Articles tagged: William Bolcom
with video: Celebrated composer William Bolcom responds to Congress' gun vote in song: 'Aren't You Ashamed?'
Posted: Apr 22, 2013Ann Arbor's resident Grammy- and Pulitzer Prize-winning composer William Bolcom recently posted a YouTube video that's "a musical letter to Congress in response to their failed gun vote on April 17, 2013." Read more »
Acclaimed New Century Chamber Orchestra, Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg returning to Ann Arbor
Posted: Jan 27, 2013Note: story has been changed to correct a reference to the venue at the orchestra's last local appearance. Electric. That’s the word that comes to mind to describe the Ann Arbor debut, in the 2010-2011 ... Read more »
with video: Top area talent on tap for ragtime and early jazz revue Saturday at Michigan Theater
Posted: Jan 09, 2013River Raisin Ragtime Revue. Are you ready to revel in some ragtime? William Pemberton, executive director of the River Raisin Ragtime Revue, hopes so. His group will offer an evening of vaudeville, burlesque and music ... Read more »
Detroit Symphony to celebrate Hill Auditorium's 'King of Instruments' organ
Posted: Jan 06, 2013With that sublime Celestial Lay Can any Earthly Sounds compare? If any Earthly Music dare, The noble Organ may. From Heav'n its wondrous Notes were giv'n, (Cecilia oft convers'd with Heaven,) Some Angel of the ... Read more »
Bolcom & Morris to perform for Society for Musical Arts; American Classical Music Hall of Fame induction planned
Posted: Oct 10, 2011Ann Arbor's famous cabaret duo William Bolcom, piano, and Joan Morris, voice, will be presented in a concert on Wednesday, Oct. 12 at 10:30 a.m. by the Ann Arbor Society for Musical Arts at the ... Read more »
Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra begins its season on an amazing high note
Posted: Sep 18, 2011There are concerts so satisfying in their first halves that the music post-intermission seems superfluous. And there are concerts that don’t get going till, well, the encores. But opening its 2011-2012 season Saturday evening at ... Read more »
Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra opening season with local flavor, rising cellist
Posted: Sep 11, 2011The main business of the Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra is music making, of course. But like any good symphony orchestra, it has many fortes. Among them is the orchestra’s keen sense of community and its ... Read more »
Piano soloist Roman Rabinovich adds electricity to Ann Arbor Symphony's superb Saturday concert
Posted: Mar 13, 2011At a pre-concert lecture, Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra guest soloist Roman Rabinovich seemed a little bit uncomfortable behind the microphone. Just the opposite was true when the 25-year-old pianist took his place at the Steinway ... Read more »
University of Michigan Symphony Band to showcase works commissioned for tour of China
Posted: Jan 31, 2011The University of Michigan Symphony Band concert on Friday, February 4 at 8 p.m. in Hill Auditorium will feature two world premieres, a new work by U-M composing faculty Michael Daugherty and a new arrangement ... Read more »
Ann Arbor Symphony's 'Made in Michigan' opens season in impressive style
Posted: Sep 27, 2010The joke about Michigan weather is, of course, that if you just wait five minutes, it will change. It’s not so different, apparently, with music that’s “Made in Michigan,” the title of the Ann Arbor ... Read more »
Ann Arbor Symphony's season-opening concert is 'Made in Michigan'
Posted: Sep 19, 2010Guest soloist Amy Porter If you’re a locavore whose predilections extend to classical music, mark Sept. 26 (Sunday afternoon) on your calendar. When the Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra presents “Made in Michigan,” its first concert ... Read more »
with video: Ann Arbor Symphony celebrates America in style
Posted: Mar 14, 2010When an orchestra programs an “American Celebration,” the choices are as endless as the landscapes from California to the New York Island. The Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra’s “American Celebration” Saturday at the Michigan Theater chose ... Read more »
with video: Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra celebrating America
Posted: Mar 06, 2010Bloomington, Indiana, to conduct the Bloomington Camerata Orchestra. Ashland, Ohio, to conduct the Ashland Symphony Orchestra. Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra Music Director Arie Lipsky seemed to be making a late-February tour of the heartland in ... Read more »
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