Don't miss

World-renowned vocalist returns for performance Cecilia Bartoli, mezzo-soprano with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, will perform at 8 p.m. Feb. 20 in Hill Auditorium.

Bartoli (Photo courtesy University Musical Society)

Children of Uganda.(Photo courtesy University Musical Society)

Bartoli will perform a program of Salieri, Gluck and Vivaldi arias during her first southeast Michigan appearance since 1997.

Tickets, $10-85, are available at (734) 764-2538 or http://www.ums.org. The concert is sponsored by the University Musical Society.

Steven Hamp, president of The Henry Ford, and Patricia Mooradian, chief operating officer, will discuss "Our Brand of History: Transforming from a Museum to an Attraction" at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 18 in the Osterman Common Room of the Rackham Building.

The lecture is sponsored by the Museum Studies Program with support from the Institute for the Humanities. For more information, call (734) 936-6678.

Spreading the spirit of the 2004 Olympics

Director of Intercollegiate Athletics Bill Martin, president of the U.S. Olympic Committee, will discuss the 2004 Summer Games at

7 p.m. Feb. 19 in the Pendleton Room of the Michigan Union.

Martin's presentation, "Spirit and Dream of the Olympics," is sponsored by the Hellenic Student Association.

For more information, call (734) 347-8159.

"Given sorrow, they have made beauty"

East African music and dance will fill the Power Center for the Performing Arts at 7 p.m. Feb. 19 and 8 p.m. Feb. 21 when the Children of Uganda perform at U-M.

Originally founded to teach orphaned children traditional songs, dances and stories, the Children of Uganda represent the 1.7 million Ugandan children orphaned by AIDS and war. The Boston Globe says, "Given sorrow, they have made beauty."

Tickets for the University Musical Society production, priced $18-40, are available at (734) 764-2538 or http://www.ums.org.