11/12 Divine Voices Series
The Divine Voices Series celebrates the choral music tradition with three concerts at St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church and one in St. Andrews Episcopal Church.
10/11 Divine Voices Series Announced
The Divine Voices Series celebrates the choral music tradition with three concerts at St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church and one in Hill Auditorium.
Georgian Folksong Visits Ann Arbor
The musical traditions of Georgia are hardly known in the West, but the uniqueness of the music won it a designation from UNESCO in 2001 as a masterpiece of the “Oral and Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.” It is so distinctive that a Georgian folksong was included among the examples of the Earth’s cultural diversity in the 1977 Voyager probe.
Gesualdo: Rebel or Rogue? [with Audio]
Carlo Gesualdo was a prince and landholder in Venosa in southeastern Italy. Around 1588 his wife began an affair with a gentleman in the vicinity. In 1590 Gesualdo, found the pair in bed together, stabbed them both, and hung their corpses in front of his castle for all to see. The story was retold repeatedly by poets of the day in a sixteenth-century equivalent of headline news. Was Gesualdo really a renegade as well as a murderer? Was he even a “modernist” of his time?
UMS 11/12 Season: The Complete List
UMS announces its 11/12 season, opening Saturday, September 17, 2011, and running through Sunday, April 22, 2012. The season features 56 performances by 40 different artists/ensembles, with performances that range from cool and enigmatic to high-energy spectacle and programs that range from cutting-edge contemporary to classical favorites. So bust out your calendar and take a spin through this chronological listing of 11/12 performances!
UMS’s Arts Roundup: November 12
In this roundup: No progress made with DSO talks, so musicians travel with self-produced concert series. Orchestras now join the HD-broadcast performing arts trend in an effort to entice new audiences. Fela! musical (which appears on UMS 10/11 NT Live series) faces $5M lawsuit.
Additional UMS 10/11 Events
UMS is pleased to announce additional concerts in the 10/11 season that are not part of our genre-specific packages. These events are all part of UMS’s popular Monogram Series, which allows audience members to select at least five events and receive a 10% discount.
UMS Announces 10/11 Choral Union Series & Piano Series
The University Musical Society is pleased to announce its 132nd Annual Choral Union Series, with 10 concerts in Hill Auditorium.
10/11 Chamber Arts Series & Schubertiade Announced
The 48th Annual UMS Chamber Arts Series presents some of today’s leading chamber musicians performing both traditional and contemporary repertoire: Schubert Cycle Concert 1 Takács Quartet Jeffrey Kahane, piano Thursday, October 14...
Chicago Symphony Orchestra & UMS: The Ultimate Long-Term Relationship
Editor’s note: Chicago Symphony Orchestra returns to Ann Arbor on October 29, 2015. The Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s January 27, 2010 appearance in Hill Auditorium is the 202nd in a series of performances...
Choral Music 1718
Four Performances in Hill Auditorium and St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church
Choral/Vocal
Five Performances in Hill Auditorium and St. Francis of Assisi Church
