Featuring
BEETHOVEN: Choral Fantasy
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: A Sea Symphony
With: The City Choir of Washington, The Washington National Opera Orchestra, Vocal Soloists from the UMD Faculty, and the UMD student Winner of UMD/City Choir Beethoven piano competition
Experience the sheer scale of true choral majesty at The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center’s largest concert space, the spectacular Dekelboum Concert Hall, with a performance featuring two masterpieces that redefined the limits of the art form. The journey begins with Beethoven’s innovative Choral Fantasy, a visionary fusion of solo piano, orchestra, and chorus that proclaims the unifying, transcendent power of the arts and community.
This boundary-breaking work paved the way for Ralph Vaughan Williams’s A Sea Symphony—a dramatic tale of human exploration and the infinite ocean. Featuring musicians from the University of Maryland School of Music and the Washington National Opera Orchestra, this concert will transport you on an unforgettable voyage of the soul.
The Dekelboum Concert Hall at the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center
Getting There / Parking
The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center is at 8270 Alumni Drive in College Park, MD, on the University of Maryland campus near the intersection of University Boulevard and Stadium Drive.
Weekend parking is free in Parking Lots 1B and Z, located just beyond The Clarice on Alumni Drive.