We are excited to continue pay what you wish pricing this year for faculty, staff and campus partners as we experiment with ways to increase access to the arts. As you choose your own price, remember that all ticket revenue helps bring these events directly to you, our audience When you select your tickets, you will have the option to choose how much you wish to pay, with a $5 minimum per ticket. Whether you want to pay $5, $100 or something in between is ultimately up to you! As always, UMD student tickets are free!
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faculty and touring artists who share untold stories, break boundaries and breathe fresh perspectives into your favorite classics. With more than 100 events across music, theater and dance, there is truly something in store for everyone!
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This season also plays a key role in the campuswide Arts for All initiative, which leverages the power of the arts, technology and social justice to address the grand challenges of our time Our performances aim to elevate marginalized voices and audiences are invited to participate in the process through panels, residencies, open rehearsals, lectures, masterclasses and more.
Featuring regional, national and international artists, the Visiting Artist Series brings stunning works to stages in The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center that advance the learning and research of University of Maryland students and faculty and further develop our community's rich arts ecosystem. Beyond their brilliant work on stage, these creative innovators visiting Maryland are committed to extensive engagement that creates exciting connections in our campus and our neighborhoods Guided by a collaborative, multi curatorial model, the Visiting Artist Series amplifies people, partnership, process and performance. Through this unique approach that prioritizes a diversity of voices, The Clarice creates meaningful partnerships with each artist every season.
The UMD School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies presents productions that share untold stories, address the urgent issues of today and defy conventional techniques. Their 2022 23 Main Season productions reflect input from students, faculty and staff and work to demonstrate our mission and commitment to both innovative performance across all areas (including theater and dance performance, design, dramaturgy, stage management and technical theater) and to producing works by Black, Indigenous and artists of color previously excluded in the arts.
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The UMD School of Music presents performances that explore the intersections between traditional masterworks, new works and special commissions. As part of the School’s commitment to inclusion, diversity, equity and access, the 2022 23 season was thoughtfully crafted to expose students and patrons to composers from diverse backgrounds and perspectives, incorporating repertoire from various historical periods while still highlighting living composers and modern themes.
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If your course matches an event's “Who Connects” section, you can:
Reserve your group’s free tickets by emailing tickets theclarice@umd.edu or calling 301.405.ARTS (2787)
Incorporate the performance into your curricular plans
Step 1
Browse through our events by date. Tip: every performance title is directly linked to that event’s web page to obtain more information. All performances in this guide are at The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center unless otherwise noted Note, this guide only includes Fall 2022 events. Our Spring 2023 curricular connections guide will be released later this year.
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Performance visits on syllabi, performance attendance for extra credit, etc.
If you’re interested in having an artist visit your class, contact Jane Hirshberg at janeh22@umd.edu or 301.405.8172 to create a custom experience for your students
Bring your class to the event!
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Wed, Sep 28 • 7:30PM
African American Studies, American Studies, Arts and Humanities, College Park Scholars Arts, Music Education, School of Music
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Thu, Sep 29 • 7PM & 9PM
Visiting Artist Series Brandon Woody and Upendo
African American Studies, American Studies, Arts and Humanities, College Park Scholars Arts, Music Education, School of Music
Trumpeter and east Baltimore native Brandon Woody brings his band UPENDO to The Clarice’s Kogod Cabaret in support of his debut album. The band’s songs combine jazz improvisation with hip-hop beats and melodies influenced by gospel and soul music.
The Clarice Jazz Jam with The Hall CP ft. Brandon Woody, trumpet
September
Kick off your fall with this new monthly jazz jam session led by D.C. based saxophonist Elijah Balbed! The house band will play a set starting at 7:30PM Bring your instrument! After enjoying their set, you’ll have a chance to call a tune! Participation in our jazz jams is free no tickets required and all levels welcome. This month features Clarice visiting artist Brandon Woody on trumpet
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Imani Winds: Black and Brown
October
Visiting Artist Series
Who Connects?
African American Studies, American Studies, Arts and Humanities, College Park Scholars Arts, Music Education, School of Music, Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Women’s Studies
Sun, Oct 2 • 3PM
Celebrating more than two decades of music making, the twice Grammy Award-nominated Imani Winds have led both a revolution and evolution of the wind quintet through their dynamic playing, adventurous programming, imaginative collaborations and outreach endeavors that have inspired audiences of all ages and backgrounds. In this performance, Imani Winds presents Black and Brown, an entire program celebrating composers of color such as Wayne Shorter, Paquito Rivera and Valerie Coleman
Fri, Oct 7 Sat, Oct15
Pulitzer Prize winning Lynn Nottage's comedy By The Way, Meet Vera Stark creates a microcosm of race and culture in the Golden Age of Hollywood that resounds to this day. Vera Stark, maid to aging Hollywood star Gloria Mitchell, is given a stereotypical role in an antebellum film starring none other than Gloria! This deeply complex but stirring story tackles the paradox faced by Black actors due to the entertainment industry's continued racial stereotyping.
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School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies
By the Way, Meet Vera Stark
African American Studies, American Studies, Anthropology, Arts and Humanities, Cinema and Media Studies, Communication, College Park Scholars Arts, English, Philosophy, Psychology, Sociology, Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies, Theatre, Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Women’s Studies
UMD Symphony Orchestra: Unity: Coleman’s Umoja and Prokofiev’s Fifth Symphony
African American Studies, American Studies, Anthropology, Arts and Humanities, College Park Scholars Arts, History, Music Education, School of Music, Sociology, Women’s Studies
Alina Collins Maldonado: What to Expect When You’re La Virgen–Staged Reading
DC area actor, director and theater educator Alina Collins Maldonado brings her latest work, What to Expect When You're La Virgen, to the Kogod Theatre for a staged reading. A very pregnant Virgen de Guadalupe wakes up on December 12 to work her first feast day as La Virgen. Excited to answer calls for help, she discovers she may not be cut out for the job after receiving overwhelming prayers from Latinx mothers and daughters. How can she help them understand their worth when she’s beginning to question her own? Inspired by real interviews and conversations with Latinx women, this solo piece examines identity, cultural expectations and traditions passed down through generations. Collins Maldonado began developing this project as part of the 2020-21 NextLOOK season through The Clarice and Joe’s Movement Emporium and has continued development this year as a Clarice Artist in Residence.
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American Studies, Anthropology, Arts and Humanities, College Park Scholars- Arts, Family Science, Psychology, Sociology, Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies, Theatre, Latina/o Studies, Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Women’s Studies
Under the baton of David Neely, the UMD Symphony Orchestra opens its season with Valerie Coleman’s Umoja. “Umoja” means unity in Swahili and is one of the seven principles of Kwanzaa. A call for peace, Umoja advocates for unity through social justice in the face of racism and hatred. Czech composer Haas’ Study for String Orchestra was written as a prisoner during the Holocaust. Finally, Prokofiev’s magnificent Fifth Symphony composed in 1944, has been interpreted as hinting at the Allies’ unified victory to come.
Sun, Oct 9 • 2PM & 7PM
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Visiting Artist Series
School of Music
Fri, Oct 7 • 8PM
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Bounding with wit and excitement, German composer Paul Hindemith’s Symphonic Metamorphosis is based on musical themes written by Carl Maria von Weber. This vibrant work was an immediate hit with American audiences when it premiered in 1944, and it remains so today. Imani Winds will be the featured guest quintet for Nancy Galbraith’s Concerto for Woodwind Quintet and Wind Ensemble. Presented by The Clarice’s Visiting Artists Series, Imani Winds will also perform its own concert on Sunday, October 2 in addition to this collaboration and other educational engagements with the UMD School of Music.
Thu, Oct 13 • 7PM
UMD Wind Orchestra: Hindemith’s Symphonic Metamorphosis
Sun, Oct 9 • 3PM
African American Studies, American Studies, Arts and Humanities, College Park Scholars-Arts, Dance, Health, Psychology, Sociology, Public Health
Multidisciplinary dance artists Sam “Asa” Pratt and Amadi “Baye” Washington (Baye & Asa) join UMD School of Public Health professor and activist Jennifer Roberts for a conversation about HotHouse, commissioned for The Clarice’s 2022 23 Season. HotHouse is a commentary on confinement by exploring how our failed response to COVID 19 has unmasked the greater systemic failures of America. This durational installation interrogates through a dance/theater performance lens how and why inequities that predated the pandemic in healthcare, housing, education and incarceration erupted at the center of our political discourse.
African American Studies, American Studies, Arts and Humanities, College Park Scholars Arts, Germanic Studies, Music Education, School of Music The Clarice Arts Citizenship Talks (ACTNow): Out of Quarantine…Into the Fire
School of Music
Who Connects?
African American Studies, American Studies, Arts and Humanities, College Park Scholars Arts, Music Education, School of Music, Women’s Studies
Sun, Oct 30 • 3PM
Fri, Oct 21 • 8PM
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Hailed as “brilliant, virtuosic, and still mellow” (Los Angeles Times), the dynamos of the Brentano Quartet treat masterpieces with reverence and enthusiasm, rendering performances with equal passion and precision. In this concert, the Brentanos are joined by five-time Grammy Award winning soprano Dawn Upshaw for their latest project: Dido Reimagined, a monodrama for quartet and voice composed by Pulitzer Prize winning composer Melinda Wagner and librettist Stephanie Fleischmann in collaboration with Dawn. Sparked by the famous “Dido’s Lament” from Purcell’s opera Dido and Aeneas, the large scale work is paired with Purcell’s aria and other selections from Baroque opera
Tank and the Bangas
Dawn Upshaw & Brentano Quartet: Melinda Wagner’s Dido Reimagined
American Studies, Arts and Humanities, Classics, College Park ScholarsArts, English, History, Music Education, School of Music, Women’s Studies
Visiting Artist Series
Tank and The Bangas don’t go anywhere quietly. They are a beacon of life. And it’s that life that you hear in their music. That’s what makes this five piece band one of the most thrilling, unpredictable and sonically diverse bands on the planet; a unit where jazz meets hip hop, soul meets rock and funk is the beating heart of everything they do.
Visiting Artist Series
Who Connects?
Sat, Nov 5 • 8PM
American Studies, Anthropology, Arts and Humanities, Communication, College Park Scholars Arts, English, Jewish Studies, Music Education, School of Music, Philosophy, Psychology, Religious Studies, Sociology
Osvaldo Golijov’s Falling Out of Time
Visiting Artist Series
Arts and Humanities, College Park Scholars-Arts, English, Philosophy, Psychology, Sociology, Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies, Theatre, Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Fri, Nov 11 - Fri, Nov 18
What happens when the natural order of things is upended? Falling Out of Time is a new work from Grammy Award winning composer Osvaldo Golijov, a song cycle featuring members of the Silkroad Ensemble and three voices in English and Hebrew. Rooted in David Grossman’s novel of the same name, this infinitely nuanced tone poem narrates a journey of grief and solace, “out of time” as parents grieve the death of a child, seeking to comprehend a loss with no name.
Experience William Shakespeare’s classic As You Like It, adapted and directed by Eleanor Holdridge, who returns to the UMD School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies after leading a workshop on Sarah Ruhl’s Orlando in 2021 and directing the production of The Call in 2016. What happens when Rosalind and her cousin escape into the forest to find her love Orlando? Disguised as a boy shepherd, the cheeky Rosalind convinces Orlando to woo her. Find out the hilarious consequences in this timeless tale of love and adventure.
November
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School of Theatre, Dance and Performance Studies As You Like It
School of Music
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Based on the novel “Scenes de la vie de Bohème” (Scenes of Bohemian Life) by Henry Murger, Giacomo Puccini’s La bohème follows four bohemian roommates struggling to get by in Paris, France. The opera unfolds on a frosty Christmas Eve when fate comes knocking and sets in motion a doomed romance. A gorgeously tragic love story, La bohème features some of the most cherished music in the opera repertoire including “O soave fanciulla” (O lovely girl in the moonlight) and “Che gelida manina” (Your tiny hand is frozen). This opera will be performed in Italian with English supertitles.
Initially titled Lament, George Walker’s Lyric for Strings is an impactfully poignant piece with a notable history that continues to resonate with audiences. Walker wrote the work as an elegy to his late grandmother and a testimony to her experience as an enslaved woman In the face of racial discrimination and social injustice, Walker was a pioneer, becoming the first African American composer to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music. UMD wind conducting alum Lucia Disano D M A '21 has transcribed the work for winds so that Walker’s masterpiece can be experienced in a new way.
UMD Wind Orchestra: Lyric for Strings
The concert will also spotlight Ingolf Dahl’s Sinfonietta and a workshop of a piece still in development by guest composer Clarice Assad. This new work by Assad is commissioned by the UMD Wind Orchestra for its February 2023 performance by invitation at the College Band Directors National Association (CBDNA) National Conference.
Maryland Opera Studio Puccini’s La bohème
Arts and Humanities, College Park Scholars Arts, French, Italian, Music Education, School of Music, Philosophy, Psychology, Sociology
Sat, Nov 12 Wed, Nov 16
African American Studies, American Studies, Arts and Humanities, College Park Scholars Arts, History, Music Education, School of Music, Philosophy, Russian, Women’s Studies
Who Connects?
Fri, Nov 11 • 8PM
The concert will also include Overture No 1 in E minor by 19th century French composer Louise Farrenc and Legacy for Oboe and Symphony Orchestra by living Spanish composer Óscar Navarro. The UMD Symphony Orchestra’s 2021 Concerto Competition winner and current doctoral student Michael Helgerman will be the oboe soloist.
Fall MFA Dance Thesis Concert
Thurs, Nov 17 Sun, Nov 20
Arts and Humanities, College Park Scholars Arts, Dance, Kinesiology, Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies
The Fall M.F.A Dance Thesis Concert showcases stunning and provocative choreography by M.F.A. candidates in the UMD School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies This concert celebrates the vitality of dance through a range of collaborative and technological processes.
Sat, Nov 12 • 8PM
Who Connects?
Arts and Humanities, College Park Scholars Arts, French, Germanic Studies, Music Education, School of Music, Spanish, Women’s Studies
School of Music
Relax into the blissfulness of nature with Ludwig van Beethoven’s celebrated Symphony No. 6 in F major. Referred to as the “Pastoral” Symphony, the work contains five movements with the names “Joyful Feelings Upon Arriving in the Country,” “By the Brook,” “Peasant Merrymaking,” “The Thunderstorm” and “The Shepherd's Song After the Storm.” The symphony hints at Beethoven’s longing for a simple life in the country, a feeling that became more urgent as he lost his hearing and composing proved more difficult.
UMD Symphony Orchestra: Beethoven’s Pastoral Symphony
Who Connects?
School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies
Fri, Nov 18 • 8PM
Acclaimed as one of the finest films ever made, Carl Theodor Dreyer’s silent 1928 film “La Passion de Jeanne d’Arc” chronicles the trial of Joan of Arc in the hours leading up to her execution. Actress Renée Falconetti’s haunting face channels the agony and ecstasy of martyrdom in a legendary performance that remains a landmark in the history of cinema. One of Britain’s most celebrated early music vocal ensembles, the Orlando Consort accompanies the film live with a deeply moving a cappella soundtrack featuring an extensive repertoire of music composed or performed during the lifetime of Jeanne d’Arc by Dufay, Binchois and their contemporaries The UK’s The Guardian calls Voices Appeared “ an exceptional achievement that reminds us just how potent the combination of silent film and live music can be.”
School of Music Orlando Consort: Voices Appeared
Who Connects? Arts and Humanities, Cinema and Media Studies, Communication, College Park Scholars Arts, English, French, History, Music Education, School of Music, Philosophy, Psychology, Religious Studies, Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Women’s Studies
Visiting Artist Series
Who Connects?
December
Who Connects?
African American Studies, American Studies, Architecture, Arts and Humanities, College Park Scholars Arts, Music Education, School of Music, Philosophy, Religious Studies, Sociology
Artist, dancer and choreographer Shamel Pitts presents Black Hole, the third in his Black Series trilogy of works built on the Gaga movement language developed by Israeli choreographer Ohad Naharin. It’s a kaleidoscopic performance art experience using dynamic movement, original sound, innovative lighting and effects and cinematic video projections that uses the idea of the transformational environment of a black hole to create an atmosphere of mystery toward what it encompasses. In the work, three gifted Black artists (all of African diaspora) unite to create a trinity of vigor, afrofuturism and embrace.
African American Studies, American Studies, Arts and Humanities, Astronomy, College Park Scholars- Arts, Dance, Israel Studies, Kinesiology, Philosophy, Sociology, Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies
School of Music
Fri, Dec 2 • 8PM
Shamel Pitts’ TRIBE: Black Hole: Trilogy and Triathlon
UMD Wind Orchestra: Stephenson, Still and Simon
Fri, Dec 9 • 8PM
Go on a musical exploration of the St Louis Gateway Arch with James Stephenson’s Sonata Rhapsody The Arch featuring UMD Senior Lecturer Matthew Guilford on bass trombone. William Grant Still’s emotional yet serene Summerland is the second movement of Three Visions for Piano about the beauty of the afterlife. Carlos Simon’s AMEN! was composed in celebration of his experience growing up in an African American Pentecostal church in the Southern U S The concert program will conclude with the world premiere of Lance Hulme’s Leaps and Bounds.
Antonín Dvořák’s Cello Concerto in B minor was written as a tribute to Dvořák’s first love, who was gravely ill and passed while Dvořák was composing This masterwork will feature UMD Associate Professor Eric Kutz on cello Prayer, by Canadian composer Vivian Fung, was first recorded by the CBC Virtual Orchestra, comprising members of 28 Canadian orchestras during the COVID 19 lockdown in 2020. The program will also include Richard Strauss’ tone poem Don Juan.
American Studies, Arts and Humanities, Communication, College Park Scholars Arts, English, Music Education, School of Music, Psychology, Women’s Studies
Sat, Dec 12 • 3PM
African American Studies, American Studies, Arts and Humanities, Communication, College Park Scholars Arts, English, Music Education, School of Music, Philosophy, Psychology, Religious Studies, Sociology, Women’s Studies
UMD Symphony Orchestra: Dvorak’s Cello Concerto
Who Connects?
School of Music
“One of the most vital and original ensembles on the American music scene” (The New York Times), Alarm Will Sound is a 20 member band that has established a reputation for performing demanding music with energetic virtuosity. This matinee performance features the world premiere of Love Always, commissioned by The Clarice, along with Alyssa Piper’s Cradle. Love Always, a song cycle co created by Allison Loggins Hull and Toshi Reagon, is rooted in long standing African American traditions of elders writing letters to their children, and of storytelling through music, conversation and listening. Alyssa Pyper initially created Cradle as a solo work for violin, loop pedal and voice as part of a symbolic journey into the trauma of growing up queer, classically trained and Mormon.
Visiting Artist Series
Sat, Dec 10 • 8PM
Toshi Reagon & Alarm Will Sound: Love Always & Cradle
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