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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[VIDEO] Messiah Memories Bloopers
December 6, 2011 – 7:00 am | No Comment
[VIDEO] Messiah Memories Bloopers

UMS first presented Handel’s Messiah in December of 1879. Over several weeks, we released a series of Messiah Memories webisodes from everyone involved over the years. We couldn’t resist releasing these staff bloopers.

Categories: Classical Music, Living Archive, Music
[VIDEO] Messiah Memories: Megan Sajewski, resident of Martha Cook dormitory
November 22, 2011 – 9:01 am | No Comment
[VIDEO] Messiah Memories: Megan Sajewski, resident of Martha Cook dormitory

UMS first presented Handel’s Messiah in December of 1879. In this third episode, Megan Sajewski, resident of Martha Cook dormitory, talks about co-chairing the annual Martha Cook Messiah Dinner.

Categories: Classical Music, Living Archive, Music, Uncategorized
[VIDEO] Messiah Memories: Father Timothy Dombrowski and “The Bat out of Hill”
November 17, 2011 – 9:00 am | No Comment
[VIDEO] Messiah Memories: Father Timothy Dombrowski and “The Bat out of Hill”

UMS first presented Handel’s Messiah in December of 1879. In this second webisode of our Messiah Memories series, Father Timothy Dombrowski, choral union member for over forty years, remembers “The Bat out of Hill.”

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[VIDEO] Messiah Memories: Jerry Blackstone, Conductor
November 10, 2011 – 9:20 am | One Comment
[VIDEO] Messiah Memories: Jerry Blackstone, Conductor

UMS first presented Handel’s Messiah in December of 1879. We’re kicking off a webisode series of Messiah Memories. In this episode, Jerry Blackstone, long-time Messiah conductor, forgets his jacket on the day of the performance. Comment below with your own Messiah Memories!

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[VIDEO] Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan
October 17, 2011 – 3:44 pm | One Comment
[VIDEO] Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan

In a long-awaited performance, Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan presents Lin Hwai-min’s newest work, Water Stains on the Wall, on October 21 & 22 at the Power Center.
Below, Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan …