Location: The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center
Celebrate 25 years of The Clarice with the UMD Symphony Orchestra’s 2025–26 Season debut, showcasing iconic American composers and American-inspired works!
This performance opens with Leonard Bernstein’s rousing Overture to Candide, a piece equally erratic and whimsical as the novella that inspired it. UMSO is then joined by the UMD Concert Choir, led by Director of Choral Activities Jason Max Ferdinand, for a moving rendition of Robert Nathaniel Dett’s The Chariot Jubilee, a piece widely acknowledged to be the first-ever symphonic work based solely on African American spirituals.
Presented by the UMD School of Music and Clarice Presents.