Michigan League, Vandenberg Room
Prelude Dinner:
Daniel Hope with the Zurich Chamber Orchestra
Prelude Dinners are back in 2023! Join us at the Michigan League for an opportunity to park early, gather with friends, enjoy a meal, and learn more about the evening’s performance. Your $75 ticket includes a wine reception, a three-course buffet, and a lively and interesting talk from Mark Clague, Associate Dean for Collaborations and Partnerships at the U-M School of Music, Theatre & Dance – all just a short walk from Hill Auditorium.
Special Event parking is available in the Thayer or Fletcher street parking structures ($6 credit card or your pre-paid pass).
Please Note: Your ticket to the Prelude Dinner does not include a ticket to the mainstage performance. Please purchase your concert tickets separately.
Mark Clague researches all forms of music-making in the United States, with recent projects focusing on the United States national anthem (“The Star-Spangled Banner”); American orchestras as institutions (especially in early Chicago and San Francisco); the Atlanta School of composers; Sacred Harp music and performance; critical editing; and the music of George and Ira Gershwin. His interests center on questions of how music forges and shapes social relationships: the art of sound as simultaneously a transcendent emotional expression and an everyday tool for living.
Professor Clague is an associate professor of musicology with tenure at the School of Music, Theatre & Dance at the University of Michigan who also enjoys affiliate appointments in American Culture, African and Afro-American Studies, Non-Profit Management, and Entrepreneurship. He serves as director of research for the School of Music, Theatre & Dance and as co-director of its American Music Institute. He further serves as faculty advisor to student organizations including Arts Enterprise@U.Michigan, the Ypsilanti Youth Symphony Mentors, Mu Phi Epsilon, and the Interdisciplinary Music Forum.