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Simply the best
After starring as Tina Turner on London’s West End, Nkeki Obi-Melekwe (’18) recently made her Broadway debut this month in “TINA — The Tina Turner Musical.”
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A cloud lined in platinum
From Captain Beefheart to Broadway, legendary music producer Richard Perry, ’64, has been catching stars for decades — many in U-M’s School of Music, Theatre & Dance.
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I hear a symphony
For U-M violin student Abigel Szilagyi hearing loss is not a disability. The talented musician was born with just 50 percent of her hearing. She relies on vibrations, muscle memory, and instinct.
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Embracing Flint
A new play by SMTD professor José Casas explores the embattled city and its people. Premieres in April at the Arthur Miller Theater on campus.
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Strike up the band
Chances are good that if you or someone you know has taken a music class in Michigan in the last 70 years, your teacher was a U-M grad.
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Seven last words
Social justice is set to music as the U-M Men’s Glee Club honors unarmed black men killed by law enforcement or neighborhood watch volunteers.
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Dances like wind
Unique collaboration provokes dialogue about alternative energy in Michigan.
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Star-spangled mysteries
Go behind the music with U-M’s Mark Clague as he reveals some little-known facts about our national anthem on the eve of its bicentennial.