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Date: 2/7/2008; 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM Location: Room 2022 202 S. Thayer St. Ann Arbor Host Department: Institute for the Humanities
William Bolcom, Composer, School of Music, Theatre and Dance, University of Michigan “A Double Quartet”
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Pulitzer-prize-winning composer William Bolcom will talk about his new Double Quartet (2007). Co-commissioned by the University Musical Society, it will be prèmiered at 8 pm, on February 9, in Rackham Auditorium, in a concert featuring the Guarneri String Quartet and the Johannes String Quartet. For tickets, go to www.ums.org.
William Bolcom is Ross Lee Finney Distinguished Professor of Composition in the U-M School of Music, Theatre and Dance. Named 2007 Composer of the Year by Musical America and honored with multiple Grammy Awards for his ground-breaking setting of Blake’s Songs of Innocence and of Experience, Bolcom is a composer of cabaret songs, concertos, sonatas, operas, symphonies and more.
Free and open to the public
Contact Information Doretha Coval humin@umich.edu 734-936-3518
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