Past Performances

They, Themself and Schmerm
Written and Performed by Becca Blackwell

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

UMS Live Session: Tunde Olaniran

Ancient Future Fire
Sidewalk Art Installation ft. Sacramento Knoxx

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

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

Sir András Schiff, piano
(UMS Digital Presentation)

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

Some Old Black Man
(UMS Digital Presentation)

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

Virtual Masterclass with James Ehnes, violin

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

Sphinx Virtuosi Artists In Conversation

Sphinx Virtuosi: This is America
(UMS Digital Presentation)

Canceled: The Four Journeys
Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Ensemble

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

Manidoo-Giizisoons
(Little Spirit Moon)

Takács Quartet
(UMS Digital Presentation)

Messiah Mixtape
(UMS Digital Presentation)

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

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

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

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

A Virtual Grand Night for Singing

Virtual World Premiere
Voters’ Broadcast by Lisa Bielawa

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

A Conversation with Trevor Noah

A Conversation with Kira Thurman

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

Digital Artist Residency Kickoff:
Part 2

Canceled: Béla Fleck’s My Bluegrass Heart

Digital Artist Residency Kickoff:
Part 1

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

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

Paul Taylor: Celebrate the Dancemaker
(UMS Digital Presentation)

Canceled: Paul Taylor Dance Company

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

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

Rose (UMS Digital Presentation)
a true story and song

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Camille A. Brown & Dancers

The Encounter (Streaming)
Complicité / Simon McBurney

Canceled:
Chineke! Orchestra

Canceled:
Emerson String Quartet

Canceled:
American Ballet Theatre
Swan Lake

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

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

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

Canceled:
Benjamin Grosvenor, piano

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

Canceled:
Sir James Galway with
Lady Jeanne Galway, flutes

Canceled:
Tunde Olaniran at The Blind Pig

Canceled:
National Theatre Live in HD:
Present Laughter

Canceled:

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

Canceled:
ANTHEM
A Dance for Four Women by Milka Djordjevich

Canceled:
Hélène Grimaud, piano

Canceled:
Tarek Yamani Trio

HD Broadcast: The Stratford Festival
Shakespeare’s Coriolanus

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

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

HD Broadcast:
Bolshoi Ballet
Giselle

Dorrance Dance: Myelination

Budapest Festival Orchestra

Angélique Kidjo’s
Remain in Light

Mariachi Vargas de Tecalitlán

Cécile McLorin Salvant and
Aaron Diehl, piano

White Feminist

Is This A Room: Reality Winner Verbatim Transcription
Half Straddle

Minnesota Orchestra

As Far As My Fingertips Take Me

The Believers Are But Brothers

National Theatre Live in HD:
All My Sons

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

National Theatre Live in HD:
Fleabag

Taylor Mac’s Holiday Sauce

Sheku Kanneh-Mason, cello

Handel’s Messiah

Big Band Holidays
Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis

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

Stew & The Negro Problem
Notes of a Native Song

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

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

Teac Damsa
Loch na hEala (Swan Lake)

Secret Show: Caleb Teicher & Company

John Cameron Mitchell
The Origin of Love Tour

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Sankai Juku
Meguri: Teeming Sea, Tranquil Land

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

Chick Corea Trilogy
with Christian McBride and Brian Blade

Isango Ensemble
A Man of Good Hope

Denis Matsuev, piano

Isango Ensemble
The Magic Flute

National Theatre Live in HD:
The Lehman Trilogy

Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center

Grupo Corpo
Bach & Gira

National Theatre Live in HD:
All About Eve

Amadeus Live
Film with Live Orchestra

Snarky Puppy
with special guest Alina Engibaryan

Summer Sings 2019:
Mozart Requiem, K. 626

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

Summer Sings 2019:
Duruflé Requiem, Op. 9

National Theatre, Live in HD:
Allelujah!

Two Different Programs
Martha Graham Dance Company

Paul Lewis, piano

Replacing Murray Perahia

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

Opera in Concert
Handel’s Semele

Takács Quartet
Anthony McGill, clarinet

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

La Fresque (The Painting on the Wall)
Ballet Preljocaj

National Theatre, Live in HD:
Antony & Cleopatra

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

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

Two Different Programs
Philharmonia Orchestra

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

In Plain Air
International Contemporary Ensemble

Las Cafeteras

Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem

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

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

Israel Philharmonic Orchestra

Echo in the Valley
Béla Fleck and Abigail Washburn

National Theatre, Live in HD:
Hamlet

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Camille A. Brown & Dancers

Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center

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

The Great Tamer
Conceived – Visualized + Directed by Dimitris Papaioannou

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

The Bolshoi Theater, Moscow
Live in HD
The Nutcracker

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

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

Charles Lloyd & The Marvels
with special guest Lucinda Williams

Handel’s Messiah

Big Band Holidays
Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra
with Wynton Marsalis

An Evening with Audra McDonald
Songs from the American Musical Theater

Danish String Quartet

Jake Shimabukuro, ukulele

National Theatre, London
Live in HD
King Lear

Totalmente Juan Gabriel
Aida Cuevas

Czech Philharmonic Orchestra

National Theatre, London
Live in HD
Frankenstein

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

M-Prize 2018 Winner
Aizuri Quartet

Yuja Wang, piano
Martin Grubinger, percussion

Two Different Programs
Hubbard Street Dance Chicago

Secret Show

Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique

An Evening with Pat Metheny

Jerusalem Quartet
Pinchas Zukerman, violin
Amanda Forsyth, cello

National Theatre, London
Live in HD
Julie

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

Philadelphia Orchestra

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

Summer Sings
Bach Magnificat

Summer Sings
The Music of René Clausen

Summer Sings
Beethoven’s Mass in C

National Theatre Live in HD:
Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar

Ovation 2018:
Bet on a Fabulous Time

Emanuel Ax, piano

Cold Blood

Opera in Concert
Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo
Apollo’s Fire / The Cleveland Baroque Orchestra

Sorrow — A Reimagining of Górecki’s Third Symphony
Colin Stetson

A Tribute to The Jazz Epistles
Abdullah Ibrahim & Ekaya
featuring Freddie Hendrix, trumpet

Artemis Quartet

The Music of Chick Corea
Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Chick Corea

Nederlands Dans Theater

Bubble Schmeisis

Steve Lehman & Sélébéyone

Piedmont Blues:
A Search for Salvation

Path of Miracles
Tenebrae

Elias Quartet

Borderline
Company Wang Ramirez

Opera in Concert
The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess

Emmanuel Pahud, flute
Alessio Bax, piano

National Theatre Live in HD:
Stephen Sondheim’s Follies

Joshua Bell, violin
Sam Haywood, piano

Romeo and Juliet
American Ballet Theatre

Schubert’s Winterreise
Ian Bostridge, tenor
Julius Drake, piano

Estonian National Symphony Orchestra

8980: Book of Travelers
Gabriel Kahane, vocalist and composer

They, Themself, and Schmerm

Janai Brugger, soprano
Martin Katz, piano

Maxim Vengerov, violin
Roustem Saïtkoulov, piano

Sensory Friendly Open Rehearsal:
Russian Renaissance

M-Prize Winner!
Russian Renaissance

(I Could Go On Singing) Over the Rainbow

Us/Them
BRONKS and Richard Jordan Productions

Moscow’s Vakhtangov Theater
Live in HD:
Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya

Underground Railroad Game
Ars Nova

Haydn Mega-Concert
St. Lawrence String Quartet

Hair & Other Stories
Urban Bush Women

What’s in a Song
Martin Katz, piano and curator

J.S. Bach’s Christmas Oratorio
Bach Collegium Japan

Handel’s Messiah

Bernstein and Bolcom: Celebrating the American Experience
U-M Symphony Band Concert

New York Philharmonic
Bernstein’s Philharmonic: A Centennial Festival

John McLaughlin Farewell US Tour
John McLaughlin & Jimmy Herring
Meeting of the Spirits: Music of Mahavishnu Orchestra

The Knights

Chanticleer
Heart of a Soldier

China NCPA Orchestra

Bassem Youssef
The Joke Is Mightier than the Sword

Crosscurrents
Zakir Hussain & Dave Holland

20th Anniversary
Sphinx Virtuosi

Daniil Trifonov, piano

National Theatre Live in HD:
Simon Stone’s Yerma

Written in Water
Ragamala Dance Company

Amir ElSaffar’s
Rivers of Sound Orchestra

L’Etat de siège (State of Siege)
Théâtre de la Ville

Emerson String Quartet
Calidore String Quartet

National Theatre Live in HD:
Tony Kushner’s Angels in America:
Part Two: “Perestroika”

National Theatre Live in HD:
Tony Kushner’s Angels in America:
Part One: “Millennium Approaches”

US Premiere Screening:
Einstein on the Beach

Every Brilliant Thing

Season Opening Event!
Butler, Bernstein & The Hot 9