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32-629: The theater opened in the fall of 1939 and was designed by architect Michael Hare . Statewide radio broadcast the October 8th inaugural ceremonies, and the next three days saw four performances of Shakespeare 's The Taming of the Shrew , starring the leading couple of the American theater, Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne . Union Theater audiences have seen and heard some of the most famous public figures, actors, dancers and musicians in performances over

64-589: A Creative Commons license to help IntraHealth International in their IntraHealth Open campaign to bring open source health applications to Africa. The song was remixed by a variety of artists including Nas , Peter Buck of R.E.M. , and Duncan Sheik to help raise money for the campaign. N'Dour is a supporter of the Campaign for the Establishment of a United Nations Parliamentary Assembly , an organisation which advocates for democratic reformation of

96-563: A consequence, it is inappropriate to perform in the US at this juncture. He performed in three of the Live 8 concerts (in Live 8 concert, London , Live 8 concert, Paris and at the Live 8 concert, Eden Project in Cornwall) on 2 July 2005, with Dido . He covered John Lennon 's " Jealous Guy " for the 2007 CD Instant Karma: The Amnesty International Campaign to Save Darfur . N'Dour appeared in

128-411: A few months and eventually evolved into N'Dour's backing band. By 1991, he had opened his own recording studio, and, by 1995, his own record label, Jololi. N'Dour is one of the most celebrated African musicians in history. His mix of traditional Senegalese mbalax with eclectic influences ranging from Cuban rumba to hip hop , jazz , and soul has won him an international fan base of millions. In

160-680: A joint Spain-Senegal ad campaign to inform the African public about the dramatic consequences of illegal immigration. He participated in the Stock Exchange of Visions project in 2007. In 2008, he joined the Fondation Chirac 's honour committee. The same year, Youssou N'Dour's microfinance organization named Birima ("Birima" is also a song's title) was launched with the collaboration of United Colors of Benetton . In 2009, he released his song "Wake Up (It's Africa Calling)" under

192-608: A public statement explaining his decision, N'Dour said: It is my strong conviction that the responsibility for disarming Iraq should rest with the United Nations. As a matter of conscience I question the United States government's apparent intention to commence war in Iraq. I believe that coming to America at this time would be perceived in many parts of the world--rightly or wrongly--as support for this policy, and that, as

224-539: A style of popular Senegalese music known by all Senegambians (including the Wolof ) as mbalax , a genre that has sacred origins in the Serer music njuup tradition and ndut initiation ceremonies . He is the subject of the award-winning films Return to Gorée (2007) directed by Pierre-Yves Borgeaud and Youssou N'Dour: I Bring What I Love (2008) directed by Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi , which were released around

256-483: Is a Senegalese singer, songwriter, musician, composer, occasional actor, businessman, and politician. In 2004, Rolling Stone described him as, "perhaps the most famous singer alive" in Senegal and much of Africa and in 2023, the same publication ranked him at number 69 on its list of the 200 Greatest Singers of All Time. From April 2012 to September 2013, he was Senegal's Minister of Tourism. N'Dour helped develop

288-521: The British Empire . In 2008, N'Dour offered one of his compositions, Bébé , for the French singer Cynthia Brown . In 2011, N'Dour was awarded an honorary doctoral degree in music from Yale University . In 2013, N'Dour won a share of Sweden's $ 150,000 Polar music prize for promoting understanding between faiths as well as for his music. N'Dour was nominated as Goodwill Ambassador of

320-543: The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) on 16 October 2000. In Senegal, N'Dour became a powerful cultural icon, actively involved in social issues. In 1985, he organized a concert for the release of Nelson Mandela . He was a featured performer in the 1988 worldwide Amnesty International Human Rights Now! Tour collaborating with Lou Reed on a version of the Peter Gabriel song " Biko " which

352-533: The 2007–2008 season include Andrew Bird , Complexions Contemporary Ballet , and others. 43°4′35″N 89°24′0″W  /  43.07639°N 89.40000°W  / 43.07639; -89.40000 Michael Hare (architect) Michael Meredith Hare (January 17, 1909 – August 30, 1968) was an American architect . Based in New York City , he advocated for modernism in architecture. In 1931 he married Jane P. Jopling; they had three children. During

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384-691: The 75th anniversary for the Wisconsin Union Theater. Renovations included Shannon Hall – the largest space in the Union Theater with 1135 seats, The Play Circle – a technological space with room for 300, and finally the Festival Room – a new performance space for classes and workshops. The Play Circle, formerly named after Fredric March , was renamed in 2018 after a report, commissioned by Chancellor Rebecca Blank , outlined March's membership in an interfraternity society with

416-821: The Nordic Theater, a single-screen streamline moderne cinema in Marquette, Michigan . Initially the Peter White Building, the White family commissioned Hare to build the theater using an rare, unconventional design for acoustics. The Nordic Theater later served as the world premiere venue for the 1959 film Anatomy of a Murder . In 1937, Hare designed the Wisconsin Union Theater at the University of Wisconsin . In 1954, Hare

448-593: The Second World War Hare served in the U.S. Marine Corps. He later received a degree from Columbia University in 1935. While a student at Yale, his experiences in Paris changed him. Hare later worked at New York architectural firm of Corbett and MacMurray, under famed architect Harvey Wiley Corbett . While at the firm, he was a part of a team of architects that helped construct Rockefeller Center and Radio City Music Hall . In 1936, Hare designed

480-760: The Star Band left to form Étoile de Dakar , a band that made important contributions to Senegal's newly evolving musical style called mbalax which incorporated traditional Senegalese music into the Latin styles that had dominated Senegalese popular music. Although they quickly became one of the city's most popular bands, the group was short-lived due to internal problems. Étoile de Dakar split into two groups: Étoile 2000 and Super Étoile de Dakar. The latter group included N'Dour, guitarist Jimi Mbaye , bassist Habib Faye , and tama (talking drum) player Assane Thiam. Super Étoile de Dakar produced four albums on cassette in just

512-653: The Union Terrace. The 2007 headliner was Madeleine Peyroux . The Wisconsin Union Theater's concert series has been held since the theater opened. Each year artists perform classical works. Past performers have included Hilary Hahn , Joshua Bell , Yo-Yo Ma , Emerson String Quartet , and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra . The World Stage Series has featured artists from several countries, including Youssou N'Dour , Lila Downs , Angelique Kidjo , and Anoushka Shankar . Special performances from

544-466: The United Nations. N'Dour is a member of the Canadian charity Artists Against Racism. At the beginning of 2012, he announced plans to stand as a candidate in the 2012 Senegalese presidential election , competing against President Abdoulaye Wade . However, he was disqualified from running in the election over the legitimacy of the signatures he had collected to endorse his campaign. N'Dour backed

576-512: The West, N'Dour has collaborated with Peter Gabriel , Axelle Red , Sting , Alan Stivell , Bran Van 3000 , Neneh Cherry , Wyclef Jean , Paul Simon , Bruce Springsteen , Tracy Chapman , James Newton Howard , Branford Marsalis , Ryuichi Sakamoto , Dido , Lou Reed , Bruce Cockburn , and others. The New York Times described his voice as an "arresting tenor, a supple weapon deployed with prophetic authority". N'Dour's work absorbed

608-557: The entire Senegalese musical spectrum, often filtered through the lens of genre-defying rock or pop music from outside Senegalese culture. In July 1993, Africa Opera composed by N'Dour premiered at the Opéra Garnier for the French Festival Paris quartier d'été. In 1994, N'Dour released his biggest international hit single, the trilingual " 7 Seconds ", a duet sung with Neneh Cherry . He wrote and performed

640-630: The large four Sufi orders in Senegambia , he often incorporated aspects of Islamic music and chants into his work. At the age of 15, Youssou N'Dour joined a band called Diamono and, in 1975, toured with the band in West Africa . In 1976 when N'Dour was 16 years old, he signed a contract to sing with Ibra Kasse's Star Band at Kasse's Miami club in Dakar where he would become a sensation. In 1978, N'Dour would follow as several members of

672-628: The last 70 years. Eleanor Roosevelt , Fritz Kreisler , Ella Fitzgerald , Indian Prime Minister Nehru , Frank Lloyd Wright , Yo-Yo Ma , T. S. Eliot , Jesse Jackson , Arthur Rubinstein , Jascha Heifetz , Martin Luther King Jr. , Robert Frost , Itzhak Perlman , John F. Kennedy , Louis Armstrong , Martha Graham , Ted Turner , Kurt Vonnegut and Dave Brubeck have all appeared at the Wisconsin Union Theater. The Wisconsin Union Directorate allows students to participate in

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704-745: The name Ku Klux Klan that was not associated the white nationalist supremacist group, the Ku Klux Klan . The report also details the creation of a second fraternal group that was affiliated with the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan in 1924 as well as Klan activity on campus and in Madison in the 1920s. On the publication of that report and an article in the Capital Times about the history of the KKK at

736-518: The official anthem of the 1998 FIFA World Cup with Axelle Red " La Cour des Grands (Do You Mind If I Play) ". Folk Roots magazine described him as the African Artist of the Century. He toured internationally for thirty years. He won his first American Grammy Award ( best contemporary world music album ) for his CD Egypt in 2005. He is the proprietor of L'Observateur , one of

768-602: The opposition candidate Macky Sall , who defeated Wade in a second round of voting in March 2012. N'Dour was appointed as Minister of Culture and Tourism in April 2012 as part of the cabinet of new Prime Minister Abdoul Mbaye . The story of N'Dour's presidential campaign was filmed for the PBS TV program Sound Tracks: Music Without Borders . Later his portfolio was modified and he was appointed as Minister of Tourism and Leisure. He

800-675: The programming and execution of performances at the theater. Every year, students work with the Union Theater staff on artist booking, contracts, box office and front-of-the-house management, backstage and technical crews, production, business operations, and publicity. In 2006, a student referendum was held for the third time on funding the remodeling of Union South and the Memorial Union. The referendum passed. The Arts and Recreation Wing of Memorial Union underwent remodeling work in 2012–2014. Renovations were completed in June 2014, which marked

832-505: The traditional griot caste, he was not raised in that tradition, which he learned instead from his sibling. Although patrilineally from the noble N'Dour family, his parents' world-view encouraged a modern outlook, leaving him open to two cultures and thereby inspiring N'Dour's identity as a modern griot. As a Mouride disciple , taalibé in Wolof, a Muslim of the Mouride brotherhood, one of

864-490: The university, students submitted a hate and bias report in response to the names. This pressure forced the Union to take down and cover up the names of both The Play Circle and an adjacent art gallery, named after Porter Butts . A published statement suggested they would form a "social justice incubator" to address systems of white supremacy at the university. The renaming was met with criticism from historians who noted that March

896-553: The widest-circulation newspapers in Senegal, the radio station RFM (Radio Future Medias) and the TV channel TFM. In 2002, N'Dour was honoured with a Prince Claus Award , under that year's theme "Languages and transcultural forms of expression". In 2006, N'Dour played the role of the African-British abolitionist Olaudah Equiano in the movie Amazing Grace , which chronicled the efforts of William Wilberforce to end slavery in

928-524: The world. In 2006, N'Dour was cast as Olaudah Equiano in the film Amazing Grace . Ethnically, N'Dour is Serer , born to a Serer father and a Toucouleur mother. However, culturally, N'Dour is Wolof . He was born in Dakar . He started performing at age 12 and would later perform regularly with the Star Band , Dakar's most popular group during the 1970s. Despite N'Dour's maternal connection to

960-564: Was a lifelong supporter of civil rights. The annual Madison World Music Festival debuted in September 2004. It offers music from several countries, and is free and open to the public. Past performers have included Lila Downs , Whirling Dervishes , and Balkan Beat Box . The Isthmus Jazz Series features jazz artists performing at the Union Theater season, and the Isthmus Jazz Fest is offered each June featuring free jazz music on

992-812: Was appointed by the President's Commission to design the U.S. embassy in Honduras. While in Honduras, he began the study of philosophy, psychology, and psychical phenomena and wrote several books on these subjects in 1966 and 1968. He died on August 30, 1968, in Cambridge, England. Rockefeller Center (1928) Radio City Music Hall (1931) Nordic Theater (1936) Wisconsin Union Theater (1939) Dau-Kreinheder Hall (Valparaiso University) (1955) Youssou N%27Dour Youssou N'Dour ( French: [jusu (ɛ)nduʁ] , Wolof : Yuusu Nduur ; also known as Youssou Madjiguène Ndour ; born 1 October 1959)

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1024-563: Was produced by Richard James Burgess and featured on the Amnesty International benefit album The Secret Policeman's Third Ball . He worked with the United Nations and UNICEF , and he started Project Joko to open internet cafés in Africa and to connect Senegalese communities around the world. In 2003, N'Dour cancelled an upcoming American tour in order to publicly deny support for the upcoming American invasion of Iraq . In

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