UMS 2022/23 Season Brochure
The University Musical Society of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor) presents world-class music, theater, and dance in a variety of venues in Southeast Michigan. The 22/23 season includes a robust series of live and digital offerings designed to connect audiences with artists in uncommon and engaging experiences.
The University Musical Society of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor) presents world-class music, theater, and dance in a variety of venues in Southeast Michigan. The 22/23 season includes a robust series of live and digital offerings designed to connect audiences with artists in uncommon and engaging experiences.
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144TH SEASON
2022/23
WELCOME BACK TO UMS.
Welcome back to the shared experience of live performance.
Take your seat. Feel the sound. Expand your landscape. Live the moment.
LIVE THE
MOMENT
2 Welcome to the 144th Season
Elena Urioste by Alessandra Tinozzi
WELCOME TO
THE 144TH
UMS SEASON
As we come to the end of our first season of
returning to live performances after a hiatus
caused by the pandemic, all of us have been
reminded again of how amazing our UMS
audiences truly are.
You have stayed with UMS on a journey this
season that didn’t always have a straight path,
but one where the ultimate destination —
coming together safely as a community and
being reminded of our humanity — made
the trip worthwhile and hopefully satisfying.
We are feeling optimistic that our 2022/23
season will move us even further along that
path, and we invite you to lean in and “live
the moment” next season with us. We will
enter it with many lessons learned and with
renewed appreciation, shared by our artists,
for the incredible commitment you have
demonstrated these past two years.
After a year in which many artists and large
ensembles were rightly cautious about
touring, we are excited to announce that
our 2022/23 season showcases a scale of
season that feels more familiar, including
the return of our popular genre-based fixed
packages (see pages 24-25 for details). No
fewer than six great orchestras will appear
on the Hill Auditorium stage, including two
performances by the Berlin Philharmonic;
the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
and Chineke! Orchestra from the UK, both of
which were rescheduled after the pandemic
prevented international touring; and the
rescheduling of the Sphinx Symphony
Orchestra’s Hill debut, celebrating its 25th
anniversary. These orchestras and their
leaders are all taking an exciting, thoughtful,
and active approach to reshaping much of
their programming, charting a more inclusive
future that is long overdue.
We’re also thrilled to be in partnership once
again with our longtime friends Wynton
Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center
Orchestra — this time in a week-long
residency that will include his symphonic
masterpiece All Rise and a big band concert
by the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra,
as well as a special appearance at the Big
House, where they will be featured during a
Michigan Marching Band halftime show. This
residency has been years in the making, and
there will be more surprises from the group
along the way.
UMS’s renegade theater festival, No Safety
Net, will return for its third installment,
with details on all productions and artists
announced in the fall. We are now able to
share that kicking off NSN 3.0 will be the
terrific Belgian theater company Ontroerend
Goed with a uniquely palindromic work about
the environment — a piece that gives us
hope that perhaps we can undo some of the
damage that has already been done.
As we look ahead to our new season, we
would be remiss not to recognize our partners
at the University of Michigan, whose support
envelops so many departments and programs.
We are grateful for the confidence that
University leadership has in UMS and are
eager to continue forging new relationships
across campus with faculty and students alike.
We invite you to join us next season. Live
the moment and be reminded once again
just how much we've all missed the beauty
and wonder of great artistry, and the power
it holds for us as human beings to be able
share it with one another.
Sincerely,
Matthew VanBesien
UMS President
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2022/23
SEASON
AT-A-GLANCE
SEP
TREVOR NOAH: BACK TO ABNORMAL
Friday, September 16 // 8 pm
Hill Auditorium
OCT
EMERSON STRING QUARTET
Saturday, October 1 // 8 pm
Rackham Auditorium
SIR ANDRÁS SCHIFF, PIANO
Friday, October 7 // 8 pm
Hill Auditorium
WYNTON MARSALIS’S ALL RISE
JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER ORCHESTRA
WITH WYNTON MARSALIS
University of Michigan Symphony Orchestra
and Choirs
UMS Choral Union
Kenneth Kiesler, conductor
Friday, October 14 // 8 pm
Hill Auditorium
JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER ORCHESTRA
WITH WYNTON MARSALIS
Sunday, October 16 // 4 pm
Hill Auditorium
CITY OF BIRMINGHAM SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla, conductor
Sheku Kanneh-Mason, cello
Wednesday, October 19 // 7:30 pm
Hill Auditorium
THE RITE OF SPRING / COMMON GROUND[S]
PINA BAUSCH FOUNDATION, ÉCOLE DES
SABLES OF SENEGAL, AND SADLER'S WELLS
Pina Bausch / Germaine Acogny &
Malou Airaudo, choreographers
Friday, October 21 // 8 pm
Saturday, October 22 // 8 pm
Power Center
DANISH STRING QUARTET
Friday, October 28 // 8 pm
Rackham Auditorium
4 Welcome to the 144th Season
Are we not drawn onward to new erA by Mirjam Devriendt
NOV
AIDA CUEVAS WITH MARIACHI AZTLÁN
Friday, November 4 // 8 pm
Hill Auditorium
BERLINER PHILHARMONIKER
Kirill Petrenko, chief conductor
Noah Bendix-Balgley, violin
Friday, November 18 // 8 pm
Hill Auditorium
BERLINER PHILHARMONIKER
Kirill Petrenko, chief conductor
Saturday, November 19 // 8:30 pm
Hill Auditorium
DEC
HANDEL’S MESSIAH
UMS Choral Union
Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra
Scott Hanoian, conductor
Saturday, December 3 // 7:30 pm
Sunday, December 4 // 2 pm
Hill Auditorium
ITZHAK PERLMAN & FRIENDS
Itzhak Perlman, violin
Emanuel Ax, piano
Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano
Juilliard String Quartet
Saturday, December 10 // 8 pm
Hill Auditorium
SPECIAL DOUBLE-BILL!
BÉLA FLECK MY BLUEGRASS HEART
AND PUNCH BROTHERS
Friday, December 16 // 7:30 pm
Hill Auditorium
JAN
TAKÁCS QUARTET
WITH JEREMY DENK, PIANO
Wednesday, January 18 // 7:30 pm
Rackham Auditorium
ARE WE NOT DRAWN ONWARD TO NEW ERA
ONTROEREND GOED
Alexander Devriendt, director
Friday, January 20 // 8 pm
Saturday, January 21 // 8 pm
Power Center
AARON DIEHL TRIO: MIRROR
Friday, January 27 // 8 pm
Rackham Auditorium
SPHINX SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
EXIGENCE (Eugene Rogers, music director)
Tito Muñoz, conductor
Aundi Moore, soprano
Sunday, January 29 // 4 pm
Hill Auditorium
NO SAFETY NET 3.0
UMS's Renegade Festival | January-February 2023 | Details to be announced!
FEB
JOSHUA BELL, VIOLIN
Tuesday, February 7 // 7:30 pm
Hill Auditorium
BRNO PHILHARMONIC
Dennis Russell Davies, conductor
UMS Choral Union
Brass of the U-M Symphony Band
Christian Schmitt, organ
Friday, February 10 // 8 pm
Hill Auditorium
BALLET PRELJOCAJ: SWAN LAKE
Angelin Preljocaj, artistic director and
choreographer
Friday, February 17 // 7:30 pm
Saturday, February 18 // 7:30 pm
Sunday, February 19 // 2:30 pm
Detroit Opera House
MAR
MARIA SCHNEIDER ORCHESTRA
Saturday, March 11 // 8 pm
Hill Auditorium
STEP AFRIKA!
C. Brian Williams, founder and
artistic director
Sunday, March 12 // 4 pm
Hill Auditorium
DANIEL HOPE, VIOLIN
ZURICH CHAMBER ORCHETRA
Friday, March 17 // 8 pm
Hill Auditorium
FARIDA AND THE IRAQI MAQAM ENSEMBLE
Sunday, March 19 // 4 pm
Rackham Auditorium
CHINEKE! ORCHESTRA
Andrew Grams, conductor
Elena Urioste, violin
Saturday, March 25 // 8 pm
Hill Auditorium
APR
CÉCILE MCLORIN SALVANT
Cécile McLorin Salvant, vocals
Sullivan Fortner, piano
Marvin Sewell, guitars
Alexa Tarantino, flutes
Keita Ogawa, drums and percussion
Friday, April 14 // 8 pm
Hill Auditorium
JULIUS EASTMAN’S FEMENINE
WILD UP
Christopher Rountree, music director
Sunday, April 16 // 4 pm
Rackham Auditorium
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TREVOR NOAH: BACK TO ABNORMAL
Friday, September 16 // 8 pm
Hill Auditorium
Trevor Noah, host of Comedy Central’s Emmy
and Peabody Award-winning The Daily Show,
is widely known for his social commentary
touching upon issues of racism, immigration,
incarceration, and the protest movement.
Born in South Africa to a Black South African
mother and a white European father during
apartheid, Noah knows what it means to
live in a divided nation, and he brings a
unique perspective in his incisive social
and political criticism of the larger issues
at play in the US and in the world today. His
“Back to Abnormal” tour marks his first live
UMS stand-up set, following a widely viewed
virtual talk with U-M students in 2020.
Title Sponsor
EMERSON STRING QUARTET
Saturday, October 1 // 8 pm
Rackham Auditorium
PROGRAM
Felix Mendelssohn String Quartet No. 1 in E-flat
Major, Op. 12
Johannes Brahms String Quartet No. 3 in B-flat
Major, Op. 67
George Walker Lyric for Strings
Antonín Dvořák String Quartet No. 14 in A-flat Major,
Op. 105
After 46 years, thousands of concerts, more
than 30 recordings, nine Grammy Awards, and
countless other achievements, the Emerson
String Quartet returns to Ann Arbor as part of
its farewell tour. Founded as a student group
at The Juilliard School in 1976 and named for
the transcendentalist poet and philosopher
Ralph Waldo Emerson, the quartet has
performed 17 concerts in Rackham
Auditorium since its UMS debut in 1989.
SIR ANDRÁS SCHIFF, PIANO
Friday, October 7 // 8 pm
Hill Auditorium
“[András Schiff] is one of the most
penetratingly serious masters of the
keyboard before the public today. Full stop.”
(Boston Globe) A pianist, conductor, and
lecturer, he brings masterful and intellectual
insights to his performances, which have
inspired audiences and critics alike. He
will draw from his vast classical repertoire,
brilliantly uniting performance and pedagogy
as he brings his role as a master educator to
the stage, allowing audiences to experience
both his artistry and the thinking behind
it. Program will include works by Mozart,
Beethoven, and Schubert, with each
selection introduced from the stage.
Permanently Endowed Support:
Darragh Humphrey Weisman Memorial Endowment Fund
Trevor Noah
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A WEEK-LONG RESIDENCY THAT HONORS TRADITION
AND PUSHES BOUNDARIES.
FEEL THE
SOUND
8 Welcome to the 144th Season
Wynton Marsalis's All Rise courtesy of Jazz at Lincoln Center
WYNTON MARSALIS’S ALL RISE
JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER ORCHESTRA
WITH WYNTON MARSALIS
University of Michigan Symphony Orchestra
and Choirs
UMS Choral Union
Kenneth Kiesler, conductor
Friday, October 14 // 8 pm
Hill Auditorium
Wynton Marsalis with Tappan Middle School students by Peter Smith
Wynton Marsalis’s massive jazz symphony
All Rise (Symphony No. 1) was commissioned
by the New York Philharmonic for the
millennium and had its world premiere on
December 29, 1999. The combined forces of
a symphony orchestra, jazz orchestra, and
chorus capture the stylistic range of this
epic blues suite. Blending influences from
African chant, New Orleans parade music,
gospel, symphonic modernism, and Latinbased
music, All Rise (Symphony No. 1) is
a 12-movement arc built on the structure
of the Blues that moves from uplifting
and energetic to dark and distressing to
Marsalis’s vision of the “togetherness and
ascendance” of humanity. Marsalis has said
that this monumental work is about “the rise
from destruction to creativity, drawing joy out
of tragedy, and refusing to be beaten down.”
Of the world premiere performance, the
Chicago Tribune enthused, “Marsalis finds
plangent blues melody at [the] core…This is
what makes All Rise cohere even though its
12 movements span entire continents and
musical cultures.”
JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER ORCHESTRA
WITH WYNTON MARSALIS
Sunday, October 16 // 4 pm
Hill Auditorium
“The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra
is ridiculously tight, executing tricky
maneuvers like a fighter jet.” (DownBeat)
Since 1988, Wynton Marsalis has led the
15-piece Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra,
which simultaneously honors the rich
heritage of Duke Ellington and Louis
Armstrong while presenting a stunning
variety of new works from illustrious names,
many of whom perform regularly with the
ensemble. Following Friday's performance
of Marsalis's All Rise, the group returns in
its big band format for an afternoon of jazz.
“You know it’s a good gig when you can’t tell
if the band or the audience is having more
fun.” (Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel).
This appearance concludes a week-long
residency that will include two public
concerts, a School Day Performance for K-12
students, connections with students at the
U-M School of Music, Theatre & Dance —
and a halftime appearance with the Michigan
Marching Band!
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The Rite of Spring by Maarten Vanden Abeele
CITY OF BIRMINGHAM
SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla, conductor
Sheku Kanneh-Mason, cello
Wednesday, October 19 // 7:30 pm
Hill Auditorium
PROGRAM
Benjamin Britten Four Sea Interludes from
Peter Grimes
Edward Elgar Cello Concerto in e minor, Op. 85
Thomas Adès The Exterminating Angel Symphony
Claude Debussy La mer
The electrifying young Lithuanian conductor
Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla, a former Dudamel
Fellow and associate conductor at the Los
Angeles Philharmonic, was appointed music
director of the City of Birmingham Symphony
Orchestra in 2016, following in the footsteps
of Simon Rattle and Andris Nelsons. Her
tenure has been one of unqualified success,
generating excitement among live audiences
and critics worldwide. She brings the CBSO
to Ann Arbor as part of a limited US tour with
cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason performing
Elgar’s Cello Concerto, composed in the
aftermath of World War I. The orchestra
had a close association with Elgar, who
conducted the ensemble’s very first concert
over a century ago, in 1920. The program also
includes an abbreviated orchestral rendering
of Thomas Adès’s third opera, based on Luis
Buñuel’s 1962 surreal film about a collection
of society characters who find themselves
inexplicably trapped together at a post-opera
party. The CBSO “brilliantly captured the
profound, uncanny disquiet that makes [the
film] so unforgettable.” (Bachtrack)
Permanently Endowed Support: Ilene H. Forsyth Choral
Union Endowment Fund
THE RITE OF SPRING /
COMMON GROUND[S]
PINA BAUSCH FOUNDATION,
ÉCOLE DES SABLES OF SENEGAL,
AND SADLER'S WELLS
Pina Bausch / Germaine Acogny &
Malou Airaudo, choreographers
Friday, October 21 // 8 pm
Saturday, October 22 // 8 pm
Power Center
“How would you dance, if you knew you were
going to die?” the late choreographer Pina
Bausch asked her dancers in 1975, when
she created her vision of The Rite of Spring,
where a young woman is sacrificed so spring
can arrive. Her pioneering work, one of the
first that established her iconic approach
to dance theater, is now being performed
by a newly assembled company of dancers
from more than a dozen African countries.
The Rite of Spring is paired with a new work
created, performed, and inspired by the lives
of two remarkable women: Germaine Acogny,
the founder of École des Sables in Senegal
who is widely considered “the mother of
contemporary African dance,” and Malou
Airaudo, an iconic dancer in early works from
Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch. A poetic
and tender antidote to The Rite of Spring,
common ground[s] reflects their shared
histories and emotional experiences.
DANISH STRING QUARTET
Friday, October 28 // 8 pm
Rackham Auditorium
PROGRAM
Franz Schubert Quartet No. 14 in d minor, D. 810
(“Death and the Maiden”)
Lotta Wennäkoski Pige
Franz Schubert “Death and the Maiden”
(Song arranged by the Danish String Quartet)
Beginning as students at a summer music
camp before they were even teenagers, the
members of the Danish String Quartet have
an extensive history of musical collaboration.
For their third UMS appearance, they bring
their Doppelgänger project, an ambitious
four-year international commissioning
project in which four composers create
new works in response to a masterwork by
Franz Schubert. In this concert, they pair
Schubert’s “Death and the Maiden” quartet
with a new work by Finnish composer Lotta
Wennäkoski, who has been praised for her
mastery of color and musical textures.
Permanently Endowed Support: Carl Cohen, whose
bequest will establish an endowment to support a
Chamber Arts performance in perpetuity
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45 ANIVERSARIO: YO CREO QUE ES TIEMPO
AIDA CUEVAS WITH
MARIACHI AZTLÁN
Friday, November 4 // 8 pm
Hill Auditorium
“[Aida] Cuevas is to Mexico what Aretha
Franklin is to the United States: a powerful
voice that encapsulates the essence of her
nation’s spirit. (Kansas City Star)
The voice, charisma, and talent of Aida
Cuevas has led to one of the most important
careers in traditional Mexican and Latin
American music. The “Queen of Ranchera
Music,” Cuevas exhibits her stunning vocals
and her unwavering devotion to traditional
mariachi music and its demanding vocal
forms. With a 46-year career and nearly as
many albums, she was awarded the 2018
Grammy Award for “Best Regional Mexican
Music Album,” the first time a woman has
received the award. Cuevas is a master of the
Mariachi art song, ranging from her falsetto
heavyweight “El Pastor” to her iconic Juan
Gabriel hits including “Te Doy Las Gracias,”
“Te Vas a Quedar Con Las Ganas,” and
“Quizás Mañana.” With her unique voice
and style, she has left a remarkable imprint
in the history of Mexican music. Aida Cuevas
is joined by Mariachi Aztlán, one of the top
collegiate mariachi bands in the country.
Aida Cuevas For tickets call 734.764.2538 or visit ums.org 11
BERLINER PHILHARMONIKER
Kirill Petrenko, chief conductor
Noah Bendix-Balgley, violin
Friday, November 18 // 8 pm
Hill Auditorium
PROGRAM
Andrew Norman Unstuck
W.A. Mozart Violin Concerto No. 1 in B-Flat Major,
K. 207
Erich Korngold Symphony in F-Sharp Major, Op. 40
The Berlin Philharmonic’s new chief conductor,
Kirill Petrenko, makes his UMS debut with
this two-concert residency. Born in Siberia,
Petrenko came from a musical family and
served as music director for opera companies
in three cities, all the while maintaining a
strong interest in the symphonic repertoire.
For this debut concert, he conducts Andrew
Norman’s 10-minute orchestral joyride,
Unstuck, which brims with invention and
energy. The orchestra’s first concertmaster
takes the stage for Mozart’s first violin
concerto, and the orchestra concludes its
program with Erich Korngold’s only symphony.
Completed in 1952 and dedicated to the
memory of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the
work had a radio premiere in 1954 and was
not performed in concert until 1972, 15 years
after the composer’s death. A huge success
in Hollywood as a film composer, Korngold is
known for his sweeping orchestrations and
brilliant orchestral color, all of which are on
display in this insightful and dramatic score.
Funded in part by the Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen
Foundation
BERLINER PHILHARMONIKER
Kirill Petrenko, chief conductor
Saturday, November 19 // 8:30 pm
Hill Auditorium
PROGRAM
Gustav Mahler Symphony No. 7
“Kirill Petrenko has a way of hearing deep
into textures and harmonies that is at times
really quite startling. He gives us X-ray ears.”
(Gramophone) The Berlin Philharmonic’s
second program features Gustav Mahler at his
most mysterious, with the tantalizing nocturnal
atmosphere of his Symphony No. 7. The work,
which remains the least known and least
performed of all of Mahler’s symphonies, was
composed in the summers of 1904 and 1905,
during Mahler’s only respite from the demands
of conducting. The work’s wide palette of
orchestral colors is filled with shadows and
contrasts, and it had a mixed reception when
it premiered in Prague in 1908. Nevertheless,
it converted the Mahler skeptic Arnold
Schoenberg, who wrote in great detail about his
response to the work, stating unequivocally, “As
for which movement I liked best: All of them!”
Funded in part by the Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen
Foundation
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Kirill Petrenko
A NEW CHIEF CONDUCTOR MAKES
HIS UMS DEBUT WITH TWO CONCERTS.
TAKE
YOUR SEAT
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Jeremy Denk by Josh Goleman
HANDEL’S MESSIAH
UMS Choral Union
Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra
Scott Hanoian, conductor
Saturday, December 3 // 7:30 pm
Sunday, December 4 // 2 pm
Hill Auditorium
Handel composed his oratorio Messiah over
the course of a single month in 1741, six
months before its triumphant premiere at a
new concert hall in Dublin. Nearly 300 years
later, Handel’s Messiah fills Hill Auditorium with
its ravishing beauty, brought to life by friends
and colleagues from the community. Music
director Scott Hanoian conducts the UMS
Choral Union and the Ann Arbor Symphony
Orchestra in this annual holiday tradition.
Please note that the Saturday performance will
begin at 7:30 pm.
ITZHAK PERLMAN & FRIENDS
Featuring
Itzhak Perlman, violin
Emanuel Ax, piano
Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano
Juilliard String Quartet
Saturday, December 10 // 8 pm
Hill Auditorium
Itzhak Perlman
PROGRAM
Jean-Marie Leclair Sonata for Two Violins in e minor,
Op. 3, No. 5
W.A. Mozart Piano Quartet No. 2 in E-Flat Major,
K. 493
Ernest Chausson Concert for Violin, Piano, and
String Quartet, Op. 21
Undeniably the reigning virtuoso of the violin,
Itzhak Perlman enjoys superstar status rarely
afforded a classical musician. Beloved for
his charm and humanity as well as his talent,
he is treasured by audiences throughout the
world who respond not only to his remarkable
artistry, but also to his irrepressible joy for
making music. For this special performance
in Hill Auditorium, he brings together pianists
Emanuel Ax and Jean-Yves Thibaudet and the
Juilliard String Quartet for a mixed chamber
music program.
SPECIAL DOUBLE-BILL!
BÉLA FLECK MY BLUEGRASS HEART
AND PUNCH BROTHERS
Friday, December 16 // 7:30 pm
Hill Auditorium
When Punch Brothers and Béla Fleck come
together in this special double-bill evening,
one thing is certain: audiences benefit from
their lifelong devotion to bluegrass as much
as the musicians. The band of virtuosi that
comprise Punch Brothers has spent more
than a decade changing the face of acoustic
music, stretching the limitations of their
instruments and influencing a generation
of young musicians, some of whom will
appear with Béla Fleck as part of his set
based on his 2022 Best Bluegrass Grammywinning
album My Bluegrass Heart. Beyond
the baker’s dozen of Grammy Awards and
Genius Grants between them, their collective
skills bring worldly rhythms and soulful jams
to Hill Auditorium. While Punch Brothers
founder Chris Thile and Béla Fleck have made
several UMS appearances with their own
projects in recent years, this special concert
marks Punch Brothers' return to UMS for
the first time since 2009. “With enthusiasm
and experimentation, Punch Brothers take
bluegrass to its next evolutionary stage,
drawing equal inspiration from the brain and
the heart.” (Washington Post)
TAKÁCS QUARTET
WITH JEREMY DENK, PIANO
Wednesday, January 18 // 7:30 pm
Rackham Auditorium
PROGRAM
Franz Joseph Haydn String Quartet in F Major,
Op. 77, No. 1
Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel Quartet in E-Flat Major
Robert Schumann Piano Quintet in E-Flat Major,
Op. 44
The Takács Quartet — fresh from its
performance last season with bandoneón
player Julien Labro — returns to Rackham
Auditorium with pianist Jeremy Denk. The
intrepid ensemble shines a light on the sole
string quartet written by Fanny Mendelssohn
Hensel, an active 19th-century composer
whose works were largely unrecognized
during her lifetime. Jeremy Denk joins the
group for the second half with Schumann’s
ebullient piano quintet, one of the very first
works to pair the traditional string quartet
configuration with piano. Dedicated to Clara
Schumann, the fiendishly difficult piano part
was first performed by Fanny Mendelssohn’s
brother, Felix, when Clara fell ill, though
she was at the keyboard for the first public
performance a month later.
Permanently Endowed Support: Ilene H. Forsyth Chamber
Arts Endowment Fund
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25TH ANNIVERSARY TOUR
SPHINX SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
EXIGENCE (Eugene Rogers, music director)
Tito Muñoz, conductor
Aundi Moore, soprano
Sunday, January 29 // 4 pm
Hill Auditorium
PROGRAM
Carlos Simon Motherboxx Connection
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor Ballade for Orchestra
Valerie Coleman Seven O'Clock Shout
Michael Abels Delights and Dances
Traditional, arr. Augustus Hill Fix Me, Jesus
Carlos Cordero Holding Our Breath
Joel Thompson Seven Last Words of the Unarmed
John Legend / Common, arr. Eugene Rogers
“Glory” from Selma
ARE WE NOT DRAWN ONWARD
TO NEW ERA
ONTROEREND GOED
Alexander Devriendt, director
Friday, January 20 // 8 pm
Saturday, January 21 // 8 pm
Power Center
“Life must be lived forwards, but it can only
be understood backwards.” (Kierkegaard)
Like its title, this performance is a palindrome
that you will be able to see both forwards
and backwards — because some people
believe humanity is moving forward, while
others believe the opposite. Some say the
world is coming to an end, and others call
them doomsayers. No matter who is right, in
our quest for progress, we have dramatically
changed the world we live in. Are our actions
irreversible? Or can we undo them? This
performance presents a visual metaphor
for this crucial moment in our future history,
tracing the process of humans moving
towards their downfall — or their salvation.
Are we not drawn onward to new erA is “an
inventive, meticulously choreographed
artistic commentary on humanity’s
collective destruction of the Earth and every
person’s responsibility to commit fully to its
rehabilitation.” (The Skinny) An Edinburgh
Fringe First Award winner, this powerful
piece of theater is a “technically dazzling,
emotionally devastating show.” (Time Out)
This presentation is part of No Safety Net 3.0, UMS's
Renegade Theater Festival. Additional artists and
details will be announced in Fall 2022.
Joshua Bell by Richard Ashcroft
AARON DIEHL TRIO: MIRROR
Friday, January 27 // 8 pm
Rackham Auditorium
UMS audiences may remember Aaron Diehl
as the incredible pianist who performed
alongside Cécile McLorin Salvant in Lydia
Mendelssohn Theatre in February 2020
and at the Michigan Theater in 2017. This
new project showcases his fluency in both
Western classical repertoire and dynamic
jazz improvisation. He and his trio explore
the connections between J.S. Bach’s
counterpoint and the vocabulary of bebop,
interspersing solo sections from The Well-
Tempered Clavier with Diehl’s own music in
corresponding keys. “Diehl gracefully melds
two worlds, merging the improvisational
spirit of jazz with the compositional
intricacies of Western classical music.”
(Downbeat)
Permanently Endowed Support: Helmut F. and
Candis J. Stern Endowment Fund
In this concert, postponed from January 2021,
Detroit's Sphinx Organization celebrates
its 25th anniversary, and UMS presents the
full orchestra on its first-ever national tour,
immediately after its Sphinx Competition
performances. The all-Black and Latinx
Sphinx Symphony Orchestra is composed of
top professionals from around the country,
with members serving as mentors to
Competition finalists and promoting works by
Black and Latinx composers. Sphinx’s vocal
ensemble, EXIGENCE, joins the ensemble for
several pieces, including Joel Thompson’s
Seven Last Words of the Unarmed, a powerful
multi-movement choral work that was
premiered by the U-M Glee Club in 2016
and memorializes the last words spoken by
seven African American men killed by police
or other authority figures.
This concert is presented in conjunction with
SphinxConnect, a national convening focused on
diversity and inclusion in the arts.
JOSHUA BELL, VIOLIN
Tuesday, February 7 // 7:30 pm
Hill Auditorium
With a discography of more than 40 albums
and a career spanning over 30 years as a
soloist, chamber musician, conductor, and
music director, Joshua Bell is one of the
most celebrated violinists of his era. The
Bloomington, Indiana, native has served as
music director for Academy of St. Martin in
the Fields since 2011 and maintains an active
interest in music education and technology,
partnering with an instrument sampling
company and creating a VR experience for
the Sony PlayStation. Bell returns for his fifth
recital program and ninth appearance under
UMS auspices since his 1989 Hill Auditorium
debut with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra.
Program to be announced.
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Aaron Diehl by Maria Jarzyna For tickets call 734.764.2538 or visit ums.org 17
BRNO PHILHARMONIC
Dennis Russell Davies, conductor
UMS Choral Union
Brass of the U-M Symphony Band
Christian Schmitt, organ
Friday, February 10 // 8 pm
Hill Auditorium
PROGRAM
Leoš Janáček Sinfonietta
William Bolcom Humoresk for Organ and Orchestra
Leoš Janáček Glagolitic Mass
Dennis Russell Davies last appeared in
Ann Arbor with the Bruckner Orchester
Linz in a program featuring Angélique Kidjo
performing a new song cycle by Philip Glass.
Now he returns with his new orchestra, the
Czech Republic’s Brno Philharmonic, which
was founded in 1956 and serves as a living
tribute to Leoš Janáček’s music. Janáček was
educated in Brno and spent most of his life
there, and his extensive experience working
with and composing for choirs was evident
in his compositions. The Glagolitic Mass — so
named because it was written in the oldest
known Slavic alphabet — has been performed
only once at UMS, in 1988, and is a patriotic
masterpiece, more of a hymn to the Czech
nation and Slavic culture than a religious or
ecclesiastical tribute.
BALLET PRELJOCAJ: SWAN LAKE
Angelin Preljocaj, artistic director and
choreographer
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, original score
79D, electronica
Boris Labbé, video design
Éric Soyer, lighting design
Igor Chapurin, costume design
Friday, February 17 // 7:30 pm
Saturday, February 18 // 7:30 pm
Sunday, February 19 // 2:30 pm
Detroit Opera House
Contemporary dance superstar Angelin
Preljocaj tackles the Mount Everest of the
ballet world with his new take on Swan Lake.
Combining Tchaikovsky’s musical masterpiece
with contemporary arrangements, he reinvents
the timeless and familiar tale of love, betrayal,
seduction, and remorse into a contemporary
ecological tragedy. The evil sorcerer von
Rothbart is an industrialist who wants to exploit
fossil fuels against a backdrop of unbridled
capitalism, while Siegfried and Odette are the
two eco-conscious heroes who try to thwart
his plans. With 26 dancers, this Swan Lake
truly takes flight in its beautiful tribute to the
original. Audiences who have seen Ballet
Preljocaj’s previous four appearances in Ann
Arbor, including the magical Snow White a
decade ago, are in for a treat when classical
ballet meets modern dance on the stage of the
Detroit Opera House.
Co-presented with Detroit Opera.
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Ballet Preljocaj Swan Lake by JC Carbonne
A TIMELESS TALE REINVENTED.
EXPAND YOUR
LANDSCAPE
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MARIA SCHNEIDER ORCHESTRA
Maria Schneider, composer and bandleader
Saturday, March 11 // 8 pm
Hill Auditorium
“Maria Schneider is a national treasure,”
proclaims National Public Radio. The
2019 NEA Jazz Master, 2021 Pulitzer
Prize finalist (for her 2020 album Data
Lords), and seven-time Grammy winner
brings her 18-member collective to
Hill Auditorium for their UMS debut.
Schneider’s music has been hailed by
critics as evocative, majestic, heartstoppingly
gorgeous, imaginative,
revelatory, riveting, daring, and beyond
categorization. Blurring the lines
among genres, her commissioners
stretch from Jazz at Lincoln Center to
the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra and
the American Dance Festival — and
also include a collaboration with David
Bowie. Formed as a tribute to Gil Evans,
who orchestrated many of Miles Davis’s
charts, Schneider’s band tackles lush and
complex works that bring new energy to
the jazz orchestra landscape.
STEP AFRIKA!
C. Brian Williams, founder and artistic
director
Sunday, March 12 // 4 pm
Hill Auditorium
Step Afrika! introduces audiences to
the importance of stepping in cultural
identity and the use of body percussion
as a means of communication. Their
performances blend percussive dance
styles practiced by historically African
American fraternities and sororities,
traditional West and Southern African
dances, and an array of contemporary
dance and art forms. Featuring the
powerful dance of the Zulu nation and
the poly-rhythmic South African gumboot
dance, they integrate songs, storytelling,
humor, and audience participation into a
cohesive, compelling artistic experience
that showcases their technique, agility,
and pure energy. The first professional
dance company dedicated to the tradition
of stepping, Step Afrika! is featured in the
Smithsonian’s National Museum of African
American History and Culture with the
world’s first interactive stepping exhibit.
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Maria Schneider by Briene Lermitte
Step Afrika! by Sekou Luke
DANIEL HOPE, VIOLIN
ZURICH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
Friday, March 17 // 8 pm
Hill Auditorium
PROGRAM
Aaron Copland “Hoe-Down” from Rodeo
Duke Ellington “Come Sunday” from Black, Brown
and Beige
Florence Price Adoration
Kurt Weill American Song Suite
Samuel Barber Adagio for Strings, Op. 11
Aaron Copland “At the River” from Old American
Songs
Philip Glass Echorus
George Gershwin Song Suite
After their UMS debut in November 2019,
which featured Vivaldi’s Four Seasons
paired with a new take on the work by Max
Richter — a concert that many audience
members cited as their favorite of the year —
violinist Daniel Hope returns with the Zurich
Chamber Orchestra in a new program that
takes a deep dive into the rich repertoire
of American music, exploring its roots and
distinctive qualities. “We know a piece is
from America the moment we hear it,” Hope
says. “But what makes it sound American?”
With arrangements by Paul Bateman for
solo violin with various classical and jazz
combinations, this concert will explore both
familiar and unfamiliar tunes by a variety of
American composers.
FARIDA AND THE IRAQI MAQAM
ENSEMBLE
Sunday, March 19 // 4 pm
Rackham Auditorium
Farida Mohammad Ali was born in Karbala,
Iraq, and has established a reputation
throughout the Arab world for her brilliant
performances of the classical maqam, a form
of Arab art music traditionally sung by men.
Her powerful voice and extensive training
have enabled her to perform some of the
most challenging maqams, and her mastery
of the form is truly extraordinary with both
a technique that requires full command of
complex melodies and an understanding of
the philosophies embedded within them.
Farida specializes in maqam al-baghdadi,
which has its roots in the culture of
Mesopotamia and is a secular form that relies
on improvisation. When Farida became the
first Iraqi woman to perform maqam in the US
in 2001, the New York Times reviewer likened
her to Linda Ronstadt, while the Chicago
Tribune detected "the swelling sweetness of
Bonnie Raitt wrapped around the gale-force
power of Pavarotti."
CHINEKE! ORCHESTRA
Andrew Grams, conductor
Elena Urioste, violin
Saturday, March 25 // 8 pm
Hill Auditorium
PROGRAM
Carlos Simon Fate Now Conquers
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor Violin Concerto in g minor
Florence Price Symphony No. 1 in e minor
Founded in 2015 to provide career
opportunities to young Black and ethnically
diverse classical musicians in the UK and
Europe, the Chineke! Orchestra comprises
exceptional musicians from across the
continent. The brainchild of Chi-chi Nwanoku
OBE, an ex-sprinter and double bass player
who was a founding member of the Orchestra
of the Age of Enlightenment and typically
found herself the only Black musician on
stage in any concert, Chineke! makes its
UMS debut three years after it was originally
scheduled. The concert features three works
that have never been performed on UMS
concerts. Florence Price’s first symphony was,
in 1933, the first symphonic work by a Black
woman to be performed by a major American
orchestra. Steeped in American folk music,
spirituals, and church hymns, her work reflects
her experience as a Black woman raised in
the post-Civil War South. Sphinx laureate
Elena Urioste joins the orchestra for Samuel
Coleridge-Taylor’s Violin Concerto. The
program opens with a short work by Carlos
Simon, a U-M alumnus whose works are now
gaining national attention.
Pronounced chi-NECK-ay, the orchestra’s name
comes from a Nigerian Igbo exclamation for
“something amazing.”
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Julius Eastman by Chris Rusiniak
CÉCILE MCLORIN SALVANT
Cécile McLorin Salvant, vocals
Sullivan Fortner, piano
Marvin Sewell, guitars
Alexa Tarantino, flutes
Keita Ogawa, drums and percussion
Friday, April 14 // 8 pm
Hill Auditorium
A UMS favorite since her 2017 debut, Cécile McLorin Salvant
continues to defy expectations with her genre-obliterating virtuosity.
The singer, composer, and visual artist has a passion for storytelling
and finding the connections between blues, folk traditions from
around the world, theater, jazz, and Baroque music. She is an
eclectic curator who unearths rarely recorded, forgotten songs with
interesting power dynamics and unexpected twists; a composer of
new songs; and a visual artist who works in the medium of textile
drawings. Each of her past three recordings has won the Grammy
for Best Jazz Vocal Album, and in 2020 she was named a MacArthur
fellow. The New York Times called Ghost Song, released in March 2022,
“her most revealing and rewarding album yet.” After her 2020 set in
Mendelssohn Theatre with pianist Aaron Diehl, she brings her quintet
to Hill Auditorium.
JULIUS EASTMAN’S FEMENINE
WILD UP
Christopher Rountree, music director
Sunday, April 16 // 4 pm
Rackham Auditorium
American composer, pianist, vocalist, and dancer Julius Eastman was
young, gay, and Black when it was even more difficult to be young,
gay, and Black in America. He swerved in, out, and through academia,
downtown experimental music, discos, Meredith Monk’s early
ensembles, European tours, sex clubs, and Carnegie Hall. He died in
1990 at age 49, less than a decade after the New York City Sheriff’s
Department evicted him and threw most of his scores and belongings
into the winter snow of the East Village. Eastman sometimes gifted his
manuscripts to friends and musical colleagues; now, more than three
decades since his death, his work is being regifted by those whose
lives he touched. The Los Angeles music collective Wild Up is creating
a series of performances and a multi-volume anthology to carry his
music forward, starting with Femenine. The minimalist work debuted
in 1974, two years before Steve Reich’s Music for 18 Musicians and
Philip Glass’s Einstein on the Beach had their first performances; yet
Eastman was punished for being ahead of his time, in the rejection of
both his music and his person. “Wild Up’s new rendition takes a page
from Eastman’s personal playbook: It’s exuberant, a bit in your face,
sometimes capricious, and always surprising.” (NPR Music)
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Cécile McLorin Salvant For tickets call 734.764.2538 or visit ums.org 23
2022/23 FIXED SERIES LISTING
Zurich Chamber Orchestra by Harald Hoffmann
CHORAL UNION SERIES
11 PERFORMANCES IN HILL AUDITORIUM
MAIN FLOOR
$850 / $740 / $660
MEZZANINE
$640 / $550
BALCONY
$420 / $340 / $270 / $184
Sir András Schiff, piano
Friday, October 7 // 8 pm
Wynton Marsalis’s All Rise
Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra
with Wynton Marsalis
U-M Symphony Orchestra and Choirs
UMS Choral Union
Kenneth Kiesler, conductor
Friday, October 14 // 8 pm
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla, conductor
Sheku Kanneh-Mason, cello
Wednesday, October 19 // 7:30 pm
Berliner Philharmoniker
(two different programs)
Kirill Petrenko, conductor
Friday, November 18 // 8 pm
Saturday, November 19 // 8:30 pm
Itzhak Perlman & Friends
with Emanuel Ax, Jean-Yves Thibaudet,
and the Juilliard String Quartet
Saturday, December 10 // 8 pm
Sphinx Symphony Orchestra
EXIGENCE
Tito Muñoz, conductor
Aundi Moore, soprano
Sunday, January 29 // 4 pm
Joshua Bell, violin
Tuesday, February 7 // 7:30 pm
Brno Philharmonic
Dennis Russell-Davies, conductor
UMS Choral Union
Brass of the U-M Symphony Band
Christian Schmitt, organ
Friday, February 10 // 8 pm
Daniel Hope, violin
Zurich Chamber Orchestra
Friday, March 17 // 8 pm
Chineke! Orchestra
Andrew Grams, conductor
Elena Urioste, violin
Saturday, March 25 // 8 pm
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CHAMBER ARTS SERIES
6 PERFORMANCES IN RACKHAM AUDITORIUM
$280 / $250 / $200 / $140
Emerson String Quartet
Saturday, October 1 // 8 pm
Danish String Quartet
Friday, October 28 // 8 pm
Takács Quartet
with Jeremy Denk, piano
Wednesday, January 18 // 7:30 pm
Aaron Diehl Trio: Mirror
Friday, January 27 // 8 pm
Farida and the Iraqi Maqam Ensemble
Sunday, March 19 // 4 pm
Julius Eastman’s Femenine
Wild Up
Christopher Rountree, artistic director
Sunday, April 16 // 4 pm
Danish String Quartet by Caroline Bittencourt
JAZZ SERIES
5 PERFORMANCES
MAIN FLOOR
$260
MEZZANINE
$220 / $190
DANCE SERIES
3 PERFORMANCES
MAIN FLOOR
$210 / $190 / $115
BALCONY
$195 / $140
Wynton Marsalis
Wynton Marsalis’s All Rise
Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra
with Wynton Marsalis
U-M Symphony Orchestra and Choirs
UMS Choral Union
Kenneth Kiesler, conductor
Friday, October 14 // 8 pm
Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra
with Wynton Marsalis
Sunday, October 16 // 4 pm
Hill Auditorium
Aaron Diehl Trio: Mirror
Friday, January 27 // 8 pm
Rackham Auditorium
Maria Schneider Orchestra
Saturday, March 11 // 8 pm
Hill Auditorium
Cécile McLorin Salvant
Friday, April 14 // 8 pm
Hill Auditorium
The Rite of Spring / common ground[s]
Pina Bausch Foundation, École des Sables
of Senegal, and Sadler's Wells
Pina Bausch / Germaine Acogny & Malou
Airaudo, choreographers
Friday, October 21 // 8 pm
Saturday, October 22 // 8 pm
Power Center
Ballet Preljocaj: Swan Lake
Angelin Preljocaj, artistic director and
choreographer
Friday, February 17 // 7:30 pm
Saturday, February 18 // 7:30 pm
Sunday, February 19 // 2:30 pm
Detroit Opera House
Step Afrika!
C. Brian Williams, founder and artistic director
Sunday, March 12 // 4 pm
Hill Auditorium
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NO SAFETY
NET 3.0
A RENEGADE
FESTIVAL
JANUARY–FEBRUARY 2023
26 Welcome to the 144th Season
PROVOCATIVE
THEATER.
COURAGEOUS
CONVERSATIONS.
NO
SAFETY
NET
RETURNS FOR
ITS THIRD
INSTALLMENT IN
WINTER 2023
This three-week festival tackles
contemporary issues with opportunities
for dialogue and inquiry. Details will be
announced in Fall 2022. Subscribers will
receive priority access to tickets for all
No Safety Net 3.0 events.
Presented in Partnership with:
Are we not drawn onward to new erA by Mirjam Devriendt
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DIGITAL
EVENTS
Spektral Quartet with Khaled Yassine by Mark Jacobson
Throughout the past two years, UMS has continued to pilot new digital
events, including:
UMS
CONNECT
A new digital series that invites
audiences to dive deeper into the
season’s performances in casual
conversations with artists and
creators
UMS
LIVE SESSIONS
Beautifully produced, intimate, and
informal concerts by UMS artists
that are filmed without audiences
and designed for an at-home
experience
DIGITAL
PERFORMANCES
Developed by artists who may
or may not be on UMS’s live
performance season and offered to
UMS audiences
DIGITAL
EVENTS
Includes contextual talks and
discussions that supplement and
amplify important elements of our
presentations
Our digital events — all of which are offered at no cost — continue to both
broaden and deepen the UMS experience. We invite you to join us online
and on demand during the 2022/23 season. New digital events will be
announced throughout the season.
SNEAK PEEK!
We're delighted to announce
that our filmed theatrical
presentation of James Anthony
Tyler's Some Old Black Man,
starring Wendell Pierce and
the late Charlie Robinson, has
been picked up by PBS's Great
Performances for national
distribution and will be available
on demand beginning this fall.
Details to be announced.
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UMS DURING
COVID
"I HAD PEACE OF MIND THAT WE COULD ENJOY THE SHOW
KNOWING THAT EVERYONE'S SAFETY WAS FIRST."
(Audience member at Hill Auditorium)
During the 2021/22 season, UMS presented more
than two dozen live performances with vaccine
and mask requirements, as well as numerous digital
events. Audiences of up to 3,000 people enjoyed
UMS performances and the opportunity to return to
the live event experience.
As we all do our best to work through the global
pandemic, we also recognize that expectations may
be different when we start a new season in the fall.
At this point, we anticipate that the 2022/23 season
will be a return to a pre-pandemic normal, at least in
terms of attending live events, and we will continue
to offer subscribers complete flexibility if conditions
change — either in our region, or for you personally.
WHILE PROTOCOLS MAY CHANGE AS WE
GET CLOSER TO LIVE EVENTS, WE ASK ALL
AUDIENCE MEMBERS TO DO THEIR PART TO
CREATE A SAFE ENVIRONMENT FOR EVERYONE.
To that end, we encourage audience members who
are not feeling well to stay home — and we’ll offer
subscribers ticket refunds, exchanges, credit for future
performances, and donation options upon request.
For further details and the latest information about safety
protocols, please visit ums.org/safety. This page will be
updated regularly as conditions evolve.
We fully support our patrons who will continue
to mask and want to remind everyone that in the
absence of mask and vaccine mandates, one-way
masking still provides substantial protection.
Ballet Folklórico de México by Peter Smith For tickets call 734.764.2538 or visit ums.org 29
LIVE THE
MOMENT.
PLAN THE
FUTURE.
Forever
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Darragh and Bob Weisman
DARRAGH AND
BOB WEISMAN’S
LOVE STORY BEGAN
WHILE ATTENDING
UMS CONCERTS AT
HILL AUDITORIUM
AS UNIVERSITY
OF MICHIGAN
STUDENTS IN 1957.
And as their courtship and relationship advanced, so
did their love of UMS. Over the following 63 years, they
attended hundreds of events, gradually moving from
the balcony to the main floor and from students to UMS
benefactors.
When Darragh passed away in 2021, Bob decided to
honor her memory and their relationship by creating
an endowment that would allow future generations to
benefit from their generosity…forever.
“The original seed was planted when we first started
attending UMS performances for $2 a ticket. I know
that someone else’s support made it possible for me
to buy affordable tickets as a student, and I knew then
that I wanted to do something like this in the future,”
Weisman says.
INCLUDING UMS IN YOUR ESTATE PLAN WILL HELP
ENSURE THAT THE EXTRAORDINARY IMPACT OF THE
PERFORMING ARTS WILL CONTINUE IN SOUTHEAST
MICHIGAN FOR GENERATIONS TO COME.
GIFTS OF ANY SIZE
MAKE A DIFFERENCE.
Please visit ums.org/forever or call Marnie Reid at
734.647.1178 to learn more about how you can make
your forever gift to UMS.
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32 Welcome to the 144th Season
Handel's Messiah by Peter Smith
SEASON
TICKETS
Order online at
ums.org/seasontickets
1.
Become part of the UMS family by purchasing
Season Tickets!
During the 2021/22 season, audiences
praised UMS for putting the safety of artists
and audiences first and foremost. While we
can’t predict now what the next phase of the
pandemic will look like, we want to assure you
that we will continue to prioritize both safety
and flexibility for our season ticket holders.
As a subscriber, you can choose one of our
fixed packages — Choral Union, Chamber
Arts, Dance, and Jazz — on pages 24-25. Or
select any five (or more!) events from this
brochure to create your own Series:You.
SEASON TICKET
PACKAGES COME
WITH GREAT PERKS,
INCLUDING:
SAME- SEAT RENEWAL FOR
CHORAL UNION AND CHAMBER ARTS
SUBSCRIBERS
It’s been a while…but we’ve saved your
seats! If you subscribed to the Choral Union
or Chamber Arts series in the 2019/20
season, you will have access to those same
seats when “renewing” this season.
2. TICKET DISCOUNTS
Purchase at least 5 events, and you’ll save
10%. Purchase the entire season, and save
25%! Discounts apply on additional tickets
purchased throughout the year (standard
processing fees apply). Fixed package prices
already reflect the ticket discounts.
3. ACCESS TO THE BEST SEATS —
AT THE BEST PRICES
Season ticket holders get their foot in the
door early, which means that when it’s time to
assign seats for individual performances,
you’ll be covered.
4. RISK-FREE TICKET RETURNS
& EXCHANGES
If you’re not feeling well, uncomfortable
attending, or find that you’re going to
be out of town and can’t make an event,
we’ve got you covered with fee-free ticket
returns. Season ticket holders will continue
to have the most flexibility, with options
for exchanges into future programs, ticket
donations, and refunds.
5.
FREE PARKING
Order at least six events by Friday, June 24
and receive free parking for central campus
performances in the Power Center structure
(Fletcher Street), a close walk to most
performance venues. Be sure to check the
box on the order form or when ordering online
if you wish to take advantage of this offer;
parking passes are not automatically included.
6. INSTALLMENT BILLING &
PAYROLL DEDUCTION
Installment billing is easier than ever, with
three installments spaced throughout the
summer with a minimum order of $300 (credit
card only). And installment billing is now
available both online and by phone.
The first installment will be processed upon
receipt of your order, with subsequent
installments billed to your credit card on or
around July 13 and August 10.
Do you work for U-M and want to have the
value of your tickets withdrawn through
payroll deduction? Just place your order
by Friday, June 3, and the deductions will
be made in your June, July, August, and
September paychecks. Payroll deduction
orders must be placed by phone or mail.
AND DON’T FORGET
ABOUT THE INTANGIBLE
BENEFITS OF
SUBSCRIBING:
PERSONAL FULFILLMENT
Let’s be honest — it’s hard to find those
moments of personal escape, and sometimes
we have to schedule them into our lives. UMS
takes you to a place where the imagination is
thriving, and UMS season tickets allow you to
invest in yourself — and in the quality of life in
our community.
BUILDING RELATIONSHIPS
Create shared memories with the people
who are important to you, and build lasting
friendships with others who love the arts.
SATISFY YOUR CURIOSITY
We always love to hear from subscribers
who took a chance on something they
weren’t sure they would enjoy or had never
experienced before. Often, it ends up being
their favorite event of the season! So be bold
and be curious — discover an artist you’ve
never heard of, try an art form you haven’t
experienced, or join us for an interactive
learning program. In every UMS season, you
can count on unexpected moments that will
stay with you for a lifetime.
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SEAT
MAPS
*
A B C D E
Prices levels may vary by floor. See the order form for specific
prices based on the seats you are requesting in each venue.
HILL AUDITORIUM (H1)
Orchestra Concerts
HILL AUDITORIUM (H2)
Recitals & Amplified Concerts
STAGE
STAGE
4
3
2
4
3
2
5
4 3 2
1
5
4 3 2
1
MAIN FLOOR
MAIN FLOOR
10 9 8 7 6
10 9 8 7 6
16
MEZZANINE
15 14 13 12
11
16
MEZZANINE
15 14 13 12
11
21
20
19
18
17
21
20
19
18
17
BALCONY
BALCONY
POWER CENTER (P)
RACKHAM AUDITORIUM (R)
STAGE
STAGE
3 1
5
1
2
4
3
2
8
4
10
9
MAIN FLOOR
7
6
7 5
6
8
BALCONY
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IMPORTANT
DATES
JUNE
AUGUST
FRI 6/3
TUE 8/2
• Deadline for payment by U-M
payroll deduction
• Deadline for Choral Union &
Chamber Arts season ticket
holders to renew same seat
location
MON 8/29
• Seating priority deadline for
donors and renewing season
ticket holders to upgrade
seats
TUE 6/21
• Individual event tickets
APRIL
available for donors of
THU 4/28
$2,500+
• Season tickets go on sale to
renewing subscribers
• Subscribers to the 2021/22 or
2019/20 season will receive
seating priority when orders
are placed before May 9, 2022
MAY
TUE 5/10
• Season tickets go on sale to
the public
FRI 6/24
• Deadline for free parking
benefits
JULY
WED 7/20
• Individual event tickets
available for donors of $250+
• Group Sales Reservations
Open
• Public Single Ticket Day —
tickets to all individual events
on sale
• Student individual event
tickets on sale ($12 or $20
with ID for most events; Berlin
Philharmonic $25)
SEPTEMBER
THU 9/8
• Kids Club Tickets on sale; see
page 37 for more information
FRI 9/30
• Last day to order UMS season
ticket packages
For tickets call 734.764.2538 or visit ums.org
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TICKETING
POLICIES &
INFORMATION
Season tickets will be mailed in late July. There is a $10 service charge for all season ticket orders
(per order not per ticket). Individual event prices are guaranteed through Friday, July 29, 2022.
SEASON TICKETS/SEATING PRIORITY
Please note: During the renewal period, we are
unable to provide specific seat locations when
you purchase your season tickets. The Patron
Services team will assign seating in June, after
the renewal deadline. Priority seating is given
to renewing subscribers (from the 2021/22 or
2019/20 seasons) as well as annual donors of
$1,000+.
If you subscribed to the Choral Union or
Chamber Arts Series in the 2019/20 season,
you will have access to those same seats
when renewing this season.
DONORS
Donors who support UMS with annual gifts of
$1,000 or more receive the highest priority
seating based on level of giving, including
new season tickets and seating upgrade
requests.
Donations may be included with your ticket
order. Ticket orders must be received by
Friday, June 3, 2022, to be eligible for seating
priority.
FIXED SERIES
Fixed series season ticket holders (for
Choral Union, Chamber Arts, Dance, Jazz, and
Marathon packages) receive priority before
Series:You and individual event purchasers.
Season tickets will be filled in the order
received.
SERIES:YOU
Series:You season ticket holders (those
who purchase at least 5 different qualifying
events) receive priority seating before
individual event purchasers and the best
prices if orders are submitted by Friday,
July 29, 2022. Season ticket orders must be
received by Friday, September 30, 2022, to
receive the 10% discount. All requests will be
filled in the order received.
PLEASE PROVIDE AN UP-TO-DATE EMAIL
ADDRESS & MOBILE PHONE NUMBER
UMS sends updated concert-related parking
and late seating information via email a few
days before each event. Please be sure that
the Patron Services Office has your current
email address on file. This information will be
used to communicate ticketing and seating
updates throughout the season. Mobile
phone numbers will be used in the event of a
late-breaking change and will not be used for
solicitation purposes.
TICKET FLEXIBILITY
TICKET EXCHANGES, REFUNDS
& DONATIONS
If you’re not feeling well, uncomfortable
attending, or find that you’re going to be out
of town and can’t make an event for which
you have tickets, we’ve got you covered with
fee-free ticket returns. We’ll continue to offer
season ticket holders options for exchanges
into future programs, ticket donations, credit
for future programs, and refunds.
REFUND POLICY
Programs and artists are subject to change. If
an artist cancels an appearance, UMS makes
every effort to substitute that performance
with a comparable artist. Refunds will be
offered to subscribers if a substitute cannot
be found, or in the event of a date change.
Service charges are not refundable. UMS
will not cancel performances because of
inclement weather.
TICKET DONATIONS/UNUSED TICKETS
Tickets may be donated to UMS until the
published start time of the concert. A receipt
will be issued for tax purposes; please consult
your tax advisor. Unused tickets that are
returned after the performance begins are not
eligible for UMS Credit or as a donation.
ACCESSIBILITY
All UMS venues have barrier-free entrances.
Seating spaces for patrons with mobility
disabilities and their companions are located
throughout each venue, and ushers are
available to assist patrons. Assistive listening
devices are available in all venues. Further
accessibility information, including relay
calls, large-print programs, and information
about elevator access, is posted at
ums.org/accessibility, or call 734.764.2538
for more information.
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ADDITIONAL TICKET
PROGRAMS
GROUP TICKETS
Groups of 10 or more people attending a single
event will receive priority over individual
event purchasers and save up to 20% off the
regular ticket prices to most performances.
For more information, contact the UMS Group
Sales Office at umsgroupsales@umich.edu or
734.763.3100.
UMS accepts group reservations beginning
Wednesday, July 20. Plan early to guarantee
access to great seats!
STUDENT TICKETS
Student subscriptions may be purchased
beginning Tuesday, May 10, 2022. Student
subscriptions cost $20 per ticket, with a
minimum of 3 qualifying events purchased
(maximum of two tickets per college or
university ID). Seats will be assigned by the
Patron Services Office.
Student subscribers receive all subscriber
benefits and must show student ID when
picking up tickets. This offer cannot be
combined with other subscription discounts.
Student subscriptions are available at
ums.org/students.
Student tickets for individual performances
will be available for students in accredited
degree programs and high school students,
subject to availability, beginning Monday,
August 29, 2022. Student tickets cost $20
(main floor and mezzanine) and $12 (balcony).
Student tickets for the Berlin Philharmonic
cost $25 each.
CHILDREN AND FAMILIES &
UMS KIDS CLUB
UMS welcomes children over the age of
three. Not all performances are appropriate
for children, so please use discretion
and/or speak to a UMS Patron Services
Representative for guidance.
The UMS Kids Club program, which provides
discounted tickets for children in grades 3-12
and an accompanying adult, will go on sale on
Thursday, September 8, 2022. Visit
ums.org/kids for more information.
HOW TO
ORDER
UMS.ORG
734.764.2538
Visa, MasterCard, Discover, and American Express accepted.
ONLINE
For credit card and installment billing orders, order season ticket
packages online at ums.org.
For payroll deduction, please call our Patron Services Office.
IN PERSON
Visit the UMS Patron Services Office on the north end of the Michigan
League building (911 N University Ave). UMS also sells tickets for the
U-M School of Music, Theatre & Dance and the Ann Arbor Summer
Festival. Visit ums.org/contact for up-to-date hours.
PHONE HOURS
Mon-Fri, 10 am – 5 pm
Closed Sat and Sun
MAIL
UMS Ticket Office
Burton Memorial Tower
881 North University Avenue
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1011
Make checks payable to UMS.
QUESTIONS?
Contact the UMS Ticket Office at 734.764.2538 or umstix@umich.edu.
To learn about our School Day Performances
and other programs for children in grades
K-12, please visit ums.org/k12.
For tickets call 734.764.2538 or visit ums.org
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PRIVATE AND
PUBLIC
SUPPORT
In addition to financial support from our
annual donors and corporate sponsors,
grants from private foundations and our
funding partners help make it possible
for UMS to invest in special initiatives —
providing free, $12, and $20 tickets to U-M
students; awarding grants that help U-M
faculty integrate the performing arts into
their curriculum; and bringing cutting-edge,
provocative performances that challenge us
to see and experience the world in new ways.
GENEROUS
PHILANTHROPIC SUPPORT
COVERS OVER 60% OF OUR
ANNUAL OPERATIONS,
including artistic programs and
related education and community
engagement activities.
DORIS DUKE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION
ENDOWMENT FUND
Special project support for several
components of the 2022/23 UMS season
is provided by the Doris Duke Charitable
Foundation Endowment Fund, established at
UMS with a challenge grant from the Leading
College and University Presenters Program at
the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.
THE INDIAN TRAIL CHARITABLE
FOUNDATION
An annual grant supports the Bert’s Ticket
program, which extends an invitation to all
first- and second-year U-M undergraduate
students to attend one UMS performance
free of charge.
MICHIGAN ARTS AND CULTURE
COUNCIL
General operating support is provided by the
Michigan Arts and Culture Council and the
National Endowment for the Arts.
MICHIGAN MEDICINE
Michigan Medicine provides multi-year
support for UMS programs.
NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS
Special project support for UMS programs
and initiatives is provided by the National
Endowment for the Arts.
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
The University of Michigan provides important
annual support for special UMS projects
and initiatives in the 2022/23 season. This
support ensures that the performing arts
play an important part in students’ learning,
and champions the artistic and cultural
vibrancy on campus, in Ann Arbor, and across
Southeast Michigan and the wider University
of Michigan community.
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN CREDIT
UNION ARTS ADVENTURES PROGRAM
The University of Michigan Credit Union
Arts Adventures Program provides access
for extraordinary arts experiences and
exceptional learning opportunities for
students and families in our community.
WALLACE ENDOWMENT FUND
Each season, a UMS presentation is funded
in part by the Wallace Endowment Fund,
established with a challenge grant from the
Wallace Foundation to build participation in
arts programs at UMS.
UMS is a member of the University of
Michigan arts consortium, the Arts Alliance,
and CultureSource.
UMS is a nondiscriminatory, affirmative
action employer.
Media Partners
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HOW TO ORDER
UMS.ORG
734.764.2538
Visa, MasterCard, Discover, and American Express accepted.
PHONE HOURS
Mon-Fri, 10 am – 5 pm
Closed Sat and Sun
ONLINE
For credit card and installment billing orders, order subscription
packages online at ums.org.
For payroll deduction, please call our Patron Services Office.
IN PERSON
Visit the UMS Patron Services Office on the north end of the
Michigan League building (911 N University Ave). UMS also sells
tickets for the U-M School of Music, Theatre & Dance and the Ann
Arbor Summer Festival.
Visit ums.org/contact for up-to-date in-person hours.
MAIL
UMS Ticket Office
Burton Memorial Tower
881 North University Avenue
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1011
Make checks payable to UMS.
QUESTIONS?
Contact the UMS Ticket Office at 734.764.2538 or umstix@umich.edu
IMPORTANT
DATES
THU 4/28
Season tickets go
on sale to renewing
subscribers
Subscribers to the
2021/22 or 2019/20
season will receive
seating priority when
orders are placed
before May 9, 2022
TUE 5/10
Season tickets go on
sale to the public
FRI 6/3
Deadline for payment
by U-M payroll
deduction
Deadline for Choral
Union & Chamber Arts
season ticket holders
to renew same seat
location
Seating priority
deadline for donors
and renewing season
ticket holders to
upgrade seats
TUE 6/21
Individual event
tickets available for
donors of $2,500+
FRI 6/24
Deadline for free
parking benefits
WED 7/20
Individual event
tickets available for
donors of $250+
Group Sales
Reservations Open
TUE 8/2
Public Single Ticket
Day — tickets to all
individual events
on sale
MON 8/29
Student individual
event tickets on sale
($12 or $20 with
ID for most events;
Berlin Philharmonic
$25)
THU 9/8
Kids Club Tickets on
sale; see page 37 for
more information
FRI 9/30
Last day to order
UMS season ticket
packages
Season Ticket requests are filled in the order in
which they are received, with priority given to Fixed
Series and renewing Series:You subscribers. Order
early to guarantee the best seats before tickets go
on sale to the public.
UMS Donors with annual gifts of $1,000 or more are
given seating priority for upgrades and new series
when orders are received by Friday, June 3, 2022.
1. FIXED SERIES
PACKAGES
Orders must be received by Friday, September 30. Please consult the seating maps on pages 34
as you make your selections.
Series (# of performances)
# of
Packages
Gold
Main
A
Main
B
Main
A
Mezz
B
Mezz
B
Balc
C
Balc
D
Balc
E
Balc
Total
Choral Union Series (11)
x
850 740 660 640 550 420 340 270 184
=
Gold Main
Gold Balc
A Mezz
A B C D
Chamber Arts Series (6)
x * * 280 250 200 140
=
Dance Series (3)
210 195 190 140 115
x
*
=
Please circle your preferred performance (events with only one performance are not listed)
Rite of Spring / common ground[s] Fri 10/21, 8 pm Sat 10/22, 8 pm
Ballet Preljocaj Swan Lake Fri 2/17, 7:30 pm Sat 2/18, 7:30 pm Sun 2/19, 2:30 pm
Jazz Series (5)
x
260 220 * 190 * *
=
Marathon Series (28)
x
1,523 * * * 760 *
=
* seats are not available in this price section for venue listed
1
Fixed Series Package Sub-Total = $
Questions? Contact the UMS Ticket Office at 734.764.2538
Outside the 734 area code and within Michigan, call toll-free 800.221.1229 continue to step 2 >>>
2. SERIES:YOU,
STUDENT
SUBSCRIPTIONS
& ADD-ON
PERFORMANCES
Artist
Date, Time (Venue)
SERIES:YOU: Choose 5 or more events
from this listing and take 10% off.
Orders must be received by Friday,
September 30 to receive the discount.
Individual event prices are guaranteed
until Friday, July 29, 2022.
Are you purchasing a student subscription?
Yes No
# of
Tickets
Gold
Main
A
Main
B
Main
Gold
Balc
A
Mezz
STUDENT PACKAGES: Select 3 or more
performances for access to $20 student seats.
Seats are assigned by the Patron Services
Office. You must present your student ID to
pick up your tickets in August.
If yes, please only fill out the number of tickets for each event (2 max per event). Your total cost will be
$20 per ticket. No additional discounts apply.
B
Mezz
B
Balc
C D E
Total
Trevor Noah
Fri 9/16, 8 pm (H2)
x
125 125 95 85 85 50 50 45 25
=
Emerson SQ
Sat 10/1, 8 pm (R)
x
* 60 54 * * * 46 30 *
=
András Schiff
Fri 10/7, 8 pm (H2)
x
60 56 50 50 42 32 26 22 12
=
Wynton Marsalis All Rise
Fri 10/14, 8 pm (H2)
x
80 70 60 70 60 50 40 30 18
=
Jazz at Lincoln Center Orch with
Wynton Marsalis
Sun 10/16, 4 pm (H2)
x
66 60 56 56 46 40 34 26 14
=
City of Birmingham Symphony/
Kanneh-Mason
Wed 10/19, 7:30 pm (H1)
x
60 54 48 48 42 34 26 22 14
=
Rite of Spring / common ground[s] 1
Fri 10/21, 8 pm (P)
x
75 68 * 68 * 56 50 * *
=
Rite of Spring / common ground[s] 2
Sat 10/22, 8 pm (P)
x
75 68 * 68 * 56 50 * *
=
Danish SQ
Fri 10/28, 8 pm (R)
x
* 56 48 * * * 36 24 *
=
Aida Cuevas
Fri 11/4, 8 pm (H2)
x
54 54 50 34 26 26 22 * 12
=
Berlin Philharmonic 1 (Korngold)
Fri 11/18, 8 pm (H1)
x
150 125 100 100 85 60 50 40 25
=
Berlin Philharmonic 2 (Mahler)
Sat 11/19, 8:30 pm (H1)
x
150 125 100 100 85 60 50 40 25
=
Handel’s Messiah 1
Sat 12/3, 7:30 pm (H2)
x
38 30 26 30 26 24 20 16 14
=
Handel’s Messiah 2
Sun 12/4, 2 pm (H2)
x
38 30 26 30 26 24 20 16 14
=
Itzhak Perlman & Friends
Sat 12/10, 8 pm (H2)
x
125 100 90 85 75 56 48 34 20
=
Béla Fleck & Punch Brothers
Fri 12/16, 7:30 pm (H2)
x
70 65 60 60 50 40 * * 14
=
Takács SQ with Jeremy Denk
Wed 1/18, 7:30 pm (R)
x
* 60 54 * * * 46 30 *
=
Are we not drawn…
Ontroerend Goed 1
Fri 1/20, 8 pm (P)
x
48 44 * 44 * 38 30 * *
=
Are we not drawn…
Ontroerend Goed 2
Sat 1/21, 8 pm (P)
x
48 44 * 44 * 38 30 * *
=
Aaron Diehl Trio
Fri 1/27, 8 pm (R)
x
* 48 42 * * * 36 26 *
=
Sphinx Symphony
Sun 1/29, 4 pm (H1)
* seats are not available in this price section for venue listed
Questions? Contact the UMS Ticket Office at 734.764.2538
Outside the 734 area code and within Michigan, call toll-free 800.221.1229
x
60 54 48 48 42 34 26 22 14
Series:You listing continues on next page >>>
=
Artist
Date, Time (Venue)
# of
Tickets
Gold
Main
A
Main
B
Main
Gold
Balc
A
Mezz
B
Mezz
B
Balc
C D E
Total
Joshua Bell
Tue 2/7, 7:30 pm (H2)
x
80 72 68 68 56 42 34 26 14
=
Brno Philharmonic
Fri 2/10, 8 pm (H1)
x
66 60 56 56 46 36 30 24 14
=
Ballet Preljocaj Swan Lake 1
Fri 2/17, 7:30 pm (DOH)
x
139 119 89 139 * * 59 29 *
=
Ballet Preljocaj Swan Lake 2
Sat 2/18, 7:30 pm (DOH)
x
139 119 89 139 * * 59 29 *
=
Ballet Preljocaj Swan Lake 3
Sun 2/19, 2:30 pm (DOH)
x
139 119 89 139 * * 59 29 *
=
Maria Schneider Orchestra
Sat 3/11, 8 pm (H2)
x
50 46 40 40 30 * * * 14
=
Step Afrika!
Sun 3/12, 4 pm (H2)
x
50 46 40 40 30 * * * 14
=
Daniel Hope / Zurich Chamber Orch
Fri 3/17, 8 pm (H1)
x
60 54 48 48 42 34 26 22 14
=
Farida and Iraqi Maqam
Sun 3/19, 4 pm (R)
x
* 42 38 * * * 32 26 *
=
Chineke! Orchestra
Sat 3/25, 8 pm (H1)
x
60 54 48 48 42 34 26 22 14
=
Cécile McLorin Salvant
Fri 4/14, 8 pm (H2)
x
60 54 48 48 42 34 26 * 12
=
Julius Eastman's Femenine
Sun 4/16, 4 pm (R)
x
* 42 36 * * * 32 24 *
=
* seats are not available in this price section for venue listed
Series:You Sub-Total = $
Less 10% (must purchase at least 5 events) = $
2
Series:You Total (please do not round) = $
Student Subscription Total (# of tickets @$20) = $
3. PARKING
Pre-Paid Event Parking Passes may be purchased in advance for $5 each for the University of
Michigan Thayer and Fletcher Street parking structures, just a short walk from most concert
venues in Ann Arbor. Vouchers may be redeemed for parking beginning two hours before the event
and expire at the end of the 2022/23 season. Each parking pass is good for one use only. Parking
is not guaranteed with vouchers, so please arrive early to allow enough time to park.
Pre-Paid Parking Passes
x
$5 each
=
Subscriber benefit! I subscribed to six or more events prior to June 24, 2022 and would like free parking in the Power Center (Fletcher
Street) structure on UMS event nights.
3
Parking Sub-Total = $
Questions? Contact the UMS Ticket Office at 734.764.2538
Outside the 734 area code and within Michigan, call toll-free 800.221.1229
continue to step 4 >>>
4. INVEST IN UMS WITH
AN ANNUAL DONATION
Your financial support is essential to UMS. When you make a tax-deductible contribution in addition to your subscription, you invest in the artistic
and innovative excellence UMS brings to the stage, as well as the hundreds of educational activities that engage audiences of all ages throughout
Southeast Michigan.
YOUR FINANCIAL SUPPORT IS ESSENTIAL
$10,000+ Mainstage Performance
Support
$5,000+ School Day Performance and
In-School Workshops with
Teaching Artists
$2,500+ Ticket Subsidies and
Transportation Grants for
Under-Served Schools
$1,000+ Paid Internships at UMS
$500+ Ticket Subsidies for One
U-M Class to Attend a UMS
Performance
$250+ Master Class, Class Visit, or
Q&A with a Visiting Artist
$100+ Ticket Subsidies for Six U-M
Students
If you are a donor, please print your name(s) as you would like it to
appear in the program book listing, or check the box below to remain
anonymous. Donors of $250 or more will be listed in the program book.
Remain anonymous
4
Donation Sub-Total = $
I intend my full donation to be tax-deductible and decline all non-deductible benefits.
CHECKLIST
Please double check that you have completed the following
before mailing in your order. Have you:
Filled out the next page with mailing and payment
information?
Included your mobile phone number and your email
address(es) (to be used for concert notifications and/or
ticketing concerns)
Signed and enclosed your check (payable to UMS), or signed
the credit card line in “payment information”
[Dance Series and Marathon Series only] Circled your
desired performances on the order form for events with
multiple performances?
Included an annual donation to UMS? Thank you!
TOTALS
1 Fixed Series Package Sub-Total $
2 Series:You Sub-Total (do not round) $
3 Parking Sub-Total $
Postage/Handling $ 10.00
Sub-Total (Total 1-3 + Postage)
Filled out and included the entire order form? Please do not
cut the order form before sending.
4
Tax-Deductible Contribution to UMS $
Questions?
Grand Total
Contact the UMS Patron Services Office at 734.764.2538 or
umstix@umich.edu
Outside the 734 area code and within Michigan, call toll-free 800.221.1229 please continue to next page >>>
5. IMPORTANT SEATING INFORMATION
A. If the seat section you selected is not available for an event that you have purchased, would you prefer (please check all that apply):
Change my seats to the next higher price section
Call me at the mobile number listed below
Change my seats to the next lower price section
Email me at the address listed below
If available, move me to a different performance of the same event and keep the same price section (note any exceptions below)
Please note: if you do not check a box, you will automatically be moved to the next lower price section, and the cost difference will be converted to UMS Credit, which may be
used at any time during the 2022/23 season. A UMS Credit receipt will be sent to you. If the venue that you have selected has several levels (e.g., main floor and balcony), UMS
will keep your seats on the level that you requested and move you to the next lower price section, unless you indicate otherwise here:
B. Accessibility-Related Seating Needs or Special Seating Requests
C. I would like my tickets mailed to:
The address
below
Please hold my tickets at the
League Ticket Office for me to pick
up prior to my first performance
I’m ordering student season tickets
and will pick up my tickets at the
League Ticket Office after August 1
My summer address
(please list address
and dates below):
6. MAILING INFORMATION
UMS ACCOUNT NUMBER (if known)
LAST NAME
FIRST NAME
ADDRESS*
CITY STATE ZIP
CELL PHONE (include area code)
LANDLINE (if used, include area code)
EMAIL ADDRESS (for up-to-date information on parking, start times, late seating, program changes, etc.)
*Tickets will be mailed to the address provided later this summer. If you would like your tickets mailed to a different address or held for pickup at the League Ticket Office, please see
the “important seating info” section above. Tickets will be mailed in late July, or after the final installment is charged.
7. PAYMENT INFORMATION
My payment is by U-M Payroll Deduction (order must be received by Friday, June 3, 2022). I understand I will be billed in four installments,
once monthly in June, July, August, and September. Donations will be deducted in monthly installments beginning in July.
NOTE: Payroll deduction requests must be mailed or emailed to umstix@umich.edu. Payroll Deduction requests will not be accepted online.
U-M EMPLOYEE ID NUMBER
AUTHORIZATION SIGNATURE
CHECK (payable to UMS)
INSTALLMENT BILLING
Donations will be charged in full upon receipt, or call 734.647.1175 for additional options. Season ticket packages may be charged in three
installments, as indicated below.
I want to take advantage of installment billing for my season tickets (credit card orders totaling $300 or more). Tickets will be mailed once
all installments have been processed.
I understand that my card will be billed in three equal installments: when the order is received, and on or around July 13 and August 10.
For orders postmarked after July 1, installment billing will be applied in two equal installments: when the order is received and August 10.
OFFICE USE ONLY TICKET TOTAL: DONATION: