1. Still from "Beetlejuice" featuring lass of 2011 graduates Will Burton and Britney Coleman (center and left) as Adam and Barbara Maitland (Image: Matthew Murphy.)

    A match made on Broadway: From roommates to castmates

    As a pair of married ghosts in the Broadway touring company of ‘Beetlejuice,’ college roommates and 2011 SMTD graduates Will Burton and Britney Coleman come to the stage with that ‘thing’ so essential to musical comedy: Chemistry.

  2. Laura Karpman at home

    Orchestrating an equitable score

    From Spielberg projects to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, composer/DEI advocate Laura Karpman, BMus, ’80, has long navigated the male-dominated industry of music scoring. Now she’s working to enhance the picture.

  3. Northwest Band in Jackson.

    Strike up the band

    More than 400 U-M alums are teaching ‘more than music’ in elementary, middle, and high school music classrooms throughout Michigan.

  4. Marilyn Mason

    Professor Emerita of Organ Marilyn Mason dies at 93

    The internationally acclaimed concert organist served on the SMTD faculty for 67 years, setting a record as the longest-serving faculty member in U-M’s history.

  5. "Detroit's playwright," Dominique Morisseau on stage with the cast of Skeleton Crew.

    All Detroit's a stage

    Dominique Morisseau (center), BFA ’00, is known as ‘Detroit’s playwright’ in NYC. The city is a main character in much of her work.

  6. Photo credit: UofM marching band

    An uncommon education: Ep 3

    Celebrate U-M’s musical legacy in ‘An Ear for Excellence,’ the latest installment in Detroit Public Television’s series about U-M history.

  7. George Gershwin; image courtesy of the Ira Gershwin Archive.

    Piano, man

    U-M is now home to a very special Steinway once owned and played by quintessential American composer George Gershwin.

  8. Rhapsody in Maize & Blue

    U-M is now home to the complete works of iconic American artists George & Ira Gershwin. “S Wonderful,” yes?

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