The folks at the University Musical Society often know what we want to hear before we do. That’s the case, it would seem, with the Pavel Haas Quartet, which makes its UMS debut Wednesday evening at Rackham Auditorium. If you’ve never heard of this Czech quartet, or the Czech composer ...
The question “What’s new?” has particular meaning for the St. Lawrence String Quartet, set to perform at Rackham Auditorium Thursday, in the second of two University Musical Society appearances this season. The four players—violinists Geoff Nutall and Scott St. John; violist Lesley Robertson; and cellist Christopher Costanza (the sole non-Canadian ...
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. ...
The Hagen Quartet In the Hagen Quartet, three’s a family: Brothers Lukas and Clemens play violin and cello, respectively; sister Veronika plays viola. And then, four’s company: violinist Rainer Schmidt has been with the group for more than 20 years of its 30 years. Renowned internationally for beautifully polished, probing ...
The Chamber Ensemble of the Shanghai Chinese Orchestra Forget violin, viola and cello. Forget flute, clarinet, French horn. When the Chamber Ensemble of the Shanghai Chinese Orchestra makes its University Musical Society debut Friday evening at Rackham Auditorium, the instruments toted on stage will have different, perhaps unfamiliar names —zheng, ...
Sabine Meyer Curiosity must run in the family for clarinetist Sabine Meyer, former principal clarinet with the Berlin Philharmonic; her husband, clarinetist Reiner Wehle; and her brother, clarinetist Wolfgang Meyer. Back in 1983, it inspired these three distinguished players to form a trio, the Trio di Clarone, which makes its ...
“Swiss recorder virtuoso.” “The world’s leading recorder virtuoso.” The stiff labels don’t make Maurice Steger sound that exciting, you know? But listen to this guy play—which is precisely what the rapt audience at Rackham Auditorium did Saturday evening, when Steger appeared with the Canadian chamber ensemble Les Violons du Roy, ...
Lots of children have stories about learning to play the recorder in elementary school. Most of them do not involve going on to become recorder virtuosos. My daughter’s story is one of puzzlement. The only “recorder” she knew was the tape recorder she saw me using, as a journalist, to ...
The Beijing Guitar Duo comes to Rackham Auditorium on Sunday. He may be partial to them: after all, they are his students. But when a guitar great like Manuel Barrueco tells you that Meng Su and Yameng Wang “will be known as the best guitar duo in the world,” it’s ...
The Emerson String Quartet returns to Ann Arbor next Sunday. When the esteemed Emerson String Quartet returns to Ann Arbor Sunday afternoon to kick off the University Musical Society’s Chamber Arts Series, the fare is the ultimate: the last three Mozart string quartets, plus the Mozart Adagio and Fugue in ...
Schubert’s late works are still the works of a young man. His last works are those of a 31-year-old. It is sometimes hard to remember all that, no more so than when one encounters profound works like the last piano sonata, D. 969 in B-flat Major, or the Cello Quintet ...
The Tetzlaff Quartet Same time, next year is a familiar refrain to the four members of the Tetzlaff Quartet. For the last 18 years, the foursome, headed by superb superstar German violinist Christian Tetzlaff, has regrouped to tour and play “pieces of greatness that are not the most known by ...
There are many works that would qualify as Schubert’s Greatest Hits, but among them, the Takacs Quartet is certainly offering two Friday — the Trout Quintet and the Cello Quintet — when it appears at Rackham Auditorium under University Musical Society auspices. For this third and final concert of its ...
In 1983, double-bassist Peter Riegelbauer had been in the Berlin Philharmonic just about a year, and he was, he recalls, one of the orchestra’s handful of young members. “The orchestra in general was very old then,” he said in a recent phone conversation from Berlin, “and there were only a ...
Is Schubert your desert-island composer? If so, your palm tree awaits: the Takacs Quartet returns to Rackham Auditorium Sunday afternoon with the second of three Schubert concerts it presents here this season under University Musical Society auspices. The concert features an early quartet (1814) in B-flat Major, D. 112, plus ...
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