urns Fall 2011 Season 133rd Annual Season General Information Event Program Book Thursday, October 27 through Saturday, November 5, 2011 On-site ticket offices at performance venues open 90 minutes before each performance. Schola Cantorum de Venezuela 5 Children of all ages are welcome at Thursday, October 27, 7:30 pm UMS Family and Youth Performances. St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church Children under the age of three will not be admitted to regular, full-length UMS performances. All children must be able Gate Theatre Dublin 13 to sit quietly in their own seats without Samuel Beckett's Watt and Endgame disturbing other patrons. Children Thursday, October 27, 7:30 pm unable to do so, along with the adult Friday, October 28, 8:00 pm accompanying them, will be asked by an usher to leave the auditorium. Please Saturday, October 29, 8:00 pm use discretion in choosing to bring a Power Center child. Apollo's Fire and Philippe Jaroussky 21 Remember, everyone must have a ticket, regardless of age. Thursday, November 3, 7:30 pm Hill Auditorium While in the Auditorium Audra McDonald 27 Starting Time Every attempt is made to begin concerts on time. Latecomers are Friday, November 4, 8:00 pm asked to wait in the lobby until seated Hill Auditorium by ushers at a predetermined time in the program. Diego El Cigala 31 Cameras and recording equipment Saturday, November 5, 8:00 pm are prohibited in the auditorium. Michigan Theater If you have a question, ask your usher. They are here to help. Please turn off your cellular phones and other digital devices so that everyone may enjoy this UMS event disturbance- free. In the interests of saving both dollars and the environment, please either retain this program book and return with it when you attend other UMS performances included in this edition or return it to your usher when leaving the venue. Fall 2011 Winter 2012 i September ! January 17 I An Evening with Ahmad Jamal 8 : National Theatre Live: The Collaborators 18 ! Emerson String Quartet 20-22 ! Einstein on the Beach 23-24! Mark Morris Dance Group 23 i Denis Matsuev, piano 25 i Dan Zanes & Friends 28 ; Les Violons du Roy with Maurice Steger, i recorder ! October 29 i Hamburg Symphony Orchestra with 1 i John Malkovich and Musica Angelica i Francesco Tristano, piano: Messiaen's I Baroque Orchestra: The Infernal Comedy: i From the Canyons to the Stars \ Confessions of a Serial Killer 9 \ Yuja Wang, piano \ February 9 i National Theatre Live: One Man, Two 4 i Sabine Meyer and the Trio di Clarone \ Guvnors 10 i Chamber Ensemble of the Shanghai 13 I State Symphony Capella of Russia : Chinese Orchestra 15 ! Goran Bregovic and His Wedding and 12 : Michigan Chamber Players I Funeral Orchestra 16 | TheTallis Scholars 21-22 I Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan: 17 i Sweet Honey In The Rock \ Water Stains on the Wall 18 ! Wayne McGregor I Random Dance: FAR 27 ; Schola Cantorum de Venezuela 19 | FELA! (at Music Hall, Detroit) 27-29^ Gate Theatre Dublin: Beckett's 19 i National Theatre Live: Title TEA ' Endgame and Watt 22 ! Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with 30 ; National Theatre Live: The Kitchen i Wynton Marsalis 23 i Hagen Quartet i November 3 ! Apollo's Fire with Philippe Jaroussky, | March i countertenor 9 I Chicago Symphony Orchestra with 4 i Audra McDonald i Pinchas Zukerman, violin 5 | Diego El Cigala 10 i Max Raabe & Palast Orchester 9 i AnDa Union 15-17J Ex Machina: The Andersen Project 11 I A Night in Treme: The Musical Majesty 18 ; National Theatre Live: The Comedy of Errors I of New Orleans 22-25 ; San Francisco Symphony with 12 i St. Lawrence String Quartet i Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor: 20 ! Beijing Guitar Duo with Manuel Barrueco | American Mavericks 27 ; Canadian Brass \ April I December 12 ! Zakir Hussain and Masters of Percussion 3-4 i Handel's Messiah 13 ! CheikhLo 6 i London Philharmonic Orchestra with 14 I Charles Lloyd New Quartet I Janine Jansen, violin 18 i Pavel Haas Quartet 7 i Stile Antico 19-21 ! Ballet Preljocaj: Snow White 22 i Ford Honors Program: Academy of ! St. Martin in the Fields with i Joshua Bell, violin ; May 11 i Breakin' Curfew [IMS Educational and Community Events Through Tuesday, November 8, 2011 All UMS educational activities are free, open to the public, and take place in Ann Arbor unless otherwise noted. For complete details and updates, please visit www.ums.org or contact the UMS Education Department at 734.615.4077 or [email protected]. ^ UMS on Film: AnDa Union: Gate Theatre Dublin From the Steppes to the City Tuesday, Novembers, 7:00pm Artist Q&A: Gate Theatre Dublin Helmut Stern Auditorium, U-M Museum of Art, Thursday, October 27, post-performance 525 S. State Street Power Center Filmmakers Sophie Lascelles and Tim Pearce Gate Theatre Dublin Artistic Director Michael preview their work-in-progress documentary which Colgan is joined by U-M professor Enoch Brater follows AnDa Union, a group of 14 musicians who in a post-performance Q&A. Must have a ticket to all hail from the Xilingol Grassland area of Inner the performance to attend. Mongolia, a semi-autonomous region of China. Formed in 2003, AnDa Union is part of a musical movement that is finding inspiration in old and AnDa Union forgotten folk music from the nomadic herdsman cultures of Inner and Outer Mongolia, drawing Lecture: The Art of Mongolian Singing on a repertoire of music that all but disappeared Tuesday, November 8, 4:00 pm during China's recent tumultuous past. (2011, Michigan Union Parker Room, 530 S. State Street Sophie Lascelles and Tim Pearce, 90 minutes) In conjunction with UMS's presentation of AnDa Union, the Confucius Institute of the University of Michigan offers a lecture on the art of Mongolian singing given by Bao Darhan, Professor and Vice Dean of the Music College of the Central University for Nationalities. visit www.ums.org for more information U 133rd urns season 11/12 Cigala & Tango Diego El Cigala Saturday \ November 5 \ 8 pm Michigan Theater "Flamenco has to be suffered^" Diego El Cigala asserted in a New York Times interview. "How do you convey emotions from within your heart if you don't know what suffering is? If there is no evidence of pain in your heart, there is no song." Nicknamed "El Cigala" (Norway Lobster) for his thin frame and strong voice, Diego is an internationally celebrated Gitano flamenco singer and one of contemporary flamenco's most compelling voices, making a rare visit to the United States this season. He is noted for being a pioneer in fusing flamenco with other Latin American music forms such as the bolero, Afro-Caribbean jazz, and tango. His latest project, Cigala & Tango, is the musical testimony to his concert at the Teatro Gran Rex in Buenos Aires in April 2010. The legendary Paco de Lucia says, "Diego has one of the most beautiful flamenco voices of our time, a voice of sweetness that flows over everything. When I listen to him, it warms my heart." Media Partner WEMU 89.1 FM. Call or click for tickets! urns presents Schola Cantorum de Venezuela Alberto Grau, Founder and Director Maria Guinand, Conductor and Artistic Director Ana Maria Raga, Associate Conductor Program Thursday Evening, October 27, 2011 at 7:30 St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church Ann Arbor Aqua and Fiesta Part I: Water Jose Antonio Calcano Evohe Gonzalo Castellanos Al Mar anochecido Eric Whitacre Cloudburst Osvaldo Golijov Oceana (excerpt) Coral del Arrecife Alberto Grau Binnamma Gonzalo Grau Aqua (excerpts) Cancion de los rapidos remeros Yemaya Victor Gonzalez, Paul Sojo, and Javier Silva, Soloists INTERMISSION Part II: Fiesta Astor Piazzolla Las Cuatro Estaciones (excerpt) Primavera Porteiia Popular Brazilian folk song Muie Rendeira Gu/do Lopez-Gavilan Mambo 'que rico e' Los Ruffino Cerezo Rosa (cha cha cha) Arr. Maria Adela Alvarado and Amanda Soriano UMS 11/12 Schola Cantorum de Venezuela Billo Frometa Toy Contento Arc. Angel Sauce Edgar Zapata El Menciona'o Arr. Federico Ruiz Consuelo Velazquez Besame Mucho Arr. Alberto Grau Miguel Matamoros Son de la Loma Arr. Alberto Grau . J; Of/7/o Galindez La Arestinga Arr. Alberto Grau Jose Dario Cano and Said Barrios, Soloists Rene Barms Tengo una forma mas Arr. Ana Maria Raga Ochoa Rojas Nuestras Navidades 13th Performance of the Media partnership is provided by WRCJ 90.9 FM. 133rd Annual Season Schola Cantorum de Venezuela appears by arrangement with Opus 3 Artists, New York, NY. UMS Voices Series Large print programs are available upon request. The photographing or sound and video recording of this concert or possession of any device for such recording is prohibited. UMS 11/12 Schola Cantorum de Venezuela Evohe (Venezuela) - Oceana (excerpt) (Argentina) Jose Antonio Calcano Osvaldo Golijov Born March 23, 1900 Born December 5, 1960 in La Plata, Argentina Died September 11, 1 980 Oceana is a major work commissioned from Like his friend and contemporary Vincente Emilio Osvaldo Golijov by the Oregon Bach Festival, and Sojo, Venezuelan composer Jose Antonio Calcano was premiered in 1995 by Schola Cantorum de was extremely active in both his musical and Venezuela at the DBF. political life, working as a composer, pianist, and Golijov chose for his text the poem "Oceana" critic in Switzerland, Ireland, England, and the US. from Neruda's 1961 collection Cantos As with Sojo, his first passion was for Venezuelan Ceremoniales. As Bach's cantatas invoke the music. Together with his brother Emilio and with grace of God upon believers, Neruda's verses Sojo, Calcano was one of the founders of the passionately invoke the thrilling and mysterious Orfeon Lamas, which gave its first public concert presence of the ocean goddess.