UMS 14-15 Season Brochure

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It’s what UMS is capable of: transformational experiences on the stage and off. We bring some of the greatest artists of our time to Ann Arbor, exposing young and old alike to new ways of experiencing their world.

We encourage you to participate. We encourage you to explore. And we encourage you to give, so that others may have similar experiences well into the future.

To learn more, visit ums.org/support

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2014-2015 Calendar 9/14 I T Z H A K P E RL M A N , V IO L IN

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Calendar

11/1 TH E BI G SQU EEZ E: AN ACCORD ION S U MMIT

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AP OLLO’S FI RE & AP OLLO’S SI NGERS M ONTE V E RDI ’S V ESP E RS OF 1 6 10

MARIIN S KY ORC HES TRA VALERY GERGIEV, MU S IC D IREC TOR D EN IS MATS U EV, PIAN O FORD HONORS PROGRAM (1/25)

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Q UATUOR É BÈ NE

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DAW N OF MID I DY SN OM IA

3/12-13 A BILL FRIS ELL AMERIC A N A C EL EBR AT IO N

3/13-14 KY LE ABRAH AM ABRAH AM.IN.MOTION

3/22 C HIC AGO SY MPH ONY W IN DS

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11/15

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EM E R S O N S T R IN G Q UA RT E T

BOB JAM ES

JENN IFER KOH , VIOLIN

GILBERTO GIL

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N ATI O N A L T H E AT R E L IVE : EUR IP IDES ’ M E D E A

JAK E SHI M ABUKURO, UKULE LE

MEND ELSS OH N ’S EL IJAH U MS C HORAL U NION ANN ARBOR SY MPH ONY ORC H ES TRA JERRY BLAC KS TONE, COND U C TOR

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YUJA WANG , P I ANO LEONI DAS K AVAKOS, V I OLI N

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KI S S & C RY C H A R L E RO I DA N S ES

10/15 G R EG O RY P O RT E R

10/16 C H R I S T H IL E & E DGA R ME Y E R

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11/23

12/6-7 HANDE L’S MESSI AH

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10/24-25 TH ÉÂT R E DE L A V IL L E P I R A N DE L LO ’ S S IX C H A R AC T ER S I N S E A R C H O F A N AU T H O R

10/31-11/1 S U P E R P OS IT IO N | RYOJ I IK E DA

2/14-21 COMPAGN IE N ON NOVA PRELUD E TO THE AF TERN OON OF A FOEHN

HERBIE HANCOC K AN D C H IC K CO R EA

4/17 OLIVER MTU KU DZI AN D T H E BL AC K SPIR IT S

JAZZ AT LIN COLN C ENTER ORC HES TRA W ITH W Y N TON MARS ALIS

ARTEMIS QUARTET

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E I G HTH BLACK BI RD

MAX RAABE AN D THE PA L A ST O RC H EST ER

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H ELEN & EDGAR

AC AD EMY OF S T. MARTIN IN T H E F IEL DS JEREMY D ENK, PIAN O

TOMAS Z S TAŃ KO, TRU MPET

ROSSI NI ’S W I LLI AM TELL TE ATRO REG I O TORI NO ORCHES TRA AND CHORUS G I ANANDRE A NOSE DA, CONDUCTOR

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SAN FRANCI SCO SYM P HONY M I CHAE L TI LSON THOM AS, M USIC DI RECTOR G I L SHAHAM , V I OLI N

ROYA L S H A K ES P E A RE CO M PANY L I V E IN H D: S H A K ES P E A R E ’ S TH E TWO GENT LE M E N O F V E R O NA

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ROTTERDAM PHILHARMONIC ORC HES TRA YANN IC K N ÉZET-S ÉGU IN, COND U C TOR H ÉLÈN E GRIMAU D, PIAN O

TH E C AMPBELL BROTH ERS PERFORM JOH N COLTRANE’S A LOV E SUPREM E

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4/23 S EOU L PHILHARMONIC O RC H EST R A MY U NG-W HU N C HU N G, CO N D U C TO R S U N WOOK KIM, PIAN O

4/24-26 LYON OPERA BALLET CIN D EREL L A

4/26 RIC H ARD GOOD E, PIANO

TRIS H A BROW N DAN C E COMPAN Y

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Renegade Events

Renegade Events WHERE CURIOUS AUDIENCES MEET UNEXPECTED IDEAS Artists engage daily in a creative enterprise full of risk-taking, experimentation, and boundarypushing. Renegade is about artists who, in their own time and context, color outside of the lines and change our expectations.

Renegade performances are indicated throughout this brochure by this icon:

Kiss & Cry A film is shot and projected before your very eyes in the space and time of the theater.

Kiss & Cry takes place in a nanoworld in which hands and fingers become characters, dancing amid miniature landscapes. Kiss & Cry upends all expectations about what dance or theater can look like.

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What Makes It Renegade?

superposition | Ryoji Ikeda

Apollo’s Fire & Apollo’s Singers

Ryoji Ikeda’s soundscape is married to a visual environment that mines the graphic world of micro data while blowing up its aesthetic and theatrical possibilities.

Theater meets big data.

Monteverdi’s Vespers of 1610 Claudio Monteverdi was a fundamental innovator in Western music whose experimentation built a bridge between the musical worlds of the Renaissance and the Baroque. His revolutionary compositions have reverberated well into our time, influencing 20thcentury composers like Igor Stravinsky, among others.

Ryoji Ikeda’s superposition by Kazuo Fukunaga

eighth blackbird

Dawn of Midi

Compagnie Non Nova

Charging ahead and forging their own expectations for what classical chamber music can look and sound like, eighth blackbird signals the next wave of energy and creativity in classical music.

Don’t be fooled: what may at first look like an acoustic jazz piano trio is anything but. The music created by this Brooklyn-based ensemble aligns more closely with modern classical music and contemporary electronica. A reclamation of the possibilities of live music.

Borne aloft on currents of air, small plastic bags become dancers in an enchanting performance-art ballet, turning the stuff of landfills into an improbably perfect interpretation of Debussy’s Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun.

Trisha Brown Dance Company The founders of “postmodern” dance embraced a new set of aesthetic concerns after Martha Graham’s renegade inventions, finding beauty in the most ordinary movement, materials, and contexts.

Renegade performances are supported by the Renegade Ventures Fund, established by Maxine and Stuart Frankel.

See page 72 for more information.

Bill Frisell “Frisell is without a doubt, the single most important guitarist in jazz, a genius who is going to have the kind of influence on his instrument Jimi Hendrix and Wes Montgomery had before him.”

(Seattle Times)

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Itzhak Perlman VIOLIN

John Root, piano Sunday, September 14, 6 pm [NOTE START TIME] Hill Auditorium

Beloved for his charm as well as his talent, Itzhak Perlman is treasured by audiences throughout the world who respond not only to his remarkable artistry but also to his irrepressible joy for making music.

Born in Israel in 1945, Perlman came to New York as a teenager and was propelled to national recognition with an appearance on the “Ed Sullivan Show” in 1958. He subsequently attended The Juilliard School and over the past 50 years has established himself as a cultural icon and a household name in classical music. Over the past decade, he has become increasingly devoted to both conducting and to music education, but it is as a recitalist that Ann Arbor audiences know him best, with 10 UMS concerts since his debut in 1970.

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Emerson String Quartet Saturday, September 27, 8 pm Rackham Auditorium

Photo by Akira Kinoshita

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With the arrival of cellist Paul Watkins in May 2013, the Emerson Quartet has embarked on a remarkable new journey, one filled with freshness, warmth, and impressive accolades. Watkins, who also serves as the music director of the Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival, is the first new member of the group since its founding in 1976. In addition to quartets by Beethoven and Shostakovich, the Emerson Quartet will perform the world premiere of a new work that UMS co-commissioned by Lowell Liebermann. “With musicians like this, there must be some hope for humanity.” (The Times, London) PROGRAM Beethoven Quartet in f minor, Op. 95 (“Serioso”) Liebermann New Work (World Premiere, UMS co-commission) Shostakovich Quartet No. 3 in F Major, Op. 73 12+ AGES

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E NDOW E D SUP P O RT F RO M T HE

M E DI A PA RT NE R

Drs. Max Wicha and Sheila Crowley and Richard and Susan Gutow

WGTE 91.3 FM and WRCJ 90.9 FM

Ilene H. Forsyth Chamber Arts Endowment Fund, which supports an annual Chamber Arts Series concert in perpetuity.

WGTE 91.3 FM

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Gregory Porter Liquid Spirit Wednesday, October 15, 7:30 pm Michigan Theater

At the start of 2010, the buzz about Los Angeles-born, Brooklynbased jazz and soul vocalist Gregory Porter was a strong, steady murmur, fueled by a growing crowd of fans. When Wynton Marsalis selected the then-unknown singer to perform a residency with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, people took notice. Now, just a few years later, NPR Music has hailed him as “the next great male jazz singer.” A disarmingly sincere performer with a groove that never quits, the Blue Note recording artist is that rare jazz vocalist with true star power, combining the big heart of a gospel shouter with the honeyed tone of a crooner. His album Liquid Spirit, which has gospel, blues, and R&B influences, was recently awarded the 2014 Grammy Award for “Best Vocal Jazz Album.”

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Kiss & Cry Charleroi Danses, Belgium Michèle Anne de Mey and Jaco van Dormael, creators Friday, October 10, 8 pm Saturday, October 11, 8 pm Sunday, October 12, 2 pm Power Center Post-performance Q&A October 10

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A poetic piece that blurs artistic disciplines, Kiss & Cry brings together a diverse group of Belgian artists to create a sweeping, romantic work that explores the question “Where do people go when they disappear from our life, from our memory?” This is the question haunting a woman as she waits alone on the platform of a train station. She thinks of the men she’s loved and lost, vanished in the haze of existence. Hands visually portray the main characters with a beautifully engaging sensual presence, moving around miniature sets with absolute precision while a camera crew projects the finger ballet on a large screen. In this blend of film, dance, text, and theater, the audience witnesses a film screened and simultaneously made in front of their eyes. A unique event told with tender and poignant eloquence, Kiss & Cry is an unforgettable experience. “Absorbing, delightful, and ravishingly beautiful.” (Boston Globe) 90 minutes, no intermission.

Photo by Shawn Peters

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S UPPORTED BY

E N D OWME N T S U P P ORT FROM TH E

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M E DI A PA RT NE R

David and Phyllis Herzig and the Renegade Ventures Fund, established

by Maxine and Stuart Frankel

Herbert S. and Carol L. Amster Fund (in memory of Herb Amster) and the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Endowment

Susan and Richard Gutow Renegade Ventures Endowment Fund

WDET 101.9 FM

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E NDOW E D SUP P O RT F RO M T HE

M E DI A PA RT NE R

JazzNet Endowment Fund

WEMU 89.1 FM

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An Evening with

Chris Thile & Edgar Meyer Thursday, October 16, 8 pm Michigan Theater

Bassist Edgar Meyer and mandolin virtuoso Chris Thile (of Punch Brothers) began performing together about a decade ago, a relationship built on mutual admiration and respect. Meyer has been called “the most remarkable virtuoso in the relatively unchronicled history of his instrument” (New Yorker), while Thile has taken the mandolin from its origins as a folk and bluegrass instrument and placed it beautifully in the world of jazz improvisation and classical performance. The two MacArthur Fellows have collaborated on several critically acclaimed projects, including the Grammy-winning Goat Rodeo Sessions, a 2008 recording of original compositions, and more recently, Chris Thile’s 2013 solo recording of Bach sonatas and partitas. Meyer and Thile present a diverse program of largely original music that will coincide with a new release on Nonesuch Records.

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Belcea Quartet Saturday, October 18, 8 pm Rackham Auditorium

Founded at the Royal College of Music in London 20 years ago, the Belcea Quartet is based in Great Britain but comprises diverse cultural backgrounds (French, Romanian, Polish) that contribute to their dynamic and free interpretive style. Their diverse influences are reflected in repertoire that pairs contemporary works with the Quartet’s profound connection to the great repertoire of the Classical and Romantic periods.

PROGRAM Mozart Quartet in F Major, K. 590 Berg Lyric Suite Brahms Quartet No. 1 in c minor, Op. 51

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Gil Omenn and Martha Darling

Herbert and Doris Sloan Endowment Fund

Ann Arbor’s 107one and WEMU 89.1 FM

Linda Samuelson and Joel Howell

WGTE 91.3 FM

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superposition | Ryoji Ikeda Concept, direction, and music by Ryoji Ikeda Friday, October 31, 8 pm Saturday, November 1, 8 pm Power Center

superposition is a performance created by visual and sound artist Ryoji Ikeda that explores the way we understand the reality of nature on an atomic scale. Inspired by the mathematical notions of quantum mechanics, Ikeda employs a spectacular combination of synchronized video screens, real-time content feeds, digital sound sculptures, and for the first time in Ikeda’s work, human performers.

Ikeda poetically harnesses the simplest elements of all data and explodes them outward into the infinite potential of science and art. His immersive and viscerally exciting music plunges into the grey space between 0 and 1, true and false, where uncertainty and probability coexist, through a powerful display of technology and art designed to take the spectator inside the indescribable structures at the very foundation of all life. “A sound and music event that is simultaneously extraordinarily, mesmerically beautiful, and also so radically disorienting that afterwards you feel as if the world has tilted to one side.” (TheArtsDesk.com) 75 minutes, no intermission.

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Théâtre de la Ville Pirandello’s Six Characters in Search of an Author Emmanuel Demarcy-Mota, director Friday, October 24, 8 pm Saturday, October 25, 8 pm Power Center

Luigi Pirandello won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1934 for his “bold and brilliant renovation of drama and the stage.” His Six Characters in Search of an Author, which dates from 1921, is an absurdist metatheatrical play about the relationship between authors and their characters. A dysfunctional family of six bursts into a rehearsal of another Pirandello play with a curious claim: they are characters who have been abandoned by their author and are seeking someone to complete their story. The theater manager is intrigued and agrees to help, but becomes vexed by the interplay of the real actors with the unrealized characters, whose literary limbo causes fiction and reality to overlap. The production is directed by Emmanuel Demarcy-Mota and performed by Théâtre de la Ville, which gave an outstanding performance of Ionesco’s Rhinocéros two seasons ago. Contains adult situations. In French with English supertitles.

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Post-performance Q&A October 24

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FU N D E D IN PA RT BY TH E

M E DI A PA RT NE R

SUP P O RT E D BY T HE

E NDOW E D SUP P O RT F RO M T HE

F UNDE D I N PA RT BY T HE

MEDI A PARTNER

Frank Legacki and Alicia Torres

Wallace Endowment Fund

National Endowment for the Arts

WDET 101.9 FM

Renegade Ventures Fund, established by Maxine and Stuart Frankel

Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Endowment Fund

Japan Foundation through the Performing Arts JAPAN program

WDET 101.9 FM

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The Big Squeeze: An Accordion Summit featuring the Accordion Virtuosi of Russia Julien Labro with the Spektral Quartet and Alexander Sevastian Additional artists to be announced Saturday, November 1, 8 pm Hill Auditorium

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The accordion takes center stage with this UMS-only summit showcasing a broad spectrum of performance and compositional styles and sounds that contribute to the instrument’s virtually ubiquitous position throughout global music. Representing the accordion on a grand scale, the Accordion Virtuosi of Russia features an orchestra of accordions of all sizes, performing popular Russian classical music arrangements. Julien Labro (of Hot Club of Detroit) forms a unique collaboration with Chicago’s contemporary classical Spektral Quartet, presenting rarely performed works on the bandoneón and accordina (sister instruments of the accordion) by Villa-Lobos, Piazzolla, and Nuevo Tango composer Diego Schissi.

And be prepared to be blown out of your seat by Russian accordion wizard Alexander Sevastian.

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Apollo’s Fire & Apollo’s Singers Monteverdi’s Vespers of 1610 Jeannette Sorrell, conductor Thursday, November 6, 7:30 pm St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church

Photo by Anna Webber

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The structure and counterpoint of the West. The exotic flamboyance of the East. They met in Venice in 1610, and the splendor resounded.

With this choral masterpiece, Monteverdi forged a dramatic and vivid new musical style, evoking the struggle between the archaic and the revolutionary and bridging Renaissance and Baroque styles in what is considered the grandest work of religious music before Bach. Apollo’s Fire — whose past two appearances have been in Hill Auditorium — brings seven vocal soloists, the renowned professional chamber choir Apollo’s Singers, and an orchestra of gleaming period instruments to the intimacy of St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church.

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Post-performance Q&A

S U P P ORTE D BY

M E DI A PA RT NE R

SUP P O RT E D BY T HE

Paul and Anne Glendon

WEMU 89.1 FM

Renegade Ventures Fund, established by Maxine and Stuart Frankel

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TWO DIFFERENT PROGRAMS!

This two-concert appearance by the San Francisco Symphony celebrates the 70th birthday of music director Michael Tilson Thomas with one of his signature specialties: Mahler’s Symphony No. 7, a work that shows Mahler at his most mysterious, with a tantalizing nocturnal quality (and a work that has never been performed at a UMS concert).

The orchestra’s second program features violinist Gil Shaham and the UMS Choral Union in a program of Prokofiev, Ravel, and Liszt.

San Francisco Symphony

P R O G R A M ( T H U R S D AY 1 1 / 1 3 ) Mahler

Michael Tilson Thomas, music director and conductor Gil Shaham, violin (Friday) UMS Choral Union (Friday) Thursday, November 13, 7:30 pm Friday, November 14, 8 pm Hill Auditorium

Symphony No. 7 (“Song of the Night”)

P R O G R A M ( F R I D AY 1 1 / 1 4 ) Liszt

Mephisto Waltz No. 1

Prokofiev

Violin Concerto No. 2 in g minor, Op. 63

Ravel

Daphnis et Chloé (complete)

A Prelude Dinner precedes the Thursday performance.

Reservations: 734.764.8489.

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Quatuor Ébène Sunday, November 9, 4 pm Rackham Auditorium

The New York Times called them “a string quartet that can easily morph into a jazz band,” describing how they first performed Haydn and Debussy before transitioning to their own arrangement of music from the movie Pulp Fiction, improvising to Chick Corea, and unveiling their vocal talents as an excellent a cappella quartet. There is no doubt that these four French musicians have class, moving with ease and enthusiasm between different styles, always with taste and integrity. This exciting new discovery makes its UMS debut with a program that begins with Mozart and Mendelssohn before diverging off into an unpredictable path that is sure to delight.

PROGRAM Mozart

Quartet in E-flat Major, K. 428

Mendelssohn Quartet in a minor, Op. 13 Jazz and popular repertoire to be announced from the stage Photo by Art Streiber

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ME D IA PA RTN E RS

Candis J. and Helmut F. Stern Endowment Fund, which supports an annual Chamber Arts Series concert in perpetuity.

WGTE 91.3 FM and Ann Arbor’s 107one

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E NDOW E D SUP P O RT F RO M T HE

F UNDE D I N PA RT BY T HE

M E DI A PA RT NERS

Essel and Menakka Bailey Endowment Fund

National Endowment for the Arts

WGTE 91.3 FM, WRCJ 90.9 FM, and Ann Arbor’s 107one

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An Evening with

Bob James

Saturday, November 15, 8 pm Hill Auditorium

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From his early years touring with Sarah Vaughan to founding smooth jazz supergroup Fourplay, U-M alumnus Bob James has explored a vast stretch of musical territory. A leading force in 1970s crossover jazz, the keyboardist, composer, and producer played an essential role on a series of hit records and has also had a profound effect on hip-hop, with his songs among the most sampled in hip-hop history. James’s most recent album, Quartette Humaine, was recorded a month after Dave Brubeck’s death and pays tribute to the iconic pianist. He is assembling a quintet to celebrate this long-awaited homecoming, with concert materials drawn from James’s extensive songbook, including tunes from his CTI Records catalog and Dave Brubeck compositions. “For many of his fans, Bob James is to jazz what James Brown is to R&B — the music and the musician go hand in hand.” (NPR Music) A UMS debut.

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Jake Shimabukuro by Merri Cyr

Jake Shimabukuro UKULELE

Wednesday, November 19, 7:30 pm Hill Auditorium

In his young career, Hawaiian ukulele wizard Jake Shimabukuro has already redefined a heretofore under-the-radar instrument, been declared a musical “hero” by Rolling Stone, earned comparisons to Jimi Hendrix and Miles Davis, and even played in front of the Queen of England. Known for his lightning-fast fingers and innovative style, Shimabukuro collaborated on his latest record with legendary producer/ engineer Alan Parsons, best known for his work on Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon and The Beatles’ Abbey Road.

Shimabukuro became internationally famous when his video of George Harrison’s “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” was posted on YouTube without his knowledge and became one of the first viral videos on the site. In addition to traditional ukulele material, his singular approach to the instrument combines elements of jazz, blues, funk, rock, bluegrass, classical, swing, and flamenco. A UMS debut.

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JazzNet Endowment Fund

WEMU 89.1 FM, WDET 101.9 FM, and Ann Arbor’s 107one

Dody Viola

Michigan Radio 91.7 FM, Ann Arbor’s 107one, and WEMU 89.1 FM

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Handel’s Messiah UMS Choral Union Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra Jerry Blackstone, conductor Janai Brugger, soprano David Daniels, countertenor Colin Ainsworth, tenor David Pittsinger, bass-baritone Edward Parmentier, harpsichord Saturday, December 6, 8 pm Sunday, December 7, 2 pm Hill Auditorium

The holiday season in Ann Arbor is never officially underway until Handel’s Messiah is performed at Hill Auditorium. An eagerly anticipated holiday season tradition, these performances are ultimately the heart and soul of UMS, dating back to the organization’s founding and first concerts in the 1879-1880 season.

The performances connect audiences not only with the talented artists on stage but also with the friends and family who attend each year. In a true community tradition, the performance features the Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra, the 175 voices of the Grammy Award-winning UMS Choral Union (2006 “Best Choral Performance”), conductor Jerry Blackstone, and two U-M alumni as soloists — Janai Brugger and David Daniels.

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Yuja Wang Leonidas Kavakos PIANO

VIOLIN

“This was an outstanding evening: bliss from start to finish.” (The Guardian) This joint recital brings together the 27-year-old pianist Yuja Wang, who has wowed Ann Arbor audiences with her controlled, prodigious technique and deep musical insight, with the Greek violinist Leonidas Kavakos, who makes his UMS debut. “Kavakos is a spectacular artist…Anything he wants to say on the instrument he clearly has the chops to say.” (Philadelphia Inquirer) PROGRAM Brahms

Sonata No. 2 in A Major, Op. 100

Schumann

Sonata No. 2 in d minor, Op. 12

Stravinsky

Suite Italienne

Respighi

Sonata in b minor

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Sunday, November 23, 4 pm Hill Auditorium

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E NDOW E D SUP P O RT F RO M T HE

M E DI A PA RT NE R S

WGTE 91.3 FM and WRCJ 90.9 FM

Carl and Isabelle Brauer Fund

Michigan Radio 91.7 FM and Ann Arbor’s 107one

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OPERA IN CONCERT

Rossini’s William Tell Teatro Regio Torino Orchestra and Chorus Gianandrea Noseda, music director featuring Fabio Capitanucci, baritone (William Tell) Angela Meade, soprano (Matilde) John Osborn, tenor (Arnoldo) Mirco Palazzi, bass (Gualtiero) Tuesday, December 9, 7:30 pm Hill Auditorium

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William Tell was Rossini’s final opera, despite the fact that the composer lived for nearly 40 years after composing it. Its premiere was triumphant but the opera’s epic scale and extravagant vocal demands have rendered revivals few and far between. Recognized immediately from its famous, galloping overture, William Tell dramatizes the life of the Swiss folk hero whose expert marksmanship with a crossbow is the stuff of legends. A grand opera in every sense, William Tell thrills with its passionate arias, superb ensembles, and sweeping orchestral splendor. This concert version introduces four operatic soloists to local audiences alongside the 200-member orchestra and chorus of the Royal Theatre of Turin, one of the most important opera houses in Italy.

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Helen & Edgar A story of Savannah told by the celebrated raconteur Edgar Oliver Directed by Catherine Burns Wednesday, January 7, 7:30 pm Thursday, January 8, 7:30 pm Friday, January 9, 8 pm Saturday, January 10, 8 pm Arthur Miller Theatre

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Susan B. Ullrich Endowment Fund

WGTE 91.3 FM and WRCJ 90.9 FM

The creative team behind storytelling juggernaut The Moth joined with acclaimed raconteur Edgar Oliver in October 2012 to present the world premiere of Helen & Edgar, Oliver’s mesmerizing, hilarious, and heartbreaking tale of his strange childhood with his sister Helen in Savannah as they deal with their mother’s struggle with madness and her smothering paranoia. An expanded version of a story he has been weaving piece by piece since his debut at The Moth in 1998, “Edgar Oliver’s stories of Savannah family witchery and madness give a new meaning to Southern Gothic.” (Neil Gaiman, author) 14+ AGES

Post-performance Q&A January 7

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M E DI A PA RT NE R

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WDET 101.9 FM

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Compagnie Marie Chouinard Marie Chouinard, artistic director Friday, January 23, 8 pm Power Center Post-performance Q&A

Described by the New York Times as “a hurricane of unbridled imaginativeness,” Marie Chouinard brings her Montreal-based troupe back to Ann Arbor with two works that display her compelling imagination. The visually arresting Henri Michaux: Mouvements features dancers dressed in black costumes on a white floor to create a choreographic version of India ink drawings and poetry by Belgian poet and artist Henri Michaux. The company also performs Gymnopédies, a ballet created around the theme of the duet.

The 11 dancers, who worked daily with a piano teacher during the creation of the work, each take their places at a piano to play Erik Satie’s intriguing piano works of the same name. In both of these works, Chouinard “travels to the very depths of our collective psyche and brings what she finds there out into the open for all to see.” (bachtrack.com) Performance contains nudity and adult situations.

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eighth blackbird

eighth blackbird combines the finesse of a string quartet, the energy of a rock band, and the audacity of a storefront theater company. The Chicago-based ensemble delivers provocative and mind-bending performances, combining bracing virtuosity with an alluring sense of irreverence. The ensemble’s performances sparkle with wit and pound with physical energy, inhabiting and exploring the sound world of new music with comfort, conviction, and infectious enthusiasm.

“The blackbirds are examples of a new breed of super-musicians.

They perform the bulk of their new music from memory. They have no need for a conductor, no matter how complex the rhythms or balances... [They are] stage animals, often in motion, enacting their scores as they play them.” (Los Angeles Times) Their program includes two works by composers who made their mark in indie band circles: Bryce Dessner of The National and Richard Reed Perry from Arcade Fire.

Saturday, January 17, 8 pm Rackham Auditorium Post-performance Q&A

PROGRAM Bryce Dessner

Murder Ballads

Sean Griffin

Pattycake

Richard Reed Perry

Duo for Heart and Breath

Lee Hyla

Wave

Gabriella Smith

Number Nine

Tom Johnson

Counting Duets

György Ligeti (arr.)

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WGTE 91.3 FM, WDET 101.9 FM, WRCJ 90.9 FM, and Ann Arbor’s 107one

New England Foundation for the Arts’ National Dance Project

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FORD HONORS PROGRAM

The Mariinsky Orchestra and Valery Gergiev return for two performances of Russian orchestral masterpieces. The Saturday program features 24-year-old pianist Behzod Abduraimov, the grand prize winner of the 2009 London International Piano Competition, in a performance of Prokofiev’s dazzling Piano Concerto No. 3. The following afternoon, Valery Gergiev and the Mariinsky Orchestra will receive the 2015 UMS Distinguished Artist Award at the Ford Honors Program concert, which features pianist Denis Matsuev in Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1 alongside Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition, originally written for piano but performed by the orchestra in an arrangement by Maurice Ravel. A gala dinner after the Sunday concert raises funds to support UMS education programs.

Mariinsky Orchestra Valery Gergiev, music director Behzod Abduraimov, piano (Saturday) Denis Matsuev, piano (Sunday) Saturday, January 24, 8 pm Sunday, January 25, 3 pm [NOTE START TIME] Hill Auditorium

P R O G R A M ( S AT U R D AY 1 / 2 4 ) Prokofiev

Piano Concerto No. 3 in C Major, Op. 26

Shostakovich Symphony No. 4 in c minor, Op. 43

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Concerto for Orchestra No. 1 (“Naughty Little Limericks”)

Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 1 in b-flat minor, Op. 23 Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition (arr. Ravel) The Ford Honors Program recognizes the longtime and generous support of UMS’s Education & Community Engagement program by Ford Motor CMYK Form (preferred) Company Fund.

The DTE Energy Foundation Educator and School of the Year Awards are made possible by DTE Energy Foundation.

Dawn of Midi Dysnomia

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Listenable and insane. That’s the electro-acoustic sound Dawn of Midi spent years shaping, culminating in their most mesmerizing work to date: Dysnomia. The Brooklyn-based trio, a multinational group that includes bassist Aakaash Israni (India), pianist Amino Belyamani (Morocco), and drummer Qasim Naqvi (Pakistan), performs sets that are as rhythmic as a seamlessly mixed DJ set, casting spells on crowds in the same way the group’s favorite modern classical and electronic artists have for decades. Their carefully cultivated aesthetic incorporates such wildly divergent influences and interests as Aphex Twin, the Police, Can, and the video game Ms. Pac-Man. “A work of lunatic genius.” (Village Voice) Co-presented with Trinosophes.

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Eat, Explore, Enjoy: Eastern Market Experience Saturday, January 31, 5–8:30 pm When’s the last time you took a stroll through Detroit’s Eastern Market? The Dawn of Midi concert will be held at Trinosophes, an Eastern Market event space, café, and gallery — and you can take advantage of an opportunity to explore this historic Detroit neighborhood before the concert. The Eastern Market Experience includes a guided strolling supper through Eastern Market eateries, a dessert and wine reception at Signal Return Press, and a ticket to the Dawn of Midi concert. (Note: transportation is not included in the package.) Details at ums.org/easternmarket. $85, limited capacity, must be reserved by January 12, 2015.

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William R. Kinney Endowment Fund and the Catherine S. Arcure Endowment Fund

WGTE 91.3 FM and WRCJ 90.9 FM

Renegade Ventures Fund, established by Maxine and Stuart Frankel

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Jennifer Koh VIOLIN

Bach And Beyond, Part III Friday, February 6, 8 pm Rackham Auditorium

Jennifer Koh says, “I believe that contemporary music re-creates the thread to which we can connect back to past works of art. I want to present the works of Bach which I have a long loved, in communion with the contemporary music of composers that I am dedicated to.”

This “risk-taking, high-octane player” (Strad) returns to UMS after her appearance as Einstein in Einstein on the Beach and her 2010 recital program, Bach and Beyond, Part I. The program includes a new UMS co-commission by John Harbison, a prolific American composer known for his operas, symphonies, and large choral works.

PROGRAM Bach

Sonata No. 2 in a minor, BWV 1003

Berio

Sequenza VIII for Solo Violin

Harbison

New Work (UMS co-commission)

Bach

Sonata No. 3 in C Major, BWV 1005

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Tomasz Stan ´ko

The New Yorker proclaimed Polish trumpeter Tomasz Stańko as “one of the most original and creative jazz trumpet players in the world.”

Inspired by early Ornette Coleman, Miles Davis, and John Coltrane, he was 20 when he formed his first band in 1962 and has been a jazz hero in Europe ever since. He has made many superb recordings for ECM Records since the mid-1970s, when he was at the forefront of the free jazz scene. For most of the past decade, he has been ranked among the world’s top jazz trumpeters and composers. Stańko will present his great, first project for ECM Records, Balladyna, based on the Polish tragedy by Juliusz Słowacki that was published in 1839. As part of his visit, the 71-year-old will give the 2015 Copernicus lecture, an annual lecture at U-M that highlights the rich variety of Polish intellectual and cultural life.

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New Balladyna Quartet with Tim Berne, saxophones John Hébert, bass Jim Black, drums Thursday, February 5, 7:30 pm Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre

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Dennis and Ellie Serras

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Compagnie Non Nova Prelude to the Afternoon of a Foehn February 14-21 (13 performances) Skyline High School Experimental Theater 2552 N. Maple Rd, Ann Arbor

What is the life expectancy of a plastic bag? How long is it actually “in use”? Not long at all given the length of time it will stray across the planet, blown and buffeted by the wind. What if we humans, so firmly anchored to the ground, could also escape the pull of gravity and fly with the wind, carried along by the arbitrary waltz of the air?

This 25-minute theatrical marvel uses a simple wind turbine to create a vortex in which plastic bag characters evolve, responding to the movement of the air. Originally commissioned by the Natural History Museum of Nantes, Prelude to the Afternoon of a Foehn (a pun that refers to a mountain wind) transforms simple plastic bags into charming, graceful characters. Manipulated by the flow of air, the plastic bags swirl and twirl to Claude Debussy’s most famous ballet work, Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun. “A little miracle occurs before your eyes…The effect is beautiful…a mysterious delight, truly inspired.” (Metro, UK)

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Mendelssohn’s Elijah UMS Choral Union Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra Jerry Blackstone, conductor Julianna Di Giacomo, soprano Susan Platts, mezzo-soprano Nicholas Phan, tenor Dean Peterson, bass-baritone

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Mendelssohn’s epic oratorio is a moving musical tribute to the prophet who was drawn up to Heaven in a whirlwind. Composed in the spirit of Bach and Handel, the work clearly reflects Mendelssohn’s own genius, combining vivid and dramatic sound-pictures of oceans, earthquakes, fires, and the resurrection of the dead. Scored for four vocal soloists, boy soprano, full symphony, and a large chorus, this performance features the well-known talents of the UMS Choral Union and the Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra, all under the baton of Jerry Blackstone.

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Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Endowment Fund

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Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra Yannick Nézet-Séguin, conductor Hélène Grimaud, piano Thursday, February 19, 7:30 pm Hill Auditorium

At 39, the conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin has already compiled an impressive resume, including his appointment as the eighth music director of the renowned Philadelphia Orchestra. He has been music director in Rotterdam since 2008 and makes his UMS debut with this performance, which also features the debut of pianist Hélène Grimaud. Grimaud is a Renaissance woman for our times, as committed to wildlife conservation and human rights as she is to the thoughtful and tenderly expressive music-making that deeply touches the emotions of audiences.

PROGRAM Britten

Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes, Op. 33a

Ravel

Piano Concerto in G Major

Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 5 in e minor, Op. 64

A Prelude Dinner precedes the performance.

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Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis

A 2011 NEA Jazz Master, 2014 UMS Distinguished Artist Award recipient, and arguably the most famous jazz musician alive, trumpeter and composer Wynton Marsalis is an iconic figure in the evolution of the art form and a tireless advocate for jazz as America’s classical music. From his New Orleans beginnings and fiery debut with legendary drummer Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers to his current role as artistic director of Jazz at Lincoln Center, he inspires and uplifts people through superb musicmaking. Since 1988, Marsalis has led the 15-piece Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, which simultaneously honors the rich heritage of Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong while presenting a stunning variety of new works from illustrious names, many of whom perform regularly with the ensemble. From swinging to supple, sophisticated to spirited, it’s all sheer jazz perfection — it’s no wonder these annual appearances have become a favorite of UMS audiences.

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Richard and Norma Sarns

JazzNet Endowment Fund

WEMU 89.1 FM and Ann Arbor’s 107one

Randall and Nancy Faber and the Faber Piano Institute and Ken and Penny Fischer

Mary R. Romig-deYoung Endowment Fund

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The Campbell Brothers A Sacred Steel Love Supreme Chuck Campbell, pedal steel guitar Darick Campbell, lap steel Phillip Campbell, electric guitar and bass Friday, February 20, 8 pm Michigan Theater

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2014 marks the 50th anniversary of John Coltrane’s seminal recording A Love Supreme. He presented it as a spiritual declaration that his musical devotion had become intertwined with his religious faith.

The Campbell Brothers, whose unique sacred steel gospel music was created in African-American churches, revisit the work on their signature slide guitars to mark the anniversary, paying particular attention to its transcendent spiritual message. “The Campbells create a unique, steel-guitar-driven gospel music that’s every bit as earth-shattering as [Robert] Johnson’s music was in the ’30s. It’s a soul-stirring blend of gospel and the power and volume of electric blues and rock, a sound as hot as brimstone that kicks holy butt.”

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Trisha Brown Dance Company Diane Madden and Carolyn Lucas, associate artistic directors Trisha Brown, founding artistic director Saturday, February 21, 8 pm Sunday, February 22, 2 pm Power Center Post-performance Q&A February 21

One of the iconic, post-modern downtown dancers who branched out from the experimental Judson Dance Theater in 1970 to form her own company, Trisha Brown has spent a lifetime exploring movement that finds the extraordinary in the everyday and challenges existing perceptions of performance. She has pushed the limits of choreography and changed modern dance forever. Now 77, Brown has choreographed her last works. This tour, called Proscenium Works, 1979-2011, showcases Brown’s major stage works, complete with the significant components created by her collaborators, including artists such as Robert Rauschenberg, Donald Judd, Robert Ashley, and Laurie Anderson.

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LIBERATE T H

Be free from the daily pattern of life. Release yourself from the weight of the world.

Get completely lost in performance and in the artist’s vision.

UMS provides a way to transcend time and place, and to lose yourself in something awe-inspiring, something uplifting, something daring, or something entirely new.

We invite you to be free.

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Kyle Abraham/ Abraham.

In.Motion Friday, March 13, 8 pm [NOTE NEW DATE] Saturday, March 14, 8 pm Power Center

Kyle Abraham and Abraham.In.Motion’s work intertwines a sensual and provocative vocabulary with a strong emphasis on sound, human behavior, and all things visual. The company’s work explores Abraham’s diverse training in classical music, visual art, and a multitude of dance forms ranging from ballet to hip-hop. Dance Magazine has described his work as “elastic and electric, luxuriantly rippling, poetically arranged with moments of perfect stillness that arrive amid splashes of expression. His choreography wriggles energy through the body, stretches it, suspends it, and then unleashes it.” His latest work, which will be performed over two different programs, is inspired by the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation and civil rights movements in South Africa and the United States. The music includes Max Roach’s epic 1960 jazz work “We Insist! (Freedom Now Suite)” as well as new music written by jazz pianist Robert Glasper and songs by Otis Redding.

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Post-performance Q&A March 13

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A Bill Frisell Americana Celebration Bill Frisell Solo Guitar Thursday, March 12, 7:30 pm Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre

Spin referred to Bill Frisell as the Clark Kent of the electric guitar: “Soft-spoken and self-effacing in conversation, he apparently breathes in lungsful of raw fire when he straps on his guitar…In one of the biggest leaps of imagination since the Yardbirds and Jimi Hendrix, Frisell coaxes and slams his hovering split-toned ax into shapes of things to come.” The New Yorker notes, “Bill Frisell plays the guitar like Miles Davis played the trumpet: in the hands of such radical thinkers, their instruments simply become different animals.” Frisell returns to UMS for the first time in over a decade with two different concerts: one features him in a rare solo setting, the other showcases a new band with Petra Haden (violin/vocals), Eyvind Kang (viola), Thomas Morgan (bass), and Rudy Roysten (drums).

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Bill Frisell’s When You Wish Upon a Star Friday, March 13, 8 pm Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre Post-performance Q&A March 12

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Chicago Symphony Winds Musicians of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra & Guests Sunday, March 22, 4 pm Rackham Auditorium

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Wind players of the Chicago Symphony come together for this special concert that features two of Mozart’s compositions for wind ensemble. In addition to writing large-scale music, Mozart produced lighter music for special occasions, including the two well-known serenades on this program. The Serenade in c minor is a wind octet, scored for pairs of oboes, clarinets, horns, and bassoons; the “Gran Partita” is scored for 12 wind instruments, including the seldom-heard basset horn, plus string bass. Members of the Chicago Symphony join together with other musicians to perform these delightful works.

PROGRAM Mozart

Serenade No. 12 in c minor, K. 388

Mozart

Serenade No. 10 in B-flat Major, K. 361 (“Gran Partita”)

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Academy of St. Martin in the Fields Jeremy Denk, piano Wednesday, March 25, 7:30 pm Hill Auditorium

The Academy of St. Martin in the Fields — one of the finest chamber orchestras in the world and recipient of the 2012 UMS Distinguished Artist Award — is renowned for its polished and refined sound, rooted in outstanding musicianship. Formed in 1958 from a group of leading London musicians, and working without a conductor, the Academy gave its first performance in its namesake church in November 1959.

Today, the Academy performs some 100 concerts around the world each year, with as many as 15 tours each season. Pianist Jeremy Denk joins the ensemble for two piano concertos by J.S. Bach, bookended by works for string orchestra by Igor Stravinsky.

PROGRAM Stravinsky

Concerto in D Major

J.S. Bach

Piano Concerto in d minor, BWV 1052

J.S. Bach

Piano Concerto in f minor, BWV 1056

Stravinsky Apollo

A Prelude Dinner precedes the performance.

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Ann and Clayton Wilhite

Linda Samuelson and Joel Howell

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Max Raabe and the Palast Orchester Thursday, April 9, 7:30 pm Hill Auditorium

Dashing, dapper, and debonair, Max Raabe might have walked straight out of the Golden Age of Berlin in the 1920s. With his elegant poise, suave sophistication, and silky-smooth baritone, he brings to life the songs and style of a bygone age. Born into a family of farmers just as the Beatles were serving their apprenticeship in the bars and clubs of Hamburg, Raabe’s childhood musical tastes were formed by his discovery of a weekly program of 1920s music on German radio.

His passion was further roused by a record he found in his parents’ cupboard, a humorous instrumental called “I’m Crazy About Hilda.”

Before long, he was collecting 78s in flea markets and junk shops, and by age 16 was an expert on the songs and styles of the Weimar era.

Raabe’s deadpan humor and charmingly meticulous re-creations of the standards as they used to be sung — in formal evening wear with an orchestra — is guaranteed to take the audience away from their everyday problems and into another world. The time has never been better to discover — or rediscover — timeless tunes by legends like Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, and Fred Astaire.

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Gilberto Gil Gilbertos Samba Saturday, April 4, 8 pm Hill Auditorium

Gilberto Gil releases a new album in 2014 that celebrates the music of the great João Gilberto in this “two Gilbertos” event. While in college studying business administration, Gil heard singer and guitarist João Gilberto on the radio and was immediately smitten; he bought a guitar and learned to play and sing bossa nova. An original founder of the Tropicália movement in Brazil in the late 1960s who was exiled to London for his revolutionary role in conflating the seemingly threatening lyrics of US and European rock music with Brazilian musical traditions, Gil is today recognized as a pioneer of world music.

From musical revolutionary to international pop star to beloved statesman, Brazil’s former Minister of Culture returns to Ann Arbor with his romantic homage to the father of bossa nova.

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An Evening with

Herbie Hancock and Chick Corea Thursday, April 16, 7:30 pm Hill Auditorium

Chick Corea closed out 2013 with a tribute to his friend and musical compatriot Herbie Hancock at the prestigious Kennedy Center Honors. Hancock is a true icon of modern music, and there are few artists in the music industry who have had more influence on acoustic and electric jazz and R&B. A DownBeat Hall of Famer and NEA Jazz Master, Chick Corea is at the vanguard of improvised music, both as a leading pianist forging new ground with his acoustic jazz bands and as an innovative electric keyboardist. He has attained living legend status after five decades of unparalleled creativity and an artistic output that is simply staggering.

Their musical relationship dates back to 1968, when Corea replaced Hancock in the piano chair of the Miles Davis band. In 1978, they toured together as an acoustic piano duo, which surprised the music world at the peak of the jazz-rock fusion era. Both of them released double albums drawn from those live tour performances (part of one album was recorded in Hill Auditorium). The two haven’t recorded together since, but they have reunited for acclaimed duo appearances and join forces for an evening that is sure to be one of the most memorable of the 2014-2015 season.

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Zimbabwe’s Afropop legend Oliver Mtukudzi is gifted with a deep and gutsy voice plus a talent for writing songs that reflect on the daily life and struggles of his people. “Tuku” began performing in 1977 and has earned a devoted following across Africa and beyond, all the while incorporating elements of different musical traditions into his music, including South Africa mbaqanga, Zimbabwean pop, and traditional kateke drumming. Recently inducted into the Afropop Hall of Fame, he is one of the most successful African recording artists alongside Angélique Kidjo, Hugh Masekela, and Ladysmith Black Mambazo, with 61 recordings made during the course of his 62 years.

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Friday, April 17, 8 pm Michigan Theater

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Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra

Myung-Whun Chung began his musical career as a pianist, making his debut at age seven with the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra, where he now serves as music director. He has received the “Kumkuan,” the highest cultural award of the Korean government, for his contributions to Korean musical life. In this UMS concert, his first since his 2007 appearance with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, he is joined by Korean pianist Sunwook Kim for Beethoven’s beloved “Emperor” Piano Concerto.

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Myung-Whun Chung, conductor Sunwook Kim, piano Thursday, April 23, 7:30 pm Hill Auditorium

Beethoven

Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-flat Major, Op. 73 (“Emperor”)

Brahms

Symphony No. 4 in e minor, Op. 98

A Prelude Dinner precedes the performance.

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Artemis Quartet Sunday, April 19, 4 pm Rackham Auditorium

“Their performances overflow with fullness of sound, delineated structure, and unparalleled drama.” (Frankfurt) The Artemis Quartet made its UMS debut in 2013 with an interesting pairing of Bach and Piazzolla. Now the ensemble returns with a more conventional string quartet program that features works by Dvořák, Latvian composer Peteris Vasks, and Tchaikovsky. The Berlin-based ensemble was founded in 1989 and programs its own series at the Berlin Philharmonic. In 2011, it was named Quartet in Residence at the Vienna Konzerthaus, a position it holds alongside the Belcea Quartet.

PROGRAM Dvor ˘ák

Quartet in F Major, Op. 96 (“American”)

Vasks

Quartet No. 5

Tchaikovsky Quartet No. 1 in D Major, Op. 11 Photo by Jean-Francois Leclercq

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WGTE 91.3 FM

H. Gardner and Bonnie Ackley Endowment Fund

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Cinderella Lyon Opera Ballet Maguy Marin, choreographer Friday April 24, 8 pm Saturday, April 25, 8 pm Sunday, April 26, 2 pm Power Center

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Created in 1984, the Lyon Opera Ballet has revolutionized the classical ballet world, presenting new, contemporary works with witty and often surprising choreography. In Cinderella, Maguy Marin’s magical retelling of the fairy tale, the story unfolds in a three-story dollhouse, a child’s world of toys and wonder. Human dancers are transformed into fat-cheeked dolls, Cinderella scoots off to the ball in a toy car, Prince Charming searches for her on his rocking horse, and Prokofiev’s score is spliced with coos and gurgles. The “astonishingly original and magical” production (New York Times) unfolds with a dreamlike quality, a vision of childhood without sentimentality but with affectionate insight. The work was last seen at UMS in 2002, also performed by Lyon Opera Ballet, and Ann Arbor is the only city in the country that will host this fascinating production this year.

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“[Richard] Goode makes the familiar sound unexpectedly fresh,” proclaimed the Financial Times in reviewing his 2009 recording of the complete Beethoven piano concertos. Goode has won a large and devoted following for music-making of tremendous emotional power, depth, and expressiveness, and is acknowledged worldwide as one of today’s leading interpreters of Classical and Romantic music. The New York Times suggested that “it is virtually impossible to walk away from one of Mr. Goode’s recitals without the sense of having gained some new insight into the works he played or about pianism itself.”

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Adagio in b minor, K. 540

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Sonata in e minor, Op. 90

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Children’s Corner

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Humoreske, Op. 20

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Natalie Matovinović and Donald L. Morelock

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We invite you to see something familiar.

Something unusual.

Something completely new. Perhaps the unexpected performances will challenge you most, push you in different directions, and open your eyes to new worlds. This season, treat your senses to the extraordinary.

To learn more, visit ums.org To engage, visit umslobby.org To look back, visit umsrewind.org To support our work, visit ums.org/support

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Live Theater Broadcasts

Special Events Ford Honors Program Sunday, January 25 Michigan League

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Shakespeare’s The Two Gentlemen of Verona Simon Godwin, director Sunday, September 21, 7 pm Valentine and Proteus are best friends, until they fall in love with the same girl. Having traveled to Milan in search of adventure, they both fall for the Duke’s daughter, Silvia. But Proteus is already sworn to his sweetheart, Julia, at home in Verona, and the Duke thinks Valentine is not good enough for his Silvia. With friendship forgotten, the rivals’ affections quickly get out of hand as the four young lovers find themselves on a wild chase through the woods, confused by mistaken identity and threatened by fierce outlaws before they find a path to reconciliation. Simon Godwin makes his RSC debut with Shakespeare’s exuberant romantic comedy.

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National Theatre Live Live Medea.

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Ford Honors Program Gala Dinner honoring Joshua Bell (2012).

High School jazz musicians at the 2014 Ford Honors Gala. Photo by Mark Gjukich Photography.

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Euripides’ Medea In a new version by Ben Power Starring Helen McCrory Carrie Cracknell, director Sunday, September 28, 7 pm

The Mariinsky Orchestra and conductor Valery Gergiev will receive the 2015 UMS Distinguished Artist Award in a brief ceremony as part of their Hill Auditorium concert on Sunday, January 25. The UMS Advisory Committee organizes a Gala event immediately after the concert to raise funds for UMS’s Education & Community Engagement program. The gala dinner will include the presentation of the DTE Energy Foundation Educator and School of the Year awards. Information about purchasing tickets for the Gala will be available later this fall at ums.org.

Prelude Dinners Park early, enjoy a delicious meal with fellow concertgoers, and get an insider’s look at the evening’s performance. All dinners feature a renowned guest speaker who provides insights about the artist, composer, or program. Dinners begin at 5:30 pm.

San Francisco Symphony Thursday, November 13 Alumni Center 200 Fletcher Street

Academy of St. Martin in the Fields with Jeremy Denk, piano Wednesday, March 25 Rackham 4th floor

Rotterdam Philharmonic Thursday, February 19 Rackham 4th floor 915 E. Washington Street

Seoul Philharmonic Thursday, April 23 Rackham 4th floor

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For more information on any of these special events, or to make reservations, contact Rachelle Lesko at 734.764.8489 or ralesko@umich.edu.

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Helen McCrory (The Last of the Haussmans) returns to the National Theatre to take the title role in Euripides’ powerful tragedy. Medea is a wife and a mother. For the sake of her husband, Jason, she’s left her home and borne two sons in exile. But when he abandons his family for a new life, Medea faces banishment and separation from her children. Cornered, she begs for one day’s grace. It’s enough time to exact an appalling revenge and destroy everything she holds dear.

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Education Events EDUCATIONAL EXPERIENCES FOR EVERYONE

Learning is core to UMS’s mission, and it is our joy to provide creative learning experiences for our entire community.

Each season, we offer a fun and fascinating lineup of workshops, artist Q&As, conversations, and interactive experiences to draw you in and out of your comfort zone, connect you to interesting people and unexpected ideas, and bring you closer to the heart of the artistic experience. For complete details, visit ums.org/learn.

TUNE INs

Q&As

Tune In: Renegade Edition

Post-Show Q&As with Artists

Tune In with UMS for a brief pre-performance talk before select Renegade Series performances.

The Renegade Series celebrates artistic innovation, experimentation, and discovery. Just 15 minutes long, each Tune In will offer interesting information and provocative questions for thinking about, listening to, and watching the performance. For locations and details, visit ums.org/learn.

After most opening night dance, theater, and Renegade series performances, join us for a postperformance Q&A to get a glimpse into the lives and minds of the artists who bring creativity to the stage. Must have a ticket to that evening’s performance to attend.

Look for this icon on artist pages.

Kiss & Cry Friday, October 10, 7:30 pm

Kiss & Cry

superposition | Ryoji Ikeda

Friday, October 10

Friday, October 31, 7:30 pm

Théâtre de la Ville: Six Characters in Search of an Author

Apollo’s Fire & Apollo’s Singers Thursday, November 6, 7 pm

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Trisha Brown Dance Company

Helen & Edgar

Saturday, February 21, 7:30 pm

Wednesday, January 7 NIGHT SCHOOL

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UMS Night School: Curious About Dance

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Saturday, January 17

Mondays, 7-8:30 pm U-M Alumni Center 200 Fletcher St., Ann Arbor

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For some, dance can seem like a mystery. For others, dance unlocks sights, sounds, ideas, and emotions unlike any other art form. How do you experience dance? On the heels of last season’s popular UMS Night School: Bodies in Motion series, this edition of Night School continues to explore dance and invites both newcomers and aficionados alike to build knowledge about dance and meet others who share an interest in the art form. These 90-minute classes combine conversation, interactive exercises, and lectures with genre experts to draw you into themes related to dance, and are hosted by Clare Croft, assistant professor of dance at the University of Michigan. Drop in to just one session, or attend them all. Events are free, and no pre-registration is required. Complete details will be available in September at ums.org/learn.

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Trisha Brown Dance Company Saturday, February 21

Bill Frisell Thursday, March 12

Kyle Abraham / Abraham.In.Motion Friday, March 13

Lyon Opera Ballet Friday, April 24

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M E L LO N I N I T I AT I V E

From the Concert Hall to the Classroom Throughout our 136-year history, UMS has partnered with the University of Michigan to transform lives and minds through world-class performances in music, theater, and dance. With the University preparing to enter its third century, and with the support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, we are taking that partnership to a whole new level.

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We are also working with faculty across campus to infuse arts experiences throughout the curriculum. We’ve created the online guide “Arts in Context: UMS in the Classroom” to support faculty as they integrate UMS performances into their courses, and we work with our Faculty Insight Group to stay up-to-date on the latest academic developments at U-M. In our UMS Mellon Faculty Institute on Arts Academic Integration, we are collaborating with leading teachers and scholars to create new courses and adapt existing ones — all with a goal of bringing cutting-edge performances and arts experiences to their students, whether they study history or psychology, English or the environment.

From the concert hall to the classroom, UMS and the University of Michigan are working together to create exceptional student experiences today, and to shape the Leaders and Best of tomorrow.

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Youth education is at the heart of UMS’s mission. Through experiences with the performing arts, we are helping to create the next generation of global citizens who understand and appreciate diversity, creativity, collaboration, and self-expression.

UMS’s Youth Education program is organized around three guiding principles: accessibility and inclusion for all, arts integration and interdisciplinary learning, and artistic discovery. We strive to open new worlds for young people, helping them to see what is truly possible.

Each season, we welcome thousands of K-12 youth to school day performances, introducing them to artists from around the globe. We also support area teachers in bringing the arts into the classroom by providing curriculum connections, learning guides, and professional development workshops.

To learn how to involve your child’s school in our K-12 educational program, visit ums.org/learn. To make a gift to support education and community engagement programs, contact umsdevelopment@umich.edu or call 734.647.1175.

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Family Friendly

Family-Friendly Opportunities While parents are the best judges about what’s ageappropriate for their own children, UMS offers these recommendations to guide you through our season.

If in doubt, feel free to contact the UMS ticket Office, who will be happy to discuss whether an event might be appropriate for your family.

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The Big Squeeze: An Accordion Summit Sat, Nov 1

Jake Shimabukuro, ukulele Wed, Nov 19

Itzhak Perlman, violin Sun, Sep 14

Emerson String Quartet Gregory Porter Wed, Oct 15

Chris Thile & Edgar Meyer Thu, Oct 16

Lyon Opera Ballet Cinderella Fri-Sun, Apr 24-26

Mariinsky Orchestra of St. Petersburg Sat-Sun, Jan 24-25

Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra Thu, Feb 19

The Campbell Brothers A Sacred Steel Love Supreme

Helen & Edgar

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Belcea Quartet

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Sat, Jan 17

Théâtre de la Ville: Pirandello’s Six Characters in Search of an Author

Compagnie Marie Chouinard

Fri-Sat, Oct 24-25 Note: Recommended for 16+, contains adult situations

Apollo’s Fire & Apollo’s Singers Monteverdi’s Vespers of 1610

Academy of St. Martin in the Fields Jeremy Denk, piano

Fri, Jan 23 Note: Recommended for 16+, contains adult situations

Dawn of Midi / Dysnomia Sat, Jan 31

Tomasz Stan ´ko, trumpet

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Thu, Feb 5

An Evening with Bob James

Jennifer Koh, violin Bach and Beyond, Part III

Rossini’s William Tell (concert version) Teatro Regio Torino Orchestra and Chorus

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Mendelssohn’s Elijah Sat, Feb 14

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Wed, Mar 25

Max Raabe and the Palast Orchester Thu, Apr 9

Herbie Hancock and Chick Corea Thu, Apr 16

Trisha Brown Dance Company

Oliver Mtukudzi and the Black Spirits

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Fri, Apr 17

San Francisco Symphony

A Bill Frisell Americana Celebration

Artemis Quartet

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Thu-Fri, Mar 12-13

Yuja Wang, piano Leonidas Kavakos, violin

Kyle Abraham / Abraham.

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Handel’s Messiah

Chicago Symphony Winds

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Kiss & Cry

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Fri, Feb 20

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Gilberto Gil

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Sat, Sep 27

Please remember that children under three are not allowed to attend UMS mainstage performances.

Compagnie Non Nova Prelude to the Afternoon of a Foehn

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Seoul Philharmonic Thu, Apr 23

Open to youth in grades 3-12 and encompassing the entire UMS season, the UMS Kids Club allows families to purchase up to two kids’ tickets for $10 each with the purchase of at least one adult ticket for $20.

Kids Club

UMS Kids Club tickets will go on sale for the entire season beginning Monday, September 8. Seating is subject to availability and ticket office discretion, but UMS guarantees that at least 30 tickets will be available for each event (selected performances for multipleperformance runs). Act early to lock in your seats. Kids Club tickets will not be mailed and must be picked up at will-call, with the young person present.

Richard Goode, piano Sun, Apr 26

Sponsored by

Music and Children with Autism: A Practical Guide for Parents and Caregivers Led by Ryan and Amy Hourigan (UMS Visiting Teaching Artists) Sunday, October 19, 1:30-3:30 pm Washtenaw Intermediate School District Teaching and Learning Center (1819 S. Wagner, Ann Arbor) This special workshop, designed specifically for parents and led by Ryan and Amy Hourigan, provides insights for how the arts can assist parents in connecting with their children using music in the home, classroom, or other settings. Open to musicians and nonmusicians alike, the session will include insightful discussion and active, participatory explorations of the arts.

Amy is a certified music therapist in private practice and on faculty at Ball State University. Ryan, the 2010 Indiana Music Educators Association Outstanding University Educator of the Year, has taught music at both the secondary and university levels. He received his Ph.D. in music education from the University of Michigan and now serves as interim director of the Ball State School of Music.

R E G I S T R AT I O N F E E $5 per person.

Adults only. Space is limited, and registration is required.

For more information or to register, visit ums.org/learn, call 734.647.4010, or email umsyouth@umich.edu.

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Access for People with Disabilities

UMS regularly sends updated concert-related parking, program notes, and late seating information via email a few days before each event.

Please be sure that we have your email address on file so that you receive these helpful communications.

Accessible parking is provided in University of Michigan parking structures for those with a state-issued disability permit or a U-M handicap verification permit. There are drop-off areas near Hill Auditorium, Rackham Auditorium, and Mendelssohn Theatre, and inside the Power Center structure. For more information, please contact the UMS Ticket Office at 734.764.2538.

Refunds Due to the nature of the performing arts, programs and artists are subject to change. If an artist cancels an appearance, UMS will make every effort to substitute that performance with a comparable artist.

Refunds will only be offered if a substitute cannot be found, or in the event of a date change. Handling fees are not refundable.

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In Person

Fax

Please visit the UMS Ticket Office on the north end of the Michigan League building (911 North University Avenue). The Ticket Office also sells tickets for all U-M School of Music, Theatre & Dance productions and the Ann Arbor Summer Festival.

734.647.1171

Summer Hours (May-Aug) Mon-Fri , 10 am to 5 pm Closed Sat and Sun

Please make sure we have your email address on file

Mail UMS Ticket Office Burton Memorial Tower 881 North University Avenue Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1011

UMS will not cancel performances or refund tickets because of inclement weather, unless the University of Michigan closes. An artist may choose to cancel a performance if weather prevents the artist’s arrival in Ann Arbor, but that decision rests solely with the artist and not with UMS.

Ticket Exchanges Subscribers may exchange tickets free-of-charge up to 48 hours before the performance. Non-subscribers may exchange tickets for a $6 per ticket exchange fee.

Exchanged tickets must be received by the Ticket Office (by mail or in person) at least 48 hours prior to the performance. You may also fax a photocopy of your torn tickets to 734.647.1171, or email a photo to umstix@umich.edu.

Exchanges within 48 hours of the performance are subject to a $10 per ticket exchange fee (applies to both subscribers and single ticket buyers).

Tickets must be exchanged at least one hour before the published concert time. Tickets received less than one hour before the performance will be returned as a donation.

Regular Hours (beginning Tue, Sep 2) Mon-Fri , 9 am to 5 pm Sat, 10 am to 1 pm Closed Sun

The value of the ticket(s) may be applied to another performance or will be held as UMS Credit until the end of the 2014-2015 season. Credit must be redeemed by April 26, 2015.

Fees

Unused tickets may be donated to UMS until the published start time of the concert. A receipt will be issued by mail for tax purposes; please consult your tax advisor. Unused tickets that are returned after the performance are not eligible for UMS Credit or as a contribution/ donation.

Service fees of $4.00-$6.00 per ticket apply to all internet and phone orders. There are no fees for tickets purchased at the League Ticket Office or at the venue immediately before the performance.

Groups of 10 or more

Ticket Donations/Unused Tickets

Let us help you celebrate life’s milestone moments, entertain clients or employees, enrich your students’ understanding, or just get together with friends. Gather a group of 10 or more people to a single performance and save 15-25% off the regular price to most performances. For more information, contact Casey Schmidt at 734.763.3100 or umsgroupsales@umich.edu.

Lost or Misplaced Tickets

Authorized Ticketing Agents

Parking/Parking Tips

UMS assumes no liability for tickets purchased through unauthorized channels, including Craigslist, eBay, StubHub, and other secondary market or ticket broker services. We strongly advise against purchasing tickets from any source other than the UMS Ticket Office or tickets.ums.org. Tickets purchased from unauthorized sources may be stolen, counterfeit, or otherwise compromised, and if so are not valid for event admission. If you are unsure if a ticket seller has been authorized to sell UMS tickets, please contact the Ticket Office prior to purchasing from that source.

Children and Families

Call the Ticket Office at 734.764.2538 to have duplicate tickets waiting for you at will-call. Duplicate tickets cannot be mailed.

Detailed directions and parking information will be mailed with your tickets and are also available at ums.org.

Children under the age of three will not be admitted to regular UMS performances. All children attending UMS performances must be able to sit quietly in their own seats without disturbing other patrons, or they may be asked to leave the auditorium. Please use discretion when choosing to bring a child, and remember that everyone must have a ticket, regardless of age. See pages 60-61 for information about familyfriendly performances and the UMS Kids Club.

All UMS venues have barrier-free entrances for persons with disabilities. Patrons with disabilities or special seating needs should notify the UMS Ticket Office of those needs at the time of ticket purchase. UMS will make every effort to accommodate special needs brought to our attention at the performance but requests that these arrangements be made in advance, if at all possible.

Seating spaces for wheelchair users and their companions are located throughout each venue, and ushers are available to assist patrons, if needed. Several venues also have wheelchairs to assist patrons to their seats. Please explain to the usher how best to assist you.

Assistive listening devices are available in Hill Auditorium, Rackham Auditorium, Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre, Arthur Miller Theatre, and the Power Center. Earphones may be obtained upon arrival. Please ask an usher for assistance.

Please note that there is no elevator access for balcony seating in the Power Center, the Michigan Theater, or Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre.

Start Time & Latecomers UMS makes every effort to begin concerts at the published start time.

Latecomers will be asked to wait in the lobby and will be seated by ushers at a predetermined time in the program, which may be as late as intermission. The late seating break is determined by the artists and will generally occur during a suitable break in the program, designed to cause as little disruption as possible to other patrons and the artists on stage.

Please allow extra time to park and find your seats.

Occasionally, performances will have no seating break. For example, dance and theater performances often have a “no late seating” policy.

UMS may not learn a specific company’s late seating policy until a couple of weeks before the performance and makes every effort to contact ticketbuyers via email if there will be no late seating. Be sure the Ticket Office has your email address on file.

Venue Seat Maps Detailed seat maps of all UMS venues are available at ums.org/visit/venues.

Student Tickets Half-price tickets and subscriptions are available for students in an accredited degree program, subject to availability. For details, visit ums.org/students.

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OUR HISTORY. IN YOUR HANDS. For the last several years, we’ve been digitizing all of the information from our rich 136-year history. Performance records, program books, photos, and much more are now available online. We’re proud to announce the launch of our online archives. We encourage you to explore.

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A S PAC E FO R M U S I C , A S E AT FO R E V E RYO N E : 100 Years of UMS Performances in Hill Auditorium One of the most celebrated venues in the United States, Hill Auditorium, located on the campus of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, opened on May 14, 1913.

Designed by the renowned architect Albert Kahn and boasting one of the world’s finest acoustical designs, Hill Auditorium has been a true cultural incubator for the arts community in southeast Michigan for the past 100 years. With a rich history of performances by the world’s top artists, Hill Auditorium is a shining example of how investment in the arts cultivates a vibrant, engaged community.

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A Space for Music, A Seat for Everyone: 100 Years of UMS Performances in Hill Auditorium provides historical context for the auditorium’s role as UMS’s primary concert venue and highlights its evolving community function.

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SUPPORT UMS.

BE A VICTOR FOR EXCELLENCE.

UMS is a jewel in our region, providing area residents with extraordinary access to the world’s leading performing artists, and building our community’s reputation as a world-renowned center for the arts.

Through your support, the world comes to Ann Arbor. And we, in turn, send excellence out into the world.

We rely on our donors to be able to deliver remarkable seasons like this one. We are also embarking upon the largest campaign in our history focused on the following areas: ACCESS & INCLUSIVENESS UMS will provide opportunities for anyone and everyone to discover and experience the transformative power of the performing arts through affordable tickets, free educational events, and community-building activities.

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UMS strives to become more than a world-class presenting organization. Our vision is to connect with individuals in transformative ways that alter the trajectory of their existence, sending them out to the world to invent, treat, discover, and build in ways unleashed by their creative curiosity. We believe the performing arts have the power to transform the world. And it starts with you. Right now.

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BOLD ARTISTIC LEADERSHIP UMS will solidify our position as a recognized national and international artistic leader through bold programming, producing, and commissioning that reflect our commitment to both tradition and innovation.

M A K E Y O U R G I F T AT UMS.ORG/SUPPORT or call Margie McKinley at 734.647.1177

UMS launched its 2013-2014 season with Jason Moran’s Fats Waller Dance Party in an unique location:

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Renegade Ventures Fund & Educational Support

Renegade Ventures Fund “Stuart and I believe the arts are fundamental in educating the leaders of tomorrow.

We established the Renegade Ventures Fund to ensure that UMS has the flexibility to consider the new, the different, the innovative, and the cutting-edge in its programming. Some performances are beautiful and awe-

The Renegade Ventures Fund was established by Maxine and Stuart Frankel, who recognize that a national leader in the performing arts must push the boundaries of knowledge forward by supporting new works, remounting important works from the past, and providing a venue and funding for artists to create. To encourage innovative and cutting-edge work, the Frankels established the Renegade Ventures Fund with a five-year challenge grant of $500,000 to support UMS in its initial phase of providing Renegade performances for our audiences.

inspiring; others are challenging, provocative, or controversial. Yet all engage the mind and the imagination.

The University of Michigan is the ideal incubator for nurturing and fostering

Over the past three seasons, the Fund has supported a variety of events: the remounting of Einstein on the Beach, a four-day American Mavericks Festival by the San Francisco Symphony, Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring performed by the Mariinsky Orchestra, Martha Graham Dance Company, and many other cutting-edge dance and theater productions. This season’s Renegade events can be found on pages 6-7.

Educational Support

UMS must raise matching gifts totaling $100,000 annually to meet the Renegade Ventures Fund challenge. We invite you to engage in this exciting adventure by partnering with us to make these performances possible.

Please send your contribution to:

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Foundation, Government, and University Support

Endowment Support (Includes support from endowments of $500,000 and above.)

Arts Midwest Touring Fund

National Endowment for the Arts

Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Endowment Fund

William R. Kinney Endowment Fund

Kyle Abraham/Abraham.In.Motion is funded in part by the Arts Midwest Touring Fund, a program of Arts Midwest that is funded by the National Endowment for the Arts, with additional contributions from Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs and General Mills Foundation.

Special project support for several performances in the 2014-2015 season is provided by the National Endowment for the Arts.

The Kiss & Cry, Ryoji Ikeda, and Compagnie Non Nova residencies are funded in part by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Endowment Fund, established in 2006 with a challenge grant from the Foundation’s Leading College and University Presenters Program.

The Saturday night presentation of the Mariinsky Orchestra is supported by the William R. Kinney Endowment Fund.

The Renegade Ventures Fund is a multi-year challenge grant created by Maxine and Stuart Frankel to support artistic, innovative, and cutting-edge programming.

Kyle Abraham/Abraham.In.Motion and Compagnie Marie Chouinard are funded in part by the New England Foundation for the Arts’ National Dance Project, with lead funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, with additional support from the National Endowment for the Arts.

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Ryoji Ikeda’s superposition is funded in part by the Japan Foundation through their Performing Arts JAPAN Program.

The University of Michigan provides special project support for many activities in the 2014-2015 season through the U-M/UMS Partnership Program. Additional support is provided by the U-M Office of the Vice President for Research, the U-M Office of the Senior Vice Provost for Academic Affairs, the Center for World Performance Studies, the Copernicus Program in Polish Studies, Arts at Michigan, and other individual academic units.

Maxine and Stuart Frankel Foundation (Renegade Ventures Fund)

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation is providing support to UMS via multi-year grants for two projects: (1) orchestra and large ensemble presentations and associated residencies, and (2) an initiative to integrate the arts more fully into the undergraduate academic experience at the University of Michigan.

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Herbert and Doris Sloan Endowment Fund

Ilene H. Forsyth Chamber Arts Endowment Fund

The concert by Chris Thile and Edgar Meyer is supported by the Herbert and Doris Sloan Endowment Fund.

The Emerson String Quartet concert is supported by the Ilene H. Forsyth Chamber Arts Endowment Fund, established in 2013 to support an annual presentation on the UMS Chamber Arts Series in perpetuity.

Candis J. and Helmut F. Stern Endowment Fund

JazzNet Endowment Fund The UMS 2014-2015 Jazz Series is funded in part by the JazzNet Endowment Fund, established with a challenge grant in 2000 to support jazz programs.

The Quatour Ébène concert is supported by the Candis J. and Helmut F. Stern Endowment Fund, established in 2013 to support an annual presentation on the UMS Chamber Arts Series in perpetuity.

Wallace Endowment Fund The Théâtre de la Ville production of Pirandello’s Six Characters in Search of an Author is funded in part by the Wallace Endowment Fund, established in 2004 with a challenge grant to build participation in arts programs.

University of Michigan Health System The University of Michigan Health System provides multi-year support for UMS programs.

Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs provides support both for specific projects as well as for general UMS operations.

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Publication Date: July 2014