Date: October 10, 2010, 5-7 p.m. Location: Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center,  University of Maryland, College Park. Cost: Free of charge, but reserved tickets ahead of time. Donations welcomed.

POWERS OF TEN SONGFEST

The USA Science and Engineering Festival is being kicked off this weekend with its opening event! Be sure to attend

Join composer David Haines and more than two hundred young people and adults on an amazing voyage through the magnitudes from the human scale right down to string theory via fingers, fleas, amoebae, bacteria, viruses, atoms and quarks – then back up the magnitudes via landscape, tectonic plates, Earth, Moon, Sun and Solar System, black holes and galaxies.

The twenty-odd songs of Powers of Ten are bursting with musical flavors that evade description: a touch of classical, a soupcon of jazz, a dash of pop, a sprinkle of rap. The lyrics are fact-packed, often hilarious – and occasionally even tug at the heart strings. Who’d have thought a song about the wonders of Bacteria could evoke tears? But it does…

Join us in the gorgeous Elsie & Marvin Dekelboum Concert Hall of the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center on the University of Maryland, College Park campus for a concert quite unlike any you’ve heard before!

Click here for directions and parking info

Seating is limited. Tickets will be free of charge, but must be reserved in advance. Please check the Website to reserve tickets. Donations to help offset the cost of putting on this unique event will be accepted on site.
Special thanks to Singtastic and the University of Maryland for making this event possible.

Filed under: For Teachers, Grades 6-8, Grades 9-12, Grades K-5, K-12 Outreach Programs

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