People Are Talking: UMS presents The Pavel Haas Quartet at Rackham Auditorium
Posted: 4/18/12 -- 8:00 am
People Are Talking: UMS presents The Pavel Haas Quartet at Rackham Auditorium
6/18/13 at 3:35 pm We're excited to welcome newly elected UMS Advisory Committee chair Gail Stout! And a big thank you to Eileen Thacker, our outgoing chair.
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6/13/13 at 11:40 am For you global music lovers, don't miss Mali stars Amadou & Mariam, from our friends at Ann Arbor Summer Festival: Top of the Park in July:
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The Ann Arbor Summer Festival is an international arts gathering connecting people, exceptional performance, sunshine, and a little something for everyone.
6/12/13 at 11:40 am Opera lovers! Don't miss Becoming Traviata, June 21-30, from our friends at Detroit Institute of Arts:
The reinvention of Verdi’s masterpiece, La Traviata, as sung by world-famous French coloratura soprano Natalie Dessay, is the subject of Philippe Béziat’s thrilling new movie, in which a modern, minimalist, post-punk approach strips away the rigid, over-the-top grandiosity so often associated with o...
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Another outstanding chamber concert last evening. I think we may have another favorite quartet to invite back to Ann Arbor repeatedly, along with the Takács, Jerusalem, and St. Lawrence Quartets and following in the footsteps of the great Guarneri and Juilliard Quartets.
The Smetana was outstanding, and I’m very glad to have heard the Haas. I don’t really need to hear it again, but it’s always refreshing when we can get off the beaten path, repertoire-wise. Excellent program and performance.
CMSMW
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Oh, and the Emersons, of course. Sheesh. Can’t believe I overlooked them.
CMSMW
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And following in the footsteps of the Budapest Quartet.
Re last night – the Tchaikovsky Qt #1 was superlatively set forth -from a hushed beginning to a fiery conclusion. Glowing individual and group sonorities.
Jim Toy
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An excellent performance. I was pleasantly surprised by the Haas piece and its diversity in sound. I certainly appreciated its pull on my imagination and hope to discover his other works.
GC
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