Last year's Ann Arbor School for the Performing Arts orchestra concert. It’s been a shade over 20 years since a quintet of professional musicians founded the Ann Arbor School for the Performing Arts, meaning now is the perfect time to throw a party. Hence, AA-SPA’s afternoon gala Saturday at the ...
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 ...
Gareth Johnson will perform at the Ypsilanti Symphony Orchestra's season finale. “Destiny.” It’s the word Adam Riccinto, conductor and music director of the Ypsilanti Symphony Orchestra, uses to describe the convergence of events that led to the YSO’s very special grand finale concert Sunday afternoon at Pease Auditorium on the ...
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 ...
Let’s face it, courtesy of the University Musical Society, Ann Arbor classical music fans do not want for heart-throb quartets. There’s the Emerson, friends for so long, locals refer to them as the Emersons, as if they were a family down the block. There’s the Takacs, regular visitors, constantly dazzling ...
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 ...
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 ...
This article was amended to accurately establish the author of the show's program notes. Matthew Coley The collaborative percussion ensemble coming to Kerrytown Concert House Sunday evening bears the moniker “Sonic Inertia.” But there’s nothing lifeless about this group, led by nationally known percussionist Matthew Coley, starting with the group’s ...
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.
It was just about two weeks ago that the St. Lawrence String Quartet was here, stirring up excitement at Hill Auditorium in an “American Mavericks” concert with the San Francisco Symphony. Thursday evening, the group returned again under University Musical Society auspices, this time to Rackham Auditorium. Though the concert ...
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. ...
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 ...
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