2018-2019 Season

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

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

Two Different Programs
Hubbard Street Dance Chicago

Yuja Wang, piano
Martin Grubinger, percussion

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

Czech Philharmonic Orchestra

Totalmente Juan Gabriel
Aida Cuevas

National Theatre, London
Live in HD
King Lear

Jake Shimabukuro, 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

Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center

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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

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

Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem

Las Cafeteras

In Plain Air
International Contemporary Ensemble

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

Two Different Programs
Philharmonia Orchestra

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

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

National Theatre, Live in HD:
Antony & Cleopatra

La Fresque (The Painting on the Wall)
Ballet Preljocaj

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

Takács Quartet
Anthony McGill, clarinet

Opera in Concert
Handel’s Semele

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

Paul Lewis, piano

Replacing Murray Perahia

Two Different Programs
Martha Graham Dance Company

National Theatre, Live in HD:
Allelujah!

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

Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center

National Theatre Live in HD:
The Lehman Trilogy

Isango Ensemble
The Magic Flute

Isango Ensemble
A Man of Good Hope

Denis Matsuev, piano

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

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John Cameron Mitchell
The Origin of Love Tour

Secret Show: Caleb Teicher & Company

Teac Damsa
Loch na hEala (Swan Lake)

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

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

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

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

National Theatre Live in HD:
All My Sons

The Believers Are But Brothers

As Far As My Fingertips Take Me

Minnesota Orchestra

Is This A Room: Reality Winner Verbatim Transcription
Half Straddle

White Feminist

Cécile McLorin Salvant and
Aaron Diehl, piano

Mariachi Vargas de Tecalitlán

Angélique Kidjo’s
Remain in Light

Budapest Festival Orchestra

Dorrance Dance: Myelination

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

Canceled:
Hélène Grimaud, piano

Canceled:
ANTHEM
A Dance for Four Women by Milka Djordjevich

Canceled:
National Theatre Live in HD:
Present Laughter

Canceled:

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

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

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

Paul Taylor: Celebrate the Dancemaker
(UMS Digital Presentation)

Canceled: Paul Taylor Dance Company

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

Digital Artist Residency Kickoff:
Part 2

Canceled: Béla Fleck’s My Bluegrass Heart

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

A Conversation with Kira Thurman

A Conversation with Trevor Noah

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”

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

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

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

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

Messiah Mixtape
(UMS Digital Presentation)

Takács Quartet
(UMS Digital Presentation)

Manidoo-Giizisoons
(Little Spirit Moon)

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

Canceled: The Four Journeys
Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Ensemble

Sphinx Virtuosi: This is America
(UMS Digital Presentation)

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

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

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)

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

Sir András Schiff, piano
(UMS Digital Presentation)

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

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

Ancient Future Fire
Sidewalk Art Installation ft. Sacramento Knoxx

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.

New Season Opener!
Jonas Kaufmann in Recital

Big Band Holidays
Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis

Takács Quartet with
Julien Labro, bandoneón

Handel’s Messiah

Requiem: Fire in the Air of the Earth
A.I.M
A new work by Kyle Abraham and Jlin

Imani Winds with the Catalyst Quartet

Sphinx Symphony Orchestra
with EXIGENCE

Ballet Folklórico de México de Amalia Hernández

Layl (Night)
A Performance by Ali Chahrour

Fiddler on the Roof in Concert

The Philadelphia Orchestra

National Arab Orchestra

Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Sower

Benjamin Grosvenor, piano

Swing Out

سهرة
Sahra: An Evening of Performance in Detroit

EDEN starring Joyce DiDonato

A MoodSwing Reunion
Redman | Mehldau | McBride | Blade

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