Articles tagged: University Musical Society
with gallery, video: Experts describe what makes Hill Auditorium special, on its 100th birthday
Posted: May 14, 2013The University of Michigan’s pre-eminent performance space, Hill Auditorium—which turns 100 years old today, May 14, 2013—is enjoying the extra love and attention that comes with a milestone anniversary. Read more »
UMS Choral Union members to appear with DSO at Carnegie Hall
Posted: May 04, 2013Forget about taking the N Train to 57th Street and 7th Avenue. When a New Yorker asks you, “How do you get to Carnegie Hall?” the required answer is, “Practice, practice, practice.” Now that old ... Read more »
SITI Company's 'Trojan Women' a powerful rendering of powerless women
Posted: Apr 28, 2013In SITI Company’s “Trojan Women (After Euripides),” now being presented by the University Musical Society, a Greek envoy (Leon Ingulsrud) expresses contempt for a Trojan priest (Barney O’Hanlon) who’s castrated himself in the name of ... Read more »
Ragamala Dance casts an artful spell in Power Center performance
Posted: Apr 25, 2013It is autumn for the 6 women dancers on stage, adorned in pleated silks of russet and gold, scarlet, olive and saffron. But there are flowers in their hair, and there is nothing autumnal about ... Read more »
with video: SITI troupe bringing its updated anti-war 'Trojan Women (after Euripedes)' to Ann Arbor
Posted: Apr 23, 2013Saying "This isn't your mother's Euripides" may sound laughably understated, since plays like "The Trojan Women" are, of course, more than 2,400 years old; but the New York-based SITI Company, now bringing its celebrated adaptation, "Trojan Women (after Euripedes)" to Ann Arbor has gone to great lengths to help the ancient anti-war play speak to 21st century audiences. Read more »
Ragamala Dance's 'Sacred Earth' combines Indian dance, art and music
Posted: Apr 20, 2013Bharatanatyam, the beautiful and expressive Indian classical temple dance form, was traditionally a solo art. But for dancers Ranee Ramaswamy and her daughters Aparna and Ashwini, it’s all in the family. If each of the ... Read more »
with video: Classical trumpet star Alison Balsom making Hill Auditorium debut
Posted: Apr 16, 2013Sound the trumpet, indeed: Alison Balsom is coming to town. Or, more precisely, to Hill Auditorium Saturday evening, along with the Scottish Ensemble, courtesy of the University Musical Society. If you haven’t heard of, or ... Read more »
UMS announces 2013-14 season lineup
Posted: Apr 14, 2013The University Musical Society today formally announces its schedule of events for the 2013-14 season. The San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, Joshua Bell, and the St. Lawrence String Quartet are among the classical-music highlights. Other highlights ... Read more »
with video: Bobby McFerrin reflects on inspiration, new album ahead of Hill Auditorium concert
Posted: Apr 13, 2013Over the last 30-plus years, Bobby McFerrin has consistently shown his talent for tapping into a variety of musical forms—jazz, classical, pop, gospel—then combining and re-combining them to come up with something uniquely his own. ... Read more »
1927 captivates with 'The Animals and Children Took to the Streets'
Posted: Apr 11, 2013An animated child falls asleep, and the z’s that appear to float away get swatted like pests by a bathing neighbor (played by a real actor); animated chickens emerge from a live actor’s open coat; ... Read more »
Esperanza Spalding fills the Michigan Theater with exceptional jazz
Posted: Apr 07, 2013What did you think of the concert? Leave a comment and/or vote in the poll at the end of this post: Esperanza Spalding performs at the Ann Arbor Summer Festival last year. Jazz virtuoso Esperanza ... Read more »
Beloved Takacs Quartet returning for Beethoven, Britten and Haydn
Posted: Apr 07, 2013When the Takacs Quartet returns to Ann Arbor’s Rackham Auditorium Friday, it bring quartets from two of the big Bs—Beethoven and Britten—plus one from the Papa of them all, Haydn. The group opens, fittingly enough, ... Read more »
with video: 1927's 'The Animals and Children Took to the Streets' coming to Performance Network
Posted: Apr 05, 2013"The Animals and Children Took to the Streets" Michael Kondziolka, the University Musical Society’s director of programming, confessed that when he first saw “The Animals and Children Took to the Streets”—now appearing on the Performance ... Read more »
University of Michigan, UMS present a challenging 'Oresteia of Aeschylus'
Posted: Apr 05, 2013The ad might have looked something like this: Cast wanted: to bring to life three epic pieces of music, rarely performed; music requires epic forces—full complement of vocal soloists, huge chorus, giant orchestra plus massive ... Read more »
Acclaimed Esperanza Spalding playing Michigan Theater this weekend
Posted: Apr 01, 2013It's been a very good couple of years for Esperanza Spalding. In 2011, Spalding—an extremely talented jazz bassist, composer and singer whose music also draws on rock, soul and other styles—shocked the music biz when ... Read more »
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