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Flint … and brimstone

Feb 13, 2018 | Event Reviews, Uncategorized |

Jeff Daniels has created sixteen other plays, but Flint is his first to go hardcore political. It...

Joshua Bell

Feb 8, 2018 | Event Reviews, Uncategorized |

Some years ago, a friend of mine attended a master class given by an internationally renowned...

Wire in the Wood

Feb 7, 2018 | Event Reviews, Uncategorized |

When farm-raised U-M undergrad Chad Williams started WCBN-FM’s Bill Monroe for Breakfast...

Saxophonist Harry Allen

Feb 6, 2018 | Event Reviews, Uncategorized |

In the early 1940s a small group of young musicians changed the harmonic, melodic, and rhythmic...

Ian Bostridge

Feb 2, 2018 | Event Reviews, Uncategorized |

Following in the footsteps of master-singer Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, tenor Ian Bostridge has...

Janai Brugger

Jan 29, 2018 | Event Reviews, Uncategorized |

On January 31, lyric soprano Janai Brugger will step away from her busy schedule as ascendant...

Ruth B.

Jan 28, 2018 | Event Reviews, Uncategorized |

I saw Carly Simon in a solo concert in 1972, sitting at a piano and singing in a mid-sized hall....

Jane Hirshfield

Jan 23, 2018 | Event Reviews, Uncategorized |

In Jane Hirshfield’s poetry there is an unmistakable conjunction of precision and mystery....

Cue This

Jan 12, 2018 | Event Reviews, Uncategorized |

Theres a certain pleasure to writing a theater review in which spoiling plot details is no...

Corndaddy

Jan 9, 2018 | Event Reviews, Uncategorized |

Corndaddy plays its twentieth anniversary show at the Ark on January 11. When they started,...

Moth StorySLAM

Jan 1, 2018 | Event Reviews, Uncategorized |

Most people know the Moth through the Moth Radio Hour. National Public Radio latched onto this quirky gem–where amateurs tell stories on a given theme–in 2009, but it began a decade before it became a radio show, in...

The Pete Siers Duo Featuring Mr. B

Dec 28, 2017 | Event Reviews, Uncategorized |

When some years ago my daughter, as a young teen, was working her way through the first four...

Justin Walter

Dec 20, 2017 | Event Reviews, Uncategorized |

Discussions about jazz education most often focus on the university programs that have blossomed all over the world in recent decades and have had a formidable impact on the very nature of the music. As important as these are in...