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WHAT MAKES US WHO WE ARE? HOW DO WE FIND OUR PLACE IN THE WORLD? CAN WE HOLD FAST TO OUR ROOTS WHILE WE EMBRACE NEW IDEAS? WHO MAKES A DIFFERENCE IN OUR LIVES?
Each of us is the product of a certain time and place, but we all reach out for more —— new experiences, new ideas and new visions of what our world might be. This season, artists help us extend our reach, showing us the connection between the past and the present and demonstrating not only how the world shapes our lives, but how our lives can change the world.
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After a recent performance, a regular patron said to me, “What you do here is so much more than good performance. You invite us to think about our place in the world.”
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In 2009-2010, we make that invitation explicit with a season full of opportunities to reflect on how time and place influence who we are. Some of those connections are direct and obvious and some are
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I hope you will find many occasions next season to think deeply about what forces shape your ideas and beliefs. The power of art will be a welcome guide on this journey.
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Susie Farr EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, CLARICE SMITH PERFORMING ARTS CENTER
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What do we hold true? Then, what is the unchanging truth in a changing world? I find the answer in the old mythology, which makes me realize that we embrace the same conflicts, feelings and joy as the people who lived 4,000 years ago. The mythological Mesopotamian king seeks the plant of eternal youth and tries to conquer his mortality; we seek medical cures through modern technology. This same mythical king annihilates the sacred forest and in return loses his most important friend; we continuously cut down rain forests and face the crisis of global warming. If we start to accept our latent human nature and see the world with untainted eyes, we will discover the key for the better future — and the key is in our past. For as T.S. Eliot states, past, present and future are all one after all.
Izumi Ashizawa Assistant Professor, Department of Theatre, Adaptor/director of Gilgamesh
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SEASON OPENING! September 17 – 18 . 8PM
THE ACTORS’ GANG
THE TRIAL OF THE CATONSVILLE NINE by Daniel Berrigan directed by Jon Kellam Tim Robbins, artistic director Poet priest Daniel Berrigan’s historical drama brings to life the 1968 trial of two Catholic priests and seven fellow Catholic activists who committed an act of civil disobedience to protest the war in Vietnam. Their moral act of civil dissent — burning draft records from the Catonsville, Maryland, draft board office — galvanized a national protest movement. While condemned as criminals in a court of law, they were hailed as patriots in the streets during one of America’s most turbulent eras. KAY THEATRE
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October 16-24 . See order form for dates and times UM DEPARTMENT OF THEATRE
JAMES JOYCE’S “THE DEAD” SEE PAGE 34 FOR DETAILS.
book by Richard Nelson music by Shaun Davey lyrics by Richard Nelson and Shaun Davey directed by Scot Reese James Joyce’s short story, adapted for the stage as a musical, follows Irishman Gabriel Conroy as he takes his wife to a lively holiday party hosted by his two aunts. As Conroy observes his surroundings and hears others’ tales of love, loss, change and longing, he meditates on what it means to be an Irishman and a human. At the play’s center is an internal journey that drama critic Christopher Isherwood described as the “rich evocation of a single consciousness.” KAY THEATRE
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HUMANS IN TRANSLATION
“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.”
Daniel MacLean Wagner Professor and Chair UM Department of Theatre
“Place and Being: Humans in Translation,” the Department of Theatre’s theme for 2009-10, is illuminated through five plays over the course of the season. October 16-24
JAMES JOYCE’S “THE DEAD” November 6-15
ANNA IN THE TROPICS February 12-20
HOTEL CASSIOPEIA March 5-12
THE BLUEST EYE April 23 – May 2
GILGAMESH
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November 5 – 6 . 8PM
DAN HURLIN
DISFARMER
This performance is supported, in part, by the Henson Endowment for Performing Arts. Co-commissioned by the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center.
conceived and directed by Dan Hurlin original music by Dan Moses Schreier text by Sally Oswald Disfarmer is a portrait of an artist, a piece of puppet theater that examines the contradictions in the life of hermit Mike Disfarmer, who was born in 1884 and died in 1959, alone in his photo studio. His solitary world comes to life through “table-top puppetry,” Magic lantern slides and 8mm home movies; old Edison wax disks and haunting Ozark mountain music create an atmosphere of old times faintly remembered. Disfarmer is represented by a series of puppets, each an exact replica of the last except two inches smaller — shrinking like much of rural America until he is completely gone. KAY THEATRE
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November 6 – 15 . See order form for dates and times UM DEPARTMENT OF THEATRE
ANNA IN THE TROPICS by Nilo Cruz directed by José Carrasquillo The 2003 Pulitzer Prize in Drama winner is set in 1920’s Ybor City, Florida, where family members who work in a cigar factory struggle to reconcile the traditions of the past with their desires for the future. Passions erupt and emotions flare as the laborers embrace the unfamiliar ideas presented to them by a new arrival in their midst, who reads Anna Karenina aloud to them as they work, with life-altering consequences. KOGOD THEATRE
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January 29 – 30 . 8PM
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THE RFK PROJECT ROBERT F. KENNEDY AND THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT: A JOURNEY
Co-commissioned by the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center.
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
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HOTEL CASSIOPEIA A blended production in cooperation with Round House Theatre
by Charles Mee directed by Blake Robison 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
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March 5 – 12 . See order form for dates and times UM DEPARTMENT OF THEATRE
THE BLUEST EYE 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
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March 10 – 12 . 8PM
HAPPENSTANCE THEATER FARFAR OASIS AND LOW TIDE HOTEL Mark Jaster and Sabrina Mandell, co-artistic directors featuring Scott Sedar and Tina Chancey 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
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April 23 – May 2 . See order form for dates and times UM DEPARTMENT OF THEATRE
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
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What connects us heart to heart? Margaret Jenkins on creating Other Suns in China: “As always these adventures into others’ realities, priorities, necessities, reveal so much about one’s own needs, what one thinks one has to have to continue, to survive, to feel replenished, enlivened, engaged, at attention… “What world have we entered of like limbs — but not — like minds but not, with histories that don’t compare? “Perhaps the work will answer this.”
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September 24 – 25 . 8PM
EMIO GRECO|PC [purgatorio] POPOPERA
Co-commissioned by the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center. Contains adult themes and nudity. Not recommended for children under 18.
conceived and choreographed by Emio Greco directed by Pieter C. Scholten original music by Michael Gordon In choreographer Emio Greco’s collaboration with composer Michael Gordon (Bang on a Can), seven brilliant dancers oscillate along the seam between music and movement. Omnipresent during the performance are shiny black guitars which, when married with the dancers’ bodies, transform them into fragile flesh-and-blood soundboards. Based on the structure of Dante’s Divine Comedy, POPOPERA is a richly potent netherworld of transition, transformation and purification where dancers perform to the point of utter exhaustion and ecstasy. KAY THEATRE
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October 8 – 9 . 8PM
DANIEL BURKHOLDER/THE PLAYGROUND My Ocean is Never Blue, revisited with Arachne Aerial Arts Coyaba Dance Theatre Devi Dance Theater Drawing on the traditions of African and Indian dance and music, incorporating aerial feats and wrapped within a contemporary dance vocabulary, Ocean draws us to the edge of the river and asks us to reflect on what we see there. Four of our region’s most inventive dance companies collaborate to present this multi-faceted exploration of water and our relationship to it. DANCE THEATRE
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October 22 – 23 . 8PM UM DEPARTMENT OF DANCE SEE PAGE 34 FOR DETAILS.
MFA THESIS CONCERT April Gruber and Vannia Ibarguen MFA candidates April Gruber and Vannia Ibarguen present two evenings of contemporary movement and new ideas. DANCE THEATRE
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October 29 – 30 . 8PM
MARGARET JENKINS DANCE COMPANY Other Suns Funded in part by the National Dance Project of the New England Foundation for the Arts, with lead funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and additional funding from the Ford Foundation, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Community Connections Fund of the MetLife Foundation. Co-commissioned by the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center.
with the Guangdong Modern Dance Company of Guangzhou, China original music by composers Bun-Ching Lam and Paul Dresher Known for her innovative collaborative processes, choreographer Margaret Jenkins has infused Other Suns with the creative energies of the Guangdong dancers and her company members. Together, they explore how their physical languages affect each other, creating a unique hybrid language for everyone. Refined, precise and dynamic, with what dance critic Allen Ulrich calls a “current of sensuality that simmers on the surface,” Other Suns represents the next chapter in Jenkins’s ongoing exploration of place, communication and identity. Jenkins writes: “We strive to stay ready for the surprises, to be able to surrender to what a new place, culture and people can offer us and how we might strengthen the dialogue among each other and by extension our countries.” KAY THEATRE
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MARGARET JENKINS DANCE COMPANY, OTHER SUNS PHOTO BY BONNIE KAMIN
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November 12 – 13 . 8PM
STEP AFRIKA! In celebration of over 15 years of performing and teaching around the world, Step Afrika! brings its high-energy performance of stepping, an art form born at African American fraternities and based in African traditions, to the Center’s stage. As the first professional company dedicated to stepping, Step Afrika!’s intricate kicks, stomps and rhythms mixed with spoken word pound the floor and fill the air. Throughout their history, Step Afrika! has also raised awareness of stepping’s connections to other cultural traditions. From Appalachia to South Africa, from gumboot to Zulu, they seek to build connections between people and to highlight the similarities in dance forms, lives and communities. Step Afrika!’s motto is “if we can dance together, then we can work together.” This special anniversary program features some of the company’s most celebrated works along with an amazing choral collaboration. KAY THEATRE
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December 4 – 5 . 8PM UM DEPARTMENT OF DANCE
MARYLAND DANCE ENSEMBLE SEE PAGE 34 FOR DETAILS.
Undergraduate and graduate student works selected by audition and performed by the repertory ensemble. KAY THEATRE
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January 30 . 3PM and 8PM
27TH ANNUAL CHOREOGRAPHER’S SHOWCASE 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. DANCE THEATRE
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February 5 – 6 . 8PM
DOUG VARONE & DANCERS Alchemy and other repertory Doug Varone & Dancers return to the Center with charismatic, lyrical and lush movement. Varone’s newest work, Alchemy, takes inspiration from Daniel Variations, the Steve Reich score that juxtaposes text from the biblical book of Daniel and the words of Daniel Pearl, the American Jewish reporter kidnapped and murdered by Islamist extremists in Pakistan in 2002. Reich’s 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 Marianne writes, “In the end, you can only oppose them with the strength they think they have taken away from you.” KAY THEATRE
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MFA THESIS CONCERT Geminuspace ¦ Remnants and Ritual MFA candidates Diedre Dawkins and Betty Skeen present two evenings of contemporary dance and new ideas. DANCE THEATRE
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March 25 – 27 . 8PM
GESEL MASON Women, Sex, & Desire: Sometimes You Feel Like a Ho’, Sometimes You Don’t Commissioned by the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center. Contains adult themes and language. Not recommended for children under 18.
Through dance, personal stories and video images, Mason tackles powerful personal and political issues. Women, Sex and 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 and Desire is at once entertaining, insightful, honest, risky and risqué. KOGOD THEATRE
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April 15 – 17 . 8PM April 18 . 7:30PM UM DEPARTMENT OF DANCE
MARYLAND DANCE ENSEMBLE Undergraduate and graduate student works selected by audition and performed by the repertory ensemble. DANCE THEATRE
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What awakens us to our power? October 18 . 6PM
December 9 . 7:30PM
THE KLEZMATICS
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Beginning as an exuberant and soulful expression of Jewish life in fifteenth-century Europe, klezmer music has constantly evolved through multiple eras in myriad countries. In the mid-1980s, The Klezmatics helped bring the music to new popularity in the United States with tunes that originate in traditional klezmer and draw from diverse musical influences including Arab, African, Latin, Balkan, jazz and punk. Their performance at the Center, presented in partnership with the university’s Meyerhoff Center for Jewish Studies, will bring deeply rooted traditions to life through a contemporary sensibility — music that is wild, mystical, provocative, reflective and ecstatically danceable.
WINTER BIG BAND SHOWCASE
DEKELBOUM CONCERT HALL $42 ($34 WHEN YOU BUY 5 OR MORE PERFORMANCES) November 8 . 6PM
LIONEL LOUEKE Lionel Loueke, guitar and vocals Massimo Biolatti, bass Ferenc Nemeth, drums Jazz guitarist Lionel Loueke’s distinctive sound is a blend of jazz and West African harmonies and rhythms. Loueke started playing music during his childhood in the West African country of Benin, eventually journeying to Paris and then to the United States to continue his studies. In the States, he gained the admiration of jazz greats Terence Blanchard, Wayne Shorter and Herbie Hancock and soon became an integral member of Blanchard’s band and later recorded and toured with Hancock’s quartet.
UM Jazz Ensemble, Jazz Lab Band and University Jazz Band Chris Vadala, music director The cold of winter approaches, but these jazz big bands know how to heat things up! This annual favorite is December’s most swingin’ concert, featuring classic and contemporary jazz works. KAY THEATRE $27 ($22 WHEN YOU BUY 5 OR MORE PERFORMANCES) February 21 . 6PM
JOSHUA REDMAN Featuring Ensemble Guests 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 Larry Grenadier, Rueben Rogers, Brian Blade and Gregory Hutchinson, Redman literally and figuratively stretches the shape of jazz. DEKELBOUM CONCERT HALL $42 ($34 WHEN YOU BUY 5 OR MORE PERFORMANCES)
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SÉRGIO AND ODAIR ASSAD De Volta As Raizes (Back to Our Roots) 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 $37 ($30 WHEN YOU BUY 5 OR MORE PERFORMANCES) May 7 . 8PM
DAVID GONZALEZ Wounded Splendor
Co-commissioned by the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center.
music by Daniel Kelly, piano Lenard Petit, director Daniel Hartnett, 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 $37 ($30 WHEN YOU BUY 5 OR MORE PERFORMANCES)
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Music in Mind
celebrates the place music holds in
our culture and lives by presenting world-class faculty, outstanding alumni and guest artists, and students in concerts that explore the artistic possibilities of collaboration. This School of Music concert series seeks to examine the sources of inspiration and points of intersection in our musical traditions, presenting music in a context that encourages reflection and discovery, whether it is something new about Bach or the work of a living composer that you are hearing for the first time.
October 4 . 3PM UM SCHOOL OF MUSIC
A WIDER CIRCLE: THE SPIRIT OF FOLK MUSIC Explore the influence that folk music exerts on art music with selections from Bartók’s enchanting 44 Duos for two violins, Dvorák’s original version of the ever-popular Slavonic Dances for piano four hands and Baroque violinist and composer Antonio Bertali’s lively and virtuosic Chiacona for violin, organ and harpsichord. The program concludes with a rare performance of the 13-instrument musical score for Aaron Copland’s ballet Appalachian Spring. With faculty members James Stern, Larissa Dedova, Mikhail Vokchok and Michael Votta. GILDENHORN RECITAL HALL
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November 13 . 8PM UM SCHOOL OF MUSIC
AM I TOO LOUD? A BOW TO COLLABORATIVE PERFORMANCE This concert is inspired by and honors pianists who spent their professional lives playing well with others. In this program, with Rita Sloan at the piano, Evelyn Elsing, Robert Gibson, Linda Mabbs, Gregory Miller, Katherine Murdock, David Salness and Delores Ziegler pay tribute to accompanists par excellence. From Britten’s Cabaret Songs to Schubert’s “Trout” Quintet, the art of musical collaboration is at the heart of the program. GILDENHORN RECITAL HALL
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February 7 . 3PM UM SCHOOL OF MUSIC
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?” Faculty artists Evelyn Elsing, Bradford Gowen, David Jones and Linda Mabbs present some of the most inventive answers to these questions, from the folk, blues and jazz influences in works by Foss, Loomis and Troyer 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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April 30 . 8PM
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GUARNERI & FRIENDS
UM SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: TITANS
Arnold Steinhardt, violin John Dalley, violin Michael Tree, viola Peter Wiley, cello The members of the legendary and retired (as of Fall 2009) Guarneri String Quartet perform with School of Music faculty artists Santiago Rodriguez, Evelyn Elsing and Katherine Murdock. Join this group of friends for an exceptional afternoon of chamber music featuring Shostakovich’s ironic Piano Quintet in G Minor, op. 57 and Brahms’s String Sextet No. 2 in G Major, op. 36. DEKELBOUM CONCERT HALL $30 ($24 WHEN YOU BUY 5 OR MORE PERFORMANCES)
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James Ross, music director 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 $30 ($24 WHEN YOU BUY 5 OR MORE PERFORMANCES) PHOTOS FROM LEFT TO RIGHT: BRADFORD GOWAN; LINDA MABBS; PHOTO OF SANTIAGO RODRIGUEZ BY MIKE CIESIELSKI; PHOTO OF GUARNERI QUARTET BY STEVE SHERMAN; RITA SLOAN.
PROCEEDS FROM MUSIC IN MIND CONCERTS BENEFIT THE UM SCHOOL OF MUSIC’s UNDERGRADUATE SCHOLARSHIP FUND.
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Michael Votta, music director Connie Frigo, saxophone The School of Music’s newest orchestra opens its season with Carter Pann’s bracing Slalom and Jacob ter Veldhuis’s Tallahatchie Concerto featuring new faculty member Connie Frigo as saxophone soloist. Plus the rarely performed chamber version of Aaron Copland’s Appalachian Spring.
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Michael Votta, music director Chris Gekker, trumpet This all-American program of prominent (and promising) composers includes Ned Rorem’s Sinfonia, Alan Hovhaness’s Return and Rebuild the Desolate Places with trumpet soloist and faculty artist Chris Gekker, Jennifer Higdon’s Fanfare Ritmico and John Adams’s Grand Pianola Music. DEKELBOUM CONCERT HALL $27 ($22 WHEN YOU BUY 5 OR MORE PERFORMANCES)
October 2 . 8PM UM SCHOOL OF MUSIC
December 4 . 8PM
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James Ross, music director UM SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Lee Hinkle, Timothy McKay and James Ross, music director Daniel Villanueva, percussion Jasmin Lee, piano The UM Symphony Orchestra begins its UM Concert Choir Edward Maclary, guest conductor 2009-2010 season with works spanning SEE PAGE 34 FOR DETAILS. the classical and contemporary eras. The orchestra welcomes pianist Jasmin The program includes W.A. Mozart’s Symphony Lee, winner of the 2008 UMSO Concerto No. 36 in C Major (“Linz”); Christopher Rouse’s Competition, playing Rachmaninov’s Piano Der gerettete Alberich, fantasy for solo Concerto No. 1 in F-Sharp Minor, along with percussion and orchestra on themes of Wagner; the UM Concert Choir and guest conductor and Béla Bartók’s Concerto for Orchestra. Edward Maclary performing in Brahms’s Nanie. Also featured: Richard Strauss’s Metamorphosen DEKELBOUM CONCERT HALL $27 ($22 WHEN YOU BUY 5 OR MORE PERFORMANCES) and Edgard Varèse’s Amériques. DEKELBOUM CONCERT HALL $27 ($22 WHEN YOU BUY 5 OR MORE PERFORMANCES)
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James Ross, music director Sibelius’s rarely performed Fourth Symphony is the nihilistic core of a program that offers different responses to the dark masterpiece. Also featured: Richard Wagner: Prelude to Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg; Arturo Márquez: Danzon no. 2 and Maurice Ravel: Rapsodie espagnole.
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UM WIND ORCHESTRA Michael Votta, music director The Wind Orchestra performs two masterworks for brass and woodwind ensembles, Gunther Schuller’s Symphony for Brass and Percussion and Georges Enesco’s Dixtour, then enlists string players from the UMSO to perform Edgard Varèse’s Amériques. DEKELBOUM CONCERT HALL $27 ($22 WHEN YOU BUY 5 OR MORE PERFORMANCES)
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December 11 . 8PM
February 19 . 8PM
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ANNUAL KALEIDOSCOPE OF BANDS
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L. Richmond Sparks, music director Chris Vadala, saxophone UM bands share the stage, the aisles and the spotlight in a parade of musical styles! The Wind Ensemble premieres a new saxophone concerto by Mike Crotty written specifically for guest soloist Chris Vadala, and spices up the holiday season with excerpts from Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker Suite, and the clever March of the Wooden Soldier. With performances by the UM Wind Orchestra conducted by Michael Votta, the University Band conducted by Eli Osterloh and the Community Band conducted by Professor Emeritus, John E. Wakefield. Also featuring the only concert hall appearance by the “Mighty Sound of Maryland” Marching Band.
Michael Votta, music director Gregory Miller, horn Featuring the world premiere of The Sound of Light, a new work by faculty composer and School of Music director Robert Gibson, followed by Kazimierz Machala’s Concerto for Horn, Winds and Percussion with guest soloist and faculty artist Gregory Miller. Also, two works steeped in ceremony and ritual — Igor Stravinsky’s Symphonies of Wind Instruments (1920 version), and Oliver Messiaen’s Et exspecto resurrectionem mortuorum (‘And I await the resurrection of the dead’).
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The Sound of Light
DEKELBOUM CONCERT HALL $27 ($22 WHEN YOU BUY 5 OR MORE PERFORMANCES) February 20 . 8PM
UM SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA James Ross, music director Evelyn Elsing, cello, Barbara K. Steppel Memorial Faculty Fellow Linda Mabbs, soprano Jason Stearns, baritone The UMSO welcomes cellist Evelyn Elsing to perform Prokofiev’s Sinfonia Concertante for cello and orchestra, as well as soprano Linda Mabbs and baritone Jason Stearns for Alexander Zemlinksy’s Lyric Symphony. Also the UM Wind Orchestra performs a new work by faculty composer Robert Gibson. DEKELBOUM CONCERT HALL $27 ($22 WHEN YOU BUY 5 OR MORE PERFORMANCES)
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Aaron Copland on inspired teaching: “How indeed does anyone describe adequately what is learned from a powerful teacher? …It begins, perhaps, with the conviction that one is in the presence of an exceptional musical mentality. By a process of osmosis one soaks up attitudes, principles, reflections, knowledge. That last is a key word: it is literally exhilarating to be with a teacher for whom the art one loves has no secrets.”
Aaron Copland From The Teacher: Nadia Boulanger
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UM SCHOOL OF MUSIC: MUSIC IN MIND
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UM SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: TITANS
James Ross, music director James Stern, violin Audrey Andrist, piano Themes of change and growth inform a program that includes guest appearances by the UM Wind Orchestra, violinist James Stern and pianist Audrey Andrist. The concert features Paul Hindemith’s Symphonic Metamorphosis of Themes by Carl Maria von Weber; Alban Berg’s Chamber Concerto for piano and violin with 13 wind instruments; and Richard Strauss’s Ein Heldenleben.
FOR MORE ABOUT THIS PERFORMANCE, VISIT PAGE 15.
DEKELBOUM CONCERT HALL $27 ($22 WHEN YOU BUY 5 OR MORE PERFORMANCES) March 27 . 8PM UM SCHOOL OF MUSIC
UM WIND ORCHESTRA The Two Viennese Schools Michael Votta, music director James Stern, violin Audrey Andrist, piano Ludwig van Beethoven’s Rondino, Op. Posth. and Wolfgang Mozart’s Serenade, K. 375 represent the classical era of the First Viennese School, while Alban Berg’s Chamber Concerto for piano and violin with 13 wind instruments, featuring the Stern/Andrist Duo, represents the early twentieth-century output of the Second School. DEKELBOUM CONCERT HALL $27 ($22 WHEN YOU BUY 5 OR MORE PERFORMANCES)
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 $27 ($22 WHEN YOU BUY 5 OR MORE PERFORMANCES) 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 $27 ($22 WHEN YOU BUY 5 OR MORE PERFORMANCES)
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CALDER QUARTET
ACADEMY OF ST. MARTIN IN THE FIELDS CHAMBER ENSEMBLE
Intimate Letters Benjamin Jacobson, violin Andrew Bulbrook, violin Jonathan Moerschel, viola Eric Byers, cello Inspired by innovative American visual artist Alexander Calder, the Calder Quartet challenges the conventions of chamber music. Their insightful pairings of the traditional and the contemporary are designed to foster a broad understanding of chamber music. Janácek’s Quartet No. 2 (“Intimate Letters”) is an expression of the composer’s impassioned correspondence with his own “immortal beloved,” a young married woman named Kamila. Its phrases have a spoken quality, rendering Janácek’s inner obsessions in unsparing, vivid detail. The program also will feature Stravinsky’s “Three Pieces” and Schubert’s Quartet in G Major. GILDENHORN RECITAL HALL $37 ($30 WHEN YOU BUY 5 OR MORE PERFORMANCES)
Kenneth Sillito, violin and leader Harvey de Souza, violin Jennifer Godson, violin Martin Burgess, violin Robert Smissen, viola Duncan Ferguson, viola Stephen Orton, cello John Heley, cello The Academy of St. Martin in the Fields Chamber Ensemble was created in 1967 to perform larger chamber works — from quintets to octets — with players who customarily work together, instead of the usual string quartet with additional guests. Drawn from the principal players of The Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, the Chamber Ensemble tours as a string octet, string sextet and in other configurations including winds. Repertoire for this concert will be Brahms’s Sextet in B-Flat Major, op. 18; Shostakovich’s Prelude and Scherzo for String Octet, op. 11; and Mendelssohn’s Octet for Strings in Eb-Major, op. 20. DEKELBOUM CONCERT HALL $42 ($34 WHEN YOU BUY 5 OR MORE PERFORMANCES)
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MARK O’CONNOR SOLO VIOLIN RECITAL
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Violaine Melançon, violin Natasha Brofsky, cello Seth Knopp, piano Based at the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore, the Peabody Trio has established itself as an important presence in the chamber music world — vivid interpreters of the classics of the repertoire, advocates for new music and dedicated teachers and mentors to a generation of young musicians. Their program includes Beethoven’s Variations in G Major, op. 121a “Ich bin der Schneider Kakadu”; Ives’s Trio; Mendelssohn’s Trio No. 1 in D Minor, op. 49 and a programmed encore: Thierry De Mey’s Musique de tables.
Amore: Love and Marriage in the Italian Renaissance
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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 the Appalachia Waltz. GILDENHORN RECITAL HALL $37 ($30 WHEN YOU BUY 5 OR MORE PERFORMANCES) February 28 . 3PM
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 special program will cover a range of amorous moods, from medieval courtly love to religious ecstasy, from totally explicit songs to a celebration of marriage. Allan Kozinn of the New York Times has described their performance as a model of “focused intonation and textural transparency.” GILDENHORN RECITAL HALL $37 ($30 WHEN YOU BUY 5 OR MORE PERFORMANCES)
Music in Mind FOR MORE ABOUT THESE PERFORMANCES VISIT PAGES 14 AND 15. October 4 . 3PM UM SCHOOL OF MUSIC: MUSIC IN MIND
A WIDER CIRCLE: THE SPIRIT OF FOLK MUSIC November 13 . 8PM UM SCHOOL OF MUSIC: MUSIC IN MIND
AM I TOO LOUD? A BOW TO COLLABORATIVE PERFORMANCE February 7 . 3PM UM SCHOOL OF MUSIC: MUSIC IN MIND
AMERICAN VOICES SEE PAGE 34 FOR DETAILS.
March 28 . 3PM UM SCHOOL OF MUSIC: MUSIC IN MIND
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What do we need to create a place in the world? “I need perspective, imagination, courage, impulse, compassion and steadfastness. Place-building takes constant effort and is sometimes slow, lonesome and disheartening but with a steadfast determination, one can always find evidence of its worth.”
Sabrina Mandell Sabrina Mandell Happenstance Theater
“To create our place in the world we need to place the world in our creation, have more heart in our love, more glide in our stride, and to know how and when to jump for joy!”
Walter Dallas Walter Dallas Senior Artist-in-Residence UM Department of Theatre
FROM LEFT TO RIGHT: WALTER DALLAS, UM DEPARTMENT OF THEATRE; SABRINA MANDELL AND MARK JASTER, HAPPENSTANCE THEATER; MICHAEL VOTTA,
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The Clarice Smith Center is a Maryland institution, with deep connections on campus and in the community. We are pleased to honor our prophets and visionaries in their own land as we feature their work this season.
“We need to feel and to think; and to be felt and be thought of. We need to see and to hear; and to be seen and be heard. We need to love and to be loved. We need to create and to be created. We simply need — to be.”
Michael Votta Michael Votta Associate Professor, UM School of Music
“What do we need, from outside and from within? Support. Opportunity. Imagination/creativity. Determination/commitment/ willingness to be bold.”
Gesel Mason Gesel Mason, Choreographer
“Each of us needs the space in our lives to be creative — whether creating a work of art, a home for our family, a successful business or even just a really good meal. The act of creation allows us to be in the world that we live.”
Daniel Burkholder Daniel Burkholder, Choreographer
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November 19 – 23 See order form for dates and times
November 22 . 7:30PM UM SCHOOL OF MUSIC
UNIVERSITY CHORALE AND UM CHAMBER SINGERS
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MARYLAND OPERA STUDIO
LA FINTA GIARDINIERA (“The Pretended Garden-Girl”) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart libretto by Giuseppe Petrosellini and Marco Coltellini Pat Diamond, director An opera buffa in three acts that tells the elaborate tale of a woman in disguise searching for the lover who mistakenly believes he has killed her. Fully staged and minimally produced, with piano accompaniment. Performed in Italian with English supertitles. KAY THEATRE $21 ($17 WHEN YOU BUY 5 OR MORE PERFORMANCES) November 20 – 24 See order form for dates and times UM SCHOOL OF MUSIC
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L’ELISIR D’AMORE (“The Elixir of Love”) by Gaetano Donizetti libretto by Felice Romani based on libretto “Le Philtre” by Eugène Scribe Nick Olcott, director A melodramma giocoso in two acts. The comic story of a simple peasant who buys a supposedly magic potion to woo the beautiful and wealthy girl whom he loves. Fully staged and minimally produced, with piano accompaniment. Performed in Italian with English supertitles. KAY THEATRE $21 ($17 WHEN YOU BUY 5 OR MORE PERFORMANCES)
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Edward Maclary, music director This annual fall concert showcases the University’s two most select vocal ensembles, the acclaimed Chorale and the award-winning Chamber Singers. DEKELBOUM CONCERT HALL $21 ($17 WHEN YOU BUY 5 OR MORE PERFORMANCES) April 17 – 25 See order form for dates and times UM SCHOOL OF MUSIC
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SHADOWBOXER: AN OPERA BASED ON THE LIFE OF JOE LOUIS music by Frank Proto libretto by John Chenault Leon Major, director The world premiere of a new American opera based on the life of one of the greatest boxers who ever lived. Joe Louis — “The Brown Bomber” — became a hero to the whole country in an era when a black hero was all but unthinkable. But what happens to a hero when the glory fades and the bills come due? KAY THEATRE $32 ($26 WHEN YOU BUY 5 OR MORE PERFORMANCES) Commissioned by the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center and the UM School of Music.
April 18 . 7:30PM UM SCHOOL OF MUSIC
UNIVERSITY CHORALE Edward Maclary, music director This annual spring concert showcases the critically acclaimed University Chorale, a 50-voice choir that specializes in music from all periods and frequently collaborates with the National Symphony Orchestra. DEKELBOUM CONCERT HALL $21 ($17 WHEN YOU BUY 5 OR MORE PERFORMANCES)
Adrian Davis on the example of Joe Louis: “I started boxing nine years after Joe Louis stopped, but his legacy was still lingering on. He was the best of all fighters who ever lived. My aunts, uncles, grandparents — they’d watch my moves and say ‘Oh, you’re going to be another Joe Louis.’ “Because he was born in Alabama in 1914, he didn’t get an education. He could hardly read or write. But he was a role model because of his character. He stayed clean; he never got involved in crime; he stayed out of trouble and that’s hard to do for a handsome, young rich man. He gave so much of his life to the public. He sent his brothers and sisters through college. And even though he made bad business decisions and died without any money, he died a champion. I wanted to live like Joe Louis. And this is how I live.”
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November 20 . 8PM
BANG ON A CAN ALL-STARS WITH TRIO MEDIAEVAL Steel Hammer
SEE PAGE 34 FOR DETAILS.
by Julia Wolfe Inspired by composer Julia Wolfe’s love for the stories and music of Appalachia, Steel Hammer revisits the legend of John Henry and his race against “the machine.” Trio Mediaeval, with their pure and direct vocal sound, will weave the timeless tale and the Bang on a Can All-Stars will employ a chorus of instruments — including mountain dulcimers, wooden bones, banjo, steel hammers and more — to express the rich instrumental colors of the Appalachian region. DEKELBOUM CONCERT HALL
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KRONOS QUARTET AND WU MAN, PIPA Yin Yu Tang: A Chinese Home This project is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts, which believes that a great nation deserves great art. Co-commissioned by the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center.
With long-time collaborator Wu Man and director Chen Shi-Zheng (Peony Pavilion), Kronos creates a new staged work inspired by Yin Yu Tang, the 300-year-old Chinese house that was moved, piece by piece, from the Huang Village in China to the Peabody Essex Museum in Massachusetts. By concentrating on one very specific, magical place, Yin Yu Tang: A Chinese Home hopes to take the audience inside China’s musical spirit. KAY THEATRE
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RINDE ECKERT Slide Conceived, written and including performances by Steve Mackey, composer/guitarist Rinde Eckert, librettist/actor/singer featuring eighth blackbird, flutes, clarinets, violin/viola, cello, piano, percussion A concert-length music 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
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What discoveries await? “For the human species to evolve, the conversation must deepen.”
Margaret Mad Creativity is an essential part of life, so we offer opportunities for you to broaden and deepen your experience here. Throughout the year, you will find numerous ways to connect directly with artists and ideas.
WWW.CLARICESMITHCENTER.UMD.EDU
The seventh venue: a place to visit, engage and leave as a changed person. It’s the place to watch videos, read blogs and link to other resources and websites. It’s where you can read audience reactions to recent performances, add your own comments and get the most current information about upcoming activities and events. TAKE FIVE
This free, intimate, enriching performance series takes you on a journey with artists to share both their art, and the aesthetic, social, cultural and historical context behind their work. It’s your chance to 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. Check the website for the 2009-2010 schedule of events. CREATIVE DIALOGUES
These moderated conversations provide the campus, community, artists and experts with opportunities to go beyond the stage and engage in deeper dialogue about themes explored this season. This free series is designed to provoke creative discussion, challenge viewpoints and expand understanding by asking us to go beyond the automatic answers and ask new questions. 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. Collaborations in the year ahead 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 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 AND CLICK ENGAGE.
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ARTIST RESIDENCIES AND COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT Visiting artist residencies at the Clarice Smith Center provide campus and community participants with a multitude of opportunities to interact with professional artists, to gain insight into the artistic process and to explore more deeply the content and issues of artists’ work. Residency activities take many forms, including workshops, masterclasses, lecture demonstrations, informal gatherings and other special activities. These activities are held at the Center and other campus locations and in local schools and community centers. Visiting artist residencies are designed in collaboration with campus and community partners and the artists themselves, with the overarching goal of increasing participation in the arts by engaging people in learning, exploration and growth.
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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.
Extended artist residencies promote deeper engagement beyond performances for University of Maryland students and our broader community. The Center has undertaken a variety of longer-term residencies spanning anywhere from several weeks to a full year or more. In their third year of a multi-year engagement, the Kronos Quartet will be in residence for a full two weeks. School of Music students will benefit from in-depth rehearsal and coaching sessions, several class demonstrations and a rare opportunity for several composition students to create new works in collaboration with Kronos, in preparation for a public reading of their compositions by Kronos.
Donors Brenda and Eirik Cooper met in the saxophone section of the band in 1991 and were married at the University of Maryland Chapel just yards from where they first met. The intense sense of connection to Maryland they developed as students inspired them to become donors to the School of Music Scholarship fund and in 2008 they established the Eirik and Brenda Cooper Scholarship, which provides financial assistance to students majoring in wind, brass or percussion instruments in the School of Music. Eirik performed on the saxophone at the groundbreaking ceremony for the Center and says that the Center has far surpassed all of their expectations they had at that time.
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.
“Our gift is simultaneously an investment in the University, School of Music, the talented students and the arts. It would be difficult to find a way that a contribution can do so much elsewhere.�
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Make an impact… become a donor. • Add a contribution to your ticket order form. • Call 301.405.5550 to make your gift today. • Visit www.claricesmithcenter.umd.edu and click on GIVING. • Share your Season Guide with family and friends. • Invite your neighbors to join you to experience transformative programming at the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center.
We are deeply grateful to the following sponsors for their generous investment: 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, which believes that a great nation deserves great art.
■ Extended artist residencies and commissions are made possible in part through generous grants from the LEADING COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY PRESENTERS PROGRAM OF THE DORIS DUKE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION and from THE MORRIS AND GWENDOLYN CAFRITZ FOUNDATION. ■ Dan Hurlin “Disfarmer” is supported, in part, by the HENSON ENDOWMENT FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS. ■ Margaret Jenkins Dance Company Other Suns Funded in part by the NATIONAL DANCE PROJECT OF THE NEW ENGLAND FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS, with lead funding from the DORIS DUKE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION and additional funding from the FORD FOUNDATION, THE ANDREW W. MELLON FOUNDATION and the COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS FUND OF THE METLIFE FOUNDATION. ■ Kronos Quartet and Wu Man “Yin Yu Tang: A Chinese Home” is supported, in part, by an award from the NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS which believes that a great nation deserves great art.
To view a list of our Individual Donors, visit our website and click on GIVING.
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DIRECTIONS Visit www.claricesmithcenter.umd.edu and click on ABOUT THE CENTER for directions to the Center by car and by public transportation. If you drive, make sure to take the University Boulevard (Route 193) and Stadium Drive entrance into the University of Maryland, College Park campus. The Center is located on Stadium Drive.
PARKING Convenient and inexpensive parking is located right across the street from the Center in the Stadium Drive Garage, an 800-car paid garage. Just past the Center, there is Lot 1B, a large open lot that is free on weekends and after 4PM on weekdays.
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SIX PERFORMANCE VENUES IN ONE BUILDING The Center’s six performance venues are all accessible from the main lobby. The ELSIE & MARVIN DEKELBOUM CONCERT HALL (970 seats plus a 130-seat choir loft), augments the big, sweeping sounds of large ensembles while providing each audience member with a wonderful view of the stage.
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