January 2018

Singers from What’s in a Song? will offer vocal masterclasses for U-M School of Music, Theatre & Dance (SMTD) students.

Singers from What’s in a Song? will offer vocal masterclasses for U-M School of Music, Theatre & Dance (SMTD) students.

Singers from What’s in a Song? will offer vocal masterclasses for U-M School of Music, Theatre & Dance (SMTD) students.

Singers from What’s in a Song? will offer vocal masterclasses for U-M School of Music, Theatre & Dance (SMTD) students.

One of the highlights of the 2015-16 UMS season was the opening of the first Song Biennial, in which Martin Katz curated a wonderful evening featuring a variety of singers examining the different components of a song.

Please note: Due to closure of Ann Arbor Public Schools today January 12, this school day performance has been canceled.

Please note: This performance will begin at 8 pm as planned. (This morning’s school day performance was canceled due to the closure of Ann Arbor Public Schools.)

Hair Parties are informal gatherings where small, performative elements of Urban Bush Women’s Hair & Other Stories are used to ignite dialogue.

Hair Parties are informal gatherings where small, performative elements of Urban Bush Women’s Hair & Other Stories are used to ignite dialogue.

Since its founding in 1989, the St. Lawrence String Quartet has had an evangelical fervor for the music of Haydn; they view of the composer as a radical, passionate innovator.

U.S. history is full of glorious gaps and unknowns. The Speculative Histories workshop will focus on using the powerful tool of imagination to see or to “speculate” truths residing in historical gaps for African Americans in order to envision a greater picture of the collective American past.

At Hanover Middle School, a pair of teachers are getting shockingly down and dirty with a lesson about race, sex, and power.

This event was streamed live. Click “watch video” to see video.

UMS presents a livestream party for Claudia Rankine and P. Carl’s discussion about social justice and theater at the U-M Detroit Center, followed by a live panel of Michigan theater makers addressing the same issues.

At Hanover Middle School, a pair of teachers are getting shockingly down and dirty with a lesson about race, sex, and power.

At Hanover Middle School, a pair of teachers are getting shockingly down and dirty with a lesson about race, sex, and power.

This all-day workshop facilitated by Kalamazoo-based ERACCE (Eliminating Racism & Creating/Celebrating Equity) is helpful for beginning the development of a common language necessary for having productive conversations about race and systemic racism.

At Hanover Middle School, a pair of teachers are getting shockingly down and dirty with a lesson about race, sex, and power.

At Hanover Middle School, a pair of teachers are getting shockingly down and dirty with a lesson about race, sex, and power.

Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Julia Wolfe joins the U-M Contemporary Directions Ensemble, directed by Oriol Sans, for an evening of conversation and performances of her small ensemble works.

At Hanover Middle School, a pair of teachers are getting shockingly down and dirty with a lesson about race, sex, and power.

Rimas Tuminas’s reimagining of Anton Chekhov’s tale about broken illusions and dashed hopes is freed from traditional trappings, leaving behind a battlefield for passions and colliding ambitions.

The U-M Institute for the Humanities and UMS will offer a series of open dialogues around contemporary visual art, performance, and identity.

Panelists will present a brief history of Chechen-Russian relations and discuss the origins of radical movements in the North Caucasus that led to the Beslan school siege of 2004, as well as ongoing attempts for justice by the victims’ families.

For more than a decade, Ramzan Kadyrov has led Chechnya through brutal repression with the tacit blessing of the Kremlin, gradually becoming a tyrant by ruthlessly eradicating even the mildest forms of dissent.

Members of Russian Renaissance discuss working and collaborating within the large international chamber arts landscape.

Belgium’s Bronks theater company presents a compelling work about the hostage drama in a school in Beslan in 2004, when more than 1,200 people, mainly children and their mothers or grandmothers, were taken hostage.

School day performance.

Belgium’s Bronks theater company presents a compelling work about the hostage drama in a school in Beslan in 2004, when more than 1,200 people, mainly children and their mothers or grandmothers, were taken hostage.

School day performance.

A Narrated Concert to Honor Black Classical Musicians of the Past

Belgium’s Bronks theater company presents a compelling work about the hostage drama in a school in Beslan in 2004, when more than 1,200 people, mainly children and their mothers or grandmothers, were taken hostage.

In a unique individual moment of undivided love and attention, FK Alexander takes your hand, fixes your gaze, and sings to you alongside a distorted recording of Judy Garland’s final recording of “Over the Rainbow,” played through a wall of noise by the abrasive Glasgow-based noise band Okishima Island Tourist Association.

UMS has teamed up with the Russian Renaissance to make a free and inclusive live classical music experience available for audience members who would benefit from a more relaxed concert environment, including people with autism spectrum disorders, sensory or communication disorders, and their friends and families.

In a unique individual moment of undivided love and attention, FK Alexander takes your hand, fixes your gaze, and sings to you alongside a distorted recording of Judy Garland’s final recording of “Over the Rainbow,” played through a wall of noise by the abrasive Glasgow-based noise band Okishima Island Tourist Association.

Belgium’s Bronks theater company presents a compelling work about the hostage drama in a school in Beslan in 2004, when more than 1,200 people, mainly children and their mothers or grandmothers, were taken hostage.

Watch the archived livestream of this concert.

Belgium’s Bronks theater company presents a compelling work about the hostage drama in a school in Beslan in 2004, when more than 1,200 people, mainly children and their mothers or grandmothers, were taken hostage.

Universally hailed as one of the world’s finest musicians, Maxim Vengerov made his public debut at age five and performed the Mendelssohn Concerto at age seven.

This special, free performance will be livestreamed. Interested in attending in person? Register for our ticket lottery (up to four tickets per person) by 11:59 pm on Tuesday, January 23. Attendees must consent to be filmed during livestream.

UMS will host a livestream party at Light Box Performance Space in Detroit for FK Alexander’s powerful performance art piece (I Could Go on Singing) Over the Rainbow. Admission is free and open to the public.

This special, free performance will be livestreamed. Interested in attending in person? Register for our ticket lottery (up to four tickets per person) by 11:59 pm on Tuesday, January 23. Attendees must consent to be filmed during livestream.

In a unique individual moment of undivided love and attention, FK Alexander takes your hand, fixes your gaze, and sings to you alongside a distorted recording of Judy Garland’s final recording of “Over the Rainbow,” played through a wall of noise by the abrasive Glasgow-based noise band Okishima Island Tourist Association.

Gabriel Kahane will coach an interdisciplinary master class with students from U-M’s School of Music, Theatre & Dance.

In a unique individual moment of undivided love and attention, FK Alexander takes your hand, fixes your gaze, and sings to you alongside a distorted recording of Judy Garland’s final recording of “Over the Rainbow,” played through a wall of noise by the abrasive Glasgow-based noise band Okishima Island Tourist Association.

Part classic standup comedy special, part confessional memoir, and part performance art, They, Themself and Schmerm is Becca Blackwell’s disturbingly hilarious personal tale detailing the tragicomic transitions in life, family, sex, and gender while asking what it means to be truly authentic.

Winner of Placido Domingo’s prestigious Operalia competition in 2012, soprano Janai Brugger was a true standout in the What’s in a Song event that launched the UMS Song Biennial two years ago.

Singers from What’s in a Song? will offer vocal masterclasses for U-M School of Music, Theatre & Dance (SMTD) students.

Singers from What’s in a Song? will offer vocal masterclasses for U-M School of Music, Theatre & Dance (SMTD) students.

Singers from What’s in a Song? will offer vocal masterclasses for U-M School of Music, Theatre & Dance (SMTD) students.

Singers from What’s in a Song? will offer vocal masterclasses for U-M School of Music, Theatre & Dance (SMTD) students.

One of the highlights of the 2015-16 UMS season was the opening of the first Song Biennial, in which Martin Katz curated a wonderful evening featuring a variety of singers examining the different components of a song.

Please note: Due to closure of Ann Arbor Public Schools today January 12, this school day performance has been canceled.

Please note: This performance will begin at 8 pm as planned. (This morning’s school day performance was canceled due to the closure of Ann Arbor Public Schools.)

Hair Parties are informal gatherings where small, performative elements of Urban Bush Women’s Hair & Other Stories are used to ignite dialogue.

Hair Parties are informal gatherings where small, performative elements of Urban Bush Women’s Hair & Other Stories are used to ignite dialogue.

Since its founding in 1989, the St. Lawrence String Quartet has had an evangelical fervor for the music of Haydn; they view of the composer as a radical, passionate innovator.

U.S. history is full of glorious gaps and unknowns. The Speculative Histories workshop will focus on using the powerful tool of imagination to see or to “speculate” truths residing in historical gaps for African Americans in order to envision a greater picture of the collective American past.

At Hanover Middle School, a pair of teachers are getting shockingly down and dirty with a lesson about race, sex, and power.

This event was streamed live. Click “watch video” to see video.

UMS presents a livestream party for Claudia Rankine and P. Carl’s discussion about social justice and theater at the U-M Detroit Center, followed by a live panel of Michigan theater makers addressing the same issues.

At Hanover Middle School, a pair of teachers are getting shockingly down and dirty with a lesson about race, sex, and power.

At Hanover Middle School, a pair of teachers are getting shockingly down and dirty with a lesson about race, sex, and power.

This all-day workshop facilitated by Kalamazoo-based ERACCE (Eliminating Racism & Creating/Celebrating Equity) is helpful for beginning the development of a common language necessary for having productive conversations about race and systemic racism.

At Hanover Middle School, a pair of teachers are getting shockingly down and dirty with a lesson about race, sex, and power.

At Hanover Middle School, a pair of teachers are getting shockingly down and dirty with a lesson about race, sex, and power.

Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Julia Wolfe joins the U-M Contemporary Directions Ensemble, directed by Oriol Sans, for an evening of conversation and performances of her small ensemble works.

At Hanover Middle School, a pair of teachers are getting shockingly down and dirty with a lesson about race, sex, and power.

Rimas Tuminas’s reimagining of Anton Chekhov’s tale about broken illusions and dashed hopes is freed from traditional trappings, leaving behind a battlefield for passions and colliding ambitions.

The U-M Institute for the Humanities and UMS will offer a series of open dialogues around contemporary visual art, performance, and identity.

Panelists will present a brief history of Chechen-Russian relations and discuss the origins of radical movements in the North Caucasus that led to the Beslan school siege of 2004, as well as ongoing attempts for justice by the victims’ families.

For more than a decade, Ramzan Kadyrov has led Chechnya through brutal repression with the tacit blessing of the Kremlin, gradually becoming a tyrant by ruthlessly eradicating even the mildest forms of dissent.

Members of Russian Renaissance discuss working and collaborating within the large international chamber arts landscape.

Belgium’s Bronks theater company presents a compelling work about the hostage drama in a school in Beslan in 2004, when more than 1,200 people, mainly children and their mothers or grandmothers, were taken hostage.

School day performance.

Belgium’s Bronks theater company presents a compelling work about the hostage drama in a school in Beslan in 2004, when more than 1,200 people, mainly children and their mothers or grandmothers, were taken hostage.

School day performance.

A Narrated Concert to Honor Black Classical Musicians of the Past

Belgium’s Bronks theater company presents a compelling work about the hostage drama in a school in Beslan in 2004, when more than 1,200 people, mainly children and their mothers or grandmothers, were taken hostage.

In a unique individual moment of undivided love and attention, FK Alexander takes your hand, fixes your gaze, and sings to you alongside a distorted recording of Judy Garland’s final recording of “Over the Rainbow,” played through a wall of noise by the abrasive Glasgow-based noise band Okishima Island Tourist Association.

UMS has teamed up with the Russian Renaissance to make a free and inclusive live classical music experience available for audience members who would benefit from a more relaxed concert environment, including people with autism spectrum disorders, sensory or communication disorders, and their friends and families.

In a unique individual moment of undivided love and attention, FK Alexander takes your hand, fixes your gaze, and sings to you alongside a distorted recording of Judy Garland’s final recording of “Over the Rainbow,” played through a wall of noise by the abrasive Glasgow-based noise band Okishima Island Tourist Association.

Belgium’s Bronks theater company presents a compelling work about the hostage drama in a school in Beslan in 2004, when more than 1,200 people, mainly children and their mothers or grandmothers, were taken hostage.

Watch the archived livestream of this concert.

Belgium’s Bronks theater company presents a compelling work about the hostage drama in a school in Beslan in 2004, when more than 1,200 people, mainly children and their mothers or grandmothers, were taken hostage.

Universally hailed as one of the world’s finest musicians, Maxim Vengerov made his public debut at age five and performed the Mendelssohn Concerto at age seven.

This special, free performance will be livestreamed. Interested in attending in person? Register for our ticket lottery (up to four tickets per person) by 11:59 pm on Tuesday, January 23. Attendees must consent to be filmed during livestream.

UMS will host a livestream party at Light Box Performance Space in Detroit for FK Alexander’s powerful performance art piece (I Could Go on Singing) Over the Rainbow. Admission is free and open to the public.

In a unique individual moment of undivided love and attention, FK Alexander takes your hand, fixes your gaze, and sings to you alongside a distorted recording of Judy Garland’s final recording of “Over the Rainbow,” played through a wall of noise by the abrasive Glasgow-based noise band Okishima Island Tourist Association.

Gabriel Kahane will coach an interdisciplinary master class with students from U-M’s School of Music, Theatre & Dance.

In a unique individual moment of undivided love and attention, FK Alexander takes your hand, fixes your gaze, and sings to you alongside a distorted recording of Judy Garland’s final recording of “Over the Rainbow,” played through a wall of noise by the abrasive Glasgow-based noise band Okishima Island Tourist Association.

Part classic standup comedy special, part confessional memoir, and part performance art, They, Themself and Schmerm is Becca Blackwell’s disturbingly hilarious personal tale detailing the tragicomic transitions in life, family, sex, and gender while asking what it means to be truly authentic.

Winner of Placido Domingo’s prestigious Operalia competition in 2012, soprano Janai Brugger was a true standout in the What’s in a Song event that launched the UMS Song Biennial two years ago.