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UPCOMING EVENTS AT UMS
Indcluding Additions to the 2020/21 Season

UMS Continues 142nd Season in October & November with Free Digital Events & Socially Distanced Outdoor Workshops

You Can Dance — Outside!
Sat, Oct 10 & Sat, Oct 24 at 10:30 am at Wheeler Park

Takács Quartet
A UMS Digital Presentation ft. works by Mozart, Bartók, Debussy, Coleridge-Taylor, Price

Wed, Oct 21 at 7:30 pm - Sat, Oct 24


Sheku Kanneh-Mason & Isata Kanneh-Mason
Sibling Cello/Piano Duo Performs Cello Sonatas by Rachmaninoff, Beethoven in Digital Presentation
Sun, Oct 25 at 2 pm - Wed, Nov 4
Live Chat with Artists After Digital Premiere on Sun, Oct 25

A Grand Night for Singing Virtual Watch Party
Evening of Music Theater, Choral Music, Solo Vocal Performances Celebrates Power of Community, Connection

Thu, Oct 29 at 8 pm

Upcoming Digital Artist Residency Activities
Includes Talk with Wendell Pierce, Chamber Music Forum with Spektral Quartet, New Release from Tunde Olaniran

Read on for more details about these events.

Contact Mallory Shea for additional information or to request interviews with UMS touring artists or staff. Press images are always available at
ums.org/press, or they can be downloaded by clicking the respective "Press Photos" buttons below.

MEDIA CONTACT:
Mallory Shea

You Can Dance – Outside
You Can Dance — Outside!

Sat, Oct 10 // 10:30 am (tap dance with Bruce Bradley)
Sat, Sep 26 // 10:30 am (Detroit Jit with Haleem “Stringz” Rasul)
Wheeler Park

UMS’s popular You Can Dance series has moved outdoors, where dancers and “curious movers” can participate while socially distanced. No dance training or experience necessary, and all levels, ages 13 and up, are welcome. Free, but registration is required and will be open until the session reaches capacity.

Total capacity will be limited in order to adhere to public safety guidelines. Sign-in will begin at 10 am and last until 10:25 am. If there is still capacity, walk-ups will be accepted after the sign-in period has closed. The classes will begin at 10:30 am.

More information and registration available at ums.org/youcandance.

Supporting Sponsor: Masco Corporation

 
Takacs Quartet
UMS Digital Presentation
Takács Quartet

Digital Premiere: Wed, Oct 21 // 7:30 pm
Available on demand through Sat, Oct 24 at ums.org

Due to the current State of Michigan guidelines, UMS will convert the Takács Quartet's Rackham Auditorium performances, originally scheduled for October 16-18, to a free digital presentation. The digital presentation will premiere on Wednesday, October 21 at 7:30 pm at ums.org and will remain available on demand through Saturday, October 24. The digital concert is free and available to all.

Current ticket holders for the in-person concert may exchange their ticket(s) for a refund, donation, or gift certificate for a future UMS event.

PROGRAM
Mozart
String Quartet in d minor, K. 421/417b (Mvt. i)
Coleridge-Taylor
Five Fantasiestücke, Op, 5 (Mvts. i, iii)
Price
String Quartet No. 2 in a minor (Mvt. ii)
Bartók
Quartet No. 1 (Mvt. iii)
Debussy
Quartet (Mvts. iii, iv)

RELATED EVENT


A Conversation with Kira Thurman
Available from Mon, Oct 19 on ums.org
Kira Thurman, U-M Professor of History and Germanic Languages and Literature, is a classically-trained pianist who grew up in Vienna. She talks with Takács Quartet violinist Harumi Rhodes about the program, and introduces the work of the two Black composers featured on the Takács Quartet’s digital presentation, Florence Price and Samuel Coleridge-Taylor.

Exclusive Endowment Support: Ilene H. Forsyth Chamber Arts Endowment Fund
Patron Sponsors: Ed and Natalie Surovell

Sheku & Isata Kanneh-Mason
UMS Digital Presentation
Sheku Kanneh-Mason & Isata Kanneh-Mason

Digital Premiere: Sun, Oct 25 // 2 pm with live Q&A with the artists after the concert
Available on demand through Wed, Nov 4 at ums.org

In lieu of the City of Birmingham Orchestra and Chorus’ canceled 2020/21 tour featuring soloist Sheku Kanneh-Mason, UMS presents sibling cello/piano duo Sheku and Isata Kanneh-Mason in a free digital performance recorded specifically for UMS audiences. The program will include an excerpt from Beethoven’s Cello Sonata in C Major and Rachmaninoff’s Cello Sonata. Both artists will join UMS audiences in a live chat on Facebook after the digital premiere.

This digital concert will be free and available to all.

PROGRAM
Beethoven
Cello Sonata, No. 4 in C Major, Op. 102 (Mvt. i)
Rachmaninoff
Cello Sonata in g minor, Op. 19

Patron Sponsor: Braylon Edwards

A Virtual Grand Night for Singing
A Virtual Grand Night for Singing

Digital Premiere & Virtual Watch Party: Thu, Oct 29 // 8 pm
Available on demand at ums.org

The U-M School of Music, Theater & Dance, along with UMS and the UMS Choral Union, present an evening of music theater, choral music, and solo vocal performances that focus on themes of community and connection.

The evening features staged performances from the archives and new virtual performances that highlight the broad vocal talent at the U-M and in our Ann Arbor community. Repertoire selected will include both traditional songs that speak to our need for communal singing such as I was glad by Sir Charles Hubert Parry and How Can I Keep from Singing (arr. by Karen Thomas), as well as, new social justice songs such as Alysia Lee’s Say Her Name and Melanie Demore’s Lead with Love that seek to raise awareness about police brutality and anti-racism in the United States.

The virtual concert will feature nine different choral ensembles, including the UMS Choral Union.

Digital Residency Artists
Upcoming Digital Artist Residency Events

A Talk with Wendell Pierce
Mon, Oct 26
Wendell Pierce will give a talk as part of the “Arts+Social Change: Building an Anti-Racist World through the Arts” summit sponsored by the University of Michigan Office of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion.

Pierce's UMS residency will explore social justice, anti-racism, and the Black canon of performance work. Among the most ambitious of Pierce’s projects will be the production, filming, and release of a digital presentation of the recent American play, Some Old Black Man by James Anthony Tyler, which explores race in America through the lens of interpersonal and intergenerational relationships
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Chamber Music Forum with Members of the Spektral Quartet:

“What a String Quartet Could Be”
Thu, Nov 5 // 6:30 pm
The Chicago-based Spektral Quartet actively looks for connections between traditional repertoire and contemporary works. In this 90-minute conversation, they discuss their approach to creating community-focused programming that draws in listeners with seamless connections across centuries, charismatic delivery, interactive concert formats, and bold, inquisitive programming. Their work has ranged from commissioning over 40 composers to write ringtone-length pieces for mobile devices to performing the Chicago premiere of Morton Feldman’s String Quartet No. 2, a staggering six-hour-long masterpiece.

The Spektral Quartet will team up with Lebanese-American composer and pianist Tarek Yamani for their UMS residency, during which they'll explore the junctures between Western Classical, jazz, and traditional Arab music and result in a new, full-length commission to be filmed and presented digitally. The residency brings these artists together for the first time, allowing audiences to join on a journey of discovery, improvisation, and collaboration encompassing both traditional and contemporary performing arts.



A New Single from Tunde Olaniran

Release Date: Mid-November
Flint-based musician and activist Tunde Olaniran will release the first single from his experimental LP, Chaotic Good.

Olaniran's highly dynamic residency will feature art-making across disciplines, community collaboration and co-creation, emergent technologies, and video animation. Through the introduction of four singles from Tunde’s forthcoming release, audiences will be invited to participate in the creative process using building blocks created by Tunde and a cohort of creatives, remixing them to create new artistic outputs.


For more information on UMS's Digital Artist Residencies visit ums.org/digitalresidencies.

 
 
 
 
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