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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People Are Talking: UMS presents Sabine Meyer and The Trio Di Clarone at Rackham Auditorium
February 4, 2012 – 8:00 am | 8 Comments
People Are Talking: UMS presents Sabine Meyer and The Trio Di Clarone at Rackham Auditorium

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People Are Talking: UMS presents The Hamburg Symphony Orchestra: From the Canyons to the Stars
January 29, 2012 – 12:00 am | 80 Comments
People Are Talking: UMS presents The Hamburg Symphony Orchestra: From the Canyons to the Stars

Hamburg Symphony Orchestra, January 29, 4PM at Hill Auditorium.
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People Are Talking: UMS presents Les Violins du Roy at Rackham Auditorium
January 28, 2012 – 12:00 am | 5 Comments
People Are Talking: UMS presents Les Violins du Roy at Rackham Auditorium

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People Are Talking: UMS presents Denis Matsuev at Hill Auditorium
January 23, 2012 – 12:00 am | 19 Comments
People Are Talking: UMS presents Denis Matsuev at Hill Auditorium

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People Are Talking [and Video Booth]: Einstein on the Beach at Power Center
January 20, 2012 – 12:00 am | 90 Comments
People Are Talking [and Video Booth]: Einstein on the Beach at Power Center

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