Gesualdo: Rebel or Rogue?
February 6, 2012 – 6:00 am | No Comment

Carlo Gesualdo was a prince and landholder in Venosa in southeastern Italy. Around 1588 his wife began an affair with a gentleman in the vicinity. In 1590 Gesualdo, found the pair in bed together, stabbed them both, and hung their corpses in front of his castle for all to see. The story was retold repeatedly by poets of the day in a sixteenth-century equivalent of headline news. Was Gesualdo really a renegade as well as a murderer? Was he even a “modernist” of his time?

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Liz is Programming Coordinator at UMS and produces many performances and residencies on the UMS season.

People Are Talking: UMS Presents Audra McDonald at Hill Auditorium
November 4, 2011 – 12:00 am | 19 Comments
People Are Talking: UMS Presents Audra McDonald at Hill Auditorium

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People are Talking: Concertante with Rafal Blechacz
February 13, 2011 – 10:00 am | 4 Comments
People are Talking: Concertante with Rafal Blechacz

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People are Talking: Rafal Blechacz, piano
February 10, 2011 – 12:00 pm | 14 Comments
People are Talking: Rafal Blechacz, piano

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Snowed In: The Cleveland Orchestra in Ann Arbor!
February 4, 2011 – 2:56 pm | 2 Comments
Snowed In: The Cleveland Orchestra in Ann Arbor!

See how the Cleveland Orchestra spent their snow day in Ann Arbor!

People are Talking: New Century Chamber Orchestra with Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg
February 4, 2011 – 2:34 pm | 11 Comments
People are Talking: New Century Chamber Orchestra with Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg

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