More Than A Great Performance
Free events and web extras offer you in-depth background and insights into select performances. What inspires a new work? How does a classic fit into the context of its times? What take-away issues give a performance greater meaning? What motivates the people that you see onstage? Here's your chance to find out.
The Actors' Gang in The Trial of the Catonsville Nine
September 2009What if your conscience said one thing and the law said another?...
UM Wind Orchestra
October 2009Designed to banish preconceived ideas about the concert experience...
Daniel Burkholder/The Playground in My Ocean is Never Blue
October 2009Aerial feats, African and Indian dance traditions and contemporary movement...
James Joyce's The Dead
October 2009An evocative musical adapts James Joyce's short story...
The Klezmatics
October 2009Giving full voice to tradition while incorporating eclectic musical influences...
Margaret Jenkins Dance Company in Other Suns
October 2009The next chapter in Jenkins' exploration of place, communication and identity...
Disfarmer
November 2009Disfarmer creates a world on a tabletop...
Anna in the Tropics
November 2009When tradition yields to progress, what is lost? Or gained?
StepAfrika!
November 2009Step Afrika's motto: "If we can dance together, then we can work together"...
Bang On a Can All-Stars and Trio Mediaeval in Steel Hammer
November 2009Appalachian music and legend resonate in the heart of American culture.
UM Chorale and Chamber Singers
November 2009The massed power of the human voice honors the work of four great composers.
UM Symphony Orchestra
December 2009Farewell and Fanfare offers new perspectives on classic and contemporary work.
