Calendar of Events
Classical Music
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ThursdayJanuary 2009 |
Faculty Showcase Concert: U-M School of Music.
Jan. 15 & 29 (different programs). Performances by U-M music professors TBA.
U-M Music School Britton Recital Hall, 1100 Baits Dr. (off Broadway), North Campus. Free. 764-0594.
Larisa Simington: EMU Music Department.
This Concordia University piano professor performs Schubert's Sonata in A Minor, Prokofiev's Sonata in C Major, 4 Scarlatti sonatas, and 4 works by Liszt.
EMU Alexander Bldg. Organ Recital Hall, Lowell at E. Circle Dr., Ypsilanti. Free. 487-2255.
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FridayJanuary 2009 |
Nathaniel Dett Chorale: St. Andrew's Episcopal Church.
Named for the renowned early-20th-century African Canadian composer, this award-winning ensemble is the first Canadian professional choral group dedicated to Afrocentric music of all styles, including classical, spiritual, gospel, jazz, blues, and folk. Program TBA. Also, tomorrow (10 a.m.-noon), the chorale's founder, Brainerd Blyden-Taylor, leads a program to introduce choirs and individuals to the art of singing African American choral music.
St. Andrew's, 306 N. Division. Free. 663-0518.
"To Know Us Is to Love Us: Songs by Gay and Lesbian Composers and Artists": Out Loud Chorus.
Jan. 16 & 17. John Repulski directs this chorus for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people in a program that includes Cole Porter's "C`Est Magnifique," Melissa Etheridge's "I Need to Wake Up," Elton John's "Answer in the Sky," Freddie Mercury's "Bohemian Rhapsody," and more.
U-M Walgreen Drama Center Arthur Miller Theatre, 1226 Murfin, North Campus. $15 in advance at Common Language Bookstore & from Out Loud, and at the door. Tickets: 973-6084; info: 663-0881.
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SaturdayJanuary 2009 |
"To Know Us Is to Love Us: Songs by Gay and Lesbian Composers and Artists": Out Loud Chorus.
Jan. 16 & 17. John Repulski directs this chorus for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people in a program that includes Cole Porter's "C`Est Magnifique," Melissa Etheridge's "I Need to Wake Up," Elton John's "Answer in the Sky," Freddie Mercury's "Bohemian Rhapsody," and more.
U-M Walgreen Drama Center Arthur Miller Theatre, 1226 Murfin, North Campus. $15 in advance at Common Language Bookstore & from Out Loud, and at the door. Tickets: 973-6084; info: 663-0881.
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SundayJanuary 2009 |
"Higher Realms": Ann Arbor Concert Band.
James Nissen directs this local volunteer ensemble in his A2CB Fanfare, Paul Creston's Celebration Overture, Robert Smith's Angels, from the Realms of Glory, and Van der Roost's Canterbury Chorale. Guest conductor Stephen Roberts directs the band in Mark Camphouse's A Dakota Rhapsody, Robert Reynolds's arrangement of Morten Lauridsen's setting of "O Magnum Mysterium," Paul Hindemith's Symphony in B-flat, and Sousa's "Nobles of the Mystic Shrine."
Michigan Theater. $10 (students & seniors, $5; kids age 12 & under, free) in advance and at the door. 434-7876.
