58th Ann Arbor Film Festival
Three outstanding documentaries in competition at the 58th Ann Arbor Film Festival focus on...
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Helene Grimaud
Watching Helene Grimaud’s hands in flight over the piano keys is like glimpsing a meteor...
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North Zeeb Commons
Celebrated Midland architect Alden Dow designed the 1963 building for University Microfilms, Inc....
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Jumpin’ Jukebox
There is a special place in jazz and popular music for singers who are equally adept pianists:...
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Ellen Stone
Ellen Stone taught at Community High School for many years before her recent retirement. Now she...
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AAPS Orchestra Night
Every February, friends with older children told us about the logistics of transporting and...
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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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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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Music History
The Barton Organ, which was installed prior to the opening of the theater in 1928, can still be...
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Stielstra’s Songbook
Jay Stielstra jokes that his simple formula for writing 100 songs is to write two a year for fifty...
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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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