Events

Clarice Presents' Jazz Jams, in partnership with Busboys and Poets, brings D.C.-based saxophonist Elijah Jamal Balbed to perform and lead a community-wide jam! Elijah's band will play a set starting at 7:30PM. Bring your instrument!

Join the UMD Department of English for a Writers Here and Now event featuring Karen Solie and LaToya Watkins.

Though he is signed to the venerable jazz-specialist Verve Records, the composer, percussionist and pianist Julius Rodriguez's speedy rise to fame among a set of younger fans seems the sort of glow-up you might expect from a DJ or rapper.

Heralded as Gustav Mahler's most sophisticated and yet most accessible work, the Fourth Symphony is likely the new listener's easiest point of access to the great composer.

Dmitri Shostakovich’s fifth symphony came about during a time of intense political persecution. The interpretation of this piece has been hotly debated since its premiere, as many saw it as a criticism of the then dictator, thinly veiled behind exuberant adoration.

Experience an evening of stories sonically told by the UMD Wind Orchestra! Björk’s Overture to “Dancer in the Dark,” arranged by Vince Mendoza, chronicles the story of Selma Jezkova, a Czech immigrant to the United States who is going blind due to illness.

Considered “one of the most consistently excellent troupes working today” by The New York Times, the MacArthur and Doris Duke Award-winning choreographer Kyle Abraham's dance company A.I.M has solidified his position at the very forefront of the contemporary dance world.

Acclaimed by the New Yorker as a diva in the art of playing the piano, Margaret Leng Tan has established herself as a major force within the American avant-garde.

Clarice Presents' Jazz Jams, in partnership with Busboys and Poets, brings D.C.-based saxophonist Elijah Jamal Balbed to perform and lead a community-wide jam! Elijah's band will play a set starting at 7:30PM. Bring your instrument!

Following a star turn at the influential globalFEST music festival, the Haitian-born Moonlight Benjamin has methodically built a memorable catalog of roots-rock music that has proven irresistible to NPR, Afropop Worldwide Radio and fans of raw, gutbucket rock and roll bands like The Black K