Martin Katz & Friends
Martin Katz is a beloved pedagogue, vocal coach, and internationally respected organizer of song...
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Fifty 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...
Read MoreFriends In Deed’s Holiday Bed & Crib Drive
Ypsilanti, MI. Have you ever had to crash on a friend’s couch? Struggling all night to find a comfortable position, but no matter how you contort your body, there’s just no keeping the support beam from driving...
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Rocking Saline
As of the first of November, a well-established music school officially will leave Ann Arbor for a...
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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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No Expectations
Gilmartin knows what he’s talking about: between 1983 and 2003, he ran the U-M Major Events...
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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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Reeds & Steel
On a summer evening, I was pleasantly surprised by the brooding, gravelly voices echoing through...
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