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It is serendipitous, even ironic, that here in Ann Arbor, Michigan I will see perform, for the first time, my neighbor from Sarajevo. Balkan music icon and acclaimed film composer Goran Bregovic,…

Our 5 film picks for the 11/12 UMS Season!

Part of the excitement of coming back to town at the end of summer is collecting all the calendars—Ann Arbor Public School’s holiday and half-day calendar, Huron High School’s band calendar, Clague…

We asked you to send us your questions for pianist Yuja Wang. Her answers are below. Yuja is performing at Hill Auditorium on Sunday, October 9. Q: You’re often described as a…

Our Asia Series starts with Yuja Wang on October 9th. This weekend, Center for Chinese Studies, inspired by the traditional Asian craft of kite flying, presented a one-day jubilee with a community…

Sally Mitani gives us the inside scoop on The Infernal Comedy: Confessions of a Serial Killer, a performance piece in which Malkovich plays a real person, Austrian serial killer Jack Unterweger.

How do we innovate to make things better? What does it mean to be a maverick? More on the themes within our 11/12 Season at Montage.

Yuja Wang is a 24-year old piano sensation. With a program that features works by Rachmaninoff, Scriabin, Debussy, Albéniz, and Ravel, she returns to Ann Arbor after her wildly successful UMS debut…

While there are countless musicians of yester years that found revival in this hip-hop age, its legendary jazz pianist Ahmad Jamal that would contribute to some of the greatest hip-hop records of all time. The Loop Detroit’s Kelly “K-Fresh” Frazier writes about the sampling of Ahmad Jamal.