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UMS is celebrating Hill Auditorium’s 100th birthday this season! Last week, we kicked off our season in Hill Auditorium with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, which also opened Hill on May 14, 1913….

Sometimes, absurdity makes much sense. Ionesco’s play Rhinoceros was written in France during World War II, when the majority of French accepted collaboration with Nazi Germany. But, even today, the rhinos depicted by Ionesco are not an endangered species, and Ionesco’s fable about the tensions between resistance and conformity continues to speak to a large audience worldwide.

Suzhou Kun Opera Theater of Jiangsu Province perform a collection of scenes from Kunqu, the Classical Opera of Globalized China, in Ann Arbor on September 27-28, 2012. In 2001, UNESCO declared kunqu,…

UMS, WDET and Arbor Brewing Company invite you to join us for an evening of Hill Auditorium trivia and music!

From this morning’s master class at U-M dance department. Led by Kidd Pivot, who perform this weekend.

Joseph Lam is the director of the Confucius Institute at the University of Michigan. We sat down to talk with him about kunqu, the Classical Opera of Globalized China.

Perhaps you’ve heard Mason Bates’ name, perhaps you’ve seen his picture; maybe you know he’s young, widely performed, broadly heralded and highly esteemed. There are more than enough superlative to attach to Mason Bates, but don’t let this high esteem deceive you: he is not your father’s American orchestral composer.

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.

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