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University Musical Society
881 N. University Ave., Ann Arbor
(734) 764-6833
University Musical Society is celebrating 129 years of connecting audiences and artists in uncommon and engaging experiences through the world’s best music, dance and theater.
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February 10, 2012
University Musical Society Presents: Chamber Ensemble of the Shanghai Chinese Orchestra
Price: Prices range from $18.00 - $38.00
The 20 members of the Chamber Ensemble of the Shanghai Chinese Orchestra are drawn from the first large-scale modern orchestra of traditional instruments in China. The Chamber Ensemble performs music that represents the gallant warriors of the past, the happy days of...
February 12, 2012
Univeristy Musical Soceity Presents: Michigan Chamber Players
Price: This is a free event.
Program · Brahms : Liebeslieder Waltzes, Op. 52 · Kern/Hammerstein : "Make Believe" from Showboat · Bock/Harnick : "Do You Love Me?" from Fiddler on the Roof · Lloyd Webber/Hart : "All I Ask of You" from The Phantom of the Opera · Brahms : Clarinet Quintet in B minor, Op....
February 16, 2012
University Musical Society Presents: The Tallis Scholars
Price: Tickets range from $35.00 - $45.00
The Tallis Scholars add a new dimension to UMS’s 11/12 focus on artistic renegades as part of Pure Michigan Renegade, presenting music of the wealthy Italian prince Carlo Gesualdo (b.1566). Gesualdo’s infamy relates to his obsessive double murder of his wife and her...
February 17, 2012
University Musical Society Presents: Sweet Honey in the Rock
Price: Tickets range from $22.00 - $46.00
Sweet Honey In The Rock focuses on music that challenges, inspires, teaches, encourages, and empowers audiences from all walks of life to become interested and involved in issues that are central to their lives. For over three decades, Sweet Honey In The Rock has...
February 18, 2012
University Musical Society Presents: Wayne McGregor | Random Dance
Price: Tickets range from $20.00 - $50.00
“If any artist has defined the decade, it’s Wayne McGregor.” (The Times, London) Wayne McGregor | Random Dance was founded in 1992 and became the instrument upon which McGregor evolved his drastically fast and articulate choreographic style. The company became a byword...
February 19, 2012
UMS and the Michigan Theater Present: National Theatre Live, Traveling Light
Price: Tickets range between $12.00 - $22.00
In a remote village in Eastern Europe, around 1900, the young Motl Mendl is entranced by the flickering silent images on his father’s cinematograph. Bankrolled by Jacob, the ebullient local timber merchant, and inspired by Anna, the girl sent to help him make moving...
February 22, 2012
University Musical Society Presents: Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra & Wynton Marsalis
Price: Tickets range from $10.00 - $54.00
Under Wynton Marsalis’ direction, the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra (JLCO) performs a repertoire across the full jazz spectrum — from the music’s New Orleans roots to bebop to modern jazz. By creating and performing an expansive range of brilliant new music for...
February 23, 2012
Univeristy Musical Society Presents: Hagen Quartet
Price: Tickets range from $22.00 - $46.00
“Their performance was filled with subtlety and wonder… the playing was breathtaking in its precision, dynamism, and agility…a thrilling encounter.” (The Independent) Regarded internationally as one of the foremost string quartets of the day, the Hagen Quartet consists of...
March 09, 2012
University Musical Society Presents: The Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Price: Tickets range from $10.00 - $120.00
Riccardo Muti, the Chicago Symphony’s new music director, makes his first UMS appearance since 2006, conducting an all-Brahms program. Violinist Pinchas Zukerman, recognized as a phenomenon for nearly four decades, returns to UMS for a performance of the Brahms Violin...
Mar. 15, 2012 - Mar. 17, 2012
University Musical Society Presents: The Anderson Project, Ex Machina
Price: Tickets range from $18.00 - $48.00
Filled to the brim with his trademark humor and visual and technological brilliance, this off-the-wall masterpiece by Canadian theater visionary Robert Lepage stars Yves Jacques (Far Side of the Moon) in a one-man tour-de-force about a Canadian writer from the...
Mar. 22, 2012 - Mar. 25, 2012
University Musical Society Presents: The San Franscisco Symphony, American Mavericks
Price: Tickets range from $10.00 - $75.00
As part of its centennial season, Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony will present the second American Mavericks Festival, which will tour in its entirety to only two US venues: Hill Auditorium and Carnegie Hall. The 2012 festival celebrates the creative...
April 05, 2012
University Musical Society Presents: St. Lawrence String Quartet
Price: Tickets range from $22.00 - $46.00
One of the great finds of the 09/10 season was the St. Lawrence String Quartet, which made its UMS debut in a stellar program of Haydn, Ravel, and John Adams. Haydn returns to the program for this appearance, which is bookended with the composer’s quartets. In between,...
April 12, 2012
Univerity Musical Society Presents: Zakir Hussain & Master Musicians of India
Price: Tickets range from $10.00 - $48.00
The pre-eminent classical tabla virtuoso of our time, Zakir Hussain delivers brilliant performances that have established him as a national treasure in his native India and one of the world’s most esteemed and influential musicians, renowned for his genre-defying...
April 13, 2012
Univeristy Musical Society Presents: Cheikh Lo
Price: Tickets range from $18.00 - $42.00
Cheikh Lô is one of the great mavericks of African music. A superb singer and songwriter, as well as a distinctive guitarist and drummer, he has personalized and distilled a variety of influences from West and Central Africa to create a style that is uniquely his own. Lô...
Apr. 14, 2012 - May. 14, 2012
University Musical Society Presents: Charles Lloyd New Quartet
Price: Tickets range from $18.00 - $44.00
Forty years ago, saxophonist Charles Lloyd was a pop star; his 1966 album, Forest Flower, sold a million copies. Four years ago, at 69, when most individuals are thinking of ways to slow down and kick back, Lloyd shifted to a higher gear and formed a new quartet. Lloyd...
April 18, 2012
University Musical Society Presents: Pavel Haas Quartet
Price: Tickets range from $20.00 - $42.00
“The world’s most exciting string quartet? Well, they suit the tagline better than most. Their tone is large, quasi-orchestral. They take risks. Above all, they play with passion.”(The Times, London) Based in Prague, the Pavel Haas Quartet is named for Czech composer...
Apr. 19, 2012 - Apr. 21, 2012
University Musical Society Presents: Ballet Preljocaj, Snow White
Price: Tickets range from $18.00 - $54.00
It’s been more than a decade since Ballet Preljocaj (pronounced prezh-oh-kahzh) made its UMS debut, but this production of Snow White, created in 2008, will be well worth the wait. Angelin Preljocaj has created a work for all 26 dancers of his contemporary ballet company,...
April 22, 2012
UMS Presents: Academy of St. Martin in the Feilds Joshua Bell, leader and violin
Price: Tickets range from $10.00 - $100.00
Sir Neville Marriner says that the small ensemble he founded in 1958 “had no intention of giving any concerts or continuing forever.” Happily, whatever the initial intention, the Academy is firmly established more than 50 years later as one of the world’s leading chamber...