Gesualdo: Rebel or Rogue?
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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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Sara Billmann has served as UMS's Director of Marketing & Communications since 1996. A former UMS intern, she celebrates her 20th UMS season this year.

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October 9, 2011 – 12:00 am | 43 Comments
People are Talking: UMS Presents Yuja Wang at Hill Auditorium

1. Yuja at the post-performance reception. 2. Yuja with UMS Technical Director Jeff Beyersdorf. Photos by Programming Manager Mark Jacobson.

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People are Talking: UMS Presents One Man, Two Guvnors at the Michigan Theater

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People Are Talking: UMS Presents Emerson String Quartet at Rackham Auditorium

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