Arts in Context: UMS in the Classroom SUPPORTED BY THE ANDREW W. MELLON FOUNDATION Inon Barnatan by Marco Borggreve 2 UMS IN THE CLASSROOM 138TH SEASON 3 Welcome 49 M-Prize Winner: Calidore String Quartet Table of 4 Bringing Students to Performances 51 Budapest Festival Orchestra 7 Season Opening Event 53 Beyond Sacred: Voices of Muslim Identity, Ping Chong + Company 9 The TEAM: RoosevElvis 55 Jelly and George: Aaron Diehl and Contents 11 Kamasi Washington & The Next Step Cecile McLorin Salvant 13 Beethoven String Quartet Cycle, 57 Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Concerts 1 & 2: Takács Quartet Wynton Marsalis 15 Layla and Majnun, Mark Morris Dance Group / The 59 Druid: The Beauty Queen of Leenane Silk Road Ensemble 61 Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis: UMS Choral Union 17 Denis Matsuev, piano and Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra 19 Dorrance Dance 63 Snarky Puppy 21 Berlin Philharmonic 65 Betroffenheit: Kidd Pivot and Electric Company Theatre 23 Gabrieli: A Venetian Coronation 1595 67 Steve Reich @ 80: Music for 18 Musicians, 25 Jake Shimabukuro eighth blackbird and Third Coast Percussion 27 Portrait of myself as my father, Nora Chipaumire 69 Mitsuko Uchida, piano 29 Handel’s Messiah: UMS Choral Union and 71 Beethoven String Quartet Cycle, Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra Concerts 5 & 6: Takács Quartet 31 The King’s Singers: Christmas Songbook 73 DakhaBrakha 33 Last Work: Batsheva Dance Company 75 The Encounter: Complicite / Simon McBurney 35 Idiot-Syncrasy: Igor and Moreno 77 Michael Fabiano, tenor; Martin Katz, piano 37 Prague Philharmonia with Sarah Chang 79 A Far Cry with Roomful of Teeth 39 On Behalf of Nature, Meredith Monk & 81 Sanam Marvi Vocal Ensemble 83 King Sunny Adé 41 Beethoven String Quartet Cycle, Concerts 3 & 4: Takács Quartet 85 Yo-Yo Ma, Edgar Meyer & Chris Thile 43 Inon Barnatan, piano; Anthony McGill, clarinet; 87 Opera in Concert: Handel’s Ariodante with Alisa Weilerstein, cello Joyce DiDonato and The English Concert 45 Bruckner Orchester Linz with Angélique Kidjo 89 About UMS 47 Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir 90 Sponsors & Credits 3 UMS IN THE CLASSROOM 138TH SEASON Welcome to the 2016-17 In this guide, you’ll find the following resources for each of the performances in our 2016-17 season: Welcome edition of “Arts in Context: • Suggested curricular connections by academic discipline UMS in the Classroom.” • Links to contextual material online • Citations for relevant academic publications or This guide is designed to encourage faculty archival resources members from a broad range of disciplines to include the performing arts in their classrooms, by • Prompts for classroom discussion suggesting explicit links between our performances in music, theater, and dance and the many areas of The material in this guide is only a starting point, academic inquiry here on campus. It is one of the a springboard for your own creativity and insights signature programs of the UMS Mellon Initiative, in as leaders in the classroom. Shannon Fitzsimons partnership with the College of Literature, Sciences Moen, our campus engagement specialist, is and the Arts at the University of Michigan. available to consult individually with faculty to craft unique plans to incorporate our performances As we enter the fourth year of the Initiative, we are and arts-based learning strategies into classes both thrilled by the Initiative’s growth over the past across the disciplines. She can be reached at three years and eager to expand its reach to more [email protected] and 734.764.3903. As always, we faculty and classrooms in all areas of the university. welcome your feedback and ideas on how we can In the 2015-2016 season, over 2600 students from continue to improve this resource to better meet 50 courses attended a UMS performance as a class your needs as scholars and educators. requirement — more than double the numbers from the previous season! Since 2014, 200 U-M Thank you for reading. We look forward to seeing undergraduate students have gotten an in-depth, you at a performance soon! behind-the-scenes look at UMS, our performances, and our artists through our signature course Jim Leija “Engaging Performance,” which is offered each Director of Education and Community Engagement winter semester and team-taught by faculty from LSA and SMTD. We have welcomed our third cohort Shannon Fitzsimons Moen of fellows into the UMS Mellon Faculty Institute on Campus Engagement Specialist Arts Academic Integration, whose members, along with our Faculty Insight Group and other committed faculty partners, have formed a dynamic and deeply interdisciplinary community of practice here at U-M. Meredith Monk by Julieta Cervantes 4 UMS IN THE CLASSROOM 138TH SEASON Bringing Students to Performances UMS now offers $15 classroom Your email will be directed to both Shannon Fitzsimons Moen, campus engagement specialist, tickets to our performances and a group sales representative from our Ticket Office. The Ticket Office will coordinate your ticket- for U-M classes that require buying process from start to finish; you will be students to attend performances asked to provide a course description or syllabus showing that attending the performance is a course as part of their coursework. requirement. Shannon is available to consult with you about available contextual resources; potential For certain performances, the classroom activities or assignments to surround the performance experience; related educational number of classroom tickets events for each performance; and opportunities available may be limited. To for in-class engagement by visiting artists, local teaching artists, and/or UMS staff. arrange classroom tickets, email Looking to further subsidize the cost of tickets? [email protected]. Arts at Michigan provides grants of up to $500 for faculty, staff or graduate student instructors to incorporate arts-based learning activities into their courses. These funds may be used to buy tickets for students to attend a performance. Please visit the Arts at Michigan site for application information and to learn about additional faculty funding opportunities for arts-integrative learning. 5 UMS IN THE CLASSROOM 138TH SEASON Faculty Guidelines for Purchasing UMS Class Tickets IS ATTENDANCE AT A UMS PERFORMANCE A COURSE REQUIREMENT? YES NO Who will pay for the tickets? UMS designates seats to be discounted for individual student purchase. Students may purchase tickets in person at the Michigan League Ticket Office, at ums.org, or by calling 734-764-2538. YOUR DEPARTMENT STUDENTS In addition to credit card, cash, and How many performances will the check, UMS accepts shortcodes. Your tickets will be hand delivered students attend? to your department. Using a special class code, + Please provide UMS with a 1-2 students may purchase tickets 3 course roster in Excel format, 16 at the Michigan League Ticket including UMID numbers and Office or by calling 734-764-2538. unique names. UMS will use that Online purchasing may be available for information to create individual 17 certain performances. orders for each person in the class. Students must purchase tickets NOTE: Students must purchase tickets at least two in person at the Michigan League weeks before the performance date. At that point, remaining seats in your block of tickets will be Ticket Office. released and students who have not yet purchased tickets may not be able to sit with the class. 6 UMS IN THE CLASSROOM 138TH SEASON “I integrated the performing arts into two of the classes I taught last year, and in both cases my students got a lot of out Case Studies of the experience. First, for a class on historical methodology, we attended the New York Philharmonic’s performance of the musical score for the film “On the Waterfront,” played lived as the film was projected. We used the event to think about the From the context of cultural production, reading excerpts from the 1940 New York Sun articles that inspired the screenplay, secondary material about the film’s production, excerpts from Leonard Classroom Bernstein’s memoir about writing the score, and Elia Kazan’s 1952 New York Times advertisement about his decision to offer names to the House Un-American Activities Commission. In addition, with the help of UMS, I arranged for the archivist on the New York Philharmonic to speak to the class about her career In 2015-16, UMS Faculty in archival work and what it means to document the history of performances. This unit was really useful in getting my students Fellows taught their arts- to consider cultural texts as historical creations whose meanings integrative courses for change over time, as well as to think about the challenges and opportunities in archival preservation and research. the first time. Several of In my second course, on Revolutionary Movements in Latin them reflected on the wide America, I was able to take my students to see the Cuban jazz range of possibilities and musician Chucho Valdéz, and UMS arranged for him to speak to us after the performance. Students were able to use the event opportunities available for to think through their own stereotypes of what Latin or Afro- Cuban music is ‘supposed’ to sound like, as well to consider the U-M faculty to collaborate life histories of Cuban cultural producers who chose to remain with UMS and our artists: in Cuba after 1959 as a lens onto the Revolution and on music as a revolutionary language. And they took very seriously the opportunity to ask him questions, which they drew up in advance (and delivered in Spanish). In both classes, students were enthusiastic about these opportunities, and they have made me want to incorporate the performing arts into many more of my future classes.” Tori Langland, History Idiot-Syncrasy by Alicia Clarke 7 UMS IN THE CLASSROOM 138TH SEASON CASE STUDIES FROM THE CLASSROOM CONTINUED “In fall 2015, my first-year seminar, “Topics in the Science of Creativity,” attended the Hill Auditorium screening of “On the Waterfront” with live performance of the score by the New York “I taught my course, English 125: Writing About Philharmonic.