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entry?
5 Excuse
descriptor
9 Med. recordings
13 Over, in much
Twain dialogue
14 “__ my way”
15 Relatives of
windsocks
17 Hugo character
memorably
portrayed by
Charles
Laughton
19 Fuming
20 Uncle __
21 Risk pieces
22 Type of large TV
23 With 36- and 44-
Across, what 17-
Across might
have said when
his job became
too repetitious?
26 Sitarist Shankar
28 Metal sources
29 Important part of
a whale’s diet
31 Feigned
33 Many an IRS
employee
36 See 23-Across
39 “Got it now?”
40 Parts of Walmart
work uniforms
41 Frodo’s home,
with “the”
42 Gentlemen
43 Actor Omar
44 See 23-Across
51 Lengthy account
52 Participate in a
race, maybe
53 Fluoride-touting
org.
56 Blazing
57 17-Across’
workplace
59 Problems electric
razors should
prevent
60 Avoid getting into
deep water?
61 “Lobster
Telephone” artist
62 “__ who?”
63 Monthly Roman
calendar
occurrences
64 Turned yellow,
perhaps

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sources
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featuring
Ferraris
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5 Keep in check
6 Merged gas
company
7 Auto datum
8 Brian of music
9 What
superheroes
seek to thwart
10 Gold fineness
units
11 Grind
12 “They __ up!”:
scapegoat’s cry
16 Alteration target
18 Infamous Amin
22 Intrinsically
24 Rank partner
25 Doesn’t do much
26 Classic movie
theaters
27 “Alfred”
composer
30 Red state?
31 Broadway
choreographer
for “Chicago”

32 PC key
33 Cuts into, with
“at”
34 Cop’s collar
35 Iowa college
town
37 Jones or Gilliam
of Monty Python
38 Passé pronoun
42 Impertinent in
tone
44 PBS “Mystery!”
host Cumming

45 LP players
46 Erie Canal city
47 More than fear
48 Circumflex
cousin
49 Doesn’t do much
50 Satisfied
54 Editor’s mark
55 Like much of
New Mexico
57 Md. airport
serving D.C.
58 Not quite right

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Arts
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CONCERT PREVIEW

CONCERT PREVIEW
UMS’s ‘Messiah’ to kick
off Hill’s holiday season

In 1879, before UMS existed, 

a group of church musicians 
got together and sang choruses 
from Handel’s “Messiah.” A 
year and a half after that, UMS 
was 
founded 

by 
those 
same 

people. 
Every 

year 
since 

then, UMS has 
presented 
the 

oratorio in some 
form, 
and 
this 

year, 
for 
the 

139th year in a 
row, 
UMS 
will 

be 
presenting 

Handel’s 
“Messiah” 
this 

weekend at Hill 
Auditorium.

“It’s 
one 
of 

those 
traditions 

that goes back to the very 
beginning,” 
said 
Scott 

Hanoian, Musical Director and 
Conductor of the UMS Choral 
Union, in an interview with The 
Daily. Hanoian, who has held 
this position for the past three 
years, is a University alum of 
the School of Music, Theatre & 
Dance, where he studied under 
Jerry Blackstone, who is also 
his predecessor as Musical 
Director and Conductor.

“He was my teacher, so we 

have a lot of the same thought 
processes when making music,” 
Hanonian 
said. 
“Everybody 

brings 
their 
own 
style 
to 

certain things. I have my own 
preferences, 
and 
I’ve 
been 

working them into the chorus 
and orchestra throughout my 
tenure here.” 

The 
Choral 
Union 
is 
a 

Grammy-winning 
ensemble 

comprised of 175 voices — it is 
open to adults and students by 
audition.

“You are able to register 

for Choral Union as a class,” 
Hanoian said. “It’s not part 
of the School of Music — it’s 
through UMS, and is also a class 

at the University of Michigan.”

The Choral Union sings a 

series of concerts throughout 
the season.

“We’ll be hired by places 

like the Detroit Symphony 
Orchestra, 
the 
Toledo 

Symphony 
Orchestra 
and 

the 
Ann 
Arbor 
Symphony 

to do concerts with them on 

their 
seasons,” 

Hanoian 
explained. “And, 
then in addition 
to ‘Messiah,’ we 
will do our own 
UMS 
produced 

concerts.”

This particular 

performance 
is 

in 
collaboration 

with 
the 
Ann 

Arbor Symphony. 
With the holiday 
season in place, 
the 
concert 

makes 
it 
“the 

thing to do” to 

for many members of the Ann 
Arbor community. The 3,500 
seat auditorium is full every 
year.

“It’s 
one 
of 
Handel’s 

masterpieces, so many people 
come to hear the music. Others 
come for the story,” Hanoian 
said. “It’s got a lot of drama 
and excitement in it. There’s 
joy, and sadness, and pain and 
sorrow. 
There’s 
exuberance 

all the way through it. It’s got 
a little bit of everything for 
everybody.”

What makes it special, and 

separates it as an oratorio, is 
that it encompasses more than 
what a lot of Christmas music 
covers, like the birth of Jesus.

“The words cover a lot more 

of (Jesus’s) life,” Hanoian said. 
“And the other thing is, the 
music itself is just so exciting 
that if you’re not a Christian, 
or if you don’t go to Church, 
or if you don’t believe any of 
it, you can still find a place in 
‘Messiah’ because the music is 
so fantastic.”

With its annual presence, the 

timelessness of “Messiah” has a 
deeper meaning for many Ann 

Arborites. There are members 
of the community that have 
been attending for 30, even 40 
years.

“Ann Arbor has a history 

of 
supporting 
‘Messiah,’” 

Hanoian said. “We hear so 
many great stories about people 
who make Handel’s ‘Messiah’ a 
part of their holiday tradition 
every year.”

The loyalty of the audience 

is no surprise considering the 
assured excellence of each 
year’s performance.

“The choral union sings this 

piece unlike any other group 
that I’ve ever worked with,” 
Hanoian said. “They have deep 
passion for this music, and they 
sing it with such confidence, 
and so much color and drama, 

that it’s just a joy to conduct it. 
I would say that the audience 
picks up on it, and we pick up 
on that energy, and it’s just a 
blast.”

ALLIE TAYLOR
Daily Arts Writer

UMS presents 

Handel’s 
“Messiah”

Hill Auditorium

Saturday, 

December 2nd @ 

8 p.m.

Sunday, December 

3rd @ 2 p.m.

$16 to $40

In 1879, before 
UMS existed, a 
group of church 
musicians got 
together and 
sang choruses 
from Handel’s 

‘Messiah.’ A year 
and a half after 
that, UMS was 
founded by those 

same people

“When was the last time 

you listened to music with 
someone?” asked Howie Day 
in an email interview with 
The Daily.

I 
can’t 

remember. 
In 

anticipation 
of 

his 
upcoming 

show 
at 
The 

Ark, 
the 

acoustic-rocker 
corresponded 
with The Daily, 
and 
I’ve 
been 

asking 
myself 

his question ever since. It’s 
frustrating in its passive dig at 
the truth: There’s some music 
that exists to move, and it’s 
not often that people actually 
take the time to be moved by 
it. Day lives somewhere in 
this oasis, playing with a grit 
and vulnerability that doesn’t 
demand to be heard, but 
gently begs that you — at the 
very least — try.

“A show gives you a solid 

hour or so to get people to sit 
down and feel something,” 
Day wrote.

A wunderkind, Day has been 

playing piano since he was 
five, and he started gigs at just 
15. For someone still so young, 
he has an almost 20-year 
career backing him, making 
his concerts a rare melding 
of youth’s effervescence and 
wisdom’s skill.

“The live loop sampling 

songs (like ‘Bunnies’) are still 
interesting to me because 
they change night to night 
depending 
on 
the 
actual 

space and the energy/mood 
of the audience,” he wrote. “I 
also enjoy playing something 
somewhat loud and cathartic 
followed 
by 
something 

very quiet and vulnerable. 
This makes for a dynamic 
experience 
for 
me, 
and 

hopefully the audience, too, 
and is another thing missing 
from popular music today.”

You probably know him 

from “Collide.” A colossal hit 
from his 2003 album, Stop All 
the World Now, it embodies 
all the inexplicable, stunning, 
heartbreaking 
longing 
that 

was 
early 

2000s 
singer-

songwriting. The 
intro still gives 
me goosebumps. 
But, it’s not Day 
anymore, 
and 

that’s OK (dare I 
say, for the best).

“After that, I 

found myself in 
a changing and 

declining industry that was 
solely interested in reprising 
that moment,” Day explained. 
“Since then, it has been a 
decade of fighting and falling 
out of favor with an industry 

that 
doesn’t 
understand 

itself.”

He’s an underdog, and it’s 

this innate scrappiness that 
makes Day so endearing.

“As much as I have been 

discouraged 
by 
the 
way 

the 
music 
‘industry’ 
has 

evolved over the last twenty 
years, 
it 
has 
nonetheless 

come 
with 
some 
pretty 

amazing 
opportunities 
and 

experiences,” he wrote. “One 
of my favorite experiences I 

find myself in over and over 
again is being isolated in some 
far-off place at the end of a 
tour, and existing in this space 
where I’m purely an observer, 
as my own life is wildly 
decelerating from weeks or 
months of performing and 
traveling non-stop. I see and 
hear things so much more 
vividly in these moments, and 
it’s amazing. Any art form 
should strive to gently (or not-
so-gently) guide people to this 
place.”

Having worked long enough 

to be disillusioned by human 
nature, Day rejects the notion 
that 
there’s 
anything 
to 

disillusioned by.

“Human beings inspire me. 

Their 
resilience, 
curiosity, 

empathy, 
and 
willingness,” 

he wrote. “We live in this 
crazy world, and most of us 
still find the motivation to 
make it happen, whatever ‘it’ 
is. We’ve been at it for tens 
of thousands of years, but the 
moment we find ourselves in, 
now, where everything is just 
changing and progressing at 
breakneck speeds, is also very 
interesting. I feel pretty lucky 
to be alive to see it.”

Looking forward, despite 

pressures 
to 
recreate 
his 

stardom circa 2003, Day is 
fervent and ready for wherever 
his life may turn.

“I’m always dreaming of 

new possibilities, new paths,” 
he explained. “I don’t know 
where I’m going; it’s a road trip 
with no defined destination, 
no directions. I feel beyond 
lucky that I get to live the kind 
of life that meanders! I don’t 
even know how much longer 
I’ll treat music as my primary 
thing. There’s lots to discover 
out there, and that’s exciting.”

Howie Day will play at The 

Ark this Sunday at 7:30 p.m. 
Go with a heart wide open 
and listen to his music with 
someone else.

ARYA NAIDU
Daily Arts Writer

HowieDay

Howie Day

The Ark

Sunday, December 

3rd @ 7:30 p.m. 

$20

Howie Day to take on
The Ark this Sunday

A wunderkind, 
Day has been 
playing piano 

since he was five, 

and he started 
gigs at just 15

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