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UMS Single Ticket Brochure 10/11 Season
UMS Single Ticket Brochure 10/11 Season
132nd Season
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October
Thu La Capella Reial de Catalunya with Hesperion XXI
and Tembembe Ensamble Continuo
Jordi Savall music director
November
2 Tue ONCE. MORE.: ONCE THEN
4 Thu ONCE. MORE.: ONCE NOW
4 Thu The Tallis Scholars
5 Fri NOTE NEW DATE! Mariachi Vargas de Tecalitlán
6 Sat ADDED CONCERT! Assi El Helani
10 Wed Murray Perahia piano
18-20 Thu-Sat Stew & The Negro Problem
132nd Season
December
3 Fri Carolina Chocolate Drops
4-5 Sat-Sun Handel’s Messiah
January
2 Sun NT Live: Hamlet
14-15 Fri-Sat Laurie Anderson’s Delusion
16 Sun Renée Fleming soprano
21-22 Fri-Sat Grupo Corpo
23 Sun Joanne Shenandoah
27 Thu Sequentia Sankai Juku
30 Sun Baby Loves Salsa Family Performance
30 Sun NT Live: FELA!
Cover Photos: Wynton Marsalis by Frank Stewart, Grupo Corpo by José Luiz Pederneiras, Renée Fleming by Andrew Eccles/Decca.
February
1 Tue The Cleveland Orchestra
Franz Welser-Möst music director
Pierre-Laurent Aimard piano
2 Wed Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis
4 Fri Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg violin
New Century Chamber Orchestra
10 Thu Blues at the Crossroads:
The Robert Johnson Centennial Concert
11 Fri Rafał Blechacz piano
12 Sat Vijay Iyer Trio and Rudresh Mahanthappa’s Apex
13 Sun Concertante with Rafał Blechacz piano
18-19 Fri-Sat Merce Cunningham Dance Company: The Legacy Tour
20 Sun Takács Quartet: Schubert Concert 2
23 Wed Kodo Stew & The Negro Problem
March
9 Wed Scharoun Ensemble Berlin
10-13 Thu-Sun Martin McDonagh’s The Cripple of Inishmaan
Druid and Atlantic Theater Company
19 Sat Detroit Symphony Orchestra: Mahler’s Symphony No. 8
UMS Choral Union
Leonard Slatkin conductor
24 Thu Bach Collegium Japan: Bach’s Mass in b minor
Masaaki Suzuki conductor
30-Apr 3 Wed-Sun Shakespeare’s Richard III and The Comedy of Errors
Propeller
April
2 Sat St. Petersburg Philharmonic
Yuri Temirkanov conductor
Nikolai Lugansky piano
6 Wed NT Live: Frankenstein
7 Thu Septeto Nacional de Ignacio Piñeiro de Cuba
8 Fri Takács Quartet: Schubert Concert 3
9 Sat Tetzlaff Quartet
16 Sat Tony Allen’s Afrobeat Tour
23 Sat Liebeslieder Waltzes (“Songs and Waltzes of Love”)
June/July
Specific date TBA NT Live: The Cherry Orchard
Scharoun Ensemble by Thomas Kierok
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NT Live
NT Live: High-Definition Broadcasts from
the National Theatre, London
A Partnership between UMS and the Michigan Theater
UMS and the Michigan Theater join forces again to bring high-
definition screenings of live theater broadcasts by the National
Theatre, London. NT Live broadcasts plays produced by the
National Theatre in London onto cinema screens worldwide.
In the US, these "live" screenings are delayed to accommodate
the time difference. Broadcasts will feature behind-the-scenes
footage and interviews with actors.
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The 10/11 Season features: FELA!
Bill T. Jones director and choreographer
Complicite’s A Disappearing Number
Simon McBurney director Sunday, January 30 2 pm
Sunday, October 31 2 pm FELA! is a new musical directed and choreographed by Tony Award winner
Bill T. Jones, in which audiences are welcomed into the extravagant, deca-
UMS presented the U.S. premiere of this stunning work in 2008, and after dent and rebellious world of Afrobeat legend Fela Anikulapo Kuti. Using his
repeated requests to “bring it back,” we’re delighted that we’re able to do pioneering music (a blend of jazz, funk, and African rhythm and harmonies),
so – on the live screen. This groundbreaking work embraces the universal FELA! explores Kuti's controversial life as an artist, political activist, and revo-
relevance of math, which often permeates the most unlikely of scenarios. lutionary musician. A three-time TONY Award winner in 2010, this production
A Disappearing Number, which won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best arrives at the National direct from Broadway.
New Play (2008), revolves around the mathematical and spiritual nature
of infinity, which becomes the link between two mathematicians: one
an established Cambridge professor and the other a young, autodidactic Frankenstein
genius from India.
Danny Boyle director
Wednesday, April 6 7 pm
Hamlet Oscar winner Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire, Trainspotting) returns to his
Sir Nicholas Hytner director theater roots, directing a play by Nick Dear based on Mary Shelley’s novel,
Sunday, January 2 2 pm Frankenstein. Boyle first talked about directing this play nearly a decade ago
and reportedly is planning a “large-scale and theatrically and visually ambi-
National Theatre artistic director Sir Nicholas Hytner directs Shakespeare’s tious stage production” for his National Theatre debut.
classic play with a cast that includes Rory Kinnear in the title role, along-
side David Calder as Polonius, Clare Higgins as Gertrude, Patrick Malahide
as Claudius, and Ruth Negga as Ophelia. The Cherry Orchard
Howard Davies director
Date and Time TBA
Anton Chekhov’s final play stars Zoë Wanamaker as Madame Ranevskaya.
The play concerns an aristocratic Russian woman and her family, who return
to the family’s estate just before it is auctioned to pay the mortgage. It will be
directed by National Theatre associate director Howard Davies, whose recent
productions of Russian plays (including Philistines, Burnt by the Sun, and
The White Guard) have earned critical acclaim.
Added Event!
Assi El Helani
Saturday, November 6 8 pm
Hill Auditorium
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Susurrus
A Fire Exit Production
Written, directed, and conceived by David Leddy
September 9 – October 3
Matthaei Botanical Gardens
Susurrus is a play without actors and without a stage. It is part radio play, part
recital, part lesson in bird dissection, and part stroll in the park. Audiences
follow a map around Matthaei Botanical Gardens as they listen to the piece
on headphones; the different elements form a “perfect melding of location
and text to create a theater experience in which there are no actors and only
one member in the audience: you.” (The Guardian)
The listener hears snippets about opera, memorial benches, and botany,
which fit together into a mournful and poignant story of love and loss
that is “a sensual reinterpretation of A Midsummer Night’s Dream with a
contemporary edge.” (The List)
Times vary, with groups of four admitted every 15 minutes. The piece
includes about a mile of walking on defined trails. Umbrellas provided
in case of rain.
When Rosanne Cash was 18 and on the road with her father,
the incomparable country music superstar Johnny Cash, he
became alarmed at the number of important songs that she
didn’t know. As the tour progressed, he developed a list on a
legal pad — “100 Essential Country Songs” — and gave it to her
with a thinly veiled admonishment that she needed to do her
homework. Now, more than 30 years later, Cash has selected a
dozen songs from her father's syllabus and has recorded her first
album of covers, filtered through her own unique, sophisticated
perspective. “I think he was alarmed that I might miss something
essential about who he was and who I was. He had a deeply
intuitive understanding and overview of every critical juncture
in Southern music — Appalachian songs, early folk songs, Delta
blues, Southern gospel, right up to modern country music,” says
Cash. “These songs are as important as the Civil War to who we
are as Americans.” Rosanne Cash embraces her heritage with this
concert of songs that have shaped who she is as an artist.
Sponsored by
“The term ‘early-music superstar’ is surely an oxymoron. But in the most understated
of repertory, on the most subdued of instruments, and in the most self-effacing way,
Jordi Savall comes close to being one.” (The New York Times) For more than 30 years,
Jordi Savall has been devoted to the rediscovery and performance of neglected musical
treasures as soloist and director of three ensembles, two of which join forces with Mexico’s
Tembembe Ensamble Continuo for this concert. For the past 15 years, Ensamble Continuo
has explored the relationship between Mexican Baroque music and traditional Latin
American instruments. This concert will trace the movement of music from Spain to the
New World, bringing together ensembles from Spain and Mexico, and fusing Hispanic
Baroque and guitar music with contemporary jarocho and huasteco traditions.
Sponsored by Carl and Charlene Herstein.
Media Partner WRCJ 90.9 FM.
More than a half-century ago, after performing in the companies of Merce Cunningham, Martha
Graham, and George Balanchine, Paul Taylor became the youngest member of the pantheon
that created American modern dance. Now 80, Taylor is acclaimed for the vibrancy, relevance,
and power of his dances. As prolific as ever, he continues to offer cogent observations on
life’s complexities while tackling some of society’s thorniest issues. He may propel his dancers
through space for the sheer beauty of it, or use them to wordlessly illuminate war, spirituality,
sexuality, morality, and mortality. While his work has largely been iconoclastic, since the very
start of his career Taylor has also made some of the most purely romantic, most astonishingly
athletic, and downright funniest dances ever put on a stage. UMS, in collaboration with the U-M
Department of Dance, shines a light on Paul Taylor, with a week of programming meant to en-
gage audiences more deeply with his mammoth body of work, and therefore, the world of dance
itself. The week will include:
• Three distinct evening performances of repertory, plus youth and family performances, performed by his
accomplished ensemble of dancers, providing the broadest possible exposure to his work.
• Always one to look ahead to his next new creative idea, Paul Taylor has seldom looked back. But for this
Ann Arbor retrospective of his work, the Friday night program will include the world premiere reconstruc-
tion of one of his earlier dances from the 1960s, Orbs. Many original cast members will be on hand to discuss
their role in the creation of this original work.
• Two free events planned to open up the world of Paul Taylor: a panel discussion with current
members and alumni of the Company, followed by a conversation with Taylor scholar and
U-M Professor Angela Kane; and a pre-concert discussion before Friday's performance about
the revival of Orbs. More information at www.ums.org.
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Paul Taylor photo by Maxine Hicks
Program (Thu 10/7)
Speaking in Tongues (Music by Matthew Patton) (1988)
Esplanade (J.S. Bach) (1975)
Program (Fri 10/8)
Orbs (Ludwig van Beethoven) (1966)
Also Playing (Gaetano Donizetti) (2009)
Program (sat 10/9 family performance)
Le Sacre du Printemps (The Rehearsal) (1980)
[performed by U-M School of Music, Theatre & Dance students]
Also Playing (Gaetano Donizetti) (2009)
Program (Sat 10/9)
Black Tuesday (Songs of the Great Depression) (2001)
The Word (David Israel) (1998)
Piazzolla Caldera (Astor Piazzolla and Jerzy Peterburshsky) (1997)
sponsored in part by linda and richard greene.
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Schubert Cycle Concert 1
Takács Quartet
with Jeffrey Kahane piano
Thursday, October 14 8 pm
rackham Auditorium
One of hallmarks of the Takács Quartet's musical activity over the years has
not only been its well-regarded and supreme musical standard but, equally, its
ongoing commitment to deep explorations of a composer's artistry and immersive
experiences for audiences. Beethoven, Bartók, Kodály, Hungarian folk music
origins…we in Ann Arbor are familiar with this Quartet’s many gifts. And now,
we turn to Franz Schubert.
The Takács Quartet’s Schubert project moves well beyond a mere quartet concert
cycle. It is an exploration of the extreme creativity of Schubert’s mature musical
voice, heard most acutely in his profoundly personal and intimate small scale
scores — string quartets and quintets and solo piano music. With the exception
of one early string quartet, all three concerts span the nine years of his
adulthood and showcase his outrageous gifts.
Program
Schubert Quartettsatz in c minor, D. 703 (1820)
Schubert Piano Sonata in B-flat Major, D. 960 (Op. Poth.) (1828)
Daniel Kellogg Soft Sleep Shall Contain You: A Meditation on Schubert’s "Death
and the Maiden" (2010)
Schubert String Quartet in d minor, D. 810 (“Death and the Maiden”) (1824)
Saturday, October 23 8 pm
Sunday, October 24 2 pm
Power Center
The Hot Club of San Francisco and The Hot Club of Detroit are
ensembles of accomplished and versatile musicians celebrating
the music of Django Reinhardt and Stéphane Grappelli’s
pioneering Quintette du Hot Club de France. This seminal French
jazz tradition continues to play out with this evening of live
Gypsy jazz performed alongside selected short silent films from
the 1930s by Charlie Bowers, James Sibley Watson, and Harold
Shaw, courtesy of the San Francisco Silent Film Festival. Django
Reinhardt is rightly hailed as one of the greatest guitarists who
ever lived, but many people praising his accomplishments as
a guitarist tend to overlook his roots in Gypsy culture and the
fertile, polyglot Paris of the 1920s. Reinhardt and his companions
used all of these elements, along with American jazz, to create
this new music, but the Gypsy heritage seems to be the most
important ingredient. Hearing the Hot Club of San Francisco and
the Hot Club of Detroit live carries the listener back to the 1930s
and the small, smoky jazz clubs of Paris or the refined lounges of
the famous Hotel Ritz.
Media Partners WEMU 89.1 FM, Metro Times, and Ann Arbor’s 107one.
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ONCE THEN
Faculty from the University of Michigan School of Music,
Theatre and Dance; Creative Arts Orchestra; Digital Music Ensemble;
Ann Arbor Improvisation Collective
Tuesday, November 2 8 pm
Rackham Auditorium
Program
Roger Reynolds MOSAIC (1962) flute and piano
Robert Ashley in memoriam…CRAZY HORSE (symphony) (1963) 32 instrumentalists
Gordon Mumma LARGE SIZE MOGRAPH 1962 piano
Donald Scavarda GROUPS FOR PIANO (1959)
Ashley in memoriam…ESTEBAN GÓMEZ (quartet) (1963)
Scavarda FilmSCORE for Two Pianists (1962)
Scavarda GREYS, a FilmSCORE (1963) performed silently
Scavarda/Mumma GREYS, a FilmSCORE (1963) performed with stereo electronic music
George Cacioppo CASSIOPEIA (1962) piano
Mumma SINFONIA (1958-60) 12 instruments and magnetic tape
Scavarda MATRIX FOR CLARINETIST (1962)
Reynolds A PORTRAIT OF VANZETTI (1962-63) narrator, ensemble, and multichannel tape
ONCE NOW
Faculty from of the University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre and Dance;
Ann Arbor Improvisation Collective; Phoenix String Quartet Robert Ashley
Thursday, November 4 8 pm
Rackham Auditorium
Program
Robert Ashley VAN CAO'S MEDITATION (1991) piano
Gordon Mumma THAN PARTICLE (1985) live percussion with synthesized percussion
Donald Scavarda CINEMATRIX, a FilmSCORE performed silently (2002)
Scavarda CINEMATRIX, a FilmSCORE performed with multiple instrumentalists (2002)
Mumma GAMBRELED TAPESTRY (2007) solo piano with internal electro-acoustics Donald Scavarda
Scavarda S O U N D S For seven (2010) small ensemble
Roger Reynolds ARIADNE'S THREAD (1994) string quartet, computer-synthesized and spatialized sound
The Tallis Scholars
Peter Phillips director
Thursday, November 4 8 pm
St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church
With a history that dates back to the late 1890s, the Mariachi
Vargas de Tecalitlán was founded in a small city near Jalisco
by Don Gaspar Vargas. This band basically invented the
modern mariachi and are still playing five generations later.
The group spent its formative years defining its sound and
experimenting with different instrumental lineups. Today
the group comprises two harps, one vihuela, one guitar,
one guitarron, two trumpets, and six violins. The songs
they sing cross over from one generation to the next,
making their performances appealing to both young and
mature audiences. In 1987, the group was featured on Linda
Ronstadt’s double-platinum Grammy Award-winning album
Canciones de mi Padre (Songs of My Father), her first Spanish
release. Recognized as “el major mariachi del mundo,"
Mariachi Vargas are masters at melding the old world style of
mariachi music with new, innovative pieces.
Funded in part by Arts Midwest’s Performing Arts Fund.
Media Partners WEMU 89.1 FM and Metro Times.
Murray Perahia piano
Wednesday, November 10 8 pm
Hill Auditorium
“Stew’s endlessly inventive music draws on rock, gospel, soul, and blues…
A winning tribute to the diversity of the black musical experience.” (The
Hollywood Reporter) Songwriter Stew’s career took an unexpected turn in
2006. After a successful career fronting his critically acclaimed band, The
Negro Problem, Stew transformed his life story into the rock musical Passing
Strange. The show, co-composed with Heidi Rodewald, earned him the
2008 Tony Award for “Best Book of a Musical” and attracted the attention of
Spike Lee. Lee produced a film version of Passing Strange, which premiered
at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival and aired on PBS’s “Great Performances.”
Compared in the same breath with Kurt Weill, Burt Bacharach, and Jackie
Gleason, Stew’s concerts are coveted for their literate precision, sly humor,
and deep emotional resonance, hovering between the divergent worlds of
rock and theater. “Something hipper for the hipper…Stew is a very genial and
lovable guide through the common travails of life. Like a lot of fine writers and
musicians, he has the ability to layer reflexive self-doubt into his music and
lyrics…very witty, very smart.” (The Chicago Tribune)
Sponsored by Michael Allemang and Janis Bobrin.
funded in part by the national endowment for the arts as part of
american masterpieces: three centuries of artistic genius.
Media Partners Ann Arbor’s 107one and Michigan Chronicle.
sponsored by
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Handel’s Messiah
Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra and UMS Choral Union
Jerry Blackstone conductor
Caitlin Lynch soprano
Meredith Arwady contralto
Nicholas Phan tenor
Jesse Blumberg baritone
Edward Parmentier harpsichord
Saturday, December 4 8 pm
Sunday, December 5 2 pm
Hill Auditorium
The Grammy Award-winning UMS Choral Union (2006 "Best Choral Performance" for
William Bolcom’s Songs of Innocence and of Experience) launches the holiday season
with its signature work, Handel’s glorious oratorio Messiah. An Ann Arbor tradition
in the beautiful surroundings of Hill Auditorium, these performances are ultimately
the heart and soul of UMS, connecting audiences not only with the talented people
on stage, but also with the friends and family who attend each year. Those who
have been coming for decades say that the chorus has never sounded better. And
this year’s soloists all have strong ties to Michigan: three of the four (Caitlin Lynch,
Nicholas Phan, and Jesse Blumberg) are U-M alumni (Phan grew up in Ann Arbor),
and Meredith Arwady is a Michigan native who currently resides in Kalamazoo.
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Renée Fleming soprano
Hartmut Höll piano
Sunday, January 16 4 pm
Hill Auditorium
media partners between the lines, metro times, and wemu 89.1 fm.
For more than 30 years, Sequentia has set the standard for the
performance of medieval music (from the period before 1300). After
25 years based in Cologne, Germany, the group has re-established
its home in Paris, with a new program of vocal music from Notre
Dame de Paris. For centuries, Parisians and visitors to Paris have
been thrilled by the imposing Cathedral of Notre Dame, whose
massive towers and elegant flying buttresses dominate the Île de
la Cité. While today the area around the Cathedral contains many
of the trappings of a popular tourist site, in the 12th century, the
Cathedral of Notre Dame was situated within its own “campus” that
enclosed nearly one-third of the island and housed an autonomous
mini-state with its own laws and enforcement, free from the secular
Three clerics singing from a rotulus, British Library, Arundel MS83.f.63v. (Howard Psalter, East Anglia, 13c)
power wielded by the French king. Within this “city within a city”
was the high altar, where the most innovative musical minds gave
expression to new ideas in thrilling sonic structures that echoed the
dynamic new architecture taking shape around them. This program
draws from medieval vocal music from Paris in the 13th century.
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Family Performances
Baby Loves Salsa
Sunday, January 30 1 pm & 4 pm
Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre
Straight from the heart of the back country, Blues at the Crossroads has a direct
connection linking back to Robert Johnson (1911-1938), widely considered the
most famous of all Delta blues musicians. Johnson’s landmark recordings in
the 1930s displayed a remarkable combination of singing, miraculous guitar
skills, and songwriting talent that have influenced generations of musicians,
including Eric Clapton, who calls him “the most important blues singer that ever
lived.” This concert picks up the thread of Johnson’s legacy in Mississippi at the
very crossroads where, as legend has it, Robert Johnson made a deal with the
devil, giving up his soul to write the most incredible blues the world had ever
heard. The concert features Big Head Todd & The Monsters, as well as David
“Honeyboy” Edwards, who at 94 is the only living person to have played with
Robert Johnson before his untimely death at age 27.
sponsored by
Media partners wemu 89.1 fm, metro times, michigan chronicle, and ann Arbor’s 107one.
Rafał Blechacz piano
Friday, February 11 8 pm
hill Auditorium
Media partners wgte 91.3 Fm, wrcj 90.9 fm, and detroit jewish news.
Rudresh Mahanthappa’s
Apex
Rudresh Mahanthappa and Bunky Green alto saxophones
featuring
Craig Taborn piano | François Moutin bass | Damion Reid drums
Saturday, February 12 8 pm
Power Center
This double bill brings together two of today’s most interesting jazz
practitioners — and the Jazz Journalists Association's 2010 Musician of
the Year and Alto Saxophonist of the Year — on the same stage. Dubbed
one of “today’s most important pianists” by The New Yorker, Vijay Iyer is
a singular talent — a forceful, rhythmically invigorating performer who
weds a cutting-edge sensibility to a unique sense for compositional
balance. An exceptional, forward-thinking composer, Iyer draws from
African, Asian, and European musical lineages to create fresh, original
music in the American creative tradition. His latest album, Historicity,
received year-end acclaim for #1 Jazz/Pop Album of the Year (The New
York Times) and #1 Jazz Album of the Year (National Public Radio and
The Los Angeles Times). The second half of the program features Apex, a
blazing collaboration that puts on display a 50-year continuum of state-
of-the-art saxophone playing. Mahanthappa, who appeared on the Hill
stage with Danilo Perez in April 2010, is one of the most innovative and
fiery young musicians and composers in jazz today, joined by the hugely
influential but under-recognized jazz original, Bunky Green.
Presented in collaboration with the 2011 U-M Jazz Combo Festival.
media partners wemu 89.1 fm and metro times.
away in July 2009 at the age of 90, he left behind a plan for the Squaregame (1976)
Music: Takehisa Kosugi
dissolution of his dance company and the preservation of his
Design: Mark Lancaster
works: a two-year "legacy tour" that would end on December 31,
2011 with performances in New York City. Cunningham was a Split Sides (2003)
leader of the American avant-garde throughout his 70-year career Music: Radiohead & Sigur Rós
Décor: Catherine Yass, Robert Heishman
and is considered one of the most important choreographers and
Costumes: James Hall
artists of the past century. Through much of his life, he was also Lighting: James F. Ingalls
one of the greatest American dancers, performing with the Martha
funded in part by the
Graham Dance Company for six years. With an artistic career national endowment for the arts
distinguished by constant innovation, Cunningham expanded not as part of american masterpieces:
three centuries of artistic genius.
only the frontiers of dance, but also of contemporary visual and media partners between the lines,
performing arts. His collaborations with artistic innovators from metro times, and ann arbor’s 107one.
It’s 1934, and news is thin on the island of Inishmaan. Then word arrives that
a Hollywood filmmaker is coming to a neighboring island to shoot a movie,
and excitement ripples through the sleepy community. For Billy Claven, a
crippled orphan, the film provides an opportunity to get away from his bleak
existence. He auditions for a part in the film and, to everyone’s surprise, gets
his chance. The Cripple of Inishmaan is “a break-your-heart, cruelly funny
evening directed with an exhilarating ruthlessness and acted with a bracing
lack of sentimentality.” (The Guardian) The second play in Martin McDonagh’s
Aran Islands trilogy, it is infused with his trademark humor, rich with macabre
cruelty, and teeming with eccentric island characters from Billy’s Aunt Kate,
who talks to stones, to gossip monger “JohnnyPateenMike,” who attempts
to get his elderly mother to drink herself to death. Ireland’s acclaimed Druid
Theater Company makes its UMS debut with this 2008 production.
individual performances sponsored by
linda and maurice binkow
philanthropic fund Billy Claven (Tadhg Murphy) by Ros Kavanagh
Hosted by David and Phyllis Herzig.
media partners michigan radio 91.7 fm, between the lines,
And ann arbor’s 107one.
Mahler’s Symphony No. 8
Detroit Symphony Orchestra
UMS Choral Union
U-M Chamber Choir | U-M University Choir
U-M Orpheus Singers | MSU Children’s Choir
Leonard Slatkin conductor
Christine Goerke soprano | Christine Brewer soprano
Mary Wilson soprano | Elizabeth Bishop alto
Kristine Jepson alto | Anthony Dean Griffey tenor
Nmon Ford baritone | Morris Robinson bass
Saturday, March 19 8 pm
Hill Auditorium
In commemoration of the 150th anniversary of Gustav Mahler’s birth and the 100th
anniversary of his death, UMS is collaborating with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra,
the U-M School of Music, Theatre & Dance, the MSU Children’s Choir, and Michigan
Opera Theatre to present a spectacular, not-to-be-missed performance of Mahler’s
monumental Symphony No. 8. The first performance of this “choral symphony”
featured a chorus of about 850, with an orchestra of 171, leading Mahler’s agent to
dub the work “Symphony of a Thousand.” While Mahler himself did not approve
of the title, it nevertheless remains associated with this work, which is rarely
preformed due to the massive forces required to do it justice.
Program
Mahler Symphony No. 8 (“Symphony of a Thousand”) (1907)
A Prelude Dinner precedes the performance.
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Bach’s Mass in b minor
Bach Collegium Japan
Masaaki Suzuki conductor
Thursday, March 24 8 pm
Hill Auditorium
Photo by K. Miura
Shakespeare’s
Richard III and
The Comedy of Errors
Propeller
Edward Hall director
Power C enter
Richard III
Wednesday, March 30 7:30 pm
Friday, April 1 7:30 pm
Saturday, April 2 2 pm
Sunday, April 3 7:30 pm
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“Edward Hall's superb, all-male company Propeller proves
again the value of a true ensemble and a director who treats
Shakespeare's plays as if they'd just been written.” (The Guardian
on A Midsummer Night’s Dream, 2009)
Richard III brings the War of the Roses cycle of history plays to a
close in bloody fashion. Arguably Shakespeare’s most villainous
King, Richard murders his way to the throne, unable to resist his
cruel wit and dark humor. This hugely entertaining and diabolical
adventure tells the story of one man’s journey to heaven, then
back to hell.
The two plays will be presented in repertory with the same cast.
St. Petersburg
Philharmonic
Yuri Temirkanov conductor
Nikolai Lugansky piano
Saturday, April 2 8 pm
Hill Auditorium
Sponsored by
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Septeto Nacional
Ignacio Piñeiro de Cuba
Thursday, April 7 8 pm
hill Auditorium
The drummer behind the legendary Nigerian bandleader Fela Anikulapo Kuti,
Tony Allen is probably the most highly regarded African drum set player,
with drummers and other musicians of all backgrounds marveling at his
polyrhythmic style. Fela Kuti is widely remembered as the most influential
African popular musician of the post-colonial era, and Tony Allen was his
crucial collaborator in the synthesis of jazz, funk, and highlife that resulted
in the style known as Afrobeat. Born in Nigeria in 1940 of mixed Nigerian
and Ghanaian parentage, Allen is influenced by everything from European
ballroom dance music to big-band jazz drumming, indigenous percussion
traditions, and the tradition of modern jazz drumming typified by such
musicians as Art Blakey, Elvin Jones, and Max Roach. After playing for years in
the shadows of better-known musicians, Tony Allen is now starting to receive
the worldwide credit he deserves as one of the most dynamic players of the
drum set. “Without Tony Allen, there’d be no Afrobeat.” (Fela Anikulapo Kuti)
Johannes Brahms
Transportation from Oakland County
UMS is delighted to announce a new program providing Coach service will be offered for the following performances:
luxury coach transportation from Oakland County to Ann
Arbor for selected performances.
Mariinsky Orchestra (formerly known as the Kirov Orchestra)
Valery Gergiev conductor | Denis Matsuev piano
The coaches will depart from a central location in Oakland Sunday, October 10 4 pm [coach leaves at 2:30 pm]
County approximately 90 minutes before the performance
and will return to the same location immediately after the Murray Perahia piano
performance. Round-trip cost is $10 per person. The coach Wednesday, November 10 8 pm [coach leaves at 6:30 pm]
may be cancelled 14 days prior to the performance if at least
10 people have not signed up for the service.
Renée Fleming soprano
Selected performances will also include a pre-concert lecture Sunday, January 16 4 pm [coach leaves at 2:30 pm]
on the coach during the ride to Ann Arbor.
For more information about this program and Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis
details on the departure location (which was still Wednesday, February 2 8 pm [coach leaves at 6:30 pm]
being confirmed at press time), please contact Sarah Martin McDonagh’s The Cripple of Inishmaan
Wilber at 734-763-3100. Tickets are also available Druid and Atlantic Theatre Company
through the Ticket Office at 734-764-2538. Friday, March 11 8 pm [coach leaves at 6:30 pm]
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The 14th Annual UMS Choral Union
Sphinx Competition UMS’s Grammy Award-winning chorus, the UMS Choral Union, is best known
for Young Black and Latino String Players locally for its annual performances of Handel’s Messiah. The volunteer ensemble
also performs throughout southeastern Michigan each year under the direction
The Sphinx Competition showcases many of the best
of Jerry Blackstone and other guest conductors.
young Black and Latino string players in America. Each
year, 18 semi-finalists come to southeastern Michigan to To audition for this celebrated ensemble, contact 734-763-8997 or
choralunion@umich.edu.
compete for cash prizes and scholarships totaling over
$100,000. Both concerts are accompanied by the Sphinx
Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Michael Morgan. UMS Ann Arbor Performances Detroit Symphony
Presented by DTE Energy Foundation. Tickets: 734-764-2538 or www.ums.org Orchestra Performances
Tickets: 313-576-5111
Handel’s Messiah
Junior Division Honors Concert Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra or www.detroitsymphony.com
Jerry Blackstone conductor Mahler’s Symphony No. 8
Friday, February 4 12 noon
Rackham Auditorium Saturday, December 4 8 pm (“Symphony of a Thousand”)
Sunday, December 5 2 pm Detroit Symphony Orchestra
This free performance features the three Junior Division finalists Hill Auditorium Leonard Slatkin conductor
(under age 18) competing for their final placement. This concert
encourages participation by young audiences from around Mahler’s Symphony No. 8 Friday, March 18 8 pm
the state of Michigan. For tickets, contact the UMS Education (“Symphony of a Thousand”) Detroit Opera House
Department at 734-615-0122 or umsyouth@umich.edu. Detroit Symphony Orchestra Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9
Leonard Slatkin conductor
Detroit Symphony Orchestra
Senior Division Finals Concert Saturday, March 19 8 pm Leonard Slatkin conductor
Hill Auditorium
Sunday, February 6 2 pm Thursday, April 14 7:30 pm
Orchestra Hall, Detroit Friday, April 15 8 pm
This concert, which is broadcast nationally, features the three Ann Arbor Symphony Saturday, April 16 11 am* & 8:30 pm
Senior Division Laureates (ages 18-26) competing for their Orchestra Performances Orchestra Hall, Detroit
final placement and the $10,000 first prize. The Junior Division Tickets: 734-994-4801 *Young People's Concert: Best of Beethoven
Laureate also performs. or www.a2so.com
For information on admission to the Final Concert, please visit Mahler’s Symphony No. 3
www.sphinxmusic.org or call the Max M. Fisher Music Center Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra
Box Office at 313-576-5111. Arie Lipsky conductor
Saturday, April 30 8 pm
Michigan theater
You Make it
Happen
Your support of UMS makes this exciting season possible. Ticket
revenues cover about half the cost of presenting world-class
performances; the other half comes from contributions
On The Road
given by individuals, corporations, government agencies,
foundations, and the University of Michigan. You can support
UMS by sponsoring a concert or youth performance, making a
gift to the annual fund or endowment fund, or attending the On
the Road with UMS auction on Saturday, September 11. A Fundraiser for UMS Education Programs
Your gift, when combined with many others, brings the very best Saturday, September 11 6:30 pm
in music, dance, and theater to our community. North Campus Research Complex
(2800 Plymouth Road, Ann Arbor)
UMS provides priority to donors in purchasing tickets to individual
performances. The fall single ticket brochure is mailed to donors The University Musical Society Advisory Committee invites you to “On the
first, and donors of $250 or more are able to purchase tickets one Road with UMS,” a fun-filled evening of silent and live auctions, delicious
week before tickets go on sale to the general public. In addition, food, music, and merriment. Proceeds from the evening benefit UMS’s
UMS donors enjoy: education programs, which reach up to 20,000 adults and children each
year through a diverse mix of initiatives and educational events. Last year’s
Discounted tickets to select performances auction netted more than $56,000 for these programs.
Acknowledgment in UMS program books
and donor listings ($250 or more) Fabulous silent and live auction items include cultural and culinary
getaways, cabaret dinners, kids cooking “boot camps,” and a vacation to
Online acknowledgment for all donors Costa Rica. The auction, which will be held at the former Pfizer complex
Advance notice of performances and advance on North Campus, includes a sit-down dinner held in conjunction with
purchasing privileges the live auction.
Invitations to special events For reservations, contact the UMS Development Office at 734-764-8489.
A preview list of auction items will be available online at www.ums.org in
late August.
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People Are Talking
We know that part of the fun of seeing a live performance is being able to talk
about it with others. That’s why UMS has launched www.umsLOBBY.org — a
new online gathering place for conversation about arts and culture.
Since umsLOBBY.org was launched in February 2010, audience members
have left over 400 comments (and counting!) about their UMS experiences.
Visitors have engaged with other community members, UMS staff, and artists,
including Béla Fleck, The Bad Plus, and Hubbard Street Dance Chicago.
The UMS Lobby will continue to grow during the 10/11 season, expanding the
UMS experience by combining online and live components in everything that
UMS does [and giving you a behind-the-scenes look at UMS!]. umsLOBBY.org How can you join the conversation?
is a virtual lobby, accessible year-round, offering multiple streams of activity
to engage anyone interested in arts and culture, or in UMS specifically. On the
site you’ll find: Visit PEOPLE ARE TALKING on umsLOBBY.org. Whether
you like to peruse the comments of others or actively
A multimedia blog with background and educational information on participate in developing new conversations, the UMS
UMS performances, guest blogs by UMS artists, follow-up from artists that Lobby is a place to meet.
have been presented by UMS in the past, UMS staff “scouting reports” on
possible artists for future seasons, other arts links, and much more.
search for University Musical Society and
A digitized historical archive that includes access to UMS’s extraor- U40 – University Musical Society
dinary 131-year history, including the opportunity to submit your own
comments, memories, and observations about events that you’ve
attended. Follow UMS on twitter @UMSNews
Stories from patrons and others about the impact UMS has had in our
community — in essence, a “living archive” that will grow with time and View videos on our YouTube channel
supplement the historical archive. www.youtube/UMSVideo
Conversation areas that include feeds from our facebook, twitter, and
other networks, providing a place both to listen and to be heard.
Receive e-mail news by signing up at www.ums.org
www.ums.org/education
Extend what is possible Itzhak Perlman meets with violin students during his
Ann Arbor concert, September 2009.
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Education Program Supporters
Reflects gifts received during the 09/10 fiscal year.
Anonymous
Arts at Michigan
Arts Midwest’s Performing Arts Fund
The Dan Cameron Family Foundation/Alan and Swanna Saltiel
CFI Group
Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan
Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Endowment Fund
DTE Energy Foundation
The Esperance Family Foundation
Jo-Anna and David Featherman
Forest Health Services
JazzNet Endowment
W.K. Kellogg Foundation
John S. and James L. Knight Foundation
Masco Corporation Foundation
Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs
THE MOSAIC FOUNDATION (of R. and P. Heydon)
National Dance Project of the New England Foundation for the Arts
National Endowment for the Arts
Prudence and Amnon Rosenthal K-12 Education Endowment Fund
TCF Bank
UMS Advisory Committee
Students at Cass Tech High School in Detroit work with members of the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company.
University of Michigan Credit Union
University of Michigan Health System
U-M Office of the Senior Vice Provost for Academic Affairs
U-M Office of the Vice President for Research
Wallace Endowment Fund
10 Things To Know About UMS
1. Officially we are the University Musical Society, but we are more 4. UMS is investing in the future through its commitment
often known as UMS. The name dates back to 1879 but isn’t completely to student participation in arts events. Each year, UMS offers
reflective of the organization today. We are affiliated with the University of discounted tickets to university and high school students for regular
Michigan, but UMS is a separate, independent 501(c)(3) organization with UMS performances through a variety of programs. In a typical year,
its own board of directors. About 20 years ago, UMS expanded its musical more than 17,000 student tickets are sold, representing over 21%
programming scope to include dance and theater. The long and short of of the audience at UMS events. Through these discount programs,
it is that UMS welcomes everyone to enjoy the transformative power of students save over $325,000 each season. In addition to the many
the live performing arts. students who attend our events, we work closely with a group of
about 35 students each year who develop skills in arts management
2. UMS ranks among the top performing arts presenters in the through jobs and internships in all departments of UMS, as well as a
United States. UMS stands in good company, frequently partnering volunteer student committee.
on international tours with Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, the Kennedy
Center, Brooklyn Academy of Music, the Barbican, Théâtre du Châtelet, 5. Ticket revenues cover only half of our total costs. We rely on
and leading university presenters. Few communities of the size of Ann generous support from individual donors, corporations, foundations,
Arbor can support this breadth of programming, making our community government grants, and the University of Michigan to continue to
a hub for international performing arts tours. bring the finest performing artists in the world to Michigan. We know
that people choose to donate for any number of reasons: engaging
3. UMS is closely aligned with the University of Michigan. Our more deeply in the arts, networking with others, and providing
education department has worked with 70 academic units and 200 memorable arts experiences for children are just a few of the
individual U-M faculty members in recent seasons. Through these frequently stated motivations. We’re grateful to all of our generous
collaborations, we present contextual programming that enriches donors!
audience engagement with the performances on our stages. In addition,
the University of Michigan provides annual support through the Officers 6. The UMS Education Program makes a big impact on the
of the President and Provost, the University of Michigan Health System, entire region. Since 2000, UMS has served 345 schools and nearly
the Office of the Vice President for Research, and other units that support 100,000 students through our popular youth education program,
specific work. We are extraordinarily grateful and appreciative of this which includes live performances, in-class visits, teacher workshops,
collaborative and mutually beneficial relationship. and more. UMS recognizes outstanding programs with the DTE
Energy Foundation Educator of the Year and School of the Year
Awards. The UMS Education Program is made possible by
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Ford Motor Company Fund and Community Services and dozens of
generous donors who help make our education programs accessible to
various communities throughout our region.
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TICKETS & INFO Parking/Parking Tips
Detailed directions and parking information will
be mailed with your tickets and are also available at
www.ums.org/parking.
Please Make Sure We Have Your Refunds To reduce the likelihood of congestion, we suggest
E-Mail Address on File! Due to the nature of the performing arts, programs and artists
that you consider accessing the Power Center
UMS regularly sends relevant, updated concert-related are subject to change. Refunds are given only in the case
structure from the Palmer Drive entrance. There’s a
parking and late seating information via e-mail a couple of of event cancellation or date change. Handling fees are not
light at the intersection of Palmer and Washtenaw,
days before the event. Please be sure that the Ticket Office refundable.
making it easier to access the structure. You’ll save
has your correct e-mail address on file. time both entering and exiting the structure and
Will-Call/Ticket Pick-Up
All ticket orders received fewer than 10 days prior to the avoid sitting in traffic.
Ticket Exchanges
Subscribers may exchange tickets free-of-charge up until performance will be held at Will-Call, which opens in the UMS also recommends parking at the off-
48 hours prior to the performance. Non-subscribers may performance venue 90 minutes prior to the published campus Liberty Square structure (entrance off of
exchange tickets for a $6 per ticket exchange fee. Exchanged start time. Washington Street, between Division and State),
tickets must be received by the Ticket Office (by mail or about a two-block walk from most performance
in person) at least 48 hours prior to the performance. The
Access for Persons with Disabilities venues. $2 after 3 pm weekdays and all day
All UMS venues are accessible for persons with disabilities. Saturday/Sunday.
value of the tickets may be applied to another performance
Call 734-764-2538 for more information.
or will be held as UMS Credit until the end of the season.
You may also fax a copy of your torn tickets to 734-647-1171. Children and Families
Start Time & Latecomers
Lost or misplaced tickets cannot be exchanged. UMS Credit UMS makes every effort to begin concerts at the published Children under the age of three will only be
must be redeemed by April 23, 2011. time. Most of our events take place in the heart of central admitted to designated UMS Family Performances.
campus, which has limited parking and may have several This season’s Family Performances include the Paul
UMS will also accept ticket exchanges within 48 hours of
events occurring simultaneously in different theaters. Taylor Dance Company (Sat, Oct 9 at 1 pm) and
the performance for a $10 per ticket exchange fee (applies
Please allow plenty of extra time to park and find your seats. Baby Loves Salsa (Sun, Jan 30 at 1 pm & 4 pm). For
to both subscribers and single ticket buyers). Tickets must
these performances, please call the Ticket Office
be exchanged at least one hour before the published Latecomers will be asked to wait in the lobby until seated if you are bringing a child under the age of two.
performance time. Tickets received less than one hour by ushers. Most lobbies have been outfitted with monitors Children under two will be admitted at no charge
before the performance will be returned as a tax-deductible and/or speakers so that latecomers will not miss the perfor-
contribution. but do need to be assigned a seat due to fire
mance entirely.
marshall capacity limitations.
Ticket Donations/Unused Tickets The late seating break is determined by the artists and
All children attending UMS performances must
Unused tickets may be donated to UMS for a tax- generally occurs during a suitable repertory break in the
be able to sit quietly in their own seats without
deductible contribution until the published start time of program. This could be as late as intermission or, for classical
disturbing other patrons. Children unable to do
the performance. Unused tickets that are returned after music concerts, after the first piece (not after individual
so, along with the adult accompanying them, may
the performance begins are not eligible for UMS Credit movements). UMS makes every effort to alert patrons in
be asked by an usher to leave the auditorium.
or for a tax-deductible contribution. advance when we know that there will be no late seating.
Please use discretion when choosing to bring a
UMS works closely with the artists to allow a more flexible child. Remember, for regular UMS performances,
Lost or Misplaced Tickets late seating policy for family performances. everyone must have a ticket, regardless of age.
Call the Ticket Office at 734-764-2538 to have duplicate
tickets waiting for you at Will-Call. Duplicate tickets Notices about start times and late seating will be sent via For more information about the family-friendliness
cannot be mailed. e-mail. Please make sure that the UMS Ticket Office has of specific UMS performances, please call the Ticket
your e-mail address on file. Office at 734-764-2538.
Seat Maps
Hill Auditorium Michigan Theater
825 North University Avenue 603 East Liberty Street
Map 2 Map 3
Map 1 - Orchestras Classical Recitals & Jazz/World Main Floor & Mezzanine Only
BALCONY BALCONY
MEZZANINE BALCONY
Sec Sec 19 Sec Sec Sec 19 Sec
Sec 18 20 Sec Sec Sec
17 21 18 20
17 21 Sec 8
Sec 7 Sec 9 Sec 10
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12 16 Sec 12 13 14 15
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MEZZANINE MEZZANINE
STAGE
Sec 2 Sec 3 Sec 4 Sec 2 Sec 3 Sec 4
Sec 1 Sec 5 Sec 1 Sec 5 A
Hill Auditorium (H3)
Sec 3 Mariachi Vargas de Tecalitlán Fri Nov 5
Sec 2 Sec 4 Sec 2 Sec 3 Assi El Helani Sat Nov 6
Sec 4
Blues at the Crossroads Thu Feb 10
STAGE STAGE Septeto Nacional Ignacio Thu Apr 7
Piñeiro de Cuba
Tony Allen’s Afrobeat Tour Sat Apr 16
Hill Auditorium (H1)
Mariinsky Orchestra/Gergiev Sun Oct 10 Hill Auditorium (H2) STAGE
Handel’s Messiah Sat-Sun Dec 4-5 Rosanne Cash Sat Sep 25
Cleveland Orchestra/ Tue Feb 1 Venice Baroque Orchestra Wed Oct 27
Murray Perahia Wed Nov 10 Michigan Theater (MT)
Welser-Möst Hot Clubs of San Francisco & Fri Oct 29
Detroit Symphony Orchestra/ Sat Mar 19 Renée Fleming Sun Jan 16
Wynton Marsalis/Jazz at Wed Feb 2 Detroit/Django Reinhardt Birthday
Mahler 8 NT Live: A Disappearing Number Sun Oct 31
Bach Collegium Japan Thu Mar 24 Lincoln Center Orchestra
Rafał Blechacz Fri Feb 11 Carolina Chocolate Drops Fri Dec 3
St. Petersburg Philharmonic/ Sat Apr 2 NT Live: Hamlet Sun Jan 2
Temirkanov Kodo Wed Feb 23
“Songs and Waltzes of Love” Sat Apr 23 NT Live: FELA! Sun Jan 30
NT Live: Frankenstein Wed Apr 6
NT Live: The Cherry Orchard Date TBA
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Power Center Rackham Auditorium Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre
121 Fletcher Street 915 East Washington Street 911 North University Avenue
BALCONY BALCONY
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Sec 7 Sec 9
6 MAIN FLOOR
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Price Level E
All Tickets On Sale Beginning Wednesday, August 25 at 10 am!
Donors of $250+ may order tickets by phone beginning Wednesday, August 18 at 10 am.
Internet Sales begin on Monday, August 23 at 10 am at www.ums.org.
How to Order
Phone Mail Group Sales Office
With Visa, MasterCard, UMS Ticket Office Bring your friends and save! When you bring a group of 10 or more to
Discover, or American Express Burton Memorial Tower a UMS event, you’ll save 15-25% off the regular ticket price for most
734-764-2538 881 North University Avenue performances. For more information, contact UMS Group Sales at
Outside the 734 area code Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1011 734-763-3100 or umsgroupsales@umich.edu.
and within Michigan, call
UMS accepts group reservations beginning Wednesday, August 11,
toll-free 800-221-1229. Hours two weeks before individual events go on sale to the general public.
Beginning Tue, Sep 7:
Internet Plan early to guarantee access to great seats!
Mon-Fri: 9 am to 5 pm
www.ums.org
Sat: 10 am to 1 pm
In Person Before Tue, Sep 7:
Please visit the Ticket Office on the Mon-Fri: 10 am to 5 pm
north end of the Michigan League
building (911 North University Avenue). Student Tickets Don’t Miss These Important Dates!
The Ticket Office also sells tickets for all UMS has several programs offering
Wed Aug 18 Donor Single Ticket Day
U-M School of Music, Theatre & Dance discounted tickets to high school and (for donors of $250+)
productions and the Ann Arbor college students in accredited degree
programs. For information, Fri Aug 20 Last Day to Order Monogram Series
Summer Festival.
visit www.ums.org/students. Mon Aug 23 Internet Sales Begin
Fax
734-647-1171 Wed Aug 25 Single Ticket Day – all tickets to
individual events on sale by phone
and in person
Fri Sep 3 Last Day to Order UMS Theater Series
Fri Sep 24 Last Day to Order All Other UMS Series
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CREDITS
Season Media Partner
Media Partners
Special thanks to the following supporters:
Arts at Michigan. Arts at Michigan provides programs and services that enable students to integrate arts and culture
into their undergraduate experience at the University of Michigan.
Arts Midwest’s Performing Arts Fund. The Paul Taylor Dance Company and Mariachi Vargas de Tecalitlán are
funded in part by the Performing Arts Fund, a program of Arts Midwest funded by the National Endowment for the Arts,
with additional contributions from Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs, General Mills Foundation, and Land
O’Lakes Foundation.
Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan. Special project support for Mahler's Symphony No. 8 is provided
by the Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan through a grant to UMS in partnership with the Detroit
Symphony Orchestra and Michigan Opera Theatre.
Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Endowment Fund. Special project support for several components of the 10/11
UMS season is provided by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Endowment Fund, established with a challenge grant
from the Leading College and University Presenters Program at the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.
Japan Foundation. Sankai Juku is funded in part by the Japan Foundation through its Performing Arts JAPAN
program.
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Special project support for classical music offerings, as well as commissioning UMS is a member of the University of Michi-
and associated residency activities, is provided by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation as part of a multi-year grant to gan Public Goods Council and the Cultural
Alliance of Southeastern Michigan.
UMS.
National Endowment for the Arts. Special project support for several components of the 10/11 season is provided by
the National Endowment for the Arts through its American Masterpieces: Three Centuries of Artistic Genius program.
University of Michigan. The University of Michigan provides special project support for many activities in the 10/11 The University of Michigan is an Equal
season through the U-M/UMS Partnership Program. Additional support is provided by the University of Michigan Health Opportunity Employer and provides
System, the U-M Office of the Vice President for Research, the U-M Office of the Senior Vice Provost for Academic programs and services without regard
to race, sex, color, religion, sexual
Affairs, and many other individual academic units. orientation, gender identity, national
origin, or disability.
Wallace Endowment Fund. The Paul Taylor Dance Company is funded in part by the Wallace Endowment Fund,
established with a challenge grant from the Wallace Foundation to build public participation in arts programs.
Back Cover Photos: Rosanne Cash by Deborah Feingold, Concertante by Michael Aheam
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