Spotlight on Volunteers in August & September
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Spotlight on Volunteers in August & September
August 16, 2010 – 7:40 pm | No Comment

We simply couldn’t do business without the support of volunteers, who collectively offer over 45,000 hours each year volunteering for UMS programs.

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This Day in UMS History: Single Ticket Day
August 23, 2010 – 1:00 am | No Comment
This Day in UMS History: Single Ticket Day

In honor of Single Ticket Day, we dug deep into our photo archive to share photos of past Single Ticket Days with you.

Search Hundreds of Photos…
and 100 Years of Concert Programs
June 14, 2010 – 4:53 pm | No Comment
Search Hundreds of Photos… <br/> and 100 Years of Concert Programs

Finally–the time has come! Thanks to the Ann Arbor District Library, we launched the beginnings of the UMS digital archive!

The Hill Auditorium Organ
May 14, 2010 – 11:07 am | No Comment
The Hill Auditorium Organ

Michigan Today presents the history of the organ in Hill Auditorium, dating back more than 100 years.

This Day in UMS History: Philadelphia Orchestra with Isaac Stern (May 11, 1963)
May 11, 2010 – 6:00 am | One Comment
This Day in UMS History: Philadelphia Orchestra with Isaac Stern (May 11, 1963)

This Day In UMS – May 11, 1963
Hill Auditorium
The Philadelphia Orchestra
Eugene Ormandy, conductor
Isaac Stern, violinist
Trumpet Voluntary – Purcell
Concerto in e minor for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 64 – Mendelssohn
Concerto No. 1 in D major for …

This Day in UMS History: Philadelphia Orchestra (May 6, 1962)
May 6, 2010 – 6:00 am | No Comment
This Day in UMS History: Philadelphia Orchestra (May 6, 1962)

I’m always curious when I stumble across pieces that I’d never heard of. I know and love Mozart’s, Brahms’s, Verdi’s, and Victoria’s Requiems (and know and intensely dislike Berlioz’), but I never knew that Dvořák had even written one. I immediately searched for it on YouTube, and am listening to it as I write this; the Introitus sounds like the Lord of the Rings soundtrack.