Bonnie Raitt turned the page on a four-decade-long mutual love affair with Ann Arbor on Friday, delivering a riveting performance that reduced a packed Hill Auditorium to an intimate coffee shop and served as a reminder of what a delightful performer Raitt has always been. Alternating between material from her ...
Bonnie’s back—refreshed and revitalized. In April, when Bonnie Raitt released her new “Slipstream” album, it had been seven years since her last studio record. After enduring many personal losses, starting in 2004, she decided she needed the break—to grieve, adjust, and just take some time for herself, after being one ...
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Any concert that’s all-Beethoven—with the “Coriolan Overture,” the Violin Concerto and the Symphony No. 7—is an eventful one. But almost any way you look at it, Sunday afternoon’s concert at Hill Auditorium was brimming with import. It was the last of the University Musical Society’s musical events for the 2011-2012 ...
The wheel of fortune turns, raising some up, casting others down. But everyone was a winner Saturday evening at Hill Auditorium, where the Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra, directed by Arie Lipsky, made Carl Orff’s secular cantata “Carmina Burana” the centerpiece of its last concert of the season. Fickle fortune and ...
Yo Yo Ma The University Musical Society today announces its 2012-13 season, featuring a host of big names including the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Martha Graham Dance Co., the National Theatre of Scotland, Dianne Reeves, Angelique Kidjo, and Yo-Yo Ma. The season will also celebrate the 100th anniversary of Hill ...
When he was 18, violin virtuoso Joshua Bell recorded his first concertos: Bruch and Mendelssohn. The orchestra was the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, the conductorless ensemble then led by its founder, the estimable Sir Neville Marriner. That was 25 years ago, and Bell is now 43, with ...
It’s not just the venue change—from the Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra’s usual home, the Michigan Theater, to Hill Auditorium—that tells you that the grand finale of the orchestra’s 2011-2012 season is, well, grand. When you pick a monumental cantata, like Carl Orff’s “Carmina Burana,” as the centerpiece of a program ...
AnnArbor.com and the Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra are partnering to offer readers a chance to win free tickets to the A2SO's season-finale performance of "Carmina Burana" in historic Hill Auditorium.
Indian percussion virtuoso Zakir Hussain is clearly thrilled about his upcoming visit to Ann Arbor, accompanied by five of his fellow percussion masters. “We are excited about getting out to the Midwest part of the world. (We’ll) blow your socks off,” the tabla great promised recently by phone from his ...
New U-M student group MUSIC Matters (Michigan Undergrads Serving In the Community) formed to establish an annual event, which will celebrate the end of the school year each spring. Their inaugural event this Friday, April 6, will feature an evening concert at Hill Auditorium by rising hip-hop star J Cole, ...
The weather has been balmy here in Ann Arbor. But a weekend’s worth of American Mavericks concerts by the San Francisco Symphony, in town courtesy of the University Musical Society, delivered a bracing Bay Area dose of Left-Coast, right-brain thinking to audiences at Hill and Rackham auditoriums Friday through Sunday. ...
Michael Tilson Thomas publicity photo Mavericks are, by definition, independent sorts. They’re not looking for a team. But when the choosing up starts, a musical maverick, an American musical maverick, perhaps especially a Bay Area American musical maverick, cannot do better than to have a guy like Michael Tilson Thomas ...
As the land of the free and the brave and the self-reliant, America has always had a soft spot for individualists, eccentrics, outlaws and renegades. And no mistake about it, individualists, eccentrics, outlaws and renegades have reciprocated the admiration, popping up in all arenas of American life. Michael Tilson Thomas ...
Classical music aficionados filled Hill Auditorium to the brim to see the world-class Chicago Symphony Orchestra on Friday night. The sold-out concert marked another chapter in the century-old love affair between the University Musical Society and the CSO: The first time the orchestra performed at a UMS show was in ...
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