, June 5, 2010 . 8PM

NOI PHILHARMONIC

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Saturday, June 12, 2010 . 8PM

NOI PHILHARMONIC

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Saturday, June 19, 2010 . 8PM

NOI PHILHARMONIC

The JOSEPH & ALMA GILDENHORN RECITAL HALL (300 seats) is an intimate jewel-box theatre with bright acoustics.

The INA & JACK KAY THEATRE (600 seats), a classic proscenium theatre, is a warm and inviting space with excellent sight lines.

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Saturday, June 26, 2010 . 8PM Jazz, World Music and Roots

JOSHUA REDMAN TRIO

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Sunday, February 21, 2010 . 6PM

SÉRGIO AND ODAIR ASSAD

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The ROBERT & ARLENE KOGOD THEATRE is a flexible black box space that can accommodate up to 175 patrons.

The DANCE THEATRE (200 seats) offers space for performances, lectures, workshops and rehearsals.

DE VOLTA AS RAIZES Sunday, April 11, 2010 . 6PM Chamber Music

MARK O’CONNOR SOLO VIOLIN RECITAL

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Wednesday, February 24, 2010 . 8PM

PEABODY TRIO

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Friday, March 5, 2010 . 8PM Contemporary Music

KRONOS QUARTET AND WU MAN, PIPA

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A CHINESE HOME Friday, February 12, 2010 . 8PM

SLIDE eighth blackbird RINDE ECKERT and STEVE MACKEY

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Friday, April 9, 2010 . 8PM Saturday, April 10, 2010 . 8PM

The THE MORRIS & GWENDOLYN CAFRITZ FOUNDATION THEATRE is a multi-use black box theatre that is often the site for exciting exploration in the arts.

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Vocal Music

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Sunday, February 28, 2010 . 3PM Choral Music

UNIVERSITY CHORALE

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Saturday, April 17, 2010 . 7:30PM Sunday, April 18, 2010 . 6PM Wednesday, April 21, 2010 . 7:30PM Friday, April 23, 2010 . 7:30PM Sunday, April 25, 2010 . 3PM

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Who shapes our destiny?

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JANUARY 2010

January 29 & 30 . 8PM

L.A. THEATRE WORKS

RFK: THE JOURNEY TO JUSTICE

Co-commissioned by the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center.

Join us after each performance for a Talk Back with the artists.

by Murray Horwitz and Jonathan Estrin producing director Susan Albert Loewenberg LATW’s new docudrama chronicles Robert F. Kennedy’s transformation into a champion of civil rights and a crusader in the Civil Rights Movement.

The story illuminates the crucial decade during which the movement reached fruition, refracting the words, events and issues of the time through RFK’s experiences. This staged radio play reveals the parallel journeys of RFK and Martin Luther King Jr. as one changed the world through powerful oratory and public leadership, and the other through quiet tactical maneuvers behind the closed doors of his brother’s White House.

KAY THEATRE

TICKETS: $37

FREE ENGAGEMENT EVENT January 29 & 30 . 7PM

THE JOURNEY TO JUSTICE PRE-PERFORMANCE DISCUSSIONS Join expert panelists before each performance for a discussion with Q & A. Panelists will include RFK’s former press secretary and acclaimed journalist Frank Mankiewicz and Murray Horwitz, playwright of RFK: The Journey to Justice. Check our website for additional panelist information and discussion subjects.

GILDENHORN RECITAL HALL

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Saturday, January 30 . 3PM & 8PM

27TH ANNUAL CHOREOGRAPHERS’ SHOWCASE Join us after each performance for a Talk Back with the choreographers.

Numerous up-and-coming dance artists make their homes in Maryland, Virginia and DC. The Clarice Smith Center and the Maryland-National Capital Park & Planning Commission collaborate once again to spotlight diverse and fresh talents from the region’s dance community in this adjudicated mixed program. Featured choreographers include UM Dance student Christina Jackson; UM grad Tzveta Kassabova; Adrienne Clancy and Sandra Lacy; Srividya Angara; Maurice Fraga; and Justin Bellamy.

DANCE THEATRE

TICKETS: $25

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February 5 & 6 . 8PM

DOUG VARONE & DANCERS

ALCHEMY AND OTHER REPERTOIRE Doug Varone & Dancers return to the Center with a program that pairs lyrical and lush movement with the music of contemporary masters: Short Story, a duet with music by Sergei Rachmaninoff, Rise, a work for the full company with music by John Adams; and Varone’s newest work, Alchemy. Alchemy takes inspiration from Steve Reich’s Daniel Variations, a score that juxtaposes text from the biblical book of Daniel and the words of Daniel Pearl, the American Jewish reporter kidnapped and murdered by Islamic extremists in Pakistan in 2002. The music pays homage to all victims who, in the face of violence and cruelty, courageously reveal the dignity and beauty of humanity. As Daniel Pearl’s widow Mariane writes, “In the end, you can only oppose them with the strength they think they have taken away from you.”

KAY THEATRE

TICKETS: $37

FREE ENGAGEMENT EVENT Friday, February 5 . 7PM

CREATING ALCHEMY Join performance critic and historian Suzanne Carbonneau and choreographer Doug Varone in a public conversation to explore the inspiration for and creation of his powerful dance piece Alchemy.

LEAH M. SMITH ROOM 2200 FREE

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BRADFORD GOWEN

EVELYN ELSING

LINDA MABBS

Barbara K. Steppel Memorial Faculty Fellow

Sunday, February 7 . 3PM UM SCHOOL OF MUSIC: MUSIC IN MIND

AMERICAN VOICES American concert music arrived on the world stage in the twentieth century with composers of widely different philosophies asking the same questions: “What should American music sound like, and, as a modern American, what should my music sound like?” Pianist Bradford Gowen is joined by faculty artists Evelyn Elsing, David Jones and Linda Mabbs, as well as percussionist Lee Hinkle and the School of Music’s Adelphi String Quartet, to present some of the most inventive answers to these questions — from the folk, blues, and jazz influences in works by Foss, Loomis, Troyer and Bernstein to the exuberant experimentation of Cowell and Nancarrow. Anchoring the program are Griffes’s brilliant and emotional Sonata and a work of “pure Copland,” his rarely played Sextet.

GILDENHORN RECITAL HALL

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FEBRUARY 2010

What brings our world together?

KRONOS QUARTET AND WU MAN, PIPA A CHINESE HOME PHOTO BY JAY BLAKESBERG

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FREE ENGAGEMENT EVENT Monday, February 8 . 7PM

FREE ENGAGEMENT EVENT Thursday, February 11 . 7PM

CREATIVE DIALOGUE

THE ESSENCE OF HOME

KRONOS QUARTET PHOTO BY MICHAEL WILSON

WU MAN PHOTO BY LUI JUNQI

In 2003, Yin Yu Tang, a Chinese home, was deconstructed, transported and reassembled at the Peabody Essex Museum, allowing millions of people to enter this structure which eight generations of the Huang family in China called home. Liz Lerman moderates this discussion with Kronos’s David Harrington, Ronit Eisenbach from the UM School of Architecture and Nancy Berliner, curator of the Yin Yu Tang exhibit.

Yin Yu Tang served as the inspiration for the Kronos Quartet and Wu Man’s latest piece and asks us all to consider how the place we come from — our roots, our home — impacts who we are today.

GILDENHORN RECITAL HALL

YIN YU TANG: THE ARCHITECTURE AND DAILY LIFE OF A CHINESE HOME Take a virtual tour of the Chinese home that inspired the Kronos Quartet and Wu Man’s new work.

Wu Man joins Nancy Berliner, curator of the Yin Yu Tang exhibit at the Peabody Essex Museum, to take you on a room-by-room, generation-bygeneration exploration of the architecture and culture reflected in this traditional Chinese home.

GILDENHORN RECITAL HALL

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Friday, February 12 . 8PM

KRONOS QUARTET AND WU MAN, PIPA A CHINESE HOME This tour of Kronos Quartet is made possible by a grant from Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts Regional Touring Program.

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

Co-commissioned by the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center.

Join us for a post-performance Talk Back with the artists.

Kronos Quartet and Wu Man return to the Center with two works that illuminate multiple layers of Chinese culture, ancient and modern. The program will open with Tan Dun’s Ghost Opera, featuring music, text and installation by the composer. In this work of lush visual and aural complexity, Tan Dun creates what he calls “a dialogue between past and future, spirit and nature, based on the shamanistic customs of Chinese peasant culture.”

The program’s second half, A Chinese Home, is a multimedia exploration of China’s passage through the twentieth century and into the twenty-first.

Conceived by Wu Man, David Harrington and stage director Chen Shi-Zheng, the work incorporates a vast array of traditional and contemporary Chinese music; archival and modern projected images; and unexpected — and often humorous — elements of staging and design.

Inspired by the extraordinary story of Yin Yu Tang, a 300-year-old house from a southeastern Chinese village that was dismantled piece-by-piece at the turn of the millennium and rebuilt in the Peabody Essex Museum in Massachusetts, the work is structured in four parts of approximately ten minutes each: “Return,” “Shanghai,” “The East is Red” and “Made in China.”

KAY THEATRE

TICKETS: $42

Learn more about free engagement events related to A Chinese Home by visiting our website and clicking ENGAGE. KRONOS QUARTET PHOTO BY LUIS DELGAGO

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FEBRUARY 2010

Place and Being: Humans in Translation, the Department of Theatre’s theme for 2009-2010, is illuminated through the plays of this season.

February 12 – 20

HOTEL CASSIOPEIA

“Humans in Translation is about being here and there, about leaving and coming home, understanding and not understanding, conflict, transformation and how we adapt to all the spaces in between.”

March 5 – 12

THE BLUEST EYE April 23 – May 2

Daniel MacLean Wagner DANIEL MACLEAN WAGNER PROFESSOR AND CHAIR, UM DEPARTMENT OF THEATRE

GILGAMESH

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February 12 – 20 . See page 2 for dates and times

UM DEPARTMENT OF THEATRE IN ASSOCIATION WITH ROUND HOUSE THEATRE

HOTEL CASSIOPEIA

PATHWAYS COMMUNICATIONS, INC.

Join us for a post-performance Talk Back with the artists following the February 17th and 18th performances.

by Charles Mee directed by Blake Robison, Producing Artistic Director of Round House Theatre Artist Joseph Cornell lived a magical life of the mind in his mother’s basement in Queens, caring for his invalid brother and collecting castaway items he used to create his assemblage boxes. Cornell’s correspondence and journals — filled with observations and obsessions — reveal his desire to capture through his work the intense feelings of a hidden moment. Playwright Charles Mee, discussing his play, wonders how it would be if Cornell’s boxes could speak: “About art, about America, about compassion and longing and loneliness and heartbreak.”

KOGOD THEATRE

TICKETS: $26

TAKE FIVE Tuesday, February 16 . 5:30PM

AFRO BOP ALLIANCE CuBop!! Exploring the Marriage of Afro-Cuban Music and Jazz A jazz septet from Annapolis, Maryland, Afro Bop Alliance draws on musical styles of the many different cultures that come together under the umbrella of “Latin” or “Latin Jazz.” Winners of a Latin Grammy for Best Latin Jazz Recording in 2008, this incandescent group will share their expertise about clave and the rhythms of West Africa and Cuba, and how the sophisticated melodic and harmonic structures of jazz come together.

GILDENHORN RECITAL HALL

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AFRO BOP ALLIANCE

February 18 & 19 . 8PM

UM DEPARTMENT OF DANCE

SHARED GRADUATE CONCERT An adjudicated concert featuring choreography and performance by Department of Dance MFA students. Featured choreographers include Valerie Durham, Lauren Withhart, Florian Rouiller, Emily Oleson and Nathan Andary.

DANCE THEATRE

UM SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA PHOTO BY STAN BAROUH

TICKETS: $20

Friday, February 19 . 8PM

Saturday, February 20 . 8PM

UM SCHOOL OF MUSIC

UM SCHOOL OF MUSIC

UM WIND ORCHESTRA

UM SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

THE SOUND OF LIGHT

SOARING VOICES

Michael Votta, music director Gregory Miller, horn Gibson: The Sound of Light Machala: Concerto for Horn, Winds and Percussion Stravinsky: Symphonies of Wind Instruments Messiaen: Et exspecto resurrectionem mortuorum

James Ross, music director UM Wind Orchestra Michael Votta, music director Evelyn Elsing, cello, Barbara K. Steppel Memorial Faculty Fellow Linda Mabbs, soprano Jason Stearns, baritone Prokofiev: Sinfonia Concertante Zemlinsky: Lyric Symphony Gibson: The Sound of Light

DEKELBOUM CONCERT HALL TICKETS: $27

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FEBRUARY 2010

JOSHUA REDMAN PHOTO BY MICHAEL WILSON

Sunday, February 21 . 6PM

JOSHUA REDMAN TRIO Joshua Redman, saxophone Gregory Hutchinson, drums Rueben Rogers, double bass Joshua Redman’s eloquent exploration of musical boundaries has earned him a reputation as both a risk taker and a sure-handed master. With a shifting group of collaborators as intrepid as he is including such jazz luminaries as Rueben Rogers and Gregory Hutchinson, Redman literally and figuratively stretches the shape of jazz.

DEKELBOUM CONCERT HALL

TICKETS: $42

TAKE FIVE Tuesday, February 23 . 5:30PM

THE SNARK ENSEMBLE: NEW MUSIC FOR CLASSIC SILENT FILM COMEDIES Cons, Lovers and Dancing Pants

SNARK ENSEMBLE

This instrumental chamber ensemble performs original new scores for three zany 1920’s comedies. See Laurel and Hardy as bumbling escaped convicts in Liberty, enjoy soldier Harry Langdon’s wartime misadventures in All Night Long and experience the surrealist wackiness of comic genius Charley Bowers in There It Is! GILDENHORN RECITAL HALL

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ORLANDO CONSORT

Wednesday, February 24 . 8PM

MARK O’CONNOR SOLO VIOLIN RECITAL Join us for a post-performance Talk Back with the artist.

A tribute to the world of American violin, the performance will feature Mark’s own caprice compositions based on the Paganini caprices; tributes to his mentors, the famed jazz violinist Stefan Grappelli and legendary Texas fiddler Benny Thomasson; ragtime and bluegrass selections; and improvisations.

The concert will culminate with Mark’s rendition of Appalachia Waltz.

GILDENHORN RECITAL HALL

TICKETS: $37

Sunday, February 28 . 3PM

ORLANDO CONSORT AMORE: LOVE AND MARRIAGE IN THE ITALIAN RENAISSANCE

Join us for a post-performance Talk Back with the artists.

Matthew Venner, countertenor Mark Dobell, tenor Angus Smith, tenor Donald Greig, baritone These early music vocal specialists return to the Center, bringing their impeccable skill, their charm and their expansive approach to the repertoire.

This program will cover a range of amorous moods, from medieval courtly love to religious ecstasy, from totally explicit songs to a celebration of marriage.

The concert will feature pieces by Guillaume Dufay, Josquin Desprez, Nicolas Gombert, Jean Mouton and other famed Renaissance composers. Allan Kozinn of the New York Times has described their performance as a model of “focused intonation and textural transparency.”

GILDENHORN RECITAL HALL

TICKETS: $37

March 4 & 5 . 8PM

UM DEPARTMENT OF DANCE: MFA THESIS CONCERT

GEMINUSPACE and AMERICAN, AFRICAN – LINKED BY FATE,

BY CHOICE AND BY BLOOD Geminuspace is a meditation on the vanishing of a linear perception of time, a flirtation with future memory, past infinity, and infinite present. The inhabitants of this suspended reality, this trance-scape, waltz their achromatic encounters of self and fellow selves in the grand ballroom of sound and image. Betty Skeen’s choreography exists in an intriguing theatrical space designed by Collin Ranney, and is accompanied by Lauren Burke’s inspired sonic portraits. The second half of the program features Diedre Dawkins presenting an exploration of Native American and African intersections through movement.

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FEBRUARY – MARCH 2010 Friday, March 5 . 8PM

PEABODY TRIO This performance is sponsored by the Reiher family — Barb, Charlie, Steph, Chris and Márcia — in celebration of Alison Marie Reiher (1969 – 1989).

Join us for a post-performance Meet and Greet with the artists.

Violaine Melançon, violin Natasha Brofsky, cello Seth Knopp, piano Beethoven: Variations in G Major, op. 121a, Ich bin der Schneider Kakadu Ives: Trio Mendelssohn: Trio No. 1 in D Minor, op. 49 GILDENHORN RECITAL HALL

TICKETS: $37

March 5 – 12 . See page 2 for dates and times

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THE BLUEST EYE

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PATHWAYS COMMUNICATIONS, INC.

adapted by Lydia R. Diamond from the novel by Toni Morrison directed by Walter Dallas Pecola Breedlove, an 11-year-old African-American girl in 1940’s Ohio, wants nothing more than to be loved by her family and community. Instead, she faces persistent teasing and hatred. She blames her dark skin and prays for blue eyes, believing that love will come if she looks “right.” Pecola’s quest to be seen, to belong and to be loved unspools amidst the shocking weaknesses and surprising strength of the people who surround her.

KAY THEATRE

TICKETS: $26

Contains adult language and themes. Not recommended for children under 13.

TAKE FIVE Tuesday, March 9 . 5:30PM

REVERB Textbook Harmony In an evening of amplified, anointed and annotated music, the local award-winning a cappella group Reverb will share songs of political, historical, cultural and spiritual significance and tell you why they sing them. You’ll also get a chance to talk back — to them and to each other.

REVERB

GILDENHORN RECITAL HALL

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March 10 – 12 . 8PM

HAPPENSTANCE THEATER

FARFAR OASIS AND LOW TIDE HOTEL

HAPPENSTANCE THEATER Join us for a post-performance Talk Back with the artist.

Mark Jaster and Sabrina Mandell, co-artistic directors featuring Mark Jaster, Sabrina Mandell and Scott Sedar In the early twentieth century, the Western world indulged in romantic notions of the Middle Eastern desert, spawning such phenomena as Rudolph Valentino’s movie The Sheik and the public’s unquenchable fascination with Egyptian tombs and mummies. FarFar Oasis uses poetry, image and song to contrast the era’s charmed perceptions with the realities that popular culture glossed over.

The evening’s companion piece, Low Tide Hotel, is a theatrical scrapbook that Washington Post writer Celia Wren called “an enchantingly whimsical montage of maritime-themed songs and literary excerpts.”

KOGOD THEATRE

TICKETS: $37

Friday, March 12 . 7PM

2010 PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY ANNUAL SPELLING BEE Presented in collaboration with The Gazette & The Star.

The county’s best middle school spellers vie for top honors and the opportunity to advance to the national bee.

DEKELBOUM CONCERT HALL

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What sets our hearts in motion?

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MARCH 2010

FREE ENGAGEMENT EVENT Monday, March 1 . 7PM

CREATIVE DIALOGUE

INTERNET IDENTITY: WOMEN IN A VIRTUAL WORLD When we log on to a computer network we are able to put our “self” on line.

How do women today choose to represent themselves in their online identities?

Alice Marwick, PhD student in the Department of Media, Culture and Communication at New York University and a leading researcher in the study of Internet identity, joins choreographer Gesel Mason and Michelle Rowley, from Women’s Studies, for this discussion which explores some of the implications related to women and the Internet from a feminist perspective. How do women and teenage girls choose to define themselves in a virtual world?

KOGOD THEATRE

FREE

March 25 – 27 . 8PM

GESEL MASON Contains nudity, adult themes and language.

Not recommended for children under 18.

Co-commissioned by the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center.

Join us after each performance for a Talk Back with the artist.

WOMEN, SEX & DESIRE: SOMETIMES YOU FEEL LIKE A HO’, SOMETIMES YOU DON’T Through dance, personal stories and video images, Mason tackles powerful personal and political issues. Women, Sex & Desire challenges pre-programmed cultural assumptions, examines our belief systems and reflects the struggle, humor and pleasure we encounter as sexual beings — whatever our erotic choices may be. By combining real stories, real people, pop culture, humor and a diverse movement vocabulary ranging from post-modern to hip-hop to pole dancing, Women, Sex & Desire is at once entertaining, insightful, honest, risky and risqué.

KOGOD THEATRE

TICKETS: $37

Friday, March 26 . 8PM UM SCHOOL OF MUSIC

UM SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

THE HERO’S LIFE James Ross, music director Michael Votta, guest conductor Michael Ingram, guest conductor Audrey Andrist, piano James Stern, violin Hindemith: Symphonic Metamorphosis Berg: Chamber Concerto Strauss: Ein Heldenleben DEKELBOUM CONCERT HALL

TICKETS: $27

Saturday, March 27 . 8PM UM SCHOOL OF MUSIC

UM WIND ORCHESTRA

FRIENDSHIP, LOVE AND A WORLD: THE TWO VIENNESE SCHOOLS JAMES ROSS: MICHAEL VOTTA JR. PHOTOS BY MIKE CIESIELSKI

Michael Votta, music director Audrey Andrist, piano James Stern, violin Beethoven: Rondino, Op. Posth.

Mozart: Serenade, K. 375 Berg: Chamber Concerto DEKELBOUM CONCERT HALL

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Sunday, March 28 . 3PM UM SCHOOL OF MUSIC: MUSIC IN MIND

GUARNERI & FRIENDS Arnold Steinhardt, violin John Dalley, violin Michael Tree, viola Peter Wiley, cello Shostakovich: Piano Quintet in G Minor, op. 57 Brahms: String Sextet No. 2 in G Major, op. 36 DEKELBOUM CONCERT HALL TICKETS: $30 TAKE FIVE Tuesday, March 30 . 5:30PM

WORD DANCE THEATER REVOLUTIONARY! ISADORA DUNCAN Join Word Dance Theater in their multimedia production of the life and times of Isadora Duncan, the great American artist and revolutionary. Using Duncan’s own words, actress Sarah Pleydell embodies Isadora, while WDT dancers Valerie Durham, Cynthia Word and Ingrid Zimmer perform Duncan’s original choreography, using the evocative musical masterpieces that were the thru-line of her life and work.

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Creativity is the spark of life.

Nourish your creative energy through the Center’s Engagement Project, where artists and their ideas can lead you to new discoveries.

Take Five At free, intimate and enriching Take Five performances you’ll gain a deeper understanding of the artistic process, learn new ideas and experience diverse perspectives from an eclectic range of artists in music, theatre, dance and interdisciplinary performance.

Creative Dialogues This free series provokes creative discussion, challenges viewpoints and expands understanding by asking us to go beyond the automatic answers and ask new questions.

Discussions and Talk Backs Artists open up in pre-performance discussions and post-performance Talk Backs, and you can be part of the conversation. Get the inside scoop, straight from the source.

Collaborations In 2009-2010, we continue to build on partnerships across the campus and in the community. Campus partners include the Meyerhoff Center for Jewish Studies, the Center for East Asian Studies, the Department of Women’s Studies, the David C. Driskell Center, the Jimenez-Porter Writers’ House and the UM Office of Sustainability. Local community partners include the Maryland-National Capital Park & Planning Commission, Hyattsville Middle School and the Maryland Multicultural Youth Centers.

Michelle Smith Performing Arts Library The Michelle Smith Performing Arts Library has a comprehensive collection of music, theatre and dance materials, including the International Piano Archives at Maryland — the world’s most extensive concentration of classical piano recordings, books, scores and related materials. The library also houses the Jim Henson Works, spanning 35 years of Henson’s groundbreaking work in television and film. For information, visit www.lib.umd.edu/PAL.

FOR UP-TO-THE-MINUTE, IN-DEPTH INFORMATION ABOUT NEW OPPORTUNITIES TO CONNECT WITH ARTISTS, VISIT WWW.CLARICESMITHCENTER.UMD.EDU/ENGAGE.

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FREE ENGAGEMENT EVENT Monday, April 5 . 7PM

CREATIVE DIALOGUE

PERCEPTION AND PERSUASION IN THE AGE OF INFORMATION

RINDE ECKERT

Slide, appearing at the Clarice Smith Center April 9 and 10, explores the seduction and manipulation of the American psyche, where persuasive images are employed to sell a commercial or political product. Is personal perception vulnerable to manipulation? This Creative Dialogue explores the tools used by marketing, advertising, multimedia and broadcast journalism to shape the messages we hear and asks: How does individual identity impact how we digest the endless stream of information we are bombarded with living in the twenty-first century?

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April 9 & 10 . 8PM

SLIDE

Produced by eighth blackbird.

Co-commissioned by the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center.

Join us after each performance for a Talk Back with the artists.

featuring eighth blackbird conceived, written and including performances by Steve Mackey, composer and guitarist Rinde Eckert, actor and singer A musical theater work, Slide is a multidisciplinary exploration of the seduction and manipulation of the American psyche. The central metaphor is a slide from an experiment, which defines every element in this (complex) drama set with music, movement and theater. Collaborators Eckert, Mackey and eighth blackbird blur the lines between composer and performer, actor and musician, musician and set, set and instrument, with projected images playing a central role. Slide is a rich tapestry of love, human frailty, the desire for control and the tragic consequences once we have attained it.

GILDENHORN RECITAL HALL

Join us for a post-performance Talk Back with the artists.

TICKETS: $37

Sunday, April 11 . 6PM

SÉRGIO AND ODAIR ASSAD DE VOLTA AS RAIZES (BACK TO OUR ROOTS)

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Sérgio Assad, guitar Odair Assad, guitar Christiane Karam, vocals Clarice Assad, piano and vocals Jamey Haddad, percussion Brothers Sérgio and Odair Assad were born in Brazil but their ancestral roots are in Lebanon and the recent success of Sérgio’s work, “Tahhiya Il Oussilina,” inspired them to delve further into their musical heritage. Clarice Assad, Jamey Haddad and Christiane Karam join them in exploring the rhythmic motifs that tie Middle Eastern music to the music of Brazil. The concert will include new music by Sérgio and Clarice, with text from modern and ancient Lebanese work.

DEKELBOUM CONCERT HALL

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FREE ENGAGEMENT EVENT

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April 17 – 25 . Visit our website for dates and times UM SCHOOL OF MUSIC MARYLAND OPERA STUDIO

SHADOWBOXER: AN OPERA BASED ON THE LIFE OF JOE LOUIS

Co-commissioned by the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center and the UM School of Music with support from Commissioning Partners Peter Wolfe and Robert and Patricia Knight.

Join us for a post-performance Talk Back with composer Frank Proto and librettist John Chenault on April 18.

Join us for a post-performance Talk Back with the cast, moderated by director Leon Major, on April 25.

music by Frank Proto libretto by John Chenault lighting design by Nancy Schertler conducted by Timothy Long directed by Leon Major Joe Louis, “The Brown Bomber,” became an American hero in an era when a black idol was unthinkable, but when the bell has rung and the gloves are off, how is a hero remembered? Joe Louis was much more than a boxer; he was a symbol of democracy in a time of political unrest. His fights weren't simply viewed as crushing contests between astounding athletes, but as a clash of the titans of a different sort – of nations and ideologies at war. Although he was hailed as a hero, Louis still felt the stinging blows of racism, acting with an unmatched generosity that ultimately became one of his downfalls.

Knocking out traditional concepts of the genre, Shadowboxer is a uniquely visual, jazz-infused opera. A world premiere production, it features not only a cast, chorus and pit orchestra but includes an onstage 8-piece jazz ensemble.

This will be augmented by projected images onto screens and cast members as well as radio broadcasts from Louis’s fights for a compelling tapestry of sounds and sights.

KAY THEATRE

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FREE ENGAGEMENT EVENT Sunday, April 18 . 5PM Wednesday, April 21 . 6:30PM Friday, April 23 . 6:30PM Sunday, April 25 . 2PM

THE MUSIC OF SHADOWBOXER Hear directly from assistant conductor Michael Ingram on the musical and dramatic structure of Shadowboxer in this interactive discussion complete with live examples from the piano and the opportunity to ask questions.

LEAH M. SMITH ROOM 2200

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Learn more about free engagement events related to Shadowboxer: An Opera Based on the Life of Joe Louis by visiting our website and clicking ENGAGE.

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TAKE FIVE Tuesday, April 13 . 5:30PM

LAURA ZAM COLLATERALLY DAMAGED In creating her autobiographical, one-person drama about her mother’s Holocaust experience, Laura Zam set herself a Herculean goal: to write a play about this past atrocity that will end genocide in today’s world. Written in Zam’s signature style — a daring blend of humor and pathos — this play poses provocative questions: What is the role of the Holocaust tale in light of continuing genocide? If collateral damage is passed down through generations, like a genetic disease, what is the remedy?

CAFRITZ FOUNDATION THEATRE

FREE

April 15 – 18 . See page 2 for times

UM DEPARTMENT OF DANCE

MARYLAND DANCE ENSEMBLE An adjudicated concert featuring choreography and performance by undergraduate students performed by the repertory ensemble.

DANCE THEATRE

TICKETS: $25

Sunday, April 18 . 7:30PM

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UNIVERSITY CHORALE EVENING PRAYER…BEDTIME STORIES Nicole Aldrich, conductor Kelly Butler, assistant conductor This annual spring concert showcases the critically acclaimed University Chorale, a 50-voice choir whose repertoire spans all periods and styles.

The program will feature Mozart’s Vesperae solennes de confessore, K. 339 and Vaughan Williams’ Five English Folk Songs.

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April 23 – May 2 . See page 2 for dates and times

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GILGAMESH adapted and directed by Izumi Ashizawa Ancient and modern Japanese movement, masks and puppetry are fused in this avant-garde interpretation of the 4,000-year-old Mesopotamian epic.

As Gilgamesh hunts for the secret to eternal life, he struggles with love, power and death in his quest for immortality.

KOGOD THEATRE

TICKETS: $26

ILLUSTRATION BY

PATHWAYS COMMUNICATIONS, INC.

Saturday, April 24 . 10AM – 4PM

MARYLAND DAY The Clarice Smith Center celebrates Maryland Day 2010 with a mix of old favorites and new additions from both students and artists in the local community. Join us for performances and workshops, and get a special sneak peek at several artists coming to the Center next year.

CLARICE SMITH PERFORMING ARTS CENTER

FREE

LAURA ZAM

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Friday, April 30 . 8PM UM SCHOOL OF MUSIC: MUSIC IN MIND

UM SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

TITANS James Ross, music director Michael Ingram and John Devlin, guest conductors For its final concert of 2009-2010, the UMSO performs two of the most influential works in the history of orchestral music: Ludwig van Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, op. 67 and Hector Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique, op. 14.

DEKELBOUM CONCERT HALL

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Saturday, May 1 . 8PM UM SCHOOL OF MUSIC

ANNUAL “POPS” CONCERT L. Richmond Sparks, music director UM Wind Ensemble & Community Band Carmen Balthrop, soprano Rita Sloan, piano Faculty artists join the UM Wind Ensemble to pay tribute to the great American songwriting team of George and Ira Gershwin. Guest pianist Rita Sloan is featured on George Gershwin’s original version of Rhapsody in Blue and guest vocalist Carmen Balthrop sings some of her favorites from Porgy and Bess.

Also, the Community Band performs music of Aaron Copland and Irving Berlin for a well-rounded night of memorable Americana.

DEKELBOUM CONCERT HALL

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CARMEN BALTHROP

Thursday, May 6 . 8PM UM SCHOOL OF MUSIC

UM WIND ORCHESTRA

POST-MODERN/ROMANTIC-ISM Michael Votta, music director Stephen Dumaine, electric tuba Pulitzer Prize-winning composer David Lang’s post-modern Are You Experienced? for electric tuba, narrator and chamber ensemble meets German master Richard Strauss’s post-romantic masterwork, the 1945 Symphony for Winds. Faculty artist and NSO member Stephen Dumaine is the guest soloist.

DEKELBOUM CONCERT HALL

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Friday, May 7 . 8PM

DAVID GONZALEZ This performance is sponsored in part by the generous support of The Gazette & The Star.

Co-commissioned by the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center.

Join us for a post-performance Talk Back with the artists.

WOUNDED SPLENDOR music by Daniel Kelly, piano Lenard Petit, director Daniel Hartnet, video design Inspired by the growing environmental crisis and a life-long love of the outdoors, David and his collaborators have created a choreographed suite of poetry, monologues and dance accompanied by an original musical score and set within a luscious video design. Image and lyric, awe and fury are juxtaposed to spark deeper contemplation of our suffering planet, our capacity for reverence and our exceptional ability to destroy — and to save.

KAY THEATRE

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JUNE 2010

Now in its 23rd 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. Be a part of the experiment!

Saturday, June 5 . 8PM

NOI CHAMBER ORCHESTRA Featuring guest artist Sara Daneshpour 2007 Kapell International Piano Competition second-prize winner Program: Alberto Ginastera: Variaciones concertantes, Op. 23 Richard Wagner: Siegfried Idyll W.A. Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 20 K.466 DEKELBOUM CONCERT HALL

TICKETS: $25

FREE OPEN REHEARSALS Hear the NOI Philharmonic behind the scenes as they rehearse for each week’s concert.

Friday, June 11 . 9:30AM – NOON

Friday, June 18 . 9:30AM – NOON

Friday, June 25 . 9:30AM – NOON

DANIEL HEGE, CONDUCTOR

ASHER FISCH, CONDUCTOR

MIGUEL HARTH-BEDOYA, CONDUCTOR

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Saturday, June 19 . 8PM

Saturday, June 26 . 8PM

NOI PHILHARMONIC

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conducted by Daniel Hege PROGRAM: Samuel Barber: Overture to The School for Scandal, Op. 5 Jean Sibelius: Symphony No. 5 in E-flat Major, Op. 82 Richard Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra, Op. 30

conducted by Asher Fisch PROGRAM: Paul Dukas: L’apprenti sorcier Richard Wagner: Suite from Die Meistersinger Béla Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra

conducted by Miguel Harth-Bedoya PROGRAM: Johannes Brahms: Symphony No. 3 in F Major, Op. 90 Jennifer Higdon: blue cathedral Edward Elgar: Enigma Variations, Op. 30

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Become a donor and connect in a deeper way.

Support from donors provides life-changing opportunities for our community and our students and supports artists in their work.

And, your gift will change your own life, too.

Artist residencies promote deeper engagement beyond performances for University of Maryland students and our broader community. The Center has undertaken a variety of residencies spanning anywhere from one day, to several weeks or a year or more. This season, Dan Hurlin held a workshop with UM Department of Theatre students exploring manipulation techniques in Bunraku-style puppetry, while examining ways in which the puppet’s movements can be expressive, recognizable and eloquent.

David Olson, a junior in the Theatre department says of the experience, “working with Dan and his colleagues was a delight!

It allowed us to examine movement, space and storytelling. Opportunities like these are what make the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center one of the best places to study theatre.”

Mathematics professors Denny and Frances Gulick have been donors to the performing arts at Maryland since the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center opened in 2001. The Gulicks define themselves as music lovers but enjoy dance and theatre as well. From the Center’s myriad offerings each year on Maryland Day to performances by visiting artists and students, Denny and Frances value the Center’s commitment to academic and community engagement and are proud of its reputation as a leading performing arts center on a college campus. “We feel it’s important to support the Clarice Smith Center and the training of our students who will transform the stages of tomorrow.

We support excellence and this can be found behind any door at the Center.

Each time we attend a performance we are very pleased to be financial supporters. It’s easy to give — and it brings big rewards to the university community!”

One of the purposes of a great university is to contribute to the store of human knowledge; by commissioning new work, we make that contribution.

Our primary interest in supporting new work lies in illuminating the creative process for our communities.

This requires ongoing two-way communication between the Center and the artist, which we use to find ways to bring the public into the process. Artists with whom we partner share our desire to increase engagement between the public and artists, so commissioning creates a foundation for extended residencies and learning opportunities.

“We support excellence and this can be found behind any door at the Center.”

Denny and Frances Gulick DENNY AND FRANCES GULICK FROM LEFT TO RIGHT: DAN HURLIN RESIDENCY; DENNY AND FRANCES GULICK WITH SCHOOL OF MUSIC DIRECTOR ROBERT GIBSON PHOTO BY MIKE MORGAN. PHOTO OF KRONOS QUARTET AND WU MAN, A CHINESE HOME, BY JAY BLAKESBERG

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Make an impact… become a donor.

Call 301.405.5550 to make your gift today.

Visit www.claricesmithcenter.umd.edu and click on GIVING. Share your ticket guide with family and friends.

Invite your neighbors to join you to experience transformative programming at the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center.

We are grateful to the following institutional sponsors for their

generous investment in the 2009-2010 season.

The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center is funded 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.

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What do you need to know about your visit?

PURCHASING TICKETS On the web: www.claricesmithcenter.umd.edu By phone:

301.405.ARTS (301.405.2787)

By fax:

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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.

Please check our website for current hours.

By mail:

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UM-College Park students may pay in-person with Terrapin Express!

We accept Visa, MasterCard, Discover and American Express, cash and personal checks. Make checks payable to University of Maryland. Now UM-College Park students may pay in-person with Terrapin Express.

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EXCHANGES, RETURNS AND TICKET DONATIONS Tickets may be exchanged or returned up to 24 hours before performance time, unless otherwise noted.* Or donate your tickets to the Center — donations are tax-deductible.

On the day of a performance, there is a fee of $2 per ticket for changing seat assignments. * Purchases of 10 or more tickets to a performance are final.

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Each week, a percentage of tickets for that week’s performances is given away free to UMD students. Call for details.

Seniors (62 years of age or older) are eligible to receive $2 off the original ticket price.

University of Maryland Alumni Association members are eligible to receive $2 off the original ticket price.

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