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The UMS Student Board tackles the question, “does where you sit affect how you feel about a performance?”

Following Joanne Shenandoah’s January 23rd concert at the Lydia Mendelssohn Theater (her UMS debut), members of the audience were treated to an interview with the Iroquois singer and a short performance by a local native women’s musical ensemble.

Silas Riener, a dancer with MCDC, shares some reflections from his time with Merce and the company, and tells us a little bit about what life looks like for him after this final tour comes to a close.

The traditional Japanese drumming ensemble Kodo was last in Ann Arbor in 2008. The group was  a hands-down hit with audiences of all ages. Kodo returns to Hill Auditorium next Wednesday, February…

Last spring, UMS Programming Director Michael Kondziolka interviewed Takacs Quartet violinist Edward Dusinberre. In this second installment of the interview, Michael and Ed talk specifically about the 10/11 season Schubert Cycle (which resumes this Sunday at Rackham Auditorium) and why audiences are still captivated by Schubert’s music.

Each year, we have a chance to get to know some of the artists on the UMS season a little better. We hope you’ll join us this week for any of the free public residency events with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company:

Editor’s Note: While we’re all excited for this Saturday’s double-bill with the Vijay Iyer Trio and Rudresh Mahanthappa’s Apex, not all of us are as well-versed in jazz from the cutting edge…

See how the Cleveland Orchestra spent their snow day in Ann Arbor!

The APAP Conference and New York again reminds me of the importance of the arts in our society–art is not an extra thing, rather it is integral to our daily lives–and the invaluable contributions of UMS to our community and the larger arts world.