Tarfia Faizullah
Tarfia Faizullah’s first book, Seam, published in 2014, revitalized and changed documentary poetry in America. To write that remarkable book, Faizullah returned to her parents’ native Bangladesh, where she...
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The Ann Arbor Film Festival 2018
The concept of tradition seems inescapable in today’s world. How important is it? How much...
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Jazz studies have come far in the century that separates young Louis Armstrong picking up the cornet at the New Orleans “waif’s home” from today’s graduate music programs at major universities. What was...
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Apollo’s Fire Does L’Orfeo
Orpheus, the ancient Greeks tell us, was the son of Calliope, muse of epic poetry. Orpheus...
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The Death of Stalin
British writer-director Armando Iannucci has trained his vicious sense of humor on contemporary...
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Joel Mabus
Joel Mabus has been performing and teaching since the early seventies–long enough that some...
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Thisbe Nissen
Apparently, it took fourteen years for Thisbe Nissen to write her new novel, Our Lady of the...
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Flint … and brimstone
Jeff Daniels has created sixteen other plays, but Flint is his first to go hardcore political. It...
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Joshua Bell
Some years ago, a friend of mine attended a master class given by an internationally renowned...
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Wire in the Wood
When farm-raised U-M undergrad Chad Williams started WCBN-FM’s Bill Monroe for Breakfast...
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Saxophonist Harry Allen
In the early 1940s a small group of young musicians changed the harmonic, melodic, and rhythmic...
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Ian Bostridge
Following in the footsteps of master-singer Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, tenor Ian Bostridge has...
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Janai Brugger
On January 31, lyric soprano Janai Brugger will step away from her busy schedule as ascendant...
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It’s Ekphrastic!
An “ekphrasis” is a literary work on a piece of visual piece of art–think John...
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Jane Hirshfield
In Jane Hirshfield’s poetry there is an unmistakable conjunction of precision and mystery....
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Moth StorySLAM
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...
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