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Musicology PhD student Eric Whitmer performs a 30 minute recital on the Charles Baird Carillon, an instrument of 53 bronze bells located inside the Burton Memorial Tower, followed by visitor Q&A.
If Music be the Food of Love, Sing On! – Lunchtime Concert at NCRC
NCRC Building 18 (North Campus Research Complex), 2800 Plymouth Rd, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
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The Stearns Collection of Musical Instruments hosts a performance of vocal chamber music of Handel and Purcell, as well as improvised and traditional works for erhu and harpsichord, at the North Campus Research Complex. Featuring Juliet Schlefer, soprano; Xiao Dong Wei, erhu; Youngeun Lee, viola da gamba & Baroque cello; Joseph Gascho, harpsichord. U-M and NCRC staff, faculty, and members of the public are welcome to bring their lunch to the auditorium adjacent to the cafeteria in NCRC Building 18 at 12 p.m. Metered parking is available in the nearby NC99 parking lot.
Division Street Pipes
St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church, 306 N. Division St, Ann Arbor, MI 48104
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Join us as Deborah Friauff, organist and choirmaster at St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church, performs a 30-minute organ recital. This semester, the University of Michigan Organ Department presents a new recital series in collaboration with St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church, located just blocks from the heart of Kerrytown. Division Street Pipes concerts will take place on Thursdays at 12:15 pm. Each recital will feature talented students and faculty of the U-M Organ Department. These 30-minute performances are free and open to the public, and audience members are invited to enjoy their lunch while listening.
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University Carillonist Tiffany Ng performs a 30 minute recital on the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Carillon, an instrument of 60 bells with the lowest bell (bourdon) weighing 6 tons.
Nancy Rao, “Sound, Erasure and Archive of the Invisible: Chinese Theater in 19th Century California”
Watkins Lecture HallEarl V. Moore Building
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The Department of Music Theory hosts a lecture by distinguished guest scholar and SMTD alum Nancy Rao (MM ’89, voice and music theory; PhD ’94, music theory). This event honors Rao’s 2024 Professional Achievement in Music Award from the SMTD Alumni Board. All are welcome for the lecture (4:30-6:00 pm) and a reception to follow (6:00-7:00 pm).
Cantonese opera was woven into the Chinese community’s cultural, financial, social, and family life in 19th-century California. Yet excavating its music and performing history is nearly impossible, not only because of archival hierarchy but also due to various forms of erasure. This lecture addresses the challenge, particularly the need to ‘listen for the unsaid, translate misconstrued words, and refashion disfigured lives.’ It begins by discussing how a laborer’s diary entries give color to the faded image of 19th-century Chinese theater in San Francisco and pull us into its everydayness. It then considers the theater institutionally as an expression of the transpacific community. At conclusion it considers the music and significance of a 1903 recording of Cantonese opera.
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Undergraduate student Ellen Hayashi performs a final senior recital.
Reserved Seating $35 / $29 | Students $16 (fees included)
Henry James’s gripping short story of ghostly possession becomes a haunting and suspenseful opera in Benjamin Britten’s The Turn of the Screw.
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Graduate student Robert Paddock performs a recital.
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Undergraduate student Nicholas Welch performs a final senior recital.
Jazz Lab Ensemble & Jazz Trombone Ensemble
Rackham AuditoriumRackham Graduate School
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The U-M Jazz Trombone Ensemble joins the U-M Jazz Lab Ensemble in concert on Thursday, March 27 at 8:00 pm. The 10-member trombone ensemble will perform arrangements by four student trombonists. Following the trombones will be the Jazz Lab Ensemble giving their final performance of the semester. This swinging ensemble will also feature guest alumni John Douglas and Allen Dennard.
