2017-18 UMS Season (series brochure) by Sara Billmann

139th Season

2017——18

Looking Back——LEANING FORWARD

“I am so proud of what we have accomplished together over the past 30 years. None of it would have been possible without this active and curious community willing to both sustain the known and embrace the unknown. Thank you for all of your support.” K E N F I S C H E R —— UMS President

Looking Back——LEANING FORWARD

Urban Bush Women by Hayim Heron

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2017-18 PERFORMANCE CALENDAR

10 12 14 16 18

CHORAL UNION SERIES NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC WEEKEND INTERNATIONAL THEATER SERIES JAZZ SERIES CHAMBER ARTS SERIES

DANCE SERIES

UMS SONG REMIX

26 28 30

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4 WELCOME

CHORAL MUSIC SERIES ADDITIONAL EVENTS TRADITIONS & CROSSCURRENTS

RENEGADE

SERIES:YOU

SUPPORT UMS

PATRON SERVICES

SEAT MAPS

FOUNDATION AND UNIVERSIT Y SUPPORT

WELCOME ——TO UMS! It’s a bittersweet moment as I welcome you to the 201718 season, the 30th and final season planned while I am president of UMS. I will be retiring on June 30, 2017, and so this season is the first one in many years where I will have the privilege of attending performances as an audience member and not as UMS’s leader.

It’s been an extraordinary 30 years, and I am grateful for our audiences, our donors, and most of all, this incredible community that has embraced curiosity and creativity in so many ways. Most of all, I am grateful to those of you who opened my eyes to new experiences and who have patiently helped me learn and grow into this job.

Ken Fischer with future UMS president Matthew VanBesien in 2015

Just as I welcome you to this season, I hope you will join me in welcoming my successor, Matthew VanBesien, who begins as UMS President on July 1. Matthew has spent the past several years as president of the New York Philharmonic, and before that, as head of the Melbourne Symphony and the Houston Symphony. Having worked with Matthew in his role at the New York Philharmonic over the past several years, I can enthusiastically say: UMS’s future is in great hands. Your support of UMS, and of me, over the past 30 years truly means the world to me. It’s easy to look back over those three decades and see what great things we have done together. But now, I’m leaning forward with anticipation to see how UMS will continue to evolve, serving this community and university, and staking its claim as one of the country’s leading performing arts institutions. K E N F I S C H E R —— UMS President

Ken Fischer with former UMS president Gail Rector in 1987

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Subscribers receive great perks including:

Access to the best seats — at the best prices.

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WHY—— SUBSCRIBE?

Subscribers get first crack at the best seats in the house at the lowest prices of the year.

Free ticket exchanges. We know that planning ahead isn’t always a sure bet, so we offer subscribers fee-free exchanges up to 48 hours before a performance. The value of the tickets may be applied to another performance or will be held as UMS Credit until the end of the 2017-18 season. See details on page 39.

Discounts. When you subscribe, you’ll receive up to 25% off single ticket prices.

Installment billing. Your order of $300 or more placed by Friday, June 30 qualifies you for installment billing (credit card only, charged in two equal installments: when the order is received and during the first week in July).

And in addition to these tangible perks, subscribers also enjoy:

Personal fulfillment. Let’s be honest — it’s hard to find those moments of personal escape, and sometimes we have to schedule them into our lives. UMS takes you to a place where the imagination is thriving, and a UMS series allows you to invest in yourself while supporting the quality of life in our community.

Building relationships. When you attend with family or friends, you create memories with people who are important to you, whether you join up for dinner before or meet up at the performance. And even if you attend alone, you can build lasting friendships with others who love the arts.

Free parking. Order at least 8 events by Friday, June 30 and receive free parking in the Power Center structure (Fletcher Street), a close walk to most performance venues. Be sure to check the box on the order form if you wish to take advantage of this offer as parking passes are not automatically included. Note that U-M parking structures, including the Fletcher Street structure, may not be open for Michigan Theater performances.

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Discovery. We hope you’ll take a chance and discover something new this year — an artist you’ve never heard of, an art form you’ve never experienced, a hands-on experience through our highly-lauded education programs…With UMS, you can count on unexpected moments that will stay with you for a lifetime.

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2017——18 CALENDAR September

November

December

February

Fri 9/8 Season Opening Event!

Wed 11/1

Sat-Sun 12/2-3

Fri 2/2

Zakir Hussain & Dave Holland

Handel’s Messiah

Gabriel Kahane’s Book of Travelers

Butler, Bernstein & The Hot 9 Series:You

Jazz, Traditions & Crosscurrents, Series:You

Tue-Sun 9/12-17

Tue 11/7

Every Brilliant Thing Paines Plough

China NCPA Orchestra

Choral Music, Series:You

UMS Song Remix, Series:You

Fri 12/8

Bach Collegium Japan

Sat 2/3

Choral Union, Choral Music, Series:You

Estonian National Symphony

Lü Jia, conductor Wu Man, pipa Choral Union, Traditions & Crosscurrents, Series:You

January

October

Fri 11/10

What’s in a Song

Thur 10/5

Choral Music, Series:You

Starring Jonny Donahoe Theater, Series:You

Emerson String Quartet & Calidore String Quartet Chamber Arts, Series:You Fri-Sat 10/13-14

L’État de siege (State of Siege) Théâtre de la Ville Theater, Series:You Wed 10/18

Amir ElSaffar’s Rivers of Sound

Chanticleer Sun 11/12

The Knights with Avi Avital, Kinan Azmeh, and Colin Jacobsen Chamber Arts, Traditions & Crosscurrents, Series:You Wed 11/15

John McLaughlin & Jimmy Herring Revisiting Mahavishnu Jazz, Series:You

Traditions & Crosscurrents, Series:You

Bernstein's Philharmonic: A Centennial Festival

Fri 10/20

Fri 11/17

Ragamala Dance Company Written in Water

New York Philharmonic Mahler 5

Dance, Traditions & Crosscurrents, Series:You

Jaap van Zweden, conductor Choral Union, NY Phil Weekend, Series:You

Wed 10/25

Sat 11/18

Daniil Trifonov, piano

New York Philharmonic Young People’s Concert

Choral Union, Series:You Sun 10/29

Sphinx Virtuosi Chamber Arts, Series:You

Leonard Slatkin, conductor NY Phil Weekend, Series:You

Sun 2/4

Sat 1/6 An evening of song curated by Martin Katz UMS Song Remix, Series:You Fri 1/12

Urban Bush Women Hair and Other Stories Dance, Series:You Sun 1/14 Haydn Mega-Concert

St. Lawrence String Quartet Chamber Arts, Series:You

No Safety Net Theater for Unsafe Conversations in Safe Spaces January 17-February 4, 2018 Three productions — titles to be announced Sun 1/28

Maxim Vengerov, violin Choral Union, Series:You Wed 1/31

Janai Brugger, soprano Martin Katz, piano UMS Song Remix, Series:You

Sun 11/19

New York Philharmonic Strauss and Bernstein Leonard Slatkin, conductor Choral Union, NY Phil Weekend, Series:You 6

Neeme Järvi, conductor Choral Union, Series:You

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Schubert’s Winterreise Ian Bostridge, tenor UMS Song Remix, Series:You Thur-Sun 2/8-11

American Ballet Theatre Romeo & Juliet Dance, Series:You Sat 2/10

Joshua Bell, violin Choral Union, Series:You Wed 2/14

Emmanuel Pahud, flute Chamber Arts, Series:You Sat 2/17 Opera in Concert

The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess Choral Union, Series:You

—— IMPORTANT DATES March

April

Fri-Sat 3/9-10

Sun 4/8

Company Wang Ramirez Borderline

Artemis Quartet

Dance, Series:You

Tue 3/13

Jazz, Traditions & Crosscurrents, Series:You

Tenebrae Choral Music, Series:You

Sat 4/14

Wed 3/14

Renegade, Series:You

Piedmont Blues: A Search for Salvation

Sat 3/17

Jeannette Sorrell, conductor Choral Union, Series:You

Thur-Sun 3/22-25 Bubble Schmeisis Written and performed by Nick Cassenbaum Renegade, Series:You Fri-Sat 3/23-24

6/2/17 • Deadline for payment by U-M payroll deduction • Deadline for Choral Union & Chamber Arts subscribers to renew seat location • Seating priority deadline for donors and renewing subscribers to upgrade seats 6/30/17

Sun 4/15 Opera in Concert

Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo Apollo's Fire

Jazz, Traditions & Crosscurrents, Renegade, Series:You

• Subscriptions on sale to general public

Colin Stetson: Sorrow

Gerald Clayton & The Assembly Traditions & Crosscurrents, Series:You

Steve Lehman & Sélébéyone

4/24/17

Fri 4/13

Chamber Arts, Series:You

Elias Quartet

• Subscriptions on sale to renewing subscribers

Chamber Arts, Series:You

The Jazz Epistles featuring Abdullah Ibrahim & Hugh Masekela

Sun 3/11

4/17/17

• Deadline for installment billing and free parking options 7/10/17 • Group sales reservations open 7/31/17

Thur-Sat 4/19-21

• Donor Single Ticket Day (for donors of $250+)

Cold Blood A show by Michèle Anne De Mey, Jaco Van Dormael, and The Collectif Kiss and Cry Theater, Renegade, Series:You

8/7/17 • Public Single Ticket Day — tickets to all individual events on sale

Sun 4/22

Murray Perahia, piano

8/31/17

Choral Union, Series:You

• Student tickets on sale

Nederlands Dans Theater Dance, Renegade, Series:You

TO BE ANNOUNCED

Sat 3/31

M-Prize Winner

Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Chick Corea

Date to be announced in June Chamber Arts, Series:You

9/11/17 • Kids Club Tickets on sale 9/15/17 • Last day to order UMS subscriptions

Jazz, Series:You

UMS CHORAL UNION

SUMMER SINGS 2017

The UMS Choral Union invites you to take part in its 24th season of Summer Sings, popular, participatory evenings of choral music-making. Full details to be announced in May. Visit ums.org/summersings for more information.

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JUN

JUL

MON 7PM

S TA M P S AUDITORIUM

HILL AUDITORIUM

S TA M P S AUDITORIUM

Cold Blood by Julien Lambert

139th Season

The energy that pervades both the University of Michigan and Ann Arbor communities is palpable, and I am thrilled to be part of this dynamic season, which further reinforces why UMS is among the most admired performing arts institutions in the country.”

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“I am truly honored and excited to be joining the UMS team this fall.

M A T T H E W V A N B E S I E N —— UMS President Designate

Looking Back——LEANING FORWARD

139th Annual

CHORAL UNION ——SERIES Eleven Concerts in Hill Auditorium

Wu Man by Wind Music

Bernstein’s Philharmonic: 17 A Centennial Festival FRI

NOV

8PM

OCT

WED 7:30PM

Daniil Trifonov, piano PROGRAM

Mompou Tchaikovsky Rachmaninoff Chopin Chopin

NOV

SUN 3PM

Variations on a Theme of Chopin Un poco di Chopin, Op. 72, No. 15 Variations on a Theme of Chopin Nocturnes and Mazurkas Piano Sonata No. 2 in b-flat minor, Op. 35

TUE 7:30PM

Mahler

R. Strauss Bernstein

PROGRAM

One of China’s great orchestras, from the National Center for the Performing Arts in Beijing, makes its UMS debut with a new work commissioned by Qigang Chen, the music director of the 2008 Summer Olympics. American composer Lou Harrison’s pipa concerto shines a spotlight on the traditional Chinese lute, performed by the world’s reigning pipa virtuoso and Silk Road Ensemble member, Wu Man.

Don Quixote, Op. 35 Symphony No. 3 (“Kaddish”)

The New York Philharmonic returns for its second major UMS residency, this time with a focus on Leonard Bernstein, the celebrated New York Philharmonic music director and composer who was born 100 years ago. Two of the concerts are on the Choral Union Series; the orchestra will also host dozens of free educational activities and a special “Young People’s Concert” (see page 13 for details).

Lü Jia, conductor Wu Man, pipa

New Work Concerto for Pipa and String Orchestra Symphony No. 4 in e minor, Op. 98

Symphony No. 5

PROGRAM (SUN 11/19)

China NCPA Orchestra

Qigang Chen Harrison Brahms

Jaap van Zweden, conductor (Fri 11/17) Leonard Slatkin, conductor (Sun 11/19) UMS Choral Union Michigan State University Children’s Choir Cynthia Phelps, principal viola Carter Brey, principal cello PROGRAM (FRI 11/17)

“He is, no other word, a phenomenon. Like Rachmaninoff, he is both a dazzling pianist and composer.” (The Guardian) The 26-year old Daniil Trifonov made his UMS debut with the Montreal Symphony in 2016 and returns for his first UMS recital with a program that explores Chopin and other composers he inspired. NOV

New York Philharmonic Residency

DEC

FRI 8PM

Bach Collegium Japan Masaaki Suzuki, conductor PROGRAM

J.S. Bach

The Christmas Oratorio, BWV 248

Presenting Sponsor: Ilene H. Forsyth Choral Union Endowment Fund, which supports an annual UMS Choral Union performance

Johann Sebastian Bach wrote over 200 church cantatas, and the Bach Collegium Japan is intent on performing every one of them — and in fact did so, in chronological order, from 1995-2013. They bring their signature crispness and purity to a beloved masterpiece, highlighting the polyphonic wonder of Bach’s rich, imaginative cantatas that were written to celebrate Jesus’ birth.

ELEVEN CONCERTS IN HILL AUDITORIUM

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JAN

28 SUN 4PM

Maxim Vengerov, violin Roustem Saïtkoulov, piano

FEB

S AT 7:30PM

PROGRAM

Schubert Beethoven Ravel Ysaÿe Ernst Paganini

Violin Sonata in A Major, Op. Posth. 162, D. 574 Violin Sonata No. 7 in c minor, Op. 30, No. 2 Violin Sonata No. 2 in G Major Sonata for Solo Violin in E Major, Op. 27, No. 6 “The Last Rose of Summer” Variations Variations on “I Palpiti,” Op. 13 (arr. Fritz Kreisler)

S AT 8PM

Estonian National Symphony Orchestra Neeme Järvi, conductor Garrick Ohlsson, piano

Eller Brahms Tubin

APR

SUN 4PM

PROGRAM

Dawn Piano Concerto No. 1 in d minor, Op. 15 Symphony No. 5 in b minor

S AT 8PM

By George Gershwin, DuBose and Dorothy Heyward, and Ira Gershwin U-M School of Music, Theatre & Dance Choruses University Symphony Orchestra Kenneth Kiesler, conductor

Opera in Concert

Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo Apollo’s Fire / The Cleveland Baroque Orchestra Jeannette Sorrell, conductor Karim Sulayman, Orfeo Erica Schuller, Eurydice

Former Detroit Symphony Orchestra music director Neeme Järvi returns to Southeast Michigan with the Estonian National Symphony Orchestra. Järvi leads the ensemble in its UMS debut with a program steeped in the music of Estonian composers, including the beautiful fifth symphony of Eduard Tubin, who fled to Stockholm in 1944 when the Soviet Union occupied Estonia. Garrick Ohlsson, a musician of magisterial interpretive and technical prowess, joins the orchestra for Brahms’s first piano concerto. FEB

The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess

UMS and the U-M School of Music, Theatre & Dance (SMTD) present the U-M Gershwin Initiative’s scholarly edition of this landmark score. Porgy and Bess is without rival as the most famous 20th-century American opera. Since its 1935 debut, this story of a disabled beggar transformed by the unexpected love of Bess has been performed worldwide and features such well-known songs as “I Got Plenty o’ Nuttin’,” “My Man’s Gone Now,” “Summertime,” and “It Ain’t Necessarily So.” In addition to the concert, UMS and SMTD will host related symposia and other educational activities as part of an ongoing scholarly examination of the art of George and Ira Gershwin.

Universally hailed as one of the world’s finest musicians, Maxim Vengerov made his public debut at age 5 and performed the Mendelssohn Concerto at age 7. Vengerov is inspired by many different styles of music and brings his tireless search for new means of creative expression to his first UMS recital appearance in nearly 20 years. FEB

Opera in Concert

“It’s hard to say who wrote the very first opera, but there’s little doubt about the first, truly great one — it’s Monteverdi’s 1607 masterpiece, L’Orfeo.” (National Public Radio) As one of the earliest examples of the form, and certainly the earliest that still has a place in the present repertoire 400 years later, L’Orfeo sets to music the famous myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, whose long-awaited wedding night ends in tragedy when Eurydice is bitten by a poisonous snake and Orfeo storms the gates of hell to rescue her. Jeannette Sorrell leads a company of 40 performers in this semi-staged production with period dancers. Performed in Italian with English supertitles.

Joshua Bell, violin Sam Haywood, piano

Joshua Bell enchants audiences with his breathtaking virtuosity and charismatic stage presence. His restless curiosity, passion, and multi-faceted musical interests have developed and deepened since he was first spotted plucking tunes with rubber bands stretched around the handles of his dresser drawers at age four. Though unrecognized during a morning rush-hour performance in the DC Metro documented by the Washington Post, his concerts regularly draw rockconcert enthusiasm from audiences, despite — or perhaps because of — his down-to-earth personality. Supporting Sponsor: Karl V. Hauser and Ilene H. Forsyth Choral Union Endowment Fund, which partially supports an annual UMS Choral Union performance

APR

22 SUN 4PM

Murray Perahia, piano Murray Perahia’s place in the pantheon of great musicians is indisputable. With 12 UMS appearances since his debut over 40 years ago, he is one of the most treasured artists to appear on our series and consistently delivers performances that audiences remember years, or even decades, later. With his particular kind of magic, each and every performance is a revelation.

SUBSCRIBE——11 CONCERTS MAIN FLOOR

$820 / $725 / $675

MEZZANINE

$650 / $550

B A L C O N Y

$430 / $350 / $265 / $168

For further details, visit ums.org or call 734.764.2538.

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CHORAL UNION SERIES

Bernstein’s Philharmonic: A Centennial Festival

NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC ——WEEKEND Three Concerts in Hill Auditorium

The New York Philharmonic returns for its second major UMS residency, this time with a focus on Leonard Bernstein, the celebrated New York Philharmonic music director and composer who was born 100 years ago. Full details about related educational activities will be announced this fall.

THREE CONCERTS IN HILL AUDITORIUM

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Leonard Bernstein courtesy of the New York Philharmonic Leon Levy Digital Archives

Jaap van Zweden, music director designate of the New York Philharmonic. Photo by Bert Hulselmans.

NOV

FRI 8PM

New York Philharmonic Jaap van Zweden, conductor PROGRAM

Mahler

Symphony No. 5

The first concert of the New York Philharmonic residency weekend features the music of Gustav Mahler, also a music director of the New York Philharmonic (1909-11), whose music Bernstein championed and brought back into the symphonic canon.

NOV

S AT 2PM

New York Philharmonic Young People’s Concert Leonard Slatkin, conductor The New York Philharmonic’s Young People’s Concerts have run uninterrupted since 1926, but they received a new level of attention when Leonard Bernstein arrived as music director in 1958. During the next 14 years, Bernstein presented 53 of these concerts, broadcast nationally on CBS. Leonard Slatkin takes the helm for this special one-hour celebration of Leonard Bernstein which, though titled a “Young People’s Concert,” will be appreciated and enjoyed by audiences of all ages.

NOV

SUN 3PM

New York Philharmonic Leonard Slatkin, conductor UMS Choral Union Michigan State University Children’s Choir Cynthia Phelps, principal viola Carter Brey, principal cello PROGRAM

R. Strauss Bernstein

Don Quixote, Op. 35 Symphony No. 3 (“Kaddish”)

The final weekend concert celebrating Leonard Bernstein’s centenary includes Bernstein’s own “Kaddish” Symphony, a work that has never been performed on a UMS concert.

SUBSCRIBE——3 CONCERTS MAIN FLOOR

$260 / $210 / $190

MEZZANINE

$180 / $150

BALCONY*

$130 / $115 / $80

For further details, visit ums.org or call 734.764.2538. * includes mezzanine seats for Young People’s Concert

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NYPHIL WEEKEND

International

THEATER ——SERIES

T H R E E P E R F O R M A N C E S I N A R T H U R M I L L E R T H E AT R E A N D T H E P O W E R C E N T E R

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Théâtre de la Ville by Christophe Dessaigne

SEP

12-17 TUE-SUN ARTHUR MILLER T H E AT R E

Every Brilliant Thing A Paines Plough and Pentabus Theatre Company production Starring Jonny Donahoe

OCT

13-14

F R I - S AT POWER CENTER

"You’re six years old. Mum’s in hospital. Dad says she’s ‘done something stupid.’ She finds it hard to be happy. So you start to make a list of everything that’s brilliant about the world. Everything that’s worth living for.

You leave it on her pillow. You know she’s read it because she’s corrected your spelling. Soon, the list will take on a life of its own."

Performances are at 7:30 pm on Tuesday-Thursday; 8 pm on Friday; 5 pm and 8 pm on Saturday; and 2 pm on Sunday.

Mark Your Calendars!

No Safety Net Theater for Unsafe Conversations in Safe Spaces Arthur Miller Theatre January 17-February 4, 2018

"The dangers of life are infinite, and among them is safety." -Goethe

The full program of artists, companies, and contextual conversation will be announced in Fall 2017.

The stage can be a powerful vehicle for expressions of resistance, social unrest, and political change. And artists on stage ask us to face complexity and provoke thinking that can unsettle and even hurt. The theater’s mirror asks us to face intricate issues that we might otherwise prefer to avoid. There are no easy answers, and there are no clear truths. Opinion, bias, training, and status all take center stage in this artistic crucible. UMS’s 2017-18 season will include a three-week look at stage work that embraces the long theatrical legacy of both intervening in pressing social issues and drawing diverse voices into focused conversation. We all may be asked to reconsider our notions of the world. We all will certainly be challenged to learn and examine what we think we already know. Through artistic presentation on stage, and an equal helping of discussion and inquiry off the stage, UMS will create a community platform for important dialogue, and an invocation to move beyond our personal comfort zones and lean into the complexities of living in a global society. The hoped-for outcome? Better understanding. Better resilience. And a better ability to face the world we live in.

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Directed by Emmanuel Demarcy-Mota Written by Albert Camus After exciting stage productions of Ionesco’s Rhinocéros in 2012 and Pirandello’s Six Characters in Search of an Author in 2014, Théâtre de la Ville returns with L’État de siege (State of Siege), a dizzying allegory created by Albert Camus. In this nightmarish future, a city is reduced to the silence and submission of authority under the leadership of a character called “Le Peste” (The Plague). The Plague brings order, administration, lists, records, statistics, and persecution — until a young man, Diego, organizes a revolt. Written in 1948, State of Siege takes place in Cádiz, Spain and reflects the creation of a corrupt, totalitarian regime and the necessity of resistance. Performed in French with English supertitles.

1. Ice Cream 2. Kung Fu Movies 3. Burning Things 4. Laughing so hard you shoot milk out your nose 5. Construction cranes 6. Me

This new play about depression and the lengths we will go to for those we love was commissioned by Paines Plough, one of the UK’s leading theater companies devoted to new writing. The show, which had a 16-week run Off-Broadway in 2014, “may be the funniest show about depression you’ve ever seen…about finding reasons to live rather than reasons to die. And those reasons can be as minute as wearing a cape and as big as falling in love.” (New York Post)

L’État de siege (State of Siege) Théâtre de la Ville

Performances are at 8 pm.

APR

19-21 T H U - S AT POWER CENTER

Cold Blood A show by Michèle Anne De Mey, Jaco Van Dormael, and The Collectif Kiss and Cry Texts by Thomas Gunzig MARS, Astragales Asbl, and the Théâtre de Namur, producers After the resounding success of Kiss & Cry (2014-15 season), the magnificent creative team of Charleroi Danses in Belgium brings Cold Blood, a poetic journey that is filmed before your very eyes. The performance explores the miniscule, surveying the worlds where life is viewed through a kaleidoscope, with fingers cavorting in a delightful miniature setting. In a hypnotic story laced with offbeat humor, Cold Blood explores the uncertain, yet inevitable, last moments we experience before we die. Cold Blood is neither a sequel nor an epilogue to Kiss & Cry but utilizes the same storytelling techniques, combining film, dancing fingers, music, and theater in brilliant and surprising ways. “If the team came back to Quebec ten times, we would rush to see them ten times. And would encourage you to do the same. Because their work is absolutely masterful.” (Le Devoir, Montreal) Performances are at 7:30 pm on Thursday and 8 pm on Friday and Saturday.

SUBSCRIBE——3 EVENTS MAIN FLOOR

$140

B A L C O N Y

$125

For further details, visit ums.org or call 734.764.2538. The International Theater Series does not include the three plays presented in the “No Safety Net” festival. Theater subscribers will receive priority in ordering tickets for these events when they are announced.

I N T E R N AT I O N A L T H E AT E R S E R I E S

24th Annual

JAZZ ——SERIES

Hugh Masekela

NOV

WED 7:30PM MICHIGAN T H E AT E R

Zakir Hussain & Dave Holland Zakir Hussain, tabla Dave Holland, bass Shankar Mahadevan, vocals Chris Potter, saxophones Sanjay Divecha, guitars Louiz Banks, piano and keyboards Eric Harland, drums

F I V E C O N C E R T S I N VA R I O U S V E N U E S

This special collaboration between Zakir Hussain, a living master of the 3,000-year-old tabla percussion tradition, and distinguished bassist and 2017 NEA Jazz Master Dave Holland demonstrates the many directions of inspiration between the idioms of jazz and Indian music. The influence of Indian classical music on jazz is widely known, but fewer people are aware of how jazz influenced the popular music of India. Jazz first came to India by way of the Hollywood musicals of the 1930s and ’40s and quickly influenced the music of India’s burgeoning film industry; the improvisational nature of jazz was familiar to Indian composers and musicians who found a way to incorporate jazz harmonies and chord progressions into their work.

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NOV

WED 7:30PM MICHIGAN T H E AT E R

John McLaughlin & Jimmy Herring John McLaughlin Farewell US Tour Meeting of the Spirits: Music of Mahavishnu Orchestra

MAR

S AT 8PM HILL AUDITORIUM

John McLaughlin and the 4th Dimension Jimmy Herring and The Invisible Whip On this tour, which features the first extended collaboration between two of the world’s foremost improvising artists, guitarist John McLaughlin revisits the legacy of his legendary Mahavishnu Orchestra with his co-headliner, virtuoso guitarist Jimmy Herring. Over five decades, McLaughlin has become one of improvised music’s most influential guitarists, composers, and bandleaders. Herring has been at the creative forefront of the thriving American rockjam band movement for 25 years as lead guitarist of Widespread Panic. After separate sets by the two headliners with their own bands, they join forces for an expansive closing jam, revisiting the pioneering music that McLaughlin introduced in the 1970s with his deeply influential, genre-defying Mahavishnu Orchestra. This tour marks the 75-year-old McLaughlin’s first extensive US tour in seven years and his last American performances. “To play the music of Mahavishnu is not for the faint-hearted,” says McLaughlin. “In fact, among the only people I know who have succeeded in interpreting Mahavishnu music are my two all-time favorite guitarists: Jimmy Herring and Jeff Beck.” MAR

S AT 9PM EL CLUB (4114 VERNOR H W Y, D E T R O I T )

Steve Lehman & Sélébéyone HPrizm (aka High Priest), vocals (English) Gaston Bandimic, vocals (Wolof) Steve Lehman, alto saxophone/electronics Maciek Lasserre, soprano saxophone/electronics Carlos Homs, keyboards Drew Gress, bass Damion Reid, drums Though hip-hop and jazz are clearly no strangers to one another, Sélébéyone takes the conversation between jazz and hip-hop to “feverish new heights” (The WIRE), drawing from Senegalese rap, modern jazz, live electronics, and underground hip-hop to create a unique form of urban experimentalism. Composer and saxophonist Steve Lehman, a “quietly dazzling saxophonist” (New York Times), has built a career creating innovative new music that packs a visceral wallop. He leads this international ensemble, which includes rappers HPrizm, a legend of New York’s underground hip-hop scene, and Gaston Bandimic, one of Senegal’s most distinctive young rap stars, in a unique hybrid that juxtaposes English and Wolof against changing meters and asymmetrical rhythms, giving rise to the development of a whole new musical universe. In Wolof, “sélébéyone” refers to an intersection, where two fixed entities meet and transform themselves into something previously unknown. “The international jazz-rap project Sélébéyone is a rare case of two genres mixing at their most far-out, abstract corners.” (Pitchfork) A co-presentation with El Club

139TH SEASON

APR

FRI 8PM MICHIGAN T H E AT E R

The Music of Chick Corea

Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Chick Corea Surprise! This perennial favorite is back, but this time with jazz pianist Chick Corea at the helm. Corea’s staggering career, spanning more than 50 years, is a torrent of creative and professional highlights. His last UMS appearance, with Herbie Hancock, was a sellout, and demonstrated why the New York Times called him “a luminary, ebullient and eternally youthful.” Corea’s fearless creative spirit has earned him a slew of accolades along the way, including the country’s highest honor for a jazz artist when he was named an NEA Jazz Master in 2006. “The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra is ridiculously tight, executing tricky maneuvers like a fighter jet.” (DownBeat)

The Jazz Epistles featuring Abdullah Ibrahim and Hugh Masekela Abdullah Ibrahim, piano Hugh Masekela, trumpet and flugelhorn Cleave Guyton, alto saxophone, flute, and clarinet Lance Bryant, tenor saxophone Marshall McDonald, baritone saxophone Andrae Murchison, trombone and trumpet Noah Jackson, cello and bass Will Terrill, drums “Hugh Masekela creates an instant party, leading from vocals and flugelhorn like a South African Louis Armstrong.” (Guardian) The two iconic South African jazz legends Abdullah Ibrahim and Hugh Masekela reunite and perform on the same stage for the first time in 56 years. They come together for a historic concert to tell the story of The Jazz Epistles, the first all-black jazz group in South Africa and arguably the most important jazz (bebop) recording in the country’s history. This music was almost lost forever — only 500 copies were pressed in 1959, buried, and rediscovered decades later after the tyranny of apartheid. These giants of South African jazz perform music from the seminal Jazz Epistles recording alongside music from both of their illustrious careers. “[Ibrahim] glowed with a sound reminiscent of that of [his] most famous patron, Duke Ellington.” (Guardian)

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JAZZ SERIES

55th Annual

CHAMBER ARTS ——SERIES Eight concerts in Rackham Auditorium

The Knights by Sarah Small

OCT

THU 7:30PM

Emerson String Quartet Calidore String Quartet PROGRAM

R. Strauss Bruckner Shostakovich Mendelssohn

String Sextet (“Intermezzo”) from Capriccio String Quintet in F Major, WAB 112 (excerpts) Two Pieces for String Octet, Op. 11 Octet in E-flat Major, Op. 20

Members of the Calidore String Quartet, the inaugural M-Prize winner who made their UMS debut in February, join their mentors, the Emerson String Quartet, in a program that features works for larger string ensembles. Presenting Sponsor: Ilene H. Forsyth Chamber Arts Endowment Fund, which supports an annual UMS Chamber Arts performance

OCT

SUN 4PM

Sphinx Virtuosi PROGRAM

Vivaldi Beethoven Vaughan Williams Michael Abels Jimmy López

Concerto for Four Violins and Cello, RV 580 Grosse Fuge, Op. 133 Concerto Grosso Delights and Dances Guardian of the Horizon

NOV

The Knights

SUN 4PM

with Avi Avital, mandolin Kinan Azmeh, clarinet Colin Jacobsen, violin

PROGRAM

Azmeh/Avital/Knights Purcell Giovanni Sollima Osvaldo Golijov J.S. Bach

Improvisation Upon One Note Fantasia Upon One Note “La Camera Bianca” from Viaggio in Italia Lullaby and Doina Concerto No. 1 for Harpsichord, Strings, and Continuo in d minor, BWV 1052 Schubert/Mendelssohn Songs without Words Kinan Azmeh Triple Concerto for Clarinet, Mandolin & Violin Traditional Middle Eastern, Balkan, and klezmer music, arranged and transcribed by the artists

The trailblazing Israeli mandolin virtuoso Avi Avital and soulful Syrian clarinetist and composer Kinan Azmeh team up with The Knights for an extraordinary performance grounded in the classical tradition and crossing boundaries into the worlds of Middle Eastern, Balkan, klezmer, and jazz. “Few ensembles are as adept at mixing old and new as the dynamic Brooklyn orchestra The Knights,” says the New Yorker, and when Avital and Azmeh join the group, the result is “nothing short of electric.” (New York Times)

In celebration of the 20th anniversary of the Sphinx Organization, this program offers a collection of concerti through the ages, including both beloved masterpieces and new works. The group’s 18 members are all alumni of the Sphinx Competition, which supports racial diversity in classical music.

EIGHT CONCERTS IN RACKHAM AUDITORIUM

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JAN

SUN 2PM

Haydn Mega-Concert

St. Lawrence String Quartet ALL-HAYDN PROGRAM

String Quartet No. 1 in E-flat Major String Quartet No. 2 in C Major String Quartet No. 3 in g minor String Quartet No. 4 in D Major String Quartet No. 5 in f minor String Quartet No. 6 in A Major

Geoff Nuttall, first violinist with the St. Lawrence String Quartet, is as well known for the insightful commentary he provides about the works the Quartet performs as he is for his violin playing. Haydn has been a passion for the Quartet since their founding in 1989, and they think of the composer less as the source of “pleasant opening music” than as a “radical, passionate innovator.” In this special, immersive concert, the SLSQ performs all six of Haydn’s Op. 20 string quartets, with two intermissions (including a meal break). “No other North American quartet plays the music of Haydn with more intelligence, expressivity, and force,” says the New Yorker. Presenting Sponsor: Carl Cohen, whose bequest will establish an endowment to support a Chamber Arts performance in perpetuity

FEB

WED 7:30PM

Emmanuel Pahud, flute Alessio Bax, piano

PROGRAM

Mozart Schubert Schumann Mendelssohn

Violin Sonata in C Major, K. 296 (arr. Pahud) Arpeggione Sonata in a minor, D. 821 Fantasy Pieces, Op. 73 Violin Sonata in F Major (arr. Pahud)

APR

SUN 4PM

Artemis Quartet PROGRAM

Mozart Bartók Schumann

Quartet No. 23 in F Major, K. 590 Quartet No. 2, Op. 17 Quartet in a minor, Op. 41, No. 1

Named after the Greek goddess of hunt and wilderness, the Artemis Quartet was founded in 1989 but took a full 10 years before it performed its first concerts for a live audience. This dedication to excellence has not wavered, and their playing is known for its “apparently effortless grace and effervescent athleticism.” (BBC) Based in Berlin, it programs its own series at the Berlin Philharmonie and the Vienna Konzerthaus, as well as in Munich and Amsterdam.

M-Prize Winner Artist and Date to be announced The grand prize winner of the University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance’s M-Prize will be featured on the UMS Chamber Arts series. The ensemble will be identified at the M-Prize finals on May 4, and a date for their UMS concert announced in late June. M-Prize is an international chamber arts competition for ensembles of up to eight musicians all under the age of 40. Chamber Arts subscribers will be notified as soon as a date is determined for the winning ensemble’s UMS appearance. Presenting Sponsor: Helmut F. and Candis J. Stern Endowment Fund, which supports an annual UMS Chamber Arts performance

A star flutist only comes around once or twice in a generation — and it’s fair to say that this generation’s strongest candidate is the Swiss-born Emmanuel Pahud. One of today’s most adventurous musicians, Pahud joined the Berlin Philharmonic as principal flute under Claudio Abbado at age 22, a position he still holds today. For this debut recital, he performs arrangements of sonatas written for other instruments, allowing audiences to experience the works from a completely different soundscape. MAR

SUN 4PM

Elias Quartet PROGRAM

Schubert Dvořák Schubert

Quartettsatz in c minor, D. 703 Quartet No. 14 in A-flat Major, Op. 105 Quartet No. 14 in d minor, D. 810 (“Death and the Maiden”)

After a three-year project exploring all of Beethoven’s string quartets, the Elias Quartet decided to consider how composers after Beethoven lived up to his monumental legacy. Some of them approached their string quartets by expanding his musical language; others took a more poetic and imaginative turn of phrase. This particular program focuses on the freshness and fluidity of the music of Schubert and Dvořák, both of whom had a particular gift for writing melodies that seemed to spring from an endless well of inspiration.

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CHAMBER ARTS SERIES

27th Annual

DANCE ——SERIES

F I V E P E R F O R M A N C E S AT T H E P O W E R C E N T E R AND THE DETROIT OPERA HOUSE

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Nederlands Dans Theater Singulière Odyssée by Rahi Rezvani

OCT

FRI 8PM POWER CENTER

Written in Water

Ragamala Dance Company Ranee and Aparna Ramaswamy, co-artistic directors Live music performed and written by Amir ElSaffar In Written in Water, Ranee and Aparna Ramaswamy explore the concept of spiritual ascension through the 2nd-century Indian board game Paramapadam (upon which Snakes & Ladders is based), the 12th century Sufi text The Conference of the Birds, and the Hindu mythological story Ksheerabthi Madanam. The performance unfolds upon large-scale paintings by Chennai-based visual artist Keshav, projected on the stage floor. Dancers activate the space by negotiating snakes and ladders, representing the heights of ecstasy and the depths of longing in Hindu and Sufi thought. The live music for Written in Water is composed and performed by Amir ElSaffar, interwoven with original South Indian Carnatic compositions by Prema Ramamurthy. Ragamala Dance Company is “providing some of the most transcendent experiences that dance has to offer.” (New York Times)

MAR

9-10 F R I - S AT 8PM POWER CENTER

FRI 8PM POWER CENTER

FEB

8-10 T H U - S AT 7:30PM

FEB

SUN 2:30PM DETROIT OPERA HOUSE

Hair & Other Stories

Urban Bush Women Jawole Zollar, founder “The Urban Bush Women are committed, triple-threat performers who dance, sing, and act with a sometimes searing sense of truthfulness.” (New York Times) Founded by Jawole Zollar, the company burst onto the dance scene in 1984 and has made an indelible mark on the field with bold, innovative, and demanding works that challenge long-held assumptions about women, people of color, body types, styles of movement, society, history, and appropriate content for the stage. Hair & Other Stories is a multidisciplinary evening-length work that addresses matters of race, gender identity, and economic inequality through the lens of hair, primarily that of African-American women.

Romeo and Juliet

American Ballet Theatre Kevin Mackenzie, artistic director Choreography by Kenneth MacMillan Music by Sergei Prokofiev Set and costumes by Nicholas Georgiadis Lighting by Thomas R. Skelton Kenneth MacMillan’s masterful interpretation of Shakespeare’s enduring romantic tragedy has become one of ABT’s signature productions. The story of Verona’s tragic star-crossed lovers is woven throughout a dance tapestry rich in character nuance and sensuality, with Renaissance Italy providing a sumptuous and periodperfect background. Sergei Prokofiev’s instantly recognizable music underscores the lyric beauty and passion of this beloved ballet. UMS and Michigan Opera Theatre co-present American Ballet Theatre as part of an extended partnership to bring dance to southeastern Michigan. Casting to be announced. UMS will provide round-trip luxury coach service for a nominal fee on Thursday and Friday. Funded in part by the Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan

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Company Wang Ramirez Honji Wang and Sébastien Ramirez, dancers and choreographers Original music by Jean-Philippe Barrios (aka Lacrymoboy) A couple both onstage and in real life, Sébastien Ramirez, a Frenchman with Spanish parents, and Honji Wang, a German woman with a Korean mother, make their UMS debut with Borderline. Their dance backgrounds could hardly be more different — Ramirez was a B-boy while Wang was classically trained — but they share a love of other dance styles and an interest in experimentation. In Borderline, the six dancers toy with the forces of gravity through a subtle and sophisticated use of rigging, creating a powerful evening of breathtaking movement, physical energy, and spiritual serenity. “The contemporary dance revolution is taking place. And dancers like Sébastien Ramirez and Honji Wang are on the frontlines.” (L’Indépendant)

MAR

JAN

Borderline

23-24 F R I - S AT 8PM POWER CENTER

Nederlands Dans Theater Paul Lightfoot, artistic director PROGRAM

Lightfoot/León Pite Lightfoot/León

Shoot the Moon The Statement Singulière Odyssée

Widely considered the Berlin Philharmonic of the dance world, Nederlands Dans Theater has forged a path between classical ballet and American modern dance, creating a modern ballet style that is widely admired across the world. Many NDT members have gone on to found companies around the world, including Nacho Duato, Ohad Naharin, and Crystal Pite. Pite’s 2016 work, “The Statement,” features two men and two women dealing with a conflict in a boardroom setting, with Jonathan Young (from the 2016-17 season’s Betroffenheit) providing the script/score. “Shoot the Moon” is a heartbreaking view of three different love stories deteriorating behind closed doors in a revolving set of three rooms, set to music by Philip Glass. “Think ballet line and virtuosity fused with modern dance weight and power. Think a commitment to the deepest European art-making traditions with no pandering to pop culture. Above all, think a super-ensemble: dancers who can form a superb corps one moment and perform just as superbly as principals the next.” (Los Angeles Times)

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DANCE SERIES

Looking Back

Gerald Clayton

139th Season

2017——18

LEANING FORWARD

Nederlands Dans Theater by Rahi Rezvani

A Biennial Songfest

UMS—— SONG REMIX Four performances in Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre

FOUR PERFORMANCES I N LY D I A M E N D E L S S O H N T H E AT R E

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Janai Brugger by Dario Acosta

JAN

S AT 8PM

What’s in a Song Martin Katz, piano and curator

FEB

FRI 8PM

One of the highlights of the 2015-16 UMS season was the opening of the first Song Biennial, in which Martin Katz curated a wonderful evening featuring six singers examining the components of a song. This second edition features a different cast of characters, with Katz’s inimitable knowledge of the vast song repertoire guiding the evening. Singers to be announced.

WED 7:30PM

Janai Brugger, soprano Martin Katz, piano Winner of Placido Domingo’s prestigious Operalia competition in 2012 and a true standout in the What’s in a Song event that launched the UMS Song Biennial two years ago, soprano Janai Brugger has quickly become one of the Metropolitan Opera’s go-to singers, with four roles this past season. The U-M alumna, who studied with the late Shirley Verrett, also won the Kennedy Center’s 2016 Marian Anderson Vocal Award and was identified by Opera News as one of their top 25 “brilliant young artists” in 2015. At the Metropolitan Opera competition in 2012, the New York Times wrote, “Only one singer inspired me to look forward to a full performance. Janai Brugger sang with poise and style, quiet intensity, and superb phrasing…The emotion was in her sound, which projected, with silvery ease, relaxed but focused bliss and then haunting melancholy.” Brugger, joined by pianist Martin Katz, makes her UMS recital debut with this performance.

Written and performed by Gabriel Kahane Directed by Daniel Fish The morning after the 2016 presidential election, singer-songwriter Gabriel Kahane packed a suitcase and set out, with no cell phone or internet connection, on a 9,000-mile railway journey around the US, in an attempt to better understand his country. Over the course of two weeks spent talking to strangers in Amtrak dining cars, he encountered an array of fellow citizens — cowboys, postmasters, religious luddites, national park conservationists, drifters, and seasteading software engineers — who, taken together, amount to nothing less than an American mosaic. At a distance from his daily routine, Kahane meditated on the intimacy and immediacy of train culture, and the ways in which it offers a stark contrast to — and relief from — the fragmentation, polarization, and obsession with efficiency that have come to embody contemporary American society. The highly anticipated follow-up to his acclaimed stage piece, The Ambassador, Gabriel Kahane’s Book of Travelers offers an expansive exploration of American history, regionalism, and the history of travel itself, all couched in a collection of songs as personal as any Kahane has written.

Presenting Sponsors: Maurice and Linda Binkow Vocal and Chamber Arts Endowment Fund

JAN

Gabriel Kahane’s Book of Travelers

FEB

SUN 4PM

Schubert’s Winterreise Ian Bostridge, tenor Julius Drake, piano

“Even as a child, I was unnaturally obsessed with love and death,” says celebrated English tenor Ian Bostridge. “So in that sense, I really was born to sing lieder.” Bostridge’s fascination with Schubert’s Winterreise extends beyond the hundreds of performances he has given of the 24-song cycle; the former historian has also written a book, Schubert’s Winter Journey: Anatomy of an Obsession. The book is an engrossing read, but the live performance of a winter journey across a landscape of lost love is not to be missed. Of recent performances in England, the Financial Times observed that “Bostridge gets inside the very soul of Schubert’s tortured winter traveler.” The Telegraph raved, “This was without doubt the most extraordinary, riveting, uncanny performance of Schubert’s great song-cycle I have ever witnessed.” Presenting Sponsors: Maurice and Linda Binkow Vocal and Chamber Arts Endowment Fund

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Ian Bostridge by Sim Canetty-Clarke

UMS SONG REMIX: A BIENNIAL SONGFEST

CHORAL MUSIC ——SERIES

FOUR PERFORMANCES IN HILL AUDITORIUM & S T. F R A N C I S O F A S S I S I C AT H O L I C C H U R C H

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Tenebrae by Chris O'Donovan

NOV

FRI 8PM HILL AUDITORIUM

DEC

S AT 8PM

DEC

SUN 2PM HILL AUDITORIUM

DEC

FRI 8PM HILL AUDITORIUM

Chanticleer William Fred Scott, music director Called “the world’s reigning male chorus” by the New Yorker, the Grammy Award-winning ensemble Chanticleer celebrates its 40th season in 2017-18. The ensemble is known around the world as an “orchestra of voices” for the seamless blend of its 12 male voices, ranging from soprano to bass, as well as its original interpretations of vocal literature that run the gamut from Gregorian chant to jazz and popular genres. Named for the “clearsinging” rooster in Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, “Chanticleer fascinates and enthralls for much the same reason a fine chocolate or a Rolls Royce does: through luxurious perfection.” (Los Angeles Times)

Handel’s Messiah UMS Choral Union Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra Scott Hanoian, conductor The tradition that connects Handel’s Messiah with the Christmas holiday has nothing to do with the oratorio’s origins. It was originally designed as a piece for Passion Week, leading up to Easter. The work was composed over the period of a month in 1741, six months before its premiere in Dublin at a new concert hall, where several of Handel's operas were also performed. Even the dress rehearsal was ticketed, and the morning newspapers excitedly reported that the oratorio “far surpasses anything of that nature, which has been performed in this or any other Kingdom.” Ladies were asked to attend without hoops and gentlemen without swords, to increase the capacity of the hall. The premiere was a triumph; the Dublin Journal proclaimed, “The sublime, the grand, and the tender, adapted to the most elevated, majestic, and moving words, conspired to transport and charm the ravished heart and ear." Nearly 300 years later, Handel’s Messiah still provokes joy, and UMS’s 139th year of presenting the oratorio — representing only about half of the work’s entire history — still fills audiences with emotion for both the beauty of the piece and the pride of hearing friends and colleagues from the community bring this glorious work to life.

J.S. Bach’s Christmas Oratorio

Bach Collegium Japan Masaaki Suzuki, conductor Sherezade Panthaki, soprano Jay Carter, countertenor Zachary Wilder, tenor Dominik Wörner, bass

Johann Sebastian Bach wrote over 200 church cantatas, and the Bach Collegium Japan is intent on performing every one of them — and in fact did so, in chronological order, from 1995-2013. They bring their signature crispness and purity to a beloved Bach masterpiece, highlighting the polyphonic wonder of Bach’s rich, imaginative cantatas that were written to celebrate Jesus’ birth.

Masaaki Suzuki by Marco Borggreve

MAR

TUE 7:30PM S T. F R A N C I S OF ASSISI C AT H O L I C CHURCH

Path of Miracles

Tenebrae

with U-M Chamber Choir Nigel Short, music director PROGRAM

Owain Park Joby Talbot

Footsteps Path of Miracles

Joby Talbot’s Path of Miracles was the first major work commissioned by the professional vocal ensemble Tenebrae, a group that was founded by former King’s Singers member Nigel Short in 2000 and includes members drawn from the choirs of Westminster Abbey, King’s College Cambridge, and Britain’s two major opera houses. The work was supposed to premiere in London on July 7, 2005, but was delayed because of the London bombings that day, which killed over 50 people and injured more than 700. Ten days later, Path of Miracles received its premiere as part of the City of London Festival. Talbot’s composition is based on the most enduring route of Catholic pilgrimage, the great Pilgrimage to Santiago, and the four movement titles are the four main posts along the route (Roncevalles, Burgos, León, and Santiago). Path of Miracles incorporates medieval texts and Roman Catholic liturgy and is sung in Greek, Latin, Spanish, Basque, French, English, and German. Candlelight and an imaginative use of the St. Francis of Assisi space guarantee a dramatic evening.

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CHORAL MUSIC SERIES

ADDITIONAL ——EVENTS

These additional events in the UMS season may not easily fit into our genre-based packages, but they may be purchased as part of a Series:You subscription package, or along with any Fixed Package Series.

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Bubble Schmeisis

SEP

FRI 8PM DOWNTOWN HOME & GARDEN AND B I L L’ S B E E R GARDEN (210 S. ASHLEY ST, ANN ARBOR)

OCT

WED 7:30PM POWER CENTER

NOV

S AT 2PM HILL AUDITORIUM

Season Opening Event!

Butler, Bernstein & The Hot 9 UMS brings the Big Easy to Downtown Home & Garden with a season-opening event featuring Butler, Bernstein & The Hot 9. Retro-futurist brass man Steven Bernstein has a soft spot for early jazz, so his hookup with New Orleans pianist and singer Henry Butler is bound to deliver big fun. A virtuoso who has been blind since birth and channels sounds as diverse as his Louisiana birthplace, Butler’s technical ability and expansive repertoire are legendary. The two first worked together in the Kansas City All Stars, a touring big band led by Bernstein that came out of the Robert Altman film Kansas City. They use New Orleans tradition and early 20th-century blues as a launching point toward exploration that is “both historically aware and fully prepared to cut loose.” (New York Times)

MAR

WED 7:30PM MICHIGAN T H E AT E R

featuring René Marie Conceived and composed by Gerald Clayton Directed by Christopher McElroen with Gerald Clayton & The Assembly Ragtime rhythms, a unique finger-picking guitar style, and understated vocals are the hallmarks of the folk music style found in the Piedmont region, the area between the Atlantic Coastal Plain and the Appalachian Mountains covering central Georgia to central Virginia. Jazz pianist and composer Gerald Clayton (who also holds down the piano chair in the Charles Lloyd Quartet) has captured the essence of this celebrated land, home to a unique culture and rapidly vanishing folkloric history, and preserved it in a multimedia project. This music-theater experience features a nine-piece band led by Clayton and combines music with projected film, new and archival photography, and the stories of those few musical elders who are still keeping the tradition alive. It makes a testimony of the struggle endured by African Americans in the Southeast during Jim Crow and chronicles the efficacy of the Piedmont Blues as a salve for suffering.

Amir ElSaffar’s Rivers of Sound The highest ideal in maqam music is to reach a state of tarab, or musical ecstasy, which results from the melting away of borders as performers and audiences revel together in the music. As pitches and rhythms become fluid, so do cultural boundaries: elements that traditionally divide musicians and genre-specific modes are recontextualized in a fresh, transcultural soundscape. Rivers of Sound presents 17 musicians from Western and Middle Eastern traditions, from Iraqi maqam to American jazz, creating a unique microtonal musical environment that moves beyond the notions of style and tradition into a realm of sound that includes both improvised and composed material. Composer, trumpeter, santur player, and vocalist Amir ElSaffar is an expert in both jazz and Iraqi maqam and shows off his large-scale ensemble to Ann Arbor for this special presentation; ElSaffar and select members of the group also provide the live music for Ragamala Dance Company’s Written in Water two nights later.

Piedmont Blues: A Search for Salvation

MAR

23-25

THU-SUN THE SCHVITZ (8295 O A K L A N D S T, DETROIT)

New York Philharmonic Young People’s Concert

Bubble Schmeisis Written and performed by Nick Cassenbaum Directed by Danny Braverman Welcome to the steam baths! The word bubbemeises is a Yiddish term meaning “a grandmother’s story” or “an old wives’ tale.” Writer and street performer Nick Cassenbaum, along with his klezmer musicians, invite you into the warmth of the Schvitz in Detroit, one of the country’s few remaining traditional bath houses, which has been in operation for over 85 years. Among the steam and the ritual, Nick will take you on a journey of discovery to find the place where he belongs. Bubble Schmeisis is full of intimate and personal true stories about identity, home, and getting schmeised (washed) by old men. “It is by far the funniest thing I have seen in Edinburgh so far… Bubble Schmeisis is also beautiful in its depiction of male friendship and shared routines.” (Exeunt) Performances are at 7:30 pm on Thursday; 7 pm and 9 pm on Friday; 2 pm and 8 pm on Saturday; and 2 pm and 6 pm on Sunday.

Leonard Slatkin, conductor The New York Philharmonic’s Young People’s Concerts have run uninterrupted since 1926, but they received a new level of attention when Leonard Bernstein arrived as music director in 1958. During the next 14 years, Bernstein presented 53 of these concerts, broadcast nationally on CBS and syndicated in over 40 countries. Millions of children learned about classical music from these programs, and the New York Philharmonic continues to present four of them each year in New York to this day. Leonard Slatkin takes the helm for this special hour-long celebration of Leonard Bernstein which, though titled a “Young People’s Concert,” will be appreciated and enjoyed by audiences of all ages.

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Sorrow — A Reimagining of 14 Górecki’s Third Symphony

APR

S AT 8PM MICHIGAN T H E AT E R

Colin Stetson

Henryk Górecki’s iconic third symphony, often called “Symphony of Sorrowful Songs,” made a huge impact on listeners in the early 1990s and was a musical touchstone for virtuoso saxophonist Colin Stetson. The original work’s three movements centered around three laments, each focused in some way about a child being taken away from a mother. Celebrated for the way he “demolishes clichés to unleash fresh, expected energies,” (Pitchfork) Stetson takes on the mammoth task of reimagining Górecki’s symphony for an expansive and contemporary sonic palate. Sorrow, his imaginative new interpretation of the heartbreaking work, is “timeless and of the moment,” (PopMatters) drawing on a uniquely constructed 12-member ensemble that employs electric guitars, synthesizers, drums, strings, woodwinds, and soprano to create transformative extensions of the emotional core of the piece. 29

TRADITIONS & CROSSCURRENTS ——SERIES

Classical traditions in dance, theater, and music are widespread in many cultures the world over. And the world’s folk traditions create their own profound histories of classical proportion. The Classical and The Traditional in conversation with each other create a third kind of expressive richness.

Indian bharatanatyam meets Iraqi maqam; classical Chinese pipa meets Western European symphonic orchestra; underground hip-hop from New York City and Senegal collide with French spectral music and interactive electronics; Western jazz inspires Indian tabla and popular music; Middle Eastern and Balkan music, along with Eastern European klezmer, merge with a Western chamber orchestra; and the Piedmont Blues get their due. Welcome to the world we inhabit and to the artists who create cultural bridges that connect us all.

E I G H T E V E N T S I N VA R I O U S V E N U E S

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Ragamala Dance Company

OCT

WED 7:30PM

Amir ElSaffar’s Rivers of Sound Amir ElSaffar, trumpet and santur

POWER CENTER

OCT

20 FRI 8PM

POWER CENTER

MAR

WED 7:30PM MICHIGAN T H E AT E R

Ragamala Dance Company Ranee and Aparna Ramaswamy, co-artistic directors Live music performed and written by Amir ElSaffar

MAR

S AT 9PM

Zakir Hussain & Dave Holland Zakir Hussain, tabla Dave Holland, bass Shankar Mahadevan, vocals Chris Potter, saxophones Sanjay Divecha, guitars Louiz Banks, piano and keyboards Eric Harland, drums

APR

FRI 8PM MICHIGAN T H E AT E R

NOV

TUE 7:30PM HILL AUDITORIUM

China National Center for the Performing Arts Orchestra Lü Jia, conductor Wu Man, pipa

NOV

SUN 4PM RACKHAM AUDITORIUM

featuring René Marie Conceived and composed by Gerald Clayton Directed by Christopher McElroen with Gerald Clayton & The Assembly

Written in Water

EL CLUB (4114 VERNOR H W Y, D E T R O I T )

NOV

Piedmont Blues: A Search for Salvation

The Jazz Epistles: Abdullah Ibrahim & Hugh Masekela Abdullah Ibrahim, piano Hugh Masekela, trumpet and flugelhorn Cleave Guyton, alto saxophone, flute, and clarinet Lance Bryant, tenor saxophone Marshall McDonald, baritone saxophone Andrae Murchison, trombone and trumpet Noah Jackson, cello and bass Will Terrill, drums

The Knights with Avi Avital, mandolin Kinan Azmeh, clarinet Colin Jacobsen, violin

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139TH SEASON

TRADITIONS & CROSSCURRENTS

Renegade Presenting Sponsor: Renegade Ventures Fund, established by Maxine and Stuart Frankel.

Nederlands Dans Theater by Rahi Rezvani

WHERE CURIOUS AUDIENCES—— MEET UNEXPECTED IDEAS

F I V E P E R F O R M A N C E S I N VA R I O U S V E N U E S

Artists engage daily in a creative enterprise full of risk-taking, experimentation, and boundary-pushing. But artists aren’t alone in this venture. We love our adventurous audiences, who seek out challenging artistic work that is often edgy, sometimes controversial, and always surprising. From a three-week theater festival focused on difficult themes to performances in a hip-hop and rock club — and a bath house — in Detroit, this year’s Renegade events may take you out of your comfort zone, and into a whole new world of possibility.

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MAR

S AT EL CLUB (4114 VERNOR H W Y, D E T R O I T )

MAR

23-24

F R I - S AT POWER CENTER

MAR

22-25 THU-SUN THE SCHVITZ (8295 OAKLAND S T, D E T R O I T )

Nederlands Dans Theater Paul Lightfoot, artistic director

Mark Your Calendars!

No Safety Net "The dangers of life are infinite, and among them is safety." -Goethe

Bubble Schmeisis Written and performed by Nick Cassenbaum Directed by Danny Braverman

Through artistic presentation on stage, and an equal helping of discussion and inquiry off the stage, UMS will create a community platform for important dialogue, and an invocation to move beyond our personal comfort zones and lean into the complexities of living in a global society.

Sorrow — A Reimagining of 14 Górecki’s Third Symphony

MICHIGAN T H E AT E R

APR

S AT

Theater for Unsafe Conversations in Safe Spaces Arthur Miller Theatre January 17-February 4, 2018

Colin Stetson

The hoped-for outcome? Better understanding. Better resilience. And a better ability to face the world we live in. APR

19-21 T H U - S AT POWER CENTER

Cold Blood

The full program of artists, companies, and contextual conversation will be announced in Fall 2017.

A show by Michèle Anne De Mey, Jaco Van Dormael, and The Collectif Kiss and Cry Texts by Thomas Gunzig MARS, Astragales Asbl, and the Théâtre de Namur, producers

SUBSCRIBE——5 EVENTS MAIN FLOOR

$190

B A L C O N Y

$175

For further details, visit ums.org or call 734.764.2538.

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RENEGADE

SERIES—— YOU

Choose Your Own Adventure with Series:You — the perfect way to create and curate your own UMS Experience.

Buy 5 or More Different Events & Save 10%

With Series:You, you can select a variety of performances that speak to your interests — and maybe something that will stretch or surprise you at the same time.

And as a Series:You subscriber, you get all of the benefits of subscribing:

When you purchase at least 5 different events from those listed in this brochure before Friday, September 15, 2017, you’ll receive a 10% discount. Order early for the best seats!

• Free exchange privileges

• Discounted tickets • Access to the best seats in the house, before they go on sale to the general public • Opportunity to purchase additional tickets for the entire season now for your friends and family

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Avi Avital by Harald Hoffmann

139TH SEASON

Everybody In, Nobody Out You have a part to play in presenting our 139th season—— on and off the stage.

We can’t do what we do without you. Students and community members rely on you, our generous donors, to help us deliver remarkable seasons like this one. Over half of UMS’s annual operating budget is generously provided by individual donors, corporate sponsors, and public agencies and foundations. Every gift to UMS is important. Your support means we can continue to bring the world to you — connecting audiences with artists in uncommon and engaging experiences.

Thank you.

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YOUR SUPPORT HELPS UMS FULFILL OUR SHARED COMMITMENT TO

ACCESS & INCLUSIVENESS——

20%

of the UMS audiences are college students, who attend through our $12/$20 ticket program. And thanks to the Bert’s Ticket program, each first- and second-year U-M student is invited to attend one performance at no cost.

17,000

Student Tickets were sold in the 2015-16 season, at a collective discount of $529,000.

5,813

K-12 students from 41 area schools attended School Day Performances, with nearly 15% of those students from Title 1 schools.

900

People tuned in to watch three UMS performances that were live-streamed in 2017, with an additional 7,000 views on Facebook.

ENGAGED LEARNING——

U-M master classes and class visits connecting U-M students and faculty with visiting artists

107

Pre-and post-performance workshops for area K-12 students

Artist Q & A conversations surrounding UMS performances

BOLD ARTISTIC LEADERSHIP——

Renegade performances, including four in Detroit’s Downtown Boxing Gym and one at the Ann Arbor Skatepark

6.8

Approximate miles a dancer ran in place during each performance of Batsheva Dance Company’s Last Work

Minutes Igor & Moreno bounced elegantly through two performances

To make a gift or learn about giving opportunities, please visit ums.org/support or call UMS Development at 734.764.8489. NOTE: Numbers are from 2016-17 Season unless otherwise noted.

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PATRON—— SERVICES How to Order WEB

Subscription Tickets/ Seating Priority Please note: During the subscription renewal period, we are unable to provide specific seat locations when you purchase your subscription. Ticket office staff will assign seating in June, after renewal deadlines. Priority seating is given to renewing subscribers and donors.

Donors

ums.org

Donors receive the highest priority seating based on level of giving, including new subscriptions and seating upgrade requests.

PHONE

Donations may be included with your ticket order. Ticket orders must be received by Friday, June 2 to be eligible for seating priority.

Outside the 734 area code, call toll-free 800.221.1229

Fixed Series

FA X

Fixed Series subscribers (for packages listed on pages 10-33 of this brochure) receive priority before Series:You subscribers and individual event purchasers. Subscriptions will be filled in the order received.

734.764.2538

734.647.1171 IN PERSON Visit the UMS Ticket Office on the north end of the Michigan League building (911 North University Avenue). The Ticket Office also sells tickets for all U-M School of Music, Theatre & Dance productions and the Ann Arbor Summer Festival. MAIL UMS Ticket Office Burton Memorial Tower 881 North University Avenue Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1011 Summer Hours (May-August) 10 am to 5 pm Mon-Fri Closed Sat and Sun Extended hours resume after Labor Day. STUDENT TICKETS Student Subscriptions may be purchased beginning April 24, 2017. Student subscriptions cost $20 per ticket with a minimum of five events purchased (maximum of two tickets per ID). Student subscribers receive all subscriber benefits, but must show student ID when placing or picking up tickets. Student subscriptions are available at ums.org/students. Specially-priced student tickets are available for students in accredited degree programs, subject to availability, beginning Thursday, August 31, 2017. All tickets cost $20 (main floor and mezzanine) and $12 (balcony). For information about special student subscriptions, visit ums.org/students or call the UMS Ticket Office at 734.764.2538

Subscription tickets will be mailed in late July. There is a $10 service charge for all subscription orders.

Series:You Series:You subscribers (those who choose at least five different events from this brochure) will receive priority seating before individual event purchasers if orders are submitted by July 28, 2017. Subscription orders must be received by September 15, 2017 to receive the 10% discount and will be filled in the order received.

Groups of 10 or More Groups of 10 or more people attending a single event will receive priority over individual event purchasers and save 20% off the regular ticket prices to most performances. For more information, contact the UMS Group Sales Office at umsgroupsales@umich.edu or 734.763.3100. UMS accepts group reservations beginning Monday, July 10, a full month before tickets to individual events go on sale to the general public. Plan early to guarantee access to great seats!

Refunds Due to the nature of the performing arts, programs and artists are subject to change. If an artist cancels an appearance, UMS will make every effort to substitute that performance with a comparable artist. Refunds will only be offered if a substitute cannot be found, or in the event of a date change. Service charges are not refundable. UMS will not cancel performances or refund tickets because of inclement weather. An artist may choose to cancel a performance if weather prevents the artist’s arrival in Ann Arbor, but that decision rests with the artist and not with UMS.

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Please Give Us Your Email Address UMS sends updated concert-related parking and late seating information via email a few days before each event. Please be sure that the Ticket Office has your correct email address on file. This information is also used to communicate event changes or cancellations. While these happen infrequently, timing is often critical and email is the fastest way to reach audiences.

Ticket Exchanges Subscribers may exchange tickets free-of-charge up to 48 hours before the performance. Non-subscribers may exchange tickets for a $6 per ticket exchange fee. Exchanged tickets must be received by the Ticket Office (by mail or in person) at least 48 hours prior to the performance. You may also fax a photocopy of your torn tickets to 734.647.11 71, or email a photo to umstix@umich.edu. The value of the ticket(s) may be applied to another performance or will be held as UMS Credit until the end of the 2017-18 season. Credit must be redeemed by April 22, 2018, when it will expire. UMS is no longer able to automatically convert expired credit to a gift-in-kind donation without a direct request from the credit holder. For information about exchanging tickets within 48 hours of the performance, please call the Ticket Office.

Ticket Donations/Unused Tickets Tickets may be donated to UMS until the published start time of the concert. A receipt will be issued for tax purposes; please consult your tax advisor. Unused tickets that are returned after the performance begins are not eligible for UMS Credit or as a donation.

Ticket Mailing vs. Ticket Pick-Up Subscription tickets will be mailed in late July, before tickets to individual performances go on sale to the general public. Any ticket order received fewer than 10 days prior to the performance will be held at will-call, which opens in the performance venue 90 minutes prior to the published start time.

Lost or Misplaced Tickets Call the Ticket Office at 734.764.2538 to have duplicate tickets waiting for you at will-call. Duplicate tickets cannot be mailed.

Parking/Parking Tips Detailed directions and parking information will be mailed with your tickets and are also available at ums.org.

139TH SEASON

Accessibility Accessible parking is provided in University of Michigan parking structures for those with a state-issued disability permit or a U-M handicap verification permit. There are drop-off areas near Hill Auditorium and Rackham Auditorium and inside the Power Center structure. All UMS venues have barrier-free entrances. Patrons with accessibility or special seating needs should notify the UMS Patron Services Office of those needs at the time of ticket purchase. We will make every effort to accommodate special needs brought to our attention at the performance, but we request that these arrangements be made in advance if at all possible. Seating spaces for patrons with mobility disabilities and their companions are located throughout each venue, and ushers are available to assist patrons. Please let the usher know how best to assist you. Assistive listening devices are available in Hill Auditorium, Rackham Auditorium, Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre, the Michigan Theater, the Arthur Miller Theatre, and the Power Center. Earphones may be obtained upon arrival. Please ask an usher for assistance. Further accessibility information, including relay calls, large-print programs, and information about elevator access is posted at ums.org/accessibility.

Start Time & Latecomers UMS makes every effort to begin concerts at the published start time. Latecomers will be asked to wait in the lobby and will be seated by ushers at a predetermined time in the program, which may be as late as intermission. The late seating break is determined by the artists and will generally occur during a suitable break in the program, designed to cause as little disruption as possible to other patrons and the artists on stage. Please allow extra time to park and find your seats. Occasionally, performances will not have a seating break. For example, dance and theater performances often have a “no late seating” policy. UMS may not learn a specific company’s late seating policy until a couple of weeks before the performance and makes every effort to contact ticketbuyers via email if there will be no late seating. Be sure the Ticket Office has your email address on file.

Children and Families/ UMS Kids Club Children under the age of three will not be admitted to UMS performances. All children attending UMS performances must be able to sit quietly in their own seats without disturbing other patrons, or they may be asked to leave the auditorium. Please use discretion when choosing to bring a child, and remember that everyone must have a ticket, regardless of age. UMS Kids Club tickets, which provide discounted tickets for children in grades 3-12 and an accompanying adult, will go on sale on Monday, September 11, 2017.

SEAT—— MAPS

PRICING LEVELS

Pricing levels apply to all venues.

Hill Auditorium

(H1)

(H2)

S TA G E

Michigan Theater

A MAIN FLOOR

MAIN FLOOR

MEZZANINE

MAIN FLOOR

MEZZANINE

12 18

15 20

BALCONY

14 19

11 17

BALCONY BALCONY

Power Center

Rackham Auditorium

Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre

S TA G E

3 2

5 4

4 7

10 9

MAIN FLOOR

5 6 ORCHESTRA

8 BALCONY

BALCONY

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Hill Auditorium

Power Center

825 N. University Ave.

121 Fletcher St.

(H1)

Théâtre de la Ville: L’État de siege (State of Siege) Friday-Saturday, October 13-14

China NCPA Orchestra Tuesday, November 7 New York Philharmonic Friday-Sunday, November 17-19 Bach Collegium Japan Friday, December 8 Estonian National Symphony Saturday, February 3 The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess Saturday, February 17 Apollo’s Fire: Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo Sunday, April 15

(H2) Daniil Trifonov, piano Wednesday, October 25 Chanticleer Friday, November 10 Handel’s Messiah Saturday-Sunday, December 2-3 Maxim Vengerov, violin Sunday, January 28

Amir ElSaffar’s Rivers of Sound Wednesday, October 18 Ragamala Dance Company Friday, October 20 Urban Bush Women Friday, January 12 Company Wang Ramirez Friday-Saturday, March 9-10 Nederlands Dans Theater Friday-Saturday, March 23-24 Cold Blood Friday-Sunday, April 19-21

GENERAL ADMISSION VENUES

Arthur Miller Theatre 1226 Murfin Ave. Every Brilliant Thing Tuesday-Sunday, September 12-17

St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church 2250 E. Stadium Blvd. Tenebrae Tuesday, March 13

Downtown Home & Garden and Bill’s Beer Garden

Michigan Theater

210 S. Ashley St.

603 E. Liberty St.

Butler, Bernstein & The Hot 9 Friday, September 8

Zakir Hussain & Dave Holland Wednesday, November 1 John McLaughlin & Jimmy Herring Wednesday, November 15

El Club 4114 Vernor Hwy., Detroit

Joshua Bell, violin Saturday, February 10

Piedmont Blues: A Search for Salvation Gerald Clayton & The Assembly Wednesday, March 14

Steve Lehman & Sélébéyone Saturday, March 17

Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Chick Corea Saturday, March 31

The Jazz Epistles featuring Abdullah Ibrahim & Hugh Masekela Friday, April 13

The Schvitz

Murray Perahia, piano Sunday, April 22

Colin Stetson: Sorrow Saturday, April 14

Bubble Schmeisis Thursday-Sunday, March 22-25

Rackham Auditorium

Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre

915 E. Washington St. Emerson String Quartet & Calidore String Quartet Thursday, October 5 Sphinx Virtuosi Sunday, October 29

911 N. University Ave. What’s in a Song Saturday, January 6 Janai Brugger, soprano Wednesday, January 31

The Knights with Avi Avital and Kinan Azmeh Sunday, November 12

Gabriel Kahane’s Book of Travelers Friday, February 2

St. Lawrence String Quartet Haydn Mega-Concert Sunday, January 14

Ian Bostridge, tenor Schubert’s Winterreise Sunday, February 4

Emmanuel Pahud, flute Wednesday, February 14 Elias Quartet Sunday, March 11 Artemis Quartet Sunday, April 8

8295 Oakland St., Detroit

Detroit Opera House 1526 Broadway St., Detroit American Ballet Theatre: Romeo & Juliet Thursday-Sunday, February 8-11

M-Prize Winner Artist and Date TBA

139TH SEASON

FOUNDATION & UNIVERSIT Y SUPPORT PRIVATE AND PUBLIC SUPPORT——Generous philanthropic support accounts for over half of UMS’s annual operating budget. Support from private foundations and funding partners makes it possible for UMS to invest in special initiatives such as free tickets for first- and second-year U-M students, teaching seminars for faculty that integrate the performing arts into the Michigan experience, research that helps UMS measure and build sustainable audiences, and Renegade performances where curious audiences meet unexpected ideas. RENEGADE VENTURES FUND This multi-year challenge grant created by Maxine and Stuart Frankel supports artistic, innovative, and cuttingedge programming. COMMUNIT Y FOUNDATION FOR SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN The co-presentation with Michigan Opera Theatre of American Ballet Theatre’s Romeo and Juliet is funded in part by the Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan, part of a three-year initiative focused on dance. DORIS DUKE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ENDOWMENT FUND Special project support for several components of the 2017-18 UMS season is provided by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Endowment Fund, established at UMS with a challenge grant from the Leading College and University Presenters Program at the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. THE INDIAN TRAIL CHARITABLE FOUNDATION An annual grant supports Bert’s Ticket program, which extends an invitation to all first- and secondyear U-M undergraduate students to attend one UMS performance free of charge. THE ANDREW W. MELLON FOUNDATION The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded a multiyear grant to UMS that supports artist residencies and other initiatives, all designed to integrate the arts more fully into the academic experience at the University of Michigan and into the life of our community.

MICHIGAN COUNCIL FOR ARTS AND CULTURAL AFFAIRS General operating support is provided by the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs and the National Endowment for the Arts. MICHIGAN MEDICINE Michigan Medicine provides multi-year support for UMS programs. UNIVERSIT Y OF MICHIGAN The University of Michigan provides special project support for many activities in the 2017-18 season through the U-M/UMS Partnership Program. WALLACE ENDOWMENT FUND The UMS presentation of Théâtre de la Ville’s State of Siege is funded in part by the Wallace Endowment Fund, established with a challenge grant from The Wallace Foundation to build participation in arts programs. WALLACE FOUNDATION Special project support for components of UMS Renegade is provided by a multi-year grant from the Building Audiences for Sustainability initiative at The Wallace Foundation. UMS IS A MEMBER OF THE UNIVERSIT Y OF MICHIGAN ARTS CONSORTIUM, THE ARTS ALLIANCE, AND CULTURESOURCE.

A NON-DISCRIMINATORY, AFFIRMATIVE ACTION EMPLOYER.

Emmanuel Pahud by Fabien Monthubert

MEDIA PARTNERS

WEB

ums.org PHONE

734.764.2538 Outside the 734 area code, call toll-free 800.221.1229 FA X 734.647.1171

IN PERSON Visit the UMS Ticket Office on the north end of the Michigan League building (911 North University Avenue). MAIL UMS Ticket Office Burton Memorial Tower 881 North University Avenue Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1011

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How to Order

2017——18

ORDER FORM

Subscription prices (fixed packages) are guaranteed until Friday, September 15, 2017. Individual event prices are guaranteed until Friday, July 28, 2017.

Summer Hours (May-August) 10 am to 5 pm Mon-Fri Closed Sat and Sun Extended hours resume after Labor Day. FEES There is a $10 service charge for all subscription orders.

Calidore by Sophie Zhai

139th Season

2017——18

TIPS PLEASE READ, EVEN IF YOU’VE SUBSCRIBED IN THE PAST. We’ve worked hard to make ordering tickets to the many events in the 2017-18 season as easy as possible, but with literally thousands of possible combinations, we realize that it can be complicated. With that in mind, please consider these tips that will help you make your decisions for the 2017-18 season, whether you are new to UMS or have been subscribing for years:

LOOK THROUGH THE ENTIRE BROCHURE AND MAKE A LIST OF THE EVENTS YOU ARE INTERESTED IN SEEING.

DON’T MISS THESE IMPORTANT DATES! 4/17/17 • Subscription packages on sale to renewing subscribers • Seating priority given to current UMS subscribers and donors 4/24/17 • Subscriptions on sale to general public 6/2/17 • Deadline for payment by U-M payroll deduction • Deadline for Choral Union and Chamber Arts subscribers to renew seat location • Seating priority deadline for donors and renewing subscribers

7/10/17 • Group sales reservations open

IF YOU GENERALLY LIKE EVENTS THAT ARE THEMATICALLY LINKED (E.G., JAZZ, CHAMBER MUSIC), you will probably be most interested in the fixed packages listed in Section 1 of the order form. Fixed Series subscribers receive priority seating over Series:You subscribers and individual event buyers. And anyone who purchases a fixed package may purchase any number of Series:You events now at a 10% discount. The 10% Series:You discount is available to all fixed package subscribers, regardless of the number of Series:You events purchased.

7/31/17 • Donor Single Ticket Day (for donors of $250+) 8/7/17 • Single Ticket Day — tickets to all individual events on sale 8/31/17 • Student tickets on sale 9/11/17 • Kids Club tickets on sale 9/15/17 • Last day to order UMS subscriptions

6/30/17 • Deadline for installment billing and free parking options

Subscription requests are filled in the order in which they are received, with priority given to fixed series subscribers. Order early to guarantee the best seats before tickets go on sale to the general public. UMS Donors are given seating priority for upgrades and new series when orders are received by Friday, June 2.

IF YOU PREFER A VARIET Y OF EVENTS, you will probably be most interested in Series:You in Section 2. When you purchase at least 5 events, you may take 10% off the total price and still receive priority seating over individual event buyers. You may purchase a different number of tickets to each event, so feel free to invite friends to join you for any or all of the performances in your series — but you must purchase at least 5 different events to qualify for Series:You! Important Note: If you are not ordering the same number of tickets to each event in your Series:You package, we recommend that you to submit this paper order form rather than ordering online.

PLEASE BE SURE TO FILL OUT THE ENTIRE ORDER FORM BEFORE YOU SEND IT IN. You may also call the Ticket Office for assistance if you have questions about which package makes the most sense for you. Don’t forget to include your pre-paid parking pass request to avoid hassles on the night of the performance, and to make your tax-deductible contribution to UMS.

PLEASE CONSULT THE IMPORTANT DATES TO THE LEFT BEFORE SENDING IN YOUR ORDER.

UMS ACCOUNT NUMBER (if known, can be found on the mail panel of this brochure above your name)

MAILING INFORMATION

LAST NAME

FIRST NAME

ADDRESS*

CIT Y

DAY PHONE

STATE

ZIP

EVENING PHONE

EMAIL ADDRESS (for up-to-date information on parking, start times, late seating, program change, etc.)

*Tickets will be mailed to the address provided above in late July. If you would like your tickets mailed to a different address or held for pickup at the League Ticket Office, please see the “important seating info” section below.

I M P O R TA N T S E AT I N G I N F O IF THE SEAT SECTION YOU SELECTED IS NOT AVAILABLE FOR AN EVENT THAT YOU HAVE PURCHASED, WOULD YOU PREFER (please check all that apply): Change my seats to the next higher price section

Call me at the daytime number listed above

Change my seats to the next lower price section

Email me at the address listed above

If available, move me to a different performance of the same event and keep the same price section (note any exceptions below) Note: If you do not check a box, you will automatically be moved to the next lower price section, and the cost difference will be converted to UMS Credit, which may be used at any time during the 2017-18 season. A UMS Credit receipt will be printed with your tickets and mailed in late July. If the venue that you have selected has several levels (e.g., main floor and balcony), UMS will keep your seats on the level that you requested and move you to the next lower price section, unless you indicate otherwise here:

ACCESSIBILIT Y-RELATED SEATING NEEDS OR SPECIAL SEATING REQUESTS:

I WOULD LIKE MY TICKETS MAILED TO: The address above

Please hold my tickets at the League Ticket Office for me to pick up prior to my first performance

My summer address (please list address and dates below):

P AY M E N T I N F O R M AT I O N U-M PAYROLL DEDUCTION (order must be received by Friday, June 2, 2017)

I understand I will be billed in four installments, once monthly in June, July, August, and September. Donations will be deducted in monthly installments beginning in July 2017. Note: Payroll deduction requests must be mailed, faxed, or dropped off at the League Ticket Office. Payroll Deduction requests will not be accepted by phone or online.

U - M E M PLOY EE I D NU M BER

CHECK (payable to UMS)

VISA

MASTERCARD

AUT H O R I ZAT I O N SI GNAT UR E

AMERICAN EXPRESS

DISCOVER

INSTALLMENT BILLING (not available for online orders)

I want to take advantage of installment billing for my subscription tickets (credit card orders totaling $300 or more only; order must be received by June 30, 2017). Please bill my credit card in two equal installments: once when my order is received and in mid-July. I want to take advantage of installment billing for my donation (credit card orders totaling $100 or more only; order must be received by May 31, 2017). Please bill my credit card in two equal installments: when my order is received and the following month. Donations received after May 31 will be charged in full at time of receipt, or call 734.647.1175 for other options.

CA RD N U M BER

OFFICE USE ONLY

TICKET TOTAL:

DONATION:

EX PI R AT I O N DAT E

AUT H O R I ZAT I O N SI GNAT UR E

STEP

FIXED SERIES PACKAGES

Orders must be received by Friday, September 15, 2017. Note: Please consult the venue seating maps on pages 40-41 of this brochure as you make your selection.

Series (# of performances)

# of Packages

Gold Main

A Main

B Main

A Mezz

B Mezz

B Balc

C Balc

D Balc

E Balc

Total

Choral Union Series (11)

820

725

675

650

550

430

350

265

168

New York Philharmonic Weekend (3)

260

210

190

180

150

130

115

Gold Balc

Gold Main

Chamber Arts Series (8) Dance Series (6) Please circle your preferred performance:

290 250 x ABT / Romeo and Juliet (Detroit) Thu 2/8, 7:30pm

380

330

270

190

220

185

120

A Mezz

Fri 2/9, 7:30pm

Sat 2/10, 7:30pm

Sun 2/11, 2:30pm

Company Wang Ramirez Fri 3/9, 8pm

Sat 3/10, 8pm

Nederlands Dans Theater Fri 3/23, 8pm Theater Series (3) Please circle your preferred performance:

Sat 3/24, 8pm

140 x Every Brilliant Thing

125

Tues 9/12, 7:30pm

Weds 9/13, 7:30pm

Thurs 9/14, 7:30pm

Sat 9/16, 5pm

Sat 9/16, 8pm

Sun 9/17, 2pm

Fri 9/15, 8pm

Théâtre de la Ville / Camus Fri 10/13, 8pm

Sat 10/14, 8pm

Cold Blood Thu 4/19, 7:30pm Renegade (5) Please circle your preferred performance:

Fri 4/20, 8pm

Sat 4/21, 8pm

190 175 x * * * Bubble Schmeisis (Detroit; note that some performances overlap with NDT below) Thu 3/22, 7:30pm

Fri 3/23, 7pm

Fri 3/23, 9pm

Sat 3/24, 8pm

Sun 3/25, 2pm

Sun 3/25, 6pm

Sat 3/24, 2pm

Nederlands Dans Theater Fri 3/23, 8pm

Sat 3/24, 8pm

Cold Blood Thu 4/19, 7:30pm

Fri 4/20, 8pm

Sat 4/21, 2pm

Jazz Series (6)

240

230

220

185

150

Traditions/Crosscurrents (8)

300

285

265

230

UMS Song Remix (4)

170

115

x Messiah

180

155

125

1,231

Choral Music Series (4) Please circle your preferred performance:

Sat 12/2, 8pm Marathon Series (45)

1,967

Sun 12/3, 2pm

Fixed Series Package Sub-Total $ =

* seats are not available in this price section for venue listed

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STEP

SERIES:YOU

Choose 5 or more events from this listing and take 10% off. Orders must include a minimum of five different events and be received by Friday, September 15, 2017 to receive a 10% discount. Subscribers to any of the Fixed Series Packages listed in Section 1 of the Order Form may order any number of individual Series:You events and receive the 10% discount. Please consult the venue seating maps on pages 40-41 of this brochure as you make your selection. Individual event prices are guaranteed until Friday, July 28, 2017.

Artist

Date, Time (Venue)

Butler Bernstein Hot 9

Fri 9/8, 8pm (DHG)

Every Brilliant Thing 1

Tue 9/12, 7:30pm (AMT)

Every Brilliant Thing 2

Wed 9/13, 7:30pm (AMT)

Every Brilliant Thing 3

Thur 9/14, 7:30pm (AMT)

Every Brilliant Thing 4

Fri 9/15, 8pm (AMT)

Every Brilliant Thing 5

Sat 9/16, 5pm (AMT)

Every Brilliant Thing 6

Sat 9/16, 8pm (AMT)

Every Brilliant Thing 7

Sun 9/ 17, 2pm (AMT)

Emerson/Calidore SQ

Thur 10/5, 7:30pm (R)

Théâtre de la Ville/Camus 1

Fri 10/13, 8pm (P)

Théâtre de la Ville/Camus 2

Sat 10/14, 8pm (P)

Amir ElSaffar Rivers of Sound

Wed 10/18, 7:30pm (P)

Ragamala Dance

Fri 10/20, 8pm (P)

Daniil Trifonov

Wed 10/25, 7:30pm (H2)

Sphinx Virtuosi

Sun 10/29, 4pm (R)

Zakir Hussain & Dave Holland

Wed 11/1, 7:30pm (MT)

China NCPA Orch

Tue 11/7, 7:30pm (H1)

Chanticleer

Fri 11/10, 8pm (H2)

The Knights w/Avital & Azmeh

Sun 11/12, 4pm (R)

John McLaughlin & Jimmy Herring

Wed 11/15, 7:30pm (MT)

NY Phil 1 / Mahler

Fri 11/17, 8pm (H1)

NY Phil 2 / Young People’s Concert

Sat 11/18, 2pm (H2)

NY Phil 3 / Bernstein & Strauss

Sun 11/19, 3pm (H1)

Handel’s Messiah 1

Sat 12/2, 8pm (H2)

Handel’s Messiah 2

Sun 12/3, 2pm (H2)

Bach Collegium Japan

Fri 12/8, 8pm (H1)

What’s in a Song

Sat 1/6, 8pm (LMT)

Urban Bush Women

Fri 1/12, 8pm (P)

St. Lawrence String Quartet

Sun 1/14, 2pm (R)

Maxim Vengerov

Sun 1/28, 4pm (H2)

Janai Brugger

Wed 1/31, 7:30pm (LMT)

Gabriel Kahane Book of Travelers

Fri 2/2, 8pm (LMT)

Estonian National Symphony

Sat 2/3, 8pm (H1)

Ian Bostridge / Winterreise

Sun 2/4, 4pm (LMT)

QUESTIONS? 734.764.2538

Gold Main

# of Tickets

x x x x x x x x

A Main

B Main

Gold Balc A Mezz

B Mezz

B Balc

E Total

30 general admission

50 main floor

45 mezzanine

50 main floor

45 mezzanine

50 main floor

45 mezzanine

50 main floor

45 mezzanine

50 main floor

45 mezzanine

50 main floor

45 mezzanine

50 main floor

45 mezzanine

= =

125

100

125

100

x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x

x x

= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =

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# of Tickets

Artist

Date, Time (Venue)

American Ballet Theatre 1

Thu 2/8, 7:30pm (DOH)

American Ballet Theatre 2

Fri 2/9, 7:30pm (DOH)

American Ballet Theatre 3

Sat 2/10, 7:30pm (DOH)

American Ballet Theatre 4

Sun 2/11, 2:30pm (DOH)

Joshua Bell

Sat 2/10, 8pm (H2)

Emmanuel Pahud

Wed 2/14, 7:30pm (R)

The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess

Sat 2/17, 7:30pm (H1)

Wang Ramirez 1

Fri 3/9, 8pm (P)

Wang Ramirez 2

Sat 3/10, 8pm (P)

Elias SQ

Sun 3/11, 4pm (R)

Tenebrae

Tue 3/13, 7:30pm (SF)

Piedmont Blues

Wed 3/14, 7:30pm (MT)

Sélébéyone

Sat 3/17, 9pm (EC)

Nederlands Dans 1

Fri 3/23, 8pm (P)

Nederlands Dans 2

Sat 3/24, 8pm (P)

Bubble Schmeisis 1

Thu 3/22, 7:30pm (Schvitz)

Bubble Schmeisis 2

Fri 3/23, 7pm (Schvitz)

Bubble Schmeisis 3

Fri 3/23, 9pm (Schvitz)

Bubble Schmeisis 4

Sat 3/24, 2pm (Schvitz)

Bubble Schmeisis 5

Sat 3/24, 8pm (Schvitz)

Bubble Schmeisis 6

Sun 3/25, 2pm (Schvitz)

Bubble Schmeisis 7

Sun 3/25, 5pm (Schvitz)

Jazz at Lincoln Center / Corea

Sat 3/31, 8pm (H2)

Artemis SQ

Sun 4/8, 4pm (R)

Jazz Epistles

Fri 4/13, 8pm (MT)

Colin Stetson / Sorrow

Sat 4/14, 8pm (MT)

Apollo’s Fire / L’Orfeo

Sun 4/15, 4pm (H1)

Cold Blood 1

Thu 4/19, 7:30pm (P)

Cold Blood 2

Fri 4/20, 8pm (P)

Cold Blood 3

Sat 4/21, 8pm (P)

Murray Perahia

Sun 4/22, 4pm (H2)

M-Prize Winner

Date TBA (R)

†

x †

†

x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x

Gold Main

A Main

B Main

129

Gold Balc

B Mezz

B Balc

129

45 reserved 48

A Mezz

E Total

35 general admission *

= = = = = = = = = = =

25 general admission

= =

35 general admission

= = =

35 general admission

= = = = = = = = = =

Series:You Sub-Total $ = Less 10% (must purchase at least 5 events from Section 2 or any series in Section 1) $ = 2

Series:You Sub-Total (please do not round your total) $ =

† Note: The Detroit Opera House uses different nomenclature to describe its price sections. We have tried to be consistent in terms of seat locations for the prices listed. * seats are not available in this price section for venue listed

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PA R K I N G & B U S E S

Pre-Paid Event Parking Passes may be purchased in advance for $5 each for the University of Michigan Thayer and Fletcher Street parking structures, just a short walk from most concert venues in Ann Arbor. Vouchers may be redeemed for parking beginning two hours before the event and expire at the end of the 2017-18 season. Each parking pass is good for one use only. Parking is not guaranteed with vouchers, so please arrive early to allow enough time to park. Please note that the University of Michigan parking structures may not be staffed on the nights of Michigan Theater events. UMS will also provide luxury coach transportation for the Thursday and Friday performances of American Ballet Theatre’s Romeo and Juliet at the Detroit Opera House.

Pre-Paid Parking Passes

$5 each

American Ballet Theatre at Detroit Opera House (Thurs 2/8)

$15 each

American Ballet Theatre at Detroit Opera House (Fri 2/9)

$15 each

= 3

Parking & Bus Sub-Total $ =

Subscriber benefit! I subscribed to eight or more events prior to June 30, 2017 and would like free parking in the Power Center (Fletcher Street) structure on UMS concert nights. Please send a special voucher with my tickets. Please note: the University of Michigan parking structures may not be staffed on the nights of Michigan Theater events.

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SUPPORT UMS

Every gift to UMS is important to us. Generous philanthropic support covers more than half of our operating expenses, and your support will help UMS continue its artistic excellence — on and off the stage. GIVING LEVELS Producer

$500,000 or more

Leader

$2,500-$4,999

Director $100,000-$499,999

Patron

$1,000-$2,499

Soloist

Benefactor

$500-$999

Maestro $20,000-$49,999

Associate

$250-$499

Virtuoso $10,000-$19,999

Advocate

$100-$249

Concertmaster

Friend

$1-$99

$50,000-$99,999

$5,000-$9,999

If you are a donor, please print your name(s) as you would like them to appear in UMS donor listings, or check the box below to remain anonymous. Donors of $250 or more will be listed in the program book.

Remain anonymous

CHECKLIST Please double check that you have completed the following before mailing in your order. Have you: Included daytime and evening phone numbers and email addresses (to be used in case of concert cancellation or ticketing problems)? Signed and enclosed your check, or signed the credit card line in “Payment Information”? If you have ordered Dance, Theater, Choral Music or Renegade, have you circled your desired performance(s) on the order form for events with multiple performances? Filled out and included the entire order form? Please do not cut the order form before sending.

T O TA L S 1

Fixed Series Package Sub-Total

Series:You Sub-Total (do not round)

Parking & Bus Sub-Total

Service Charge

Sub-Total (Total 1-4 + Postage)

Tax-Deductible Contribution to UMS

Grand Total QUESTIONS? 734.764.2538

$ 10.00

IMPORTANT—— INFO Subscription requests are filled in the order in which they are received, with priority given to fixed package subscribers. Ticket office staff will assign seating in June, after renewal deadlines. Order early to guarantee the best seats before tickets go on sale to the general public. UMS Donors are given seating priority for upgrades and new series when orders are received before Friday, June 2.

Subscription Tickets/Seating Priority DONORS

SERIES:YOU

UMS Donors receive the highest priority seating based on level of giving, including new subscriptions and seating upgrade requests.

Series:You subscribers (those who choose at least five events across different series) receive seating priority before individual event purchasers if orders are received before Friday, July 28, 2017. Subscription orders must include a minimum of five different events and be received by Friday, September 15, 2017 to receive the 10% discount. Subscriptions will be filled in the order received.

Donations may be included with your ticket order. Ticket orders must be received by Friday, June 2, 2017 to be eligible for seating priority.

FIXED SERIES Fixed Series subscribers (for packages listed on pages 10-33 of this brochure) receive seating priority before Series:You subscribers and individual event purchasers. Subscriptions will be filled in the order received.

SUBSCRIPTION TICKETS WILL BE MAILED IN LATE JULY. Please be sure that you have noted if you would like tickets to be sent to a different address or held at the League Ticket Office for pick-up (on the Seating Info section of this order form). There is a $10 service charge for all subscription orders.

Notes from the Ticket Office PLEASE MAKE SURE WE HAVE YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS ON FILE

TICKET DONATIONS/ UNUSED TICKETS

UMS sends updated concert-related parking and late seating information via email a few days before each event. Please be sure that the Ticket Office has your correct email address on file.

Tickets may be donated to UMS until the published start time of the concert. A receipt will be issued for tax purposes; please consult your tax advisor. Unused tickets that are returned after the performance are not eligible for UMS Credit or as a ticket donation.

TICKET EXCHANGES

REFUNDS

Subscribers may exchange tickets free-of-charge up to 48 hours before the performance.

Due to the nature of the performing arts, programs and artists are subject to change. If an artist cancels an appearance, UMS makes every effort to substitute that performance with a comparable artist. Refunds will be offered only if a substitute cannot be found, or in the event of a date change. Service charges are not refundable.

Exchanged tickets must be received by the Ticket Office (by mail, email or in person) at least 48 hours prior to the performance. You may also fax a photocopy of your torn tickets to 734.647.1171 or email a photo to umstix@umich.edu. The value of the ticket(s) will be applied to another performance or will be held as UMS Credit until the end of the 2017-18 season. UMS Credit must be redeemed by April 22, 2018, when it will expire. UMS is no longer able to automatically convert expired credit to a gift-in-kind donation without a direct request from the credit holder. For information about exchanging tickets within 48 hours of the performance, please call the Ticket Office. The UMS Ticket Office accepts subscription ticket exchanges after tickets are mailed in late July.

UMS will not cancel performances or refund tickets because of inclement weather. An artist may choose to cancel a performance if weather prevents the artist’s arrival in Ann Arbor, but that decision rests with the artist and not with UMS.

ACCESSIBILIT Y For more information about accessibility services, visit ums.org/accessibility.

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2017——18 SUBSCRIPTIONS NOW ON SALE

2014 National Medal of Arts Recipient

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Front cover: Nederlands Dans Theater by Rahi Rezvani. Back cover: Colin Stetson. Publication Date: April 2017