Articles tagged: classical music
Ann Arbor Symphony tickets on sale for next season
Posted: May 13, 2013The Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra has announced its full schedule for the 2013-14 season, including its regular subscription series as well as a variety of special events. Tickets are on sale for the subscription season, ... Read more »
Two U-M music grad students will drive new Cadillac to Carnegie Hall
Posted: May 08, 2013AnnArbor.com previously reported that 32 members of the UMS Choral Union will perform with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra at New York City's Carnegie Hall on Friday, May 10, as part of the Spring for Music ... Read more »
UMS Choral Union members to appear with DSO at Carnegie Hall
Posted: May 04, 2013Forget about taking the N Train to 57th Street and 7th Avenue. When a New Yorker asks you, “How do you get to Carnegie Hall?” the required answer is, “Practice, practice, practice.” Now that old ... Read more »
A2SO leader Arie Lipsky moving to Ann Arbor, adding prestigious new post
Posted: Apr 28, 2013It’s no secret that Arie Lipsky, music director of the Ann Arbor Symphony since 2000, is an esteemed—and popular—figure here. Now comes confirmation of the esteem in which he’s held in his native Israel, and ... Read more »
Ann Arbor Symphony delivers a riveting, powerful Mahler 'Tragic' Symphony
Posted: Apr 28, 2013The Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra’s season finale at the Michigan Theater Saturday evening began with announcements of good things to come for the orchestra and its maestro, Music Director Arie Lipsky. You can read all ... Read more »
Kerrytown concert on rare 1835 piano will benefit GLPAA
Posted: Apr 22, 2013Penelope Crawford Have piano, will travel. But not that far. It wasn’t too long ago that the superb Ann Arbor keyboardist and pianist Penelope Crawford would tote her historic pianos on tour, hither and yon. ... Read more »
Ann Arbor Symphony closing out season with Mahler's massive 'Tragic' Symphony
Posted: Apr 21, 2013How to end a season? For the Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra in recent years, the answer has been a grand work—2012’s "Carmina Burana," for example. This year is no exception. Saturday at the Michigan Theater, ... Read more »
with video: Classical trumpet star Alison Balsom making Hill Auditorium debut
Posted: Apr 16, 2013Sound the trumpet, indeed: Alison Balsom is coming to town. Or, more precisely, to Hill Auditorium Saturday evening, along with the Scottish Ensemble, courtesy of the University Musical Society. If you haven’t heard of, or ... Read more »
UMS announces 2013-14 season lineup
Posted: Apr 14, 2013The University Musical Society today formally announces its schedule of events for the 2013-14 season. The San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, Joshua Bell, and the St. Lawrence String Quartet are among the classical-music highlights. Other highlights ... Read more »
Beloved Takacs Quartet returning for Beethoven, Britten and Haydn
Posted: Apr 07, 2013When the Takacs Quartet returns to Ann Arbor’s Rackham Auditorium Friday, it bring quartets from two of the big Bs—Beethoven and Britten—plus one from the Papa of them all, Haydn. The group opens, fittingly enough, ... Read more »
University of Michigan, UMS present a challenging 'Oresteia of Aeschylus'
Posted: Apr 05, 2013The ad might have looked something like this: Cast wanted: to bring to life three epic pieces of music, rarely performed; music requires epic forces—full complement of vocal soloists, huge chorus, giant orchestra plus massive ... Read more »
UMS, U-M presenting epic 'Oresteia of Aeschylus' trilogy, with album release planned
Posted: Mar 31, 2013Back in 2004, a package arrived at conductor Kenneth Kiesler’s studio at the University of Michigan School of Music. It contained three huge scores along with a note from the publisher: “Sent at the request ... Read more »
U-M Opera students stage laughs and longing in 'Ariadne auf Naxos'
Posted: Mar 30, 2013By Stephanie Kadel Taras For AnnArbor.com “The show must go on”—one theme of Richard Strauss’s 1916 opera "Ariadne auf Naxos"—was tested Friday night in this U-M School of Music, Theatre & Dance production. When guest ... Read more »
Opera favorite 'Ariadne auf Naxos' returns to U-M stage
Posted: Mar 23, 2013Serious opera meets comedy to the luscious music of Richard Strauss iin "Ariadne auf Naxos." Sung in German with a libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal, the University of Michigan Opera Theatre and University Philharmonia Orchestra ... Read more »
Paradigm Shift Chamber Orchestra aims to bring a new energy to classical music
Posted: Mar 20, 2013Jacobsen Woollen The words “youthful” and “idealism” are a familiar pairing. Less common is the translation of those ideals into reality. But that’s what cellist Jacobsen Woollen and his compatriots in the new Paradigm Shift ... Read more »
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