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The poinsettias have arrived! Decorating Hill for this weekend’s Messiah performances.

Re-live Gilberto Gil’s electric performance. Read the live tweets.

Dave Holland Big Band captured at sound check before their performance at the Michigan Theater on November 17.

We loved this UMS video booth video at the Gilberto Gil performance in Hill Auditorium on November 16.

Find out what happened in our tweet seats section at Mariinsky.

It is an honor and a pleasure to be asked by UMS to write about Gil. Yet it wasn’t so easy to know where to start. I decided not to try to cover his music career or work as Minister of Culture, but instead to write about my personal memories of Gil, some of our common friends, and what it was like to see him here in Michigan, after so many years since our last encounter.

Our distinguished panel of tweet seats participants getting ready to tweet at the Mariinsky Orchestra performance last weekend. Learn about our tweet seats project.

We’re celebrating Hill Auditorium’s birthday during this 2012-2013 season. Share your Hill Auditorium experiences.

Utilizing the expertise and enthusiasm of odd-toed herbivores in the family Rhinocerotidae to invite participatory experiences with the performing arts.