2018-2019 Season

Free Season Opening Event!
50th Anniversary Live Presentation of
Stanley Kubrick’s
2001: A Space Odyssey

2001: A Space Odyssey Community Event:
Tech Takeover on Ingalls Mall

Philadelphia Orchestra

A Dramatic Reading of
Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman with Alec Baldwin and U-M Theatre & Drama Department

National Theatre, London
Live in HD
Julie

Jerusalem Quartet
Pinchas Zukerman, violin
Amanda Forsyth, cello

An Evening with Pat Metheny

Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique

Secret Show

Omar Offendum: “SyrianamericanA: A Nation-State of Mind”

Two Different Programs
Hubbard Street Dance Chicago

Hubbard Street Dance Chicago
UMS 101: Dance

You Can Dance: Hubbard Street Dance Chicago

Master Class: Yuja Wang, piano, and Martin Grubinger, percussion

Yuja Wang, piano
Martin Grubinger, percussion

My LatinX Is — An Open Mic

Aizuri Quartet Masterclass

M-Prize 2018 Winner
Aizuri Quartet

A Letter to My Nephew
Bill T. Jones / Arnie Zane Dance Company

National Theatre, London
Live in HD
Frankenstein

Master Class: Alisa Weilerstein, cello

Czech Philharmonic Orchestra

Totalmente Juan Gabriel
Aida Cuevas

Immersion: Exploring the Legacy of Jazz in Detroit

National Theatre, London
Live in HD
King Lear

Jake Shimabukuro, ukulele

UMS 101: Jake Shimabukuro & the Ukulele

Danish String Quartet

An Evening with Audra McDonald
Songs from the American Musical Theater

Big Band Holidays
Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra
with Wynton Marsalis

Handel’s Messiah

Charles Lloyd & The Marvels
with special guest Lucinda Williams

National Theatre, London Live in HD
The Madness of George III

Joyce DiDonato, mezzo-soprano
Yannick Nézet-Séguin, piano

The Bolshoi Theater, Moscow
Live in HD
The Nutcracker

National Theatre, Live in HD:
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

The Great Tamer
Conceived – Visualized + Directed by Dimitris Papaioannou

Lagrime di San Pietro
(Tears of St. Peter)
Los Angeles Master Chorale

Community Movement Workshop: Camille A. Brown & Dancers

Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center

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Camille A. Brown & Dancers

You Can Dance: Camille A Brown & Dancers

National Theatre, Live in HD:
Hamlet

Echo in the Valley
Béla Fleck and Abigail Washburn

Israel Philharmonic Orchestra

National Theatre, Live in HD
The Tragedy of King Richard the Second

The Present Effects of The Past: Artistic Responses to Police Brutality

Penny Stamps Speaker Series:
Carrie Mae Weems A History of Violence, Heave.

Past Tense
Carrie Mae Weems, director, writer, video artist

Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem

Las Cafeteras Artist Talk: Bridging Art, Activism and Community

Las Cafeteras

In Plain Air
International Contemporary Ensemble

Special Talk with
Yo-Yo Ma: Culture, Understanding, and Survival

Yo-Yo Ma
Flint Voices: Culture, Community, and Resilience

Two Different Programs
Philharmonia Orchestra

Philharmonia Orchestra
UMS 101: Classical Music

Work in Progress: “Dreamers” Workshop

Penny Stamps Speaker Series:
Bryce Dessner and Korde Arrington Tuttle

World Premiere & UMS Co-Commission
Triptych (Eyes of One on Another)
Feat. Bryce Dessner, composer — Kaneza Schaal, director — Roomful of Teeth

Pre-Performance Talk:
Richard Meyer on the Legacy of Robert Mapplethorpe

Eric Owens Master Class

Lawrence Brownlee Master Class

Duo Recital
Eric Owens, bass-baritone
Lawrence Brownlee, tenor

Penny Stamps Speaker Series:
Peter Sellars
Art as Moral Action

Omar Offendum Residency:
Dialogue Reimagining Historic Artifacts & Archives

National Theatre, Live in HD:
Antony & Cleopatra

La Fresque (The Painting on the Wall)
Ballet Preljocaj

Omar Offendum Residency:
Work in Progress Showing: Little Syria

William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar
Théâtre National de Bretagne
Arthur Nauzyciel, director

Talk: On Shakespeare’s Roman Trails

Julius Caesar Conversation: Peter Holland with director Arthur Nauzyciel

Takács Quartet
Anthony McGill, clarinet

Pre-Performance Talk: The Sense of Endings

Opera in Concert
Handel’s Semele

UMS Ambassadors present
Cabaret 2019: An Evening to Remember

Monterey Jazz Festival on Tour featuring
Cécile McLorin Salvant &
Christian Sands (Music Director)

Cécile McLorin Salvant
UMS 101: Jazz

Paul Lewis, piano

Replacing Murray Perahia

Two Different Programs
Martha Graham Dance Company

You Can Dance: Martha Graham Dance Company

National Theatre, Live in HD:
Allelujah!

K-12 Teacher Appreciation Party

Summer Sings 2019:
Duruflé Requiem, Op. 9

Summer Sings 2019:
Haydn Mass in C Major (“Paukenmesse”)

Summer Sings 2019:
Mozart Requiem, K. 626

Snarky Puppy
with special guest Alina Engibaryan

Amadeus Live
Film with Live Orchestra

National Theatre Live in HD:
All About Eve

Grupo Corpo
Bach & Gira

You Can Dance
(Brazilian Movement)

UMS 101: Dance
Grupo Corpo

Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center

National Theatre Live in HD:
The Lehman Trilogy

Isango Ensemble
The Magic Flute

Preshow Talk:
“Black Opera in South Africa” with Naomi Andre

Denis Matsuev, piano

Isango Ensemble
A Man of Good Hope

Chick Corea Trilogy
with Christian McBride and Brian Blade

Zauberland (Magic Land)
An Encounter with Schumann’s Dichterliebe

Sankai Juku
Meguri: Teeming Sea, Tranquil Land

You Can Dance
feat. Sankai Juku

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Penny Stamps Speaker Series: John Cameron Mitchell

John Cameron Mitchell
The Origin of Love Tour

UMS 101: Theater/Cabaret
John Cameron Mitchell

Secret Show: Caleb Teicher & Company

My Latinx Is…

Teac Damsa
Loch na hEala (Swan Lake)

Vivaldi’s Four Seasons /
Max Richter’s Vivaldi Recomposed

Pre-Performance Talk: Recomposing The Four Seasons
Creative License: How to Quote Nature (and Vivaldi)

From Native Son to Native Song:
A Conversation with Stew & The Negro Problem

Orchestre Métropolitain de Montréal
with Yannick Nézet-Séguin and Joyce DiDonato

OM Preludes

Stew & The Negro Problem
Notes of a Native Song

National Theatre Live in HD:
A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Big Band Holidays
Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis

Keeping it Jazzy: A Family Holiday Jazz Experience

Reading Art Across The Curriculum: Observe. Infer. Inquire.

Handel’s Messiah

Sheku Kanneh-Mason, cello

Taylor Mac’s Holiday Sauce

National Theatre Live in HD:
Fleabag

Martin Katz & Friends
What’s in a Song: Hugo Wolf’s Complete Mörike Songs

Penny Stamps Speaker Series:
Oskar Eustis in Conversation

No Safety Net Student Kick-Off Party

National Theatre Live in HD:
All My Sons

The Believers Are But Brothers

As Far As My Fingertips Take Me

Minnesota Orchestra

Canceled Event:
No Safety Net Active Bystander Training

No Safety Net Workshop:
How to Become an Internet Troll

Is This A Room: Reality Winner Verbatim Transcription
Half Straddle

No Safety Net Panel Discussion:
Reality Winner, Russian Election Meddling, and The Future of America

No Safety Net:
Reality Now: A Discussion with Reality Winner’s Mother

White Feminist

Cécile McLorin Salvant and
Aaron Diehl, piano

No Safety Net:
Girl Talk: Race, Comedy, and Feminism Now

A History of American Tap Dance:
Origins and Artistry of a True American Art Form

Mariachi Vargas de Tecalitlán

UMS 101: Mariachi
Mariachi Vargas de Tecalitlan

Pop-Up Performance:
Mariachi Nuevo Santander

Angélique Kidjo’s
Remain in Light

Budapest Festival Orchestra

Dorrance Dance: Myelination

You Can Dance:
Dorrance Dance

HD Broadcast:
Bolshoi Ballet
Giselle

West-Eastern Divan Ensemble
with Michael Barenboim, music director and violin

Emanuel Ax, piano
Leonidas Kavakos, violin
Yo-Yo Ma, cello

HD Broadcast: The Stratford Festival
Shakespeare’s Coriolanus

Canceled:
Tarek Yamani Trio

UMS 101: Jazz
Tarek Yamani Trio

Canceled:
Hélène Grimaud, piano

Canceled:
ANTHEM
A Dance for Four Women by Milka Djordjevich

Canceled:
Tunde Olaniran Research Residency
Sculpture Demonstration with Terra Lockhart

You Can Dance:
ANTHEM

Canceled:

New York Philharmonic String Quartet with Anne-Marie McDermott, piano

Canceled:
National Theatre Live in HD:
Present Laughter

Canceled:
Tunde Olaniran Research Residency
Dance Workshop with Tunde Olaniran and Emma Davis

Canceled:
Sir James Galway with
Lady Jeanne Galway, flutes

Canceled:
Tunde Olaniran at The Blind Pig

Canceled:
Tunde Olaniran Research Residency
Live Studio Session with the UMS Choral Union

Canceled:
Benjamin Grosvenor, piano

Canceled:
Apollo’s Fire and Chorus
J.S. Bach’s St. Matthew Passion

Canceled:
TRIVENI
Zakir Hussain, tabla
Kala Ramnath, violin
Dr. Jayanthi Kumaresh, veena

Canceled:
National Theatre Live in HD:
One Man, Two Guvnors

Canceled:
American Ballet Theatre
Swan Lake

Canceled:
Emerson String Quartet

Canceled:
Chineke! Orchestra

UMS 101: Classical Music
Chineke! Orchestra

The Encounter (Streaming)
Complicité / Simon McBurney

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Camille A. Brown & Dancers

Rose (UMS Digital Presentation)
a true story and song

2020/21 Season Updates: A Conversation with UMS President Matthew VanBesien

Virtual Event: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra’s 100th Birthday Celebration

Canceled: Paul Taylor Dance Company

Paul Taylor: Celebrate the Dancemaker
(UMS Digital Presentation)

Behind the Scenes: Q&A with UMS President Matthew VanBesien

Virtual Book Launch: Ken Fischer’s Everybody In, Nobody Out

Digital Artist Residency Kickoff:
Part 1

Canceled: Béla Fleck’s My Bluegrass Heart

Digital Artist Residency Kickoff:
Part 2

From the Brooklyn Academy of Music
That Kindness: Nurses in Their Own Words

A Conversation with Kira Thurman

A Conversation with Trevor Noah

Canceled: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and Chorus

U-M DEI Summit
Arts+Social Change: Building an Anti-Racist World through the Arts

Virtual World Premiere
Voters’ Broadcast by Lisa Bielawa

A Virtual Grand Night for Singing

Digital Artist Residency
Chamber Music Forum with Members of the Spektral Quartet
“What a String Quartet Could Be”

Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan Dance-on-Camera
(UMS Digital Presentation)

POP BREAKDOWN
A conversation on sonic, visual and cultural transgressions in pop music

Canceled: Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan

Digital Artist Residency
Spektral & Tarek: The Many Faces of the String Quartet
A happy-hour listening party

Digital Artist Residency
Tarek & Spektral: On Both Sides of the Quarter-Tone
A happy-hour listening party

Canceled: Farida and the Iraqi Maqam Ensemble

Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra Septet with Wynton Marsalis:
The Democracy! Suite
(UMS Digital Presentation)

Canceled:
Latin Big Band Holidays
Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Rubén Blades

Canceled: Handel’s Messiah

Messiah Mixtape
(UMS Digital Presentation)

School Day Performance for Grades K-12:
Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Let Freedom Swing

Canceled Event:
Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano
Lisa Batiashvili, violin
Gautier Capuçon, cello

Takács Quartet
(UMS Digital Presentation)

Manidoo-Giizisoons
(Little Spirit Moon)

Jazz at Lincoln Center’s
Swing University: New Orleans and the Birth of Jazz (Part 1)

Sheku Kanneh-Mason &
Isata Kanneh-Mason
(UMS Digital Presentation)

Jazz at Lincoln Center’s
Swing University: Chicago and the Spread of Jazz (Part 2)

Jazz at Lincoln Center’s
Swing University: New York and the Big Bands (Part 3)

Canceled: The Four Journeys
Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Ensemble

Canceled: Total Immediate Collective Imminent Terrestrial Salvation

Jazz at Lincoln Center’s
Swing University: Detroit Before Motown (Part 4)

Sphinx Virtuosi: This is America
(UMS Digital Presentation)

Canceled: An Evening with Sheila Jordan

Sphinx Virtuosi Artists In Conversation

Grow Glow Go: The Sankofa of Black Dance
In Dialogue with Cleo Parker Robinson and Neil Barclay

Virtual Masterclass with James Ehnes, violin

Canceled: Mariinsky Orchestra

Canceled: James Ehnes, violin
Orion Weiss, piano

James Ehnes, violin, and
Orion Weiss, piano
(UMS Digital Presentation)

Canceled: South Pacific in Concert

Some Old Black Man
(UMS Digital Presentation)

Playing with Fire
Jeannette Sorrell and the Mysteries of Conducting
Featuring Apollo’s Fire and the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra
(UMS Digital Presentation)

Canceled: Sir András Schiff, piano

Canceled: Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional de México

Arab Women in Music: The Works of Asmahan and Umm Kulthum
National Arab Orchestra
(UMS Digital Presentation)

Canceled: Joshua Bell, violin
Peter Dugan, piano

Jazz at Lincoln Center’s
Swing University: Jazz in Detroit
Early Jazz through the Swing Era

Sir András Schiff, piano
(UMS Digital Presentation)

Penny Stamps Speaker Series
Ken Fischer and Wynton Marsalis: Everybody In, Nobody Out

Jazz at Lincoln Center’s
Swing University: Jazz in Detroit
BeBop and Hard Bop

Canceled: Russian Renaissance

Mapping without Boundaries:
A Collaboration between Yo-Yo Ma and the University of Michigan

Canceled: Cécile McLorin Salvant and Kurt Elling

Ancient Future Fire
Sidewalk Art Installation ft. Sacramento Knoxx

Jazz at Lincoln Center’s
Swing University: Jazz in Detroit
Experimental Sounds, Artist-Directed Action, and New Talents

Canceled: Paul Lewis, piano

Canceled:
Frankenstein: How to Make a Monster
Battersea Arts Centre Beatbox Academy

Canceled:
Jerusalem Quartet with
Pinchas Zukerman, violin and
Amanda Forsyth, cello

Canceled: Itzhak Perlman, violin
Rohan de Silva, piano

Jazz at Lincoln Center’s
Swing University: Jazz in Detroit
Jazz in Detroit Today

UMS Live Session: Tunde Olaniran

They Still Want to Kill Us
Daniel Bernard Roumain, composer
J’Nai Bridges, mezzo-soprano
Yoram Savion, filmmaker

They, Themself and Schmerm
Written and Performed by Becca Blackwell

Dancing with a City: A Conversation on Dance in Detroit

Penny Stamps Speaker Series
Mx. Justin Vivian Bond: Tango Backwards and in High Heels

Considering Matthew Shepard
Conspirare | A Company of Voices

Penny Stamps Speaker Series
Zanele Muholi: Bathini

Taylor Mac’s
Whitman in the Woods.

You Can Dance — Outside!
Celia Benvenutti (Katherine Dunham Technique)

Looking Forward to Fall 2021:
A Conversation with UMS President Matthew VanBesien and Dr. Preeti Malani

You Can Dance — Outside!
Shantese Robinson (Fearless Jazz Hip-Hop Fusion)

JAM3A
Presented by the Arab American National Museum

A Travel Guide for Talking Hearts
Public event with Yo-Yo Ma, Michigan artists, and U-M students

BLISS
Presented by Michigan Opera Theatre

You Can Dance — Outside!
Heather Mitchell (West African and AfroBeat)

Premiere Screening:
The Making of “The Four Journeys”
Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Ensemble

(Digital) School Day Performance for and Grades K-3 and Families:
Acrobuffos
Air Play

You Can Dance — Outside!
Haleem “Stringz” Rasul (Detroit Jit)

New Season Opener!
Jonas Kaufmann in Recital

Digital Artist Residency:
Spektral Quartet x Tarek Yamani

(Digital) School Day Performance for Grades K-12 and Families:
Mariachi Vargas de Tecalitlán
A Celebration of Day of the Dead From Tequila, Mexico

Big Band Holidays
Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis

Takács Quartet with
Julien Labro, bandoneón

Handel’s Messiah
UMS Choral Union
Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra

Requiem: Fire in the Air of the Earth
A.I.M by Kyle Abraham

Imani Winds with the Catalyst Quartet

Canceled Event:
Sphinx Symphony Orchestra
with EXIGENCE

Ballet Folklórico de México de Amalia Hernández

UMS Live Session:
Jlin

Layl (Night)
A Performance by Ali Chahrour

Fiddler on the Roof in Concert
featuring the orchestrations of John Williams

UMS Live Session:
Nicholas Phan, tenor
with Martin Katz, piano, and the Calista Quartet

The Philadelphia Orchestra

Digital Presentation:
Sermon
Davóne Tines & The Philadelphia Orchestra

National Arab Orchestra
with Abeer Nehme

Parable Path A2Ypsi:
The Infinite Detail of This Place & Time
Virago and The A.W.E. Society
with special guest Apaixonar

Treats for the Trail
An Octavia E. Butler Week Event

Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Sower

Benjamin Grosvenor, piano

SW!NG OUT
Directed by Caleb Teicher

Family Performance
SW!NG OUT
Directed by Caleb Teicher

سهرة
Sahra: An Evening of Performance in Detroit

EDEN
Joyce DiDonato, mezzo-soprano
Maxim Emelyanychev, conductor
il Pomo d’Oro

Redman | Mehldau | McBride | Blade
A MoodSwing Reunion

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ash arder rock garden
UMS/U-M Flint Artist in Residence

Sheku Kanneh-Mason, cello &
Isata Kanneh-Mason, piano

UMS Live Session:
Imani Winds & Catalyst Quartet

UMS Choral Union presents Summer Sings:
Johannes Brahms
Ein deutsches Requiem

Ash Arder: Solar Juke

Sold Out!
Trevor Noah: Back to Abnormal

This Is America: Johnny Gandelsman & Kinan Azmeh

Emerson String Quartet
The Farewell Tour

Sir András Schiff, piano

Tunde Olaniran: Everything is a Portal

Wynton Marsalis’s All Rise

Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis

City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra

The Rite of Spring /
common ground[s]
Pina Bausch / Germaine Acogny & Malou Airaudo, choreographers

Danish String Quartet: Doppelgänger

No Safety Net Prologue:
What Does the Sand Say?
A.W.E. Society and Kaleigh Wilder

Aida Cuevas
with Mariachi Aztlán
45 Aniversario: Yo Creo Que Es Tiempo

Berliner Philharmoniker
in two different programs

Handel’s Messiah

Itzhak Perlman and Friends

Béla Fleck My Bluegrass Heart
and Punch Brothers

Penny Stamps Speaker Series
Robin Frohardt:
The Magic of the Mundane

Limited Availability!
Robin Frohardt
The Plastic Bag Store

salt:dispersed
Selina Thompson

Takács Quartet with
Jeremy Denk, piano

Are we not drawn onward to new erA
Ontroerend Goed

The Plastic Bag Store
Family Art Making Activity

Cultural Exchange Rate
Tania El Khoury

Penny Stamps Speaker Series
Tania El Khoury:
Cultural Exchange Rate – A Case Study

Aaron Diehl Trio: Mirrors

25th Anniversary Tour
Sphinx Symphony Orchestra
EXIGENCE Vocal Ensemble

Talking Trash
An Interactive Discussion Inspired by The Plastic Bag Store

Our Carnal Hearts
Rachel Mars

Your Sexts Are Shit: Older Better Letters
Rachel Mars

No Safety Net 3.0 Student Closing Party
featuring Cece June and the Calista Quartet

Joshua Bell, violin
Peter Dugan, piano

Brno Philharmonic

Ballet Preljocaj
Swan Lake

National Theatre Live in HD
The Seagull

Maria Schneider Orchestra

Step Afrika!

Daniel Hope, violin
with the Zurich Chamber Orchestra

Canceled:
Farida and the Iraqi Maqam Ensemble

Chineke! Orchestra

National Theatre Live in HD
The Crucible

Cécile McLorin Salvant

Julius Eastman’s Femenine
Wild Up

Come Together: An Evening of Community and Song

Audra McDonald

Kaleigh Wilder Trio:
The Story Cuts Across What the Map Cuts Up

The Regenerate! Orchestra
grow / thaw

Reconnecting Currents: A Healing at the Huron
with Marsae Lynette

John E. Lawrence & The Power Band

National Theatre Live in HD
Othello

Snarky Puppy

Yoga at the Freighthouse

Shakti: 50th Anniversary Tour
Feat. John McLaughlin, Zakir Hussain, & Shankar Mahadevan
with very special guest Béla Fleck

Sonic Contributions:
Honoring the Past, Present, and Future of the African American Community in Ypsilanti, MI

Square Dance at the Freighthouse

Renée Fleming, soprano
Inon Barnatan, piano

LIGHTNING:
A One-of-a-Kind Drag Show Extravaganza

West African Dance at the Freighthouse

Inon Barnatan:
Rachmaninoff Reflections

Jerusalem Quartet
Inon Barnatan, piano

Manual Cinema presents
Leonardo!
A Wonderful Show About a Terrible Monster

DruidO’Casey:
The Plough and the Stars

DruidO’Casey:
The Shadow of a Gunman

DruidO’Casey:
Juno and the Paycock

Orquesta Sinfónica de Minería

DakhaBrakha

Are We Dreaming the Same Dream?
Akropolis Reed Quintet
Pascal Le Boeuf, piano / composer
Christian Euman, drums

Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World
The Javaad Alipoor Company

Maxim Vengerov, violin
Polina Osetinskaya, piano

Handel’s Messiah

Holidays in Hawai’i
Jake Shimabukuro, ukulele

Two Pianos: Who Could Ask for Anything More?
Michael Feinstein and Jean-Yves Thibaudet

Film with Live Orchestra
The Godfather Live
Grand Rapids Symphony

Hélène Grimaud, piano

LaTasha Barnes’
The Jazz Continuum

Revised Date:
Mariachi Herencia de México
featuring La Marisoul

Emanuel Ax, piano
Leonidas Kavakos, violin
Yo-Yo Ma, cello

Nkeiru Okoye’s
When the Caged Bird Sings

James Ehnes, violin
Andrew Armstrong, piano

Martha Graham Dance Company
Janet Eilber, artistic director

Igor Levit, piano

Isidore String Quartet

Orchestre de Paris

Weather Bird
Sullivan Fortner, piano
Ambrose Akinmusire, trumpet

Canceled Event:
Batsheva Dance Company
MOMO

Samara Joy

Canceled Event:
Marcel, Rami, and Sary Khalife:
Legacy

Takács Quartet

The Philadelphia Orchestra
in two different programs