PD9 Sun Ra Band
Sun Ra, who appeared on this planet as Herman Poole Blount in Birmingham, Alabama, 105 years ago,...
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Culture
Budapest Festival Orchestra
The Budapest Festival Orchestra’s conductor and co-founder Ivan Fischer is a master at...
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Mustard’s Retreat
Before Mustard’s Retreat formed as a trio in Ann Arbor in 1975, folk musician David...
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Ilya Kaminsky
Ilya Kaminsky’s Deaf Republic seemed to appear on everyone’s “Best of...
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Alternative Realities
Four years ago, Ann Arborite Alexander Weinstein received a lot of praise for his first book, a...
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Martin Katz & Friends
Martin Katz is a beloved pedagogue, vocal coach, and internationally respected organizer of song...
Read MoreFifty First Jokes
Stop me if you’ve heard this—fifty comics walk into a coffeehouse …No joke that. Instead it’s the setup for the sixth annual 50 First Jokes at the Ark on Thursday, January 2. Fifty of the area’s top working...
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Sheku Kanneh-Mason
Watching British cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason pour his heart and soul into a performance can be a...
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Livingston Taylor
Like Sherlock Holmes, James Taylor has an arguably smarter brother, Livingston, two and a half...
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Drummer Louis Hayes
When I was a teenager in Poland ages ago, those of us who loved modern jazz listened intensely to...
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Arthur Sze
Between the time I write this and the time you read it, we will know whether or not Arthur Sze has...
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Joan Shelley
Joan Shelley, from Louisville, is one of a group of Southern songwriters who’ve adapted...
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Loch na hEala (Swan Lake)
Tchaikovsky does not own Swan Lake, says dancer and choreographer Michael Keegan-Dolan. Indeed,...
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Sherlock Holmes and the Adventure of the Fallen Souffle
At the start of the current Purple Rose show, Sherlock Holmes and the Adventure of the Fallen...
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El Mar La Mar
There’s slow-burning horror in the lengthy opening shot of J.P. Sniadecki and Joshua...
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Karapetyan Does Komitas
In the late 1800s and early 1900s, Komitas did for Armenian music what Kodaly and Bartok did for...
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Zauberland
Julia Bullock is an expressive, golden-voiced soprano who honors classical divas Kathleen Ferrier...
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Ann Patchett
Ann Patchett writes good stories, the kind that catch us and keep us interested, that build to...
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