UMS on the Diag
Beat the Cold, Feel the Beat!January 11th 2009 from Noon to 4pm UMS Student Advisory Committee will be out on the Diag with some of your favorite student performing groups! Check out the upcoming UMS...
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Handel’s Messiah
Hill Auditorium was filled with timeless music and tradition last weekend. The Messiah, composed in 1741 by George Frideric Handel, was performed by the UMS Choral Union, the Ann Arbor Symphony...
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Jean-Yves Thibaudet
As the lights dimmed in Hill Auditorium, all became silent, except for the rustling of a few coats and programs, as Jean-Yves Thibaudet took to the stage. A classical pianist recognized for the...
View ArticleWelcome Back!
Welcome back to campus everyone and happy new year! I hope you all enjoyed your break as much as I did and are getting ready for our Winter Season, filled with amazing artists!You're probably asking...
View ArticleAPAP 2010
Today, after surviving a treacherous 4:00am drive through the unplowed streets of Ann Arbor, seven students from the University of Michigen flew to to New York City for the Association of Performing...
View ArticleSocial Media and the Arts
When you work for UMS, you know Ken Fischer, because he is the nice, approachable who hugs you in the elevator on the way to class. When you are any one else in the arts presenting business, you know...
View ArticleA Note About: The APAP Conferend
“Climate Change: The Musical.”Not exactly a Tony-Award winning concept, is it? Even I, someone who isn’t directly involved in the performing arts in any way, can identify such a concept as a an...
View ArticleThe "Other" Artist
Lots of people live in New York City, it seems. I always knew it, I guess. Lots of people on the subway like bumper bowling at every station. Skyscrapers and Yankee fans. But, the APAP trip convinced...
View ArticleWater Music
Last Friday, I was on a very sleepy and snowy flight from Detroit to New York’s Laguardia airport. As early as it was (the flight left at 6am, meaning a 3:30 wake up in order to make it to the airport...
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Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company does Lincoln
Fondly Do We Hope…Fervently Do We PrayA performance by Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Companyby University Musical Society Student Advisory Committee memberI went to see Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance...
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Arts and Eats: Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company
The UMS Paparazzi were out once again last Friday night at the Arts and Eats event in the UM Alumni Center.As students entered, they were greeted by the lovely face of UMS Student Advisory Committee...
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The Humble Conductor
An all 20th Century program: Ravel based on Couperin, a modern Flute Concerto, and a opera in concert... by Bartok? Quite a hard sell and yet there were people asking me about getting Rush Tickets up...
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Ladysmith Black Mambazo
After 50 years of singing, Ladysmith Black Mambazo has lost none of what made them so famous to begin with. While I'm don't feel particularly enlightened about South African culture, I did enjoy myself...
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Article 11
The Bad PlusA jazz performance by The Bad Pluswritten by a member of the University Musical Society Student Advisory CommitteeBefore attending the actual concert this past Friday, I went to the UMS...
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Luciana Souza with Romero Lubambo and Cyro Baptista
A performance by Luciana Souza with Romero Lubambo and Cyro Baptistawritten by a member of the University Musical Society Student Advisory CommitteeIn 2002, the New York Times described Luciana Souza...
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Bela Fleck and umsLOBBY
Last Wednesday was quite a night to remember, as Bela Fleck brought the sound of Africa to Ann Arbor with his Africa Project, in which he traced the roots of the banjo. He brought different groups from...
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"Beat the Donkey" with Cyro Baptista
A performance byBeat the Donkey (Cyro Baptista and other musicians)written by a member of the University Musical Society Student Advisory CommitteeA few years ago I had the opportunity to listen to...
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Uncle Vanya
A performance of Chekhov's Uncle Vanya by the Maly Theater of St. Petersburgwritten by a member of the University Musical Society Student Advisory CommitteeAs I was walking into the Power Center, I saw...
View ArticleOn Chekov and Translating: Maly Drama Theatre of St. Petersberg’s Uncle Vanya
Uncle Vanya is a play that drives literary critics crazy: there is no main character, there is little plot and many of the monologues make little sense. The play centers on the aged Professor...
View ArticleDanilo Pérez and Baaba Maal (on different days)
I'm going to combine my comments on the concert by Danilo Pérez and his ensemble, from Thursday, and the performance by Baaba Maal and his troupe, from Saturday, into this one and the same blog...
View Article"Sankai Juku" last Sunday, Oct 24
I had attended Sankai Juku's last performance in Ann Arbor back in 1999, and, ever since then, I had been enthralled by the dance form of butoh, of which Sankai Juku is a proponent. Last Wednesday, I...
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Handel’s Messiah
Something really special about this year's performance of this long-standing Ann Arbor tradition, Handel's Messiah by the UMS choral union, was that the principals of the event all shared a strong...
View ArticleTED Talks Music!
If you've never heard of the TED talks, go to Google and check them out. You can find a short, intellectual discussion on nearly any topic imaginable, and I promise you will leave feeling enriched or...
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Laurie Anderson's _Delusion_
When Laurie Anderson talked to a large and expectant audience at the Michigan Theater on Thursday January 13, before her performance at the Power Center the following weekend, it must have clear to...
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Feb 9 "Blues at the Crossroads" at Hill Auditorium
The expression "Blues at the CrossRoads" obviously has two separate meanings. This clever title for the event referred simultaneously, I suppose, to both the past and the present of the blues. On the...
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