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Vocalists to unite
for A Grand Night

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Multiple singing
groups to come
together at Hill
By PAIGE PFLEGER
Daily Arts Writer
It's rare to have a group of
almost 350 people gathered for
the same purpose, and even rarer
still to hear 350
voices singing A Grand
the same song.
At the third Night for
annual "A Singing
Grand Night
for Singing," Sunday at
audience 4 p.m.
members can H
gather in Hill
Auditorium From $5
for such an
experience this
Sunday.
The event stemmed from
recognizing the gap in
showcasing choral abilities at the
University. The bands on campus
had Band-O-Rama, the orchestra
had the Halloween Concert,
yet no event brought each choir
together - then, "A Grand Night
for Singing" was born. The event
includes groups such as the Men's
and Women's Glee Clubs, the
Orpheus, Chamber and University

Choirs, as well as excerpts from
the musical theater and opera
program's current productions.
"It's both wonderful and
terrifying," saidDirectorofChoral
Activities Jerry Blackstone.
"There is a great deal to do in a
very short amount of time with a
whole lot of folks. We have to be
very organized and very focused
so we can get everything done.
People are excited to hear each
other."
School of Music, Theatre &
Dance junior Nora Burgard, a
vocal performance major, will
solo in the Chamber Singers piece,
"Festival Te Deum" by Benjamin
Britten, conducted by Blackstone.
"I had never really been good
at anything in school," Burgard
said of her pre-singing past. She
started off in middle school and
later went on to study privately.
"Doing something like singing
was really exciting to me,"
Burgard said. "To be able to share
something so fun with other
people, and something I was
actually good at."
Burgard performed in"A Grand
Night for Singing" her freshman
year, and recalled the impact of
the event: It was the moment she
realized that the University and
vocal performance were for her,
and that she was in the exact right
place to make singing her career.

"Last semester, I had a solo
as well at the (University of
Michigan) Museum of Art. I was
so scared by the end of the solo
(that) I had sweat so much my
glasses were at the end of my
nose," Burgard said, laughing. "I
am thrilled and excited to have a
solo at Hill, but I just hope I don't
sweat all over everyone."
Hill Auditorium is a world-
renowned performance venue,
and the stage has seen the likes
of Bob Marley and the New York
Philharmonic Orchestra.
"It is awesome, awe-inspiring,"
Blackstone said, speaking of the
legacy of Hill."It is exciting to walk
onto that stage and feel the energy
that room always produces and
the energy that always happens
when there is a good crowd. There
is something very special about
making music together with your
friends and your colleagues in that
environment and on that stage -
knowing what has gone on before,
and knowing what will follow.
"It's a very special place
acoustically, it's a very special
place emotionally and musically.
The tradition is remarkable."
"A Grand Night for Singing"
gathers audiences around a
University community that comes

GLASSNOTE
"Where's my brie?"
Phoenix frontman
talks France and fame

By ERIKA HARWOOD
DailyArts Writer

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night ayear,joined by With five albums, a Grammy
r the art of singing, and a perfectly strange
er of capacities. collaboration with R. Kelly
under its belt, French rock
group Phoenix has assured the
world that it's unstoppable.
With the release of its latest
album, Bankrupt!, last April,
the band embarks on a new
tour with a stop in Ypsilanti
on Sept. 29 at Ypsilanti's EMU
Convocation Center.
With the enormous success
that surrounded 2009's
Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix,
PO P the album that for the most
part introduced the band to
American audiences, it would
follow that stress levels would
run high for the-group, but
lead singer Thomas Mars has a
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and stressed out about it," Mars
said. "It's more of a reward, this
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extensive and varied live (in Paris), so they get back
graphy. However, Phoenix often. I go back pretty often ...
to keep its sets as fresh as It's a good hometown to have
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d as a "greatest hits band." want with your hometown. It's
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d song, it has to somehow When I saw ... how do you say
or melt with another song it, Ypsilanti? I've never heard
u see it in a new way." of it, but I thought it sounded
prime example of seeing cool. I like the places that you've
ongs in a different light never heard of. I'm more excited
xemplified through the to play places in between or in
duction of R. Kelly on the middle, places I wouldn't go
during a set at Coachella to," he said. "More than Vegas
past April, the band's or L.A. There's usually more
st show to date. Together excitement."
performed a mash-up of Despite his love for touring in
oup's "1901" and R. Kelly's the hidden crevices of America,
tion," a show that seemed Mars has one major gripe with
s unlikely to the band as it its venues.
the audience. "The one thing that's
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borating with R. Kelly) when you play in the U.S., the
se we never thought our shows are 21 and over. When I
would work together," was a kid, I saw shows when I
confessed. "There were was 10, 12,13, and I never would
hearsals. He came up on have started a band if I went to
pretty late. Everything a show after 21. I think when
ery stressful and made ita you're after 21, it's too late. It's
r experience. stupid."
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gears have started to turn for
aris-based the next record,but donexpect
a release in the near future.
nd to come to "Everything you start with,
you never end up choosing. It's
silanti for the always a struggle ... almost the
first year," Mars said. "It usually
first time. takes us a year to come up with
one decent song, and then the
other ones come together, so
I'm just curious to get that one
for when R. Kelly compared song ... the song that's good
iix to the Beatles in a recent enough so the others can exist."
'iew with Pitchfork, Mars For now, Phoenix's focus
"I pretended that I didn't is the upcoming tour, where
that just for my mental each show will provide an
. I blocked it out of mind." unexpected adventure for both
r most people, that kind the band and its audience,
gh praise from an R&B since Mars claims that it's
star would result in a head "never really prepared." But, he
sough to consume a small added, "that's what makes us
tate, but the group manages interesting."
y grounded thanks to their While this laid-back method
es and hometown, Paris. to its madness may result
think the luxury that we in disaster for most bands,
now is that we can play looking back upon the years of
ever we want and we can Phoenix's headlining shows,
whenever we want, so we world tours and successful
f steer our own ship. That albums, unpreparedness seems
a lot of time for us to do to be working out pretty well.

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