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Our programming manager Mark Jacobson shared this photo with us. A crowd gathers outside of Esperanza Spalding’s performance this past summer at Montréal International Jazz Festival. We can’t wait to host her…

U-M students share their experiences of the rehearsal process.

Photo taken from backstage as as Hamid Al-Saadi Maqam & Amir ElSaffar’s Two Rivers performed on March 23. Did you go to the performance? Tell us what you thought.

Ralph Williams, Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Michigan, gave a lecture on the Oresteia of Aeschylus prior to a UMS Choral Union rehearsal. The UMS Choral Union performs as…

Grammy winner Esperanza Spalding tells us what she’s been listening to lately.

We interview some of the key players involved in the massive Oresteia of Aeschylus project.

From our archives, Yo-Yo Ma with conductor Eugene Ormandy backstage at Hill Auditorium at the 1982 UMS May Festival.

Check out Iraqi-American trumpeter Amir ElSaffar’s solos in this performance video. He performs during an evening of jazz and Iraqi music on March 23 with Hamid Al-Saadi’s Iraqi Maqam Ensemble.

How soloists’ program selections can shape our performance experience.