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DTSTAMP:20260414T154835
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260414T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260414T213000
SUMMARY:Performance:The Dream of Gerontius: U-M Life Sciences Orchestra & UMS Choral Union
DESCRIPTION:The U-M Life Sciences Orchestra's spring concert will feature the 150-member UMS Choral Union\, and special guest solo vocalists\, performing a stirring oratorio by English composer Edward Elgar.\n\nCalled The Dream of Gerontius\, it's often performed in England but rarely in America\, making this a unique opportunity to hear the work featured in the  movie The Choral starring Ralph Fiennes.\n\nThe performance will begin at 7:30 p.m. with An American Overture by another English composer\, Benjamin Britten.\n\nLSO Music Director Nicholas Bromilow\, who is English\, will conduct the Elgar. Assistant conductor Michael Roest\, who is American\, will conduct the Britten. Both are graduate students in the U-M School of Music\, Theatre & Dance's acclaimed orchestral conducting program. The UMS Choral Union is directed by Scott Hanoian.\n\nSpecial guest solo vocalists on the Elgar will be SMTD alumni and students Tyrese Byrd (Tenor) and Danielle Casós (Mezzo Soprano)\, and Paul Leland Hill (Bass-Baritone).\n\nThe LSO’s musicians include faculty\, staff\, students\, alumni and their family members from across U-M’s medical\, health sciences\, life sciences and engineering community. The LSO is part of Gifts of Art\, which brings the world of art and music to Michigan Medicine\, U-M’s academic medical center. The Choral Union is open to U-M students and adults from U-M and the community by audition\, and is part of UMS.
UID:146842-21899685@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/146842
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:UMS,Classical Music,Music,Musical Performance
LOCATION:Hill Auditorium
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260318T123834
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260414T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260414T213000
SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Open Mic Night
DESCRIPTION:Ypsilanti\, it’s time to take the stage! Open Mic Night at the Freighthouse is back\, and we want to hear from you. Singers\, poets\, rappers\, comedians\, and more — bring in your newest work\, dust off an old favorite\, or just come by to support your neighbors and fellow artists. Grab a drink\, settle in\, and see what Ypsi has to offer! Hosted by Ypsilanti’s own Rochelle Clark.
UID:146756-21899594@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/146756
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Community,Participatory,UMS,university musical society,Ypsilanti,Ypsilanti Freighthouse
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
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DTSTAMP:20260318T124358
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260416T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260416T213000
SUMMARY:Performance:Nidia Góngora
DESCRIPTION:Nidia Góngora brings the soul of Colombia’s Pacific coast to the stage. The singer/songwriter comes from Timbiquí\, influenced both by her mother’s love of traditional music and her father’s love of music from around the world. Her powerful\, earthy\, and luminous voice carries centuries of Afro-Colombian tradition in this dance-floor-ready event performed with marimba and percussion.
UID:146762-21899596@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/146762
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Ypsilanti Freighthouse,Ypsilanti,university musical society,UMS,Storytelling,Percussion,multicultural,Voice
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
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DTSTAMP:20250806T124039
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260417T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260417T210000
SUMMARY:Performance:Takács Quartet
DESCRIPTION:The always superlative Takács Quartet performs works by Franz Joseph Haydn and Claude Debussy\, as well as a UMS co-commission by U-M alumna Clarice Assad\, who is working on her second piece for the Quartet.\n\nAssad floats freely across musician idioms\, drawing on an array of sounds from Amazon forest wildlife to operatic arias. “We fell in love with Clarice Assad’s music when we toured her quintet CLASH for the Takács and accordionist Julian Labro\,” said the Quartet\, about the work UMS presented by Assad in 2021. “Clarice’s music inspires interactive spirit and theatrical energy. We feel liberated by her limitless imagination and can’t wait to dive into her new string quartet for us.”
UID:137191-21879896@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137191
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:classical music,concert,Strings,UMS,university musical society,Classical
LOCATION:Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) - Rackham Auditorium
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DTSTAMP:20250806T124523
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260418T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260418T210000
SUMMARY:Performance:The Complete Philip Glass Piano Etudes
DESCRIPTION:One of the most influential composers of our time\, Philip Glass has had an extraordinary and unprecedented impact on the musical and intellectual life of our age.\n\nGlass has written more than 30 operas\, 14 symphonies\, 13 concertos\, numerous soundtracks to films\, nine string quartets\, a growing body of work for solo piano and organ\, and collaborated with artists ranging from Twyla Tharp to Allen Ginsberg\, Leonard Cohen and David Bowie. He describes himself as a composer of “music with repetitive structures” and says that “If I’m to be remembered for anything\, it will probably be for the piano music\, because people can play it.”\n\nPhilip Glass conceived his collection of etudes as a set of 20 works for solo piano written to improve his own performance technique. His most personal body of work is a self-portrait of a life’s practice\, representing some of the most intimate and inventive music of Glass’s oeuvre. This distinctive concert offering of all 20 of Glass’s etudes features 10 pianists onstage\, each offering a unique musical tribute to this masterful composer.
UID:137192-21879897@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137192
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:university musical society,UMS,piano,hill auditorium,classical music,Classical,American Culture
LOCATION:Hill Auditorium
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DTSTAMP:20260318T125031
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260419T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260419T173000
SUMMARY:Performance:Voce Velata Youth Ensemble
DESCRIPTION:At this free community event\, meet the moment through music by composers Jessie Montgomery\, Florence Price\, Margaret Bonds\, and more. Voce Velata — a local youth-led chamber ensemble — joins professional musicians to explore cultural idioms that are in dialogue with both our past and present.
UID:146763-21899597@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/146763
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Chamber Music,Classical,Free,music,UMS,university musical society,Ypsilanti,Ypsilanti Freighthouse
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
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DTSTAMP:20250806T124855
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260421T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260421T210000
SUMMARY:Performance:Rhiannon Giddens
DESCRIPTION:“Few artists are so fearless and so ravenous in their exploration.” (Pitchfork)\n\nArtist\, composer\, author\, and educator Rhiannon Giddens has made a singular\, iconic career out of stretching her brand of folk music — with its miles-deep historical roots and contemporary sensibilities — into just about every field imaginable. She has centered her work on lifting up people whose contributions to American musical history have previously been overlooked or erased\, advocating for a more accurate understanding of the country’s musical origins through art.\n\nA founding member of the landmark Black string band Carolina Chocolate Drops and the all-female banjo supergroup Our Native Daughters\, Giddens is as much a curator as a creator\, serving as artistic director of the Silkroad Ensemble\, hosting a podcast that digs deep into opera arias\, publishing two children’s books\, and even performing music for the soundtrack of Red Dead Redemption II\, one of the best-selling video games of all time. Giddens takes the stage with her latest musical explorations for this capstone concert following her residency with the U-M Arts Initiative.
UID:137194-21879898@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137194
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:concert,university musical society,UMS,performance,music,African American,American Culture,hill auditorium,Folk Music
LOCATION:Hill Auditorium
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DTSTAMP:20250806T125119
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260422T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260422T210000
SUMMARY:Performance:Jean-Yves Thibaudet\, piano
DESCRIPTION:Short in length but limitless in imagination\, all 24 of Claude Debussy’s magical preludes for piano are performed by one of their supreme living interpreters\, Jean-Yves Thibaudet.\n\nDebussy opened up a new universe of sound in his two books of exquisitely conceived\, ravishingly colored musical cameos\, and few pianists inhabit that revolutionary universe more fully than Thibaudet. Each of these brief works is painted in subtle shades\, hazy harmonies\, and daring textures\, with inspiration ranging from paintings and travel to Dickens and Peter Pan.\n\nThibaudet has lived with Debussy’s Preludes for his “entire life\,” learning some as a child and recording the full set more than 30 years ago. He closes the 25/26 Choral Union Series with this legendary program in his first solo recital with UMS since 2009.
UID:137195-21879900@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/137195
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:UMS,piano,university musical society,music,hill auditorium,classical music,Classical
LOCATION:Hill Auditorium
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DTSTAMP:20260318T125630
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260422T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260422T213000
SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Line Dancing with Ashley
DESCRIPTION:Back by popular demand! Join us at the Freighthouse for two hours of beginner line dancing with Ashley\, set to country hits. Whether you’re a seasoned pro or have two left feet\, Ashley will have you moving in no time. All ages welcome\; no partner or prior experience required.
UID:146764-21899598@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/146764
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Community,dance,Participatory,Ypsilanti,Ypsilanti Freighthouse
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
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DTSTAMP:20260318T130022
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260424T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260424T213000
SUMMARY:Performance:Ian Fink
DESCRIPTION:Detroit-based Ian Finkelstein (aka Ian Fink) has been performing professionally since the age of 14\, when he was a member of Detroit’s Civic Jazz Orchestra. Equally active in Detroit’s house and techno communities\, Fink is a key force in the next generation of jazz innovators and brings together some of Detroit’s finest jazz artists for a small combo performance at the intimate Ypsilanti Freighthouse.
UID:146765-21899599@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/146765
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:concert,Jazz,Ypsilanti Freighthouse,Ypsilanti,university musical society,UMS
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
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DTSTAMP:20260318T130333
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260425T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260425T213000
SUMMARY:Performance:Beyond This Point: Musician Minus Instrument
DESCRIPTION:What does a musician become without their instrument? Can they use their skills in other ways\, and still make music?\n\nMusician Minus Instrument both breaks and expands what it means to be a musician and a performer. The “instruments” run the gamut from a loose jack cable to an IKEA desk lamp to simple bodies and voices. Beyond This Point\, composed of Chicago-based collaborative percussion/arts trio Adam Rosenblatt\, John Corkill\, and AJ Morrissey straddles the disciplines of music\, theater\, and science through gesture and ingenuity.
UID:146766-21899600@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/146766
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Ypsilanti Freighthouse,Ypsilanti,university musical society,UMS,Percussion,Health & Wellness,concert
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
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