PROGRAM

Nkeiru Okoye Movements for String Quartet
Chen Yi Shuo for String Quintet
Francis Poulenc Trio for Oboe, Bassoon and Piano
Adolphus Hailstork "Detroit" Piano Quintet

FEATURING

Ashley Horne, Violin
Claire Chan, Violin
William Frampton, Viola
Wayne Smith, Cello
Anthony Morris, Double Bass
Hassan Anderson, Oboe
Alexander Davis, Bassoon
Lydia Brown, Piano
David Berry, Piano

*Editors note: this concert program will also take place on Friday September 24, 2021. See link below for info and tickets to either event.

SWAN SONG combines a contemporary string quartet by prolific composer Adolphus Hailstork with the unforgettable Schubert cello quintet. Schubert's final work of chamber music is often regarded as one of the finest compositions of the art form.

With the rare instrumentation of a full standard string quartet plus an additional cello, this compelling work is a favorite of many chamber music lovers. Plus, hear living composer Adolphus Hailstork's beautiful Adagio for Strings, a contemporary addition to the wonderful adagio tradition. The Parker Quartet and Marcy Rosen perform.

PROGRAM

Franz LISZT, arr. Müller-Berghaus Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2

Michael TORKE SKY (Concerto for Violin)*
I. Lively;
II. Wistful;
III. Spirited
Tessa Lark, violin

William DAWSON Negro Folk Symphony
I.The Bond of Africa;
II. Hope in the Night;
III. O, Le’ Me Shine, Shine Like a Morning Star!

CONDUCTOR
Mei-Ann Chen

GUEST ARTIST
Tessa Lark, violin

*Chicago Premiere

On SKY: “The balance between the worlds of classical and vernacular music is masterly: one can bet that this work will soon be imposed as a classic of literature for violin and orchestra.” — Filippo Focosi, Kathodik

Chicago Sinfonietta’s 34th season begins with a dynamic concert drawing on the deep connections of community through works grounded in folk music. The rhythmic spontaneity and seductive expression of Franz Liszt’s Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 opens the concert, followed by violinist Tessa Lark’s compelling energy in Michael Torke’s SKY, a fusion inspired by Irish reel and American bluegrass. The evening closes with American composer William Dawson’s Negro Folk Symphony, a Chicago Sinfonietta signature piece informed by traditional spirituals.

September 18, 2021 at 8:00 pm | Wentz Concert Hall
September 20, 2021 at 7:30 pm | Symphony Center

Approximately 70 mins, no intermission

PROGRAM

Franz LISZT, arr. Müller-Berghaus Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2

Michael TORKE SKY (Concerto for Violin)*
I. Lively;
II. Wistful;
III. Spirited
Tessa Lark, violin

William DAWSON Negro Folk Symphony
I.The Bond of Africa;
II. Hope in the Night;
III. O, Le’ Me Shine, Shine Like a Morning Star!

CONDUCTOR
Mei-Ann Chen

GUEST ARTIST
Tessa Lark, violin

*Chicago Premiere

On SKY: “The balance between the worlds of classical and vernacular music is masterly: one can bet that this work will soon be imposed as a classic of literature for violin and orchestra.” — Filippo Focosi, Kathodik

Chicago Sinfonietta’s 34th season begins with a dynamic concert drawing on the deep connections of community through works grounded in folk music. The rhythmic spontaneity and seductive expression of Franz Liszt’s Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 opens the concert, followed by violinist Tessa Lark’s compelling energy in Michael Torke’s SKY, a fusion inspired by Irish reel and American bluegrass. The evening closes with American composer William Dawson’s Negro Folk Symphony, a Chicago Sinfonietta signature piece informed by traditional spirituals.

September 18, 2021 at 8:00 pm | Wentz Concert Hall
September 20, 2021 at 7:30 pm | Symphony Center

Approximately 70 mins, no intermission

Aakash Mittal’s Nocturne suite offers listeners a reimagining of the night. The music places the density and sonic collisions of urban India alongside the meditations of a world at rest, night terrors conjured by the imagination, and the slow cadence of blue light melting into darkness. The second half of the program will feature Mittal’s new works for voice that explore dreams as a non linear space where memory, experience and premonition meet.

ARTISTS
Aakash Mittal | Alto Saxophone
Rajna Swaminathan | Mridangam
Miles Okazaki | Guitar
Jasmine Wilson | Voice
Shurmila Dhar | Voice
Eddy Kwon | Violin
Trevor New | Viola
Stephan Crump | Bass

Emerald Futures: NYPhilharmonic Very Young Composers and toy piano and composer duo, Chromic Duo, team up to create an immersive soundwalk!

About this event

Come celebrate with us! 

Immerse yourself in an evolving sound-world that changes according to your geographic location, as you listen to world premieres of pieces by the Very Young Composers at the New York Philharmonic. With GPS hotspots plotted along the route, site-specific pieces will play as you move from one contrasting natural soundscape into a future imagined by the next generation of composers and thinkers on a future that we believe in. 

Emerald Futures is an Augmented Reality Sound Walk that guides you through a year of transformation and growth, from Central Park (W. 72nd St + Central Park West) to Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya’s mural, “We Belong Here”, in response to the rise of anti-AAPI hate. 

As you reach the end of the walk at Lincoln Center, unlock a *special element* with Chromic Duo that is especially rendered for this closing event! 

Please download Gesso (available for iOS + Google Play) and have headphones ready beforehand. https://www.gesso.app/download

Duration: ~30 minutes

Benjamin Baker, violin
Brian Hong, violin and co-artistic director
Jordan Bak, viola
Alexander Hersh, cello and co-artistic director
Stefán Ragnar Höskuldsson, flute
Kristina Bachrach, soprano

Augusta Read Thomas, composer and emcee

Program

Upon Wings of Words

Amy Beach: Theme and Variations for flute and string quartet
Augusta Read Thomas: Upon Wings of Words (Emily Dickinson Settings) for soprano and string quartet
—World Premiere
Alma Mahler: Five Lieder (1910) for soprano and string quartet (arr. Cliff Colnot)

Davóne Tines, bass-baritone
Adam Nielsen, piano

Program

An exploration of the Mass woven through Western European, African American, and 21st-century traditions I. Kyrie

Caroline Shaw: Kyrie

Bach: “Wie jammern mich” from Cantata No. 170

Tyshawn Sorey: Songs for Death II. Agnus Dei

Caroline Shaw: Agnus Dei

Bach: “Komm, süßes Kreuz” from Saint Matthew Passion

Bonds: To a Brown Girl, Dead III. Credo

Caroline Shaw: Credo

Bach: “Mache dich, mein Herze, rein” from Saint Matthew Passion

Moses Hogan, arr.: “Give Me Jesus” IV. Gloria

Caroline Shaw: Gloria

Bach: “Quia fecit mihi magna” from Magnificat

Moses Hogan, arr.: “My Good Lord Done Been Here” V. Sanctus

Caroline Shaw: Sanctus

Davóne Tines, arr.: “Amazing Grace”

Eastman: Prelude to The Holy Presence of Joan d’Arc VI. Benedictus

Igee Dieudonné / D. Tines: Chorale

Seating is assigned on a first come first served basis

Description

Whether you’re looking for a beautifully unique classical music performance or a romantic candlelit experience, this performance is for you. You don’t need to know all things classical music to enjoy the evening, simply sit back and savor the stunning pieces you’ll hear. Held in specially selected venues in comfortable settings so you can enjoy classical music in a laid back yet classy atmosphere while the surroundings flicker by candlelight. Prepare to be taken into the clouds with these most treasured Latin and Tango masterpieces!

Tentative Program

• Astor Piazzolla- Fracanapa

• Laura Chavez- Blanco, Impetu

• Teresa Carreño- String Quartet in B minor, mov III

• Mariano Mores- Taquito Militar

• Osvaldo Fresedo- Vida Mia

• Julian Piana- Viejo Ciego

• Maria Granillo- Quartet No 2, Mestizo, Mov I

• José Bragato- Popular

• Maria Teresa Prieto- Cuarteto Modal para instrumentos de arcos. Mov 1: Dórico

• Ruben Gonzalez- Santa Fe

• Carlos Gardel- Por una Cabeza

• Astor Piazzolla- Deus Xango

Wm. Grant Still: Summerland
Philip Glass: “Opening” from Glassworks (1981)
Peteris Vasks: Castillo Interior (2013)
Couperin: Les barricades mysterieuses
Fred Hersch: Nocturne, from Three Character Studies (2004)
Chopin: Nocturne in B-flat, Op.62 No.1
Rachmaninov: Prelude in D, Op.23 No.4
Tchaikovsky/Pletnev: Intermezzo from The Nutcracker
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Liszt: Sonata in B Minor

Among his generation of concert artists, pianist Awadagin Pratt is acclaimed for his musical insight and intensely involving performances in recital and with symphony orchestras.

In 1992 Mr. Pratt won the Naumburg International Piano Competition and two years later was awarded an Avery Fisher Career Grant. Since then, he has played numerous recitals throughout the US including performances at Lincoln Center, the Kennedy Center, the White House, Ravinia, Blossom, Wolftrap, Caramoor, Aspen and the Hollywood Bowl. Internationally, Mr. Pratt has toured Japan four times and performed in Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Poland, Israel, Columbia and South Africa.

New Music Gathering is an annual conference/festival hybrid dedicated to the performance, production, promotion, support, and creation of new and forward-thinking music.

With concerts, lecture/recitals, roundtable discussions, talks, and choreographed socializing like musician meet-ups and live action role playing games, NMG aims to be both a conference in the traditional sense but also quite literally a collective place for things to grow, improve, solidify, and above all get personal!

Aug. 12-14: Landmark Center, Landmark Plaza, Mears Park & Studio Z

Aug. 12-18: Online

This concert is being broadcast and streamed live on 98.7WFMT/wfmt.com.

The Festival welcomes the young artist hailed for his “prodigious talent and scintillating personality.” Flutist Anthony Trionfo plays the rarely heard Flute Concerto by Saverio Mercadante. Also on the program, Carlos Kalmar conducts Debussy's haunting classic Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun and Saint-Saëns's Second Symphony.

Claude Debussy: Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun
Saverio Mercadante: Flute Concerto
Camille Saint-Saëns: Symphony No. 2

The Grant Park Orchestra welcomes rising star conductor Eun Sun Kim, recently appointed music director of the San Francisco Opera. She makes her Festival debut in Shostakovich's sassy Piano Concerto No. 1 featuring audience favorite Natasha Paremski and Dvořák's ever popular New World Symphony. The program includes a work by Korean-American composer Texu Kim.

This concert is being broadcast and streamed live on 98.7WFMT/wfmt.com.

Texu Kim: Blow, Fly, Pop!!
Dmitri Shostakovich: Piano Concerto No. 1
Antonín Dvořák: Symphony No. 9, From the New World

The Grant Park Orchestra welcomes rising star conductor Eun Sun Kim, recently appointed music director of the San Francisco Opera. She makes her Festival debut in Shostakovich's sassy Piano Concerto No. 1 featuring audience favorite Natasha Paremski and Dvořák's ever popular New World Symphony. The program includes a work by Korean-American composer Texu Kim.

This concert is being broadcast and streamed live on 98.7WFMT/wfmt.com.

Texu Kim: Blow, Fly, Pop!!
Dmitri Shostakovich: Piano Concerto No. 1
Antonín Dvořák: Symphony No. 9, From the New World

Join Sugar Hill Salon as we celebrate the success of our first season with a free community park concert. This family friendly concert will feature prominent Black and Brown classical musicians from our first season! Donate $25 or more through the Eventbrite and receive a prepackaged artisan sandwich with chips and choice of drink for the concert, catered by Common Good Harlem.

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Marin Alsop, conductor
Jonathan Rush, guest conductor
Jaye Ladymore, narrator

Program

Celebrating America
Laura Karpman: All American
Stacy Garrop: The Battle for the Ballot
Carlos Simon: Fate Now Conquers
James P. Johnson: Harlem Symphony
James P. Johnson: Victory Stride

Ravinia®, North America's oldest music festival, stands today as its most musically diverse, presenting over 140 different events throughout the summer. These concerts run the gamut from Yo-Yo Ma to John Legend to the annual summer residency of the nation's finest orchestra, The Chicago Symphony Orchestra.

The 36-acre park is nestled in a gently wooded area that makes it an enchanting place to experience music. Guests can bring their own picnics or eat at one of the park restaurants.

Thursday, July 8th, ISSUE is pleased to stream the debut collaboration between Diné composer, performer, and installation artist Raven Chacon and New Zealand Māori composer, performer, improvisor, and anthropologist Rob Thorne. The duo’s debut work will stream on ISSUE’s site.

Both Chacon and Thorne have extensive histories using various high-pitched Indingenous wind instruments from their respective territories. Recently, Chacon has composed chamber works including Sweet Land, co-composed with Du Yun (commissioned and produced by The Industry) as well as Owl Song, for sinfonietta and voice (commissioned by Borealis Festival for Bit20 Ensemble). In 2020, Chacon released An Anthology of Chants Operations on the Ouidah label, a body of recordings drawn from across the last decade of his output capturing live performance, installation, and composition. Rob Thorne has maintained a broad solo and collaborative practice that includes cross-disciplinary works with Berlin based electronic composer Fis, Athenian pianist Tania Giannouli, The NZ String Quartet, and Orchestra Wellington, and in 2017, reimagined a pre-colonial dawn chorus in the field-based acousmatic work Te Koki. Recent work includes contributions to short-film Super Special, chamber opera He Pūtōrino Mākutu with Celeste Oram, and the Unsettling Scores series with Liquid Architecture. Currently a Research Fellow at the NZ School of Music, he has an upcoming album release with improvisor David Rothenberg (US) and vocalist Anna Fält (Sweden/Finland), as well as a creative commission with NZ Crown Research Institute Manaaki Whenua that seeks to express people’s nationally surveyed perceptions of how they relate to trees.

Japanese-born, Chicago-based sound artist KIKÙ HIBINO produces cross-genre electronic music.

From chamber music for media productions to non-linear analog noise for art installations, he has collaborated internationally with a wide variety of artists and scholars, including Kawaguchi Takao (Dumb Type), Curtis Roads, Norma Field, Theaster Gates, Mike Weis (Zelienople), Mitsu Salmon, and Yuge Zhou.

The publication, The Wire once described his music as "trying to cram in as many memories as possible before it all disappears" and that the music "concerns itself with themes of capturing and preserving fleeting moments" (2007, issue 279). 

His recent work attempts to deconstruct Chicago House Music through the noise music production approach. The project was funded by DCASE and presented at various locations in Chicago. 

He studied electronic music composition at Keio University Shonan Fujisawa Campus with Toru Iwatake, Atau Tanaka, and Christopher Penrose, and at the University of California at Santa Barbara with Curtis Roads and Karen Tanaka, and holds M.A. in media art and technology.

Orchestra 2001 – Mark Loria, conducting

Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887-1959) – Sexteto místico

Clarice Vasconcelos Assad (b. 1978) – The Book of Spells

Orlando Haddad (b. 1953) – Lendas Amazônicas (Amazon Legends) premiere

Orlando Haddad's commission generously funded by the Steven R. Gerber Trust.

Orchestra 2001 returns to Teatro Esperanza as part of Esperanza Arts Center’s VOCES series, featuring live-streamed performances that spotlight the arts and traditions of Brazil. Enjoy authentic Brazilian food while watching VOCES at home and support our local Latino-owned restaurants.

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 23, 2021 at 7pm
Virtual Livestreamed Event from Teatro Esperanza; recorded at World Cafe Live
Tickets $5 / FREE for Students & Seniors
Orchestra 2001 SOUNDING BOARD members can select a free ticket.

This is an online event with no live audience. We hope you will join us.

PROGRAM
Jessie Montgomery Starburst
Alice Coltrane Prema for Harp and Strings
arranged by Tom Cunningham of Urban Playground Orchestra
Adolphus Hailstork TULSA 1921 (Pity Theses Ashes, Pity This Dust) for Mezzo-Soprano and Chamber Orchestra
*World Premiere - libretto by Herbert Woodward Martin
Trevor Weston The People Could Fly for Violin Solo, Narrator and Strings
(Based upon an African-American folktale by Virginia Hamilton; featuring dancers from Harlem School of the Arts)

FEATURING
Amadi Azikiwe, Music Director and Conductor
Terrance McKnight, Host and Performer
J’Nai Bridges, Mezzo-Soprano
Jessica (Lady Jess) McJunkins, Violin
Ashley Jackson, Harp
With an orchestra comprising members of The Harlem Chamber Players. Also featuring dancers from Harlem School of the Arts.

Enjoy live music by local artists at our beautiful, outdoor venue. We encourage guests to bring a blanket, pack a picnic, and BYOB!

ABOUT OUR MUSICIANS:

Brianne Sargent has been performing since she was 5 years old, starting with piano and percussion. At age 11, she took up the violin, viola, and cello. She began playing the bass during her senior year in college. Although classically trained, she plays more jazz, R&B, gospel and experimental music. Brianne performs with Skinny Cooks, Serenata Strings, McKinney Philharmonic Orchestra, Melody Memory and The Polyphonic Spree.

Alex Moreno (Viola) is currently a UNT masters student in the jazz performance track. He has been involved in the local recording and performance scene for several years, and has branched out into several styles and musical groups.

With numerous world tours, performances and masterclasses, Eugen Kim (Violin) has built her career in classical music, contemporary improvisation, and jazz scenes around the world. Kim is currently a doctoral student in jazz performance at University of North Texas.

This event is a co-presentation with Front Yard Concerts.

Join us for an evening of classical and jazz fusion featuring the music Duke Ellington and South Florida Composer, Dwight Banks.

A new series featuring Black artists of history, Music of the Unsung America continues its live and virtual series with a concert featuring a classical and jazz fusion program of repertoire with the feature piece being, Tre. The first part of the performance will have music by Duke Ellington: Sacred Concert, Come Sunday, as well as a string arrangement of Billy Holiday's Strange Fruit.

One-hour live performance - An Evening of Music Celebrating Juneteenth

Shana Oshiro, soprano | Jarrod Lee, baritone | Shawna Williams, dancer | Dr. Lester Green, piano | Pamela Simonson, narrator

With the Coalition for African Americans in the Performing Arts

Join in an uplifting and festive musical celebration of Juneteenth, the oldest nationally celebrated commemoration of the ending of slavery in the United States. Including texts by Langston Hughes and Dr.Martin Luther King, Jr., set to music by trailblazing composers Margaret Bonds and Adolphus Hailstork.   

A Joyful and reflective celebration through song, dance and narration!

Pianist John Urban and Violist Dwayne Beach will be presenting a hybrid recital full of Viola and Piano works by Nicolò Paganini, William Walton, a living female composer Amanda Harberg and an original transcription of a gem for violin once forgotten by Cesar Espejo in their Consorto Accademico.

Noel Pointer Foundation @ Restoration Plaza
247 Herkimer Street 
Noel Pointer Foundation 
Brooklyn, NY

World premiere of new work by Chicago-based composer Carlos Jaquez Gonzalez

A plea for understanding. A multi-media Immigrant Mass performance/film reflecting the lives and struggles of those who have sought better lives in America. The goal of the mass is to humanize immigrants and their experiences through real interviews, striking visuals, and music. Through this multi-media lense, this message can be better communicated and understood.

The six movement Immigrant Mass is a fusion of the mass ordinary and immigrant experiences (collected by photo-journalist Greg Constantine). The purpose of this exploration is to examine how religion and government affect the lives of those seeking a better life (from war, poverty, and more). The Roosevelt University Conservatory Choir led by Dr. Cheryl Frazes Hill, will be singing the standard Greek/Latin text of the mass ordinary and fulfilling the role of religion and government. Soloists; Corinne Costell, Tori Darnell, David Chavez, and Austin Sanders will be singing and embodying first-hand accounts of immigrants who have been held at border detention camps.

The ultimate goal of this mass is to highlight the realities and resilience of humanity, particularly struggling families, and what our role and duty is to help them. Through this melting pot of sounds and visuals by the Chicago Composers Orchestra, Conservatory Choir, soloists, and Greg Constantine, it is my hope that this work - which has brought so many hard working people from different walks of life together - will inspire to aid the immigrant community through various organizations, donations, and change in perspective.

Join us for an intimate conversation with CSO Mead Composer-in-Residence Missy Mazzoli and Jessie Montgomery as they discuss what it means to be a composer working with symphony orchestras in 2021. 

Free and open to the public, this webinar will be followed by Q&A.