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It’s time to celebrate the art of song…not singing, although that’s obviously required, not arias from operas we all love, but the special art of performing songs.

Fun had by all at our holiday party! Current UMS Staff and UMS alums from as far back as 1966 got together for some cheer earlier this week.

Installing a Victorian counting house inside a modern auditorium: National Theatre of Scotland’s A Christmas Carol is in Ann Arbor’s Power Center December 17-January 3, 2016.

Tell us what you thought! This is the place to comment on the performance and talk to other people about what you saw and heard. What will you remember about the performance…

UMS’s residency with the New York Philharmonic in October 2015 touched unprecedented numbers of people through performances, master classes, educational activities, and the halftime show at the U-M Homecoming Football game against…

Editor’s note: Helena Mesa is a poet and one of our 2015-2016 artists in residence. As part of this program, artists in residence attend UMS performances to inspire new thinking and creative…

Editor’s note: Andrew Morton is a theater maker and one of our 2015-2016 artists in residence. As part of this program, artists in residence attend UMS performances to inspire new thinking and…

Yes, it is set at Christmas time and takes the form of a fable or carol, but its contents deal with social injustice and result in a cry for change and direct action.

In 2015, we followed conductor Scott Hanoian into a rehearsal with the UMS Choral Union.