UMS 08/09 Season Community Education Report

Season Review University | Community Engagement | Adult Education

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Cover 2.

Table of Contents 3-4.

Adult, University and Community Educational Event Listing and

Attendance 5.

Artists with Residencies 6-8.

Audience Development with the Arab Community 9.

The NETWORK 10-11.

Dance Residencies 12.

Artist Residency: Complicite 13.

Performance Exchange: Soweto Gospel Choir 14.

Chamber Music Jam Session 15.

Residency: New York Philharmonic 16.

Residency: The Silk Road 17-18.

Artist Masterclasses 19.

Medicine and the Arts 20.

Impact 21.

2008/2009 Education Partners 22.

Education Progroam Supporters 23.

About UMS and UMS Education

Pictured above: Silk Road Ensemble Masterclass and DJ’s from the Marie Chouinard Dark Matter After Party

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Table of Contents

Masterclasses/Coachings/Workshops

Lectures/PREPs/Panels/Roundtables/Artist

Interviews/Q&As

Mark Morris Dance Group: Wayne State Mark Morris Dance Group: Farmington High School Mark Morris Dance Group: Novi High School Mark Morris Dance Group: Harrison High School Mark Morris Dance Group: EMU Mark Morris Dance Group: Detroit Public Schools Mark Morris Dance Group: Dance for PD Workshop with University of Michigan Health System Mark Morris Dance Group: U-M Mark Morris Dance Group: U-M Mark Morris Dance Group: Marygrove Wayne Shorter Quartet: U-M Jazz Compagnie Heddy Maalem: U-M Chanticleer: U-M Men’s Glee Club Lawrence Brownlee: U-M New York Philharmonic: U-M Violin New York Philharmonic: U-M Clarinet New York Philharmonic: U-M Bass New York Philharmonic: U- M Oboe New York Philharmonic: U-M Cello New York Philharmonic: U-M Horn New York Philharmonic: U-M Tuba New York Philharmonic: U-M Timpani New York Philharmonic: U-M Flute New York Philharmonic: U-M Basson New York Philharmonic: U-M Viola New York Philharmonic: U-M Harp New York Philharmonic: U-M Trumpet New York Philharmonic: U-M Trombone New York Philharmonic: U-M Percussion New York Philharmonic: U-M Composition The Silk Road Ensemble: U-M and AAPS Altenberg Trio Vienna: U-M Strings

Mark Morris Dance Group: Artist Interview, U-M RC Tribute to Munir Bashir: Iraqi Arts Panel Compagnie Heddy Maalem: Artist Interview, U-M RC Compagnie Heddy Maalem: Artist Intervew, U-M Dance Handel’s Messiah: PREP with Jerry Blackstone Handel’s Messiah: PREP with Jerry Blackstone Gilgamesh: Penny Stamps Lecture Gilgamesh: PREP with Piotr Michalowski Gilgamesh: PREP with Piotr Michalowski Gilgamesh: Animation Station New York Philharmonic: State of the Orchestra Panel New York Philharmonic: Percussion Q&A New York Philharmonic: String Q&A New York Philharmonic: Wind Q&A The Silk Road Ensemble: LECTURE: Cultural Exchange along the Silk Road The Romeros: PREP with Matthew Ardizzone John Williams: PREP with Matthew Ardizzone Mohammed Bennis and the Hmadcha Ensemble: LECTURE: Back to Morocco: Stories from Inside the Fez Festival of Sufi Culture with Zeyba Rahman Total Number Engaged: 1504 Picture above: Robin Wilson interviews Algerian choreographer Heddy Maalem

Total Number Engaged: 1390 Picture above: Lawrence Brownlee leads a vocal Masterclass for U-M School of Music students

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2008/2009 Programming

Other Events Complicite: Behind the Scenes Complicite: Saturday Morning Physics Complicite: Book Club, The Indian Clerk Mark Morris Dance Group: U-M Dance Grad Students take Company Class Mark Morris Dance Group: U-M Dance Grad Students observe Technical Rehearsal Soweto Gospel Choir: Performance Exchange at Bethel AME Emanuel Ax and Yefim Bronfman: Meet and Greet with U-M Piano Students Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra: Judiaism and Music Symposium Performance Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra: “Old Fashioned� CD Exchange The Silk Road Ensemble: EXHIBIT: Stearns Collection of Silk Road Instruments Kurt Elling: Slow Dance Workshop

Receptions/Parties Tribute to Munir Bashir: Community Reception Tribute to Munir Bashir: Post-performance Public Reception Soweto Gospel Choir: Africa Studies Center/ NETWORK Reception Rubberbandance Group: OHHH Snap! Dance Party Gilgamesh: Community Reception Sweet Honey in the Rock: NETWORK Reception Jazz at Lincoln Center: NETWORK Reception Aswat: Community Reception Aswat: Post-performance Public Reception Mohammed Bennis and the Hmadcha Ensmble: Community Reception Mohammed Bennis and the Hmadcha Ensmble: Postperformance Public Reception Mohammed Bennis and the Hmadcha Ensmble: Postperformance Public Reception Compagnie Marie Chouinard: Post-Performance Dark Matter Dance Party

Total Number Engaged: 1271 Picture above: Gilgamesh audience members experiement with the Animation Station in the Biomedical Science Research Building Lobby

Total Number Engaged: 2280 Picture above: Arab Community Reception hosting artists from the UMS Tribute to Munir Bashir

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2008/2009 Programming

Complicite Mark Morris Dance Group Wayne Shorter Quartet Tribute to Munir Bashir Compagnie Heddy Maalem Soweto Gospel Choir Emanuel Ax and Yefim Bronfman Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra Handel’s Messiah Rubberbandance Group Gilgamesh Chanticleer Lawrence Brownlee Sweet Honey in the Rock Batsheva Dance Company New York Philharmonic Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra Aswat The Silk Road Ensemble Altenberg Trio Vienna The Romeros John Williams Kurt Elling/ETHEL Mohammed Bennis Hmadcha Ensemble Compagnie Marie Chouinard

Over half of the companies/artists on the UMS 08/09 season engaged in some sort of community or educational event!!

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Artists with Residencies 2008/2009

Audience Development with the Arab Community In conjunction with UMS’s 2008/2009 global focus on the Arab World, UMS built on previous audience development initiatives with the Arab community of Ann Arbor and greater southeastern Michigan. With community partners, UMS hosted a series of recepetions throughout the season including:

Tribute to Munir Bashir: Community Reception Tribute to Munir Bashir: Post-performance Public Reception Gilgamesh: Community Reception Aswat: Community Reception Aswat: Post-performance Public Reception Mohammed Bennis and the Hmadcha Ensmble: Community Reception Mohammed Bennis and the Hmadcha Ensmble: Post-performance Public Receptions

RECEPTION: Arab Community Reception at the home of Batul and Ismat Hamid celebrating the artists from the UMS Tribute to Munir Bashir October 3, 2008

RECEPTION: Arab Community Reception at the home of Jinan & Munib El-Khatib celebrating the artists from Gilgamesh January 22, 2009

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RECEPTION: Post-Peformance Public Reception at Zanzibar following the UMS performance of Aswat March 12, 2009

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Audience Development with the Arab Community

RECEPTION: Post-Peformance Public Reception in the UMMA Lobby following the UMS Performance by Mohammed Bennis and the Hmadcha Ensemble April 19 and 20, 2009

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Audience Development with the Arab Community

2008/2009 NETWORK Performances: Compagnie Heddy Maalem Soweto Gospel Choir Rubberbandance Group Lawrence Brownlee Sweet Honey in the Rock Wynton Marsalis and Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra UMS and The NETWORK hosted a recpetion following the Soweto Gospel Choir to celebrate the opening of the U-M Africa Studies Center in the Hill Mezzanine Lobby.

October 17, 2008

NETWORK Reception at Blue Nile following Wynton Marsalis and Jazz at Lincoln Center March 10, 2009

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The NETWORK

Throughout the 2008/2009 season, UMS undertook extensive dance audience development including a region-wide residency with the Mark Morris Dance Group, a series of artist interviews and masterclasses with Compagnie Heddy Maalem, a masterclass with the Israeli Batsheva Dance Company, as well as large community dance parties following the performances of Rubberbandance Group and Compagnie Marie Chouinard.

Dance for Parkinson’s Disease workshop with Mark Morris Dance Group and the U-M Geriatric Center

Master Class with Novi High School led by Mark Morris Dance Group Senior Dancer, June Omura

Master Class with Wayne State University led by Mark Morris Dance Group Senior Dancer, June Omura

Master Class with Detroit Public Schools led by Mark Morris Dance Group Senior Dancer, June Omura

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Dance Residencies

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Dance Residencies

Masterclass with U-M Dance led by Heddy Maalem

Interview with Heddy Maalem

by Beth Genne for the U-M Residential College course, Topics in World Dance

Dark Matter Dance Party following the performance

by Compagnie Marie Chouinard

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Audience members received several chances to expand their experience: a “Behind the Scenes” look at the production with the show crew, a multi-disciplinary panel with the long-standing Saturday Morning Physics Program, as well as a book club at the Ann Arbor District Library on The Indian Clerk, a novel focused on two of the play’s main characters.

Saturday Morning Physics Complicite Panel

Complicite: Behind the Scenes

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Artist Residency: Complicite

In addition to the reception following their October performance at Hill Auditorium, Bethel A.M.E. Church of Ann Arbor hosted Soweto Gospel Choir and other area gospel choirs for a unique performance exchange. It was an evening of camaraderie and celebration as each group took turns performing for one another, followed by a reception with all performers.

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Performance Exchange: Soweto Gospel Choir

In honor of the Guarneri String Quartet’s final appearance, UMS and the Ann Arbor Camerata hosted a chamber music reading session just prior to the January 11 performance by the group. Community members were able to come with their instruments and read through great works of music with area musicians in a fun and relaxed environment. Music included both standard and rarely played works by composers such as Beethoven, Schubert, and Dvorak.

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Chamber Music Jam Session

The New York Philharmonic returned for their second day-long residency with the U-M School of Music, Theatre & Dance. Members of the symphony coached U-M students in master classes prior to their March 7 and 8 performances. In addition, touring members of the orchestra’s adminstrative staff, including Executive Director Zarin Mehta, participated in a lecture on the “State of the Orchestra in 2009” moderated by U-M Arts Enterprise Director Michael Mauskapf.

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Residency: New York Philharmonic

Yo-Yo Ma’s return to Ann arbor with his Silk Road Ensemble provided a wealth of opportunity for all to engage both in the venue and out.

Members of The Silk Road Ensemble conducted a multi-instrumental master class with local university and high school student ensembles, The U-M Stearns Collection assembled and hosted a variety of historic instruments found on the Silk Road in the lobby of Hill Auditorium prior to the performances, and U-M Professor Brad Farnsworth gave a multi-media presentation on the general history of the Silk Road with a specific focus on how trade effects culture.

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Residency: The Silk Road Ensemble

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Artist Masterclasses Wayne Shorter Quartet: U-M Jazz Chanticleer: U-M Men’s Glee Club Lawrence Brownlee: U-M Voice Altenberg Trio Vienna: U-M Strings

On Thursday, January 29th, members of the all-male chorus Chanticleer conducted a master class with the U-M Men’s Glee Club in the new Penny Stamps Auditorium.

On March 17, The Altenberg Trio Vienna participated in a coaching session in Rackham Auditorium with chamber music students at the U-M School of Music, Dance and Theater, with members of the public in attendance for observation.

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Acclaimed tenor Lawrence Brownlee led a vocal master class with students from the U-M School of Music, Theatre & Dance on February 6 in Britton Recital Hall.

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Artist Masterclasses

In a new initiative with the U-M Health System, “Medicine and the Arts” aims to enhance house officers’ (residents) ability to provide high-quality, humanistic clinical care through experiences and analysis of the musical, dramatic, and visual arts. Prior to two different UMS performances, the recital by Andras Schiff and the St. Louis Symphony concert, residents had the opportunity for pre-concert discussion with faculty members, artists, and other experts to explore the links between arts and medicine, drawing out themes from specific performances. We look forward to expanding this program in the 09/10 season!

Dr. Joel Howell speaking on “Medicine and the Arts” at the annual Medical Community Dinner on the 4th floor of the Rackham Building

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Medicine and the Arts

Impact “The master classes by professional musicians (which members of the New York Philharmonic participated in last week) are one of those amazing things about living in Ann Arbor. The generosity of many performers over the years is amazing.”

- Leah Gunn (comment in Ann Arbor Chronicle)

“Last night proved why we are so lucky to have UMS in Ann Arbor. Thank you for connecting me to the music of our past!”

- Post-performance Arab community reception attendee “This makes me feel like I am back home again.”

- Arab audience member at Fes Festival post-performance reception

“UMS & Zingerman’s RULE, worldwide!!!!! Thank you again and again. It feels so good to find ourselves in community with you!!! Love, Dorothy.”

- Letter from Dorothy Lawson, cellist for acclaimed new music string quartet ETHEL, on her time spent doing residency work in Ann Arbor

“RT: UMS people know how to get down... Best dance party I’ve ever seen. (@DaveDesch)”

- Twitter Posting describing the UMS season closing after-party at the old Leopold Brother’s Space following a performance by Compagnie Marie Chouinard “The party was great and the crowd was really eclectic…dancers were having a showdown on the dance floor, from the company and the local community. It made me want to go see the show!”

- Rubberbandance after-party attendee

“I just now--at 11 PM--am reading your message about this afternoon’s WONDERFUL “Chamber Music Jam”. I think you all did a fantastic job of organizing and running it. You kept everyone playing most of the time--which is good--and you kept it informal and fun and completely non-threatening (I thought). I hope everyone enjoyed it as much as I did. Bravo and thanks.”

- Chamber Music Jam Session Participant “Thank you so much for the opportunity. My students were extremely thrilled about the class and motivated to approach [their own] dance class in a different way now. Master classes are always a wonderful way to inspire students.”

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- Educator, Farmington Public Schools in response to a Mark Morris Dance Group Masterclass

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Wadad Abed Laith Alattar Anan Ameri Pat Andrews Ann Arbor District Library Ann Arbor Piano Teacher Guild Ann Arbor School for the Performing Arts Matthew Ardizzone Toi Banks Kimberley Barker Hyman Bass Chris Bathgate Abdul Belhaj Jean-Claude Biza Jerry Blackstone The Blue Nile Restaurant Lisa Borgsdorf Tom Bray Charlie Bright Ton Broos Bonnie Brown David Burkam Bustan al-Funun Foundation Janet Callaway Myron Campbell Dennis Carter Amy Chavasse Mark Clague Mary Cole Reverend Joseph Cousin Doretha Coval Habti Dadi Dark Matter Deborah Dash Moore Sreyashi Dey Jinan & Munib El-Khatib John Ellis Michaelene Farrell Susan Filipiak Sara Fink Jessica Fogel Eileen Freed Joanna Frye Sabine Gabaron Beth Genne Joe Gramley Tim Grimes

Batul and Ismat Hamid Chrisstina Hamilton Christopher Harding Katy Hartley Rima Hassouneh Daniel Herwitz Peter Ho Davies Barbara Hodgdon Issa Family Jordeen Ivanov-Ericson Elizabeth James Andrew Jennings Linda Jones Angela Kane Andy Kirschner Marja Lankinen Masri Sweets Christian Matjias Michael Mauskapf Joanna McNamara Deb Mexicotte Joetta Mial Piotr Michalowski Carla Mickler-Konz Carla Milarch Mary Moffett Donald Morelock Bhramar Mukherjee Louis Nagel Leonard Navarro Steve Nelson Neutral Zone Kimberly Osburn Liz and Mohammad Othman Randy Paschke Carmen Pelton Performance Network Greg Poggi Melissa Poli Eileen Pollack Carol Rabuck Ingrid Racine Zeyba Rahman Paul Rardin Ray Robinson Lori Roddy Huda and Jeff Rosen

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2008/2009 Partners

Ellen Rowe Karem and Lena Sakallah Mike Savitski Schoolcraft College Dick Schubach Rabia and Farouq Shafie Tara Sheena Derek Shelton Dr. Muaid Shihadeh Elaine Sims Logan Skelton Tony Smith Beth Spencer Carol Stepanchuk Kathleen Stevens Grace Stevick Marilee Sturtevan U-M Alumni Association U-M Arts Enterprise Club U-M Center for Afro-American and African

Studies U-M Center for Chinese Studies U-M Center for Education of Women U-M School of Education U-M Center for European Studies U-M Center for Middle Eastern and North

African Studies U-M Department of Dance U-M Department of Jazz &

Improvisation U-M Gifts of Art Program U-M Institute for Humanities U-M LSA Honors Program U-M Public Goods Council U-M Rackham School of Graduate

Studies U-M Residential College U-M School of Music, Theatre & Dance U-M Stearns Collection UMS Advisory Committee Wayne State University Stephanie Weaver Katherine Weider Steven Whiting Robin Wilson Eliza Woodford John A Woods

Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs University of Michigan

Anonymous Arts at Michigan Arts Midwest’s Performing Arts Fund Bank of Ann Arbor Bustan al-Funun Foundation for Arab Arts The Dan Cameron Family Foundation/ Alan and Swanna Saltiel Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan Consulate General of the Netherlands in New York Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art DTE Energy Foundation The Esperance Family Foundation David and Phyllis Herzig Endowment Fund Honigman Miller Schwartz and Cohn LLP JazzNet Endowment W.K. Kellogg Foundation

Masco Corporation Foundation Miller, Canfield, Paddock and Stone, P.L.C. The Mosaic Foundation [Washington, DC] National Dance Project of the New England Foundation for the Arts National Endowment for the Arts Prudence and Amnon Rosenthal K-12 Education Endowment Fund Rick and Sue Snyder Target TCF Bank UMS Advisory Committee University of Michigan Credit Union University of Michigan Health System U-M Office of the Senior Vice Provost for Academic Affairs U-M Office of the Vice President for Research Wallace Endowment Fund

For more information about the UMS Education and Audience Development Program umsed@umich.edu | 734.647.6712 | www.ums.org/education

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About UMS

About UMS Education

UMS is committed to connecting audiences with performing artists from around the world in uncommon and engaging experiences.

UMS Education programs provide engaging experiences with arts, culture, and creativity for the entire southeastern Michigan community.

One of the oldest performing arts presenters in the country, the University Musical Society is now in its 130th season. With a program steeped in music, dance, and theater performed at the highest international standards of quality, UMS contributes to a vibrant cultural community by presenting approximately 6075 performances and over 100 free educational and community activities each season.

The UMS Adult Education and Community Engagement Program serves many different audiences through a variety of educational programs. Over 100 unique regional, local, and university-based partnerships each season have helped UMS launch initiatives for Arab American, Mexican/Latino, Asian, and African American audiences.

UMS is proud of its educational and residency programs, created for general audiences to engage more deeply in the arts. Through artist interviews, panel discussions, symposiums, social receptions, workshops, and informal dialogues, UMS creates a rich assortment of value-added programs. Over 100 events each season inspire creativity, enhance knowledge, promote connections with friends and family, and inform each audience member’s individual experience with the arts.

UMS also commissions new work, sponsors artist residencies, and organizes collaborative projects with local, national, and international partners.

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