2015 WINTER
quarter calendar
The Gilbert and Sullivan Opera Company
and the University of Chicago Chamber Orchestra present
Gilbert & Sullivan’s
The Yeomen
of the Guard
or, The Merryman and His Maid
March 13 & 14 at 8 PM
March 15 at 2 PM
Mandel Hall, 1131 East 57th Street
Tickets: $50 Patron | $20 General | $5 Student
$10 groups of 10+
Call: 773.702.ARTS (2787)
Online: ticketsweb.uchicago.edu
In Person: UChicago Arts Box Office, Logan Center,
915 East 60th Street
music.uchicago.edu | gilbertandsullivanoperacompany.org
All proceeds benefit the University of Chicago Department of Music Performance Program.
2015 Production
TEA TIME CONCERTS
These free concerts begin at 4:30 PM
each Thursday in Fulton Recital Hall.
Complimentary tea and cookies at 4:15 PM.
JANUARY
THURSDAY, JANUARY 22
Gyuri Barabás, baritone
THURSDAY, JANUARY 29
Amy Briggs, piano
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 5
Cerulean Quartet
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 12
Piano Showcase
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 19
Jazz Combo
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 26
Vocal Showcase
THURSDAY, MARCH 5
Chamber Music Showcase
THURSDAY, MARCH 12
Rachel Blumenthal, flute
MASTER CLASSES
All master classes are free and open to
the public and take place at 4:00 PM.
FRIDAY, JANUARY 23
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 20
Vocal: David Alt
Penthouse, Logan Center
SATURDAY, JANUARY 24
Piano: Dr. Ilia Radoslavov
Fulton Recital Hall
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 7
Piano: Jory Vinikour
Fulton Recital Hall
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 10
Double Bass: Chi-Chi Nwanoku
Penthouse, Logan Center
Co-presented by the Department of Music,
Arts+Public Life, and the Center for the Study
of Race, Politics, and Culture.
SATURDAY, MARCH 14
Piano: Karin Edwards
Fulton Recital Hall
WORKSHOPS
COMPOSITION SEMINAR
music.uchicago.edu/page/workshopsand-composition-seminar
ETHNOISE! ETHNOMUSICOLOGY
cas.uchicago.edu/workshops/ethnoise
MUSIC HISTORY/THEORY
cas.uchicago.edu/workshops/
musichistorytheory
SATURDAY, JANUARY 10 • 8:00 PM
Ensemble-in-Residence: Spektral Quartet
Snowpocalypse Antidote
Movements from Dvorˇák, Haydn, and
Beethoven frame a brilliant new tango
arrangement by Julien Labro and short
works by Stephen Gorbos and Chris FisherLochhead, plus the world premiere of
David Reminick’s The Ancestral Mousetrap.
Penthouse, Logan Center
$10/Free with UChicago ID
SUNDAY, JANUARY 11 • 3:00 PM
UChicago Presents
Mezzo-soprano Anne Sofie von Otter is
joined by pianist Angela Hewitt for an
afternoon of German and French songs
with works by Beethoven, Schubert, Fauré,
and Debussy. 2 PM pre-concert talk with
Angela Hewitt and Berthold Hoeckner.
Mandel Hall, $35/$5 Students
MONDAY, JANUARY 12 • 4:30 PM
South Asian Sound Interventions
Workshop Series: Sarangi
Dr. Regula Qureshi, Mellon Islamic Studies
Initiative visiting scholar, presents a
workshop on Indian sarangi and its place
in the Hindustani music culture of India
and Pakistan.
Logan Center, Room 703, Free
TUESDAY, JANUARY 13 • 7:30 PM
Sarajevo Haggadah: Music of the Book
Accordionist Merima Kljucˇo uses multimedia
and musical traditions from Spain, Italy,
Austria, and Bosnia-Herzegovina to trace
the manuscript’s travels from medieval
Spain to 20th century Bosnia. 6 PM preconcert talk with Dalia Kandiyoti and
Amila Buturovic.
Performance Hall, Logan Center
$20/$5 Students
SUNDAY, JANUARY 18 • 4:00 PM
Sunday Song Styles
Intersection: Jazz Meets Classical Song
Patrice Michaels performs standards to art
song and ballads to bel canto featuring
violin, cello, and piano, plus rarely heard
songs by Duke Ellington, Chuck Israels, Lee
Hoiby, Nils Lindberg, John Musto, and more.
Penthouse, Logan Center
$15/Free with UChicago ID
SATURDAY, JANUARY 24 • 7:30 PM
Contempo
Contempo at 50: Now and Then I
Contempo opens its landmark 50th season
with works by Contempo/CCP Founder
Ralph Shapey, Huck Hodge, and Shulamit
Ran, and world premieres by John Eaton
and Lee Hyla. David Fulmer, conductor, and
soprano Sharon Harms join resident artists.
6:30 PM pre-concert talk with Shulamit Ran
and John Eaton.
Performance Hall, Logan Center
$25/$5 Students
SUNDAY, JANUARY 25 • 3:00 PM
UChicago Presents
Don Michael Randel Ensemble-in-Residence
Pacifica Quartet performs a must-hear
program featuring works by Puccini,
Carter, and Beethoven.
2 PM pre-concert talk with Steven Rings.
Performance Hall, Logan Center
$25/$5 Students
FRIDAY, JANUARY 30 • 7:30 PM
UChicago Presents
Bridging the ancient to the present with
exotic songs, compelling dances, and
virtuosic improvisations in Earthly Love,
Divine Love, ALBA Consort evokes the
haunting melodies and dynamic rhythms
of the Iberian Peninsula, and music from its
Middle Eastern and European neighbors.
Performance Hall, Logan Center
$35/$5 Students
SATURDAY, JANUARY 31 • 8:00 PM
University Symphony Orchestra
To help chase away the winter doldrums,
the University Symphony offers a program
of colorful, energetic, and melodious music:
selected scenes and dances from Manuel de
Falla’s The Three Cornered Hat ballet and
Antonín Dvorˇák’s engaging Symphony
No. 8 in G Major. Both works are rooted in
the folk music of their native lands, and
boast an undeniable freshness and appeal
for the listener.
Mandel Hall, Free
Donations Requested: $10/$5 Students
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 6 • 7:30 PM
UChicago Presents
Violinist Isabelle Faust and pianist
Alexander Melnikov make their Chicago
recital debut with a program of works by
Dvorˇák, Enescu, Tchaikovsky, Antheil, and
Franck. 6:30 PM pre-concert talk with
Robert Kendrick.
Mandel Hall, $35/$5 Students
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 15 • 4:00 PM
Ensemble-in-Residence: Spektral Quartet
The Spektral Quartet encourages
audience suggestions to build a previously
unrehearsed movement of Dvorˇák’s
“American” quartet from the ground up. No
musical training needed to engage in and
enjoy this interactive Open Rehearsal.
Fulton Recital Hall, Free
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 7 • 8:00 PM
University Chamber Orchestra
Program features 2014 UChicago Concerto
Competition co-winner Emily Brown
(contrabass) performing Frank Proto’s
Carmen Fantasy, plus a preview of Gilbert
& Sullivan’s The Yeomen of the Guard.
Performance Hall, Logan Center, Free
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 15 • 4:00 PM
Sunday Song Styles
A Musical Theater Valentine
Chicago’s renowned cabaret duo Anne &
Mark Burnell share an afternoon of love
lost and found in classic and contemporary
songs of Tin Pan Alley and Broadway.
Performance opens with UChicago Vocal
Studies students.
Penthouse, Logan Center
$15/Free with UChicago ID
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 9 • 4:30 PM
South Asian Sound Interventions
Workshop Series: Sufi dance
Chicago-based Indian dancer Komal Shah
explores how dance meets poetry in the
Sufi context. She will focus on interpreting
and expressing the poetry of Jalal ad-Din
Rumi through movement.
Logan Center, Room 703, Free
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 10 • 4:30 PM
Rockefeller Chapel Choir
Choral Evensong
A brief program featuring Herbert Howells’
St. Paul’s Service, plus organ selections by
Thomas Weisflog, University Organist.
Rockefeller Memorial Chapel, Free
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 13 • 7:30 PM
UChicago Presents
Armenian-American Tigran Hamasyan, one
of the hottest young pianists in jazz, makes
his Chicago debut with the Tigran Trio.
Free 6:30 PM pre-concert performance by
the Jazz Institute of Chicago’s Jazz Links
Ensemble in Café Logan.
Performance Hall, Logan Center
$35/$5 Students
FEBRUARY
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 2 • 4:30 PM
South Asian Sound Interventions
Workshop Series: Bansuri
Chicago-based flautist and bansuri
musician Lyon Leifer demonstrates and
discusses his experiences as a teacher
and performer working in the nexus of the
Indian bansuri and Western classical flute
traditions.
Logan Center, Room 703, Free
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 14 • 4:00 PM
Piano Program: Annual Bach Project
Some of the best musicians on campus
present ‘A Valentine to Our Favorite
Composer: J.S. Bach’s Dance Suites.’
Fulton Recital Hall, Free
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 15 • 5:00 PM
Women’s Voices Choral Festival
Women’s choral ensembles at the
University of Chicago, the University of
Illinois at Chicago, Loyola University, and
other colleges gather for a workshop
followed by a public performance
conducted by Mollie Stone and featuring
Appalachian music specialist Emily Miller.
Rockefeller Memorial Chapel, Free
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 20 • 7:30 PM
UChicago Presents
Mandolinist Avi Avital makes his Chicago
debut with pianist David Greilsammer
performing works by Mozart, Berg, Bach,
Pärt, and Bartók. 6:30 PM pre-concert
talk with Lawrence Zbikowski.
Performance Hall, Logan Center
$25/$5 Students
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 21 • 2:00 PM
New Budapest Orpheum Society
Passage To Poland: Cabaret Poetics At
Modernity’s Crossroads
“Polish Cabaret” brings to life the complex
traditions of music and poetry that
converge at the crossroads of Jewish
Poland, drawing upon Yiddish and Polish,
Hebrew and German repertories, and
unfolding along the paths from the shtetl
to the urban ghetto.
Penthouse, Logan Center, Free
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 21 • 8:00 PM
New Music Ensemble
A Tribute to Shulamit Ran
Chamber works of Shulamit Ran, the
Andrew MacLeish Distinguished Service
Professor in Composition, including
Birds of Paradise and Soliloquy. Joseph
Schwantner’s Sparrows with soloist
Patrice Michaels, and recent works by
UChicago graduate student composers
Pierce Gradone and Joungbum Lee.
Fulton Recital Hall, Free
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 22 • 4:00 PM
University Wind Ensemble
Contemporary Classics
UChicago Laboratory Schools’ U-High
Concert Band joins the Wind Ensemble
to present a program of classic and
contemporary band literature by
David Maslanka, Norman Dello Joio,
Robert Sheldon, John Mackey, and more.
Performance Hall, Logan Center, Free
SUNDAY, MARCH 1 • 4:00 PM
Vocal Studies
Chamber Music for Voice
Solo student singers perform works with
varied instrumentation, including the
1751 cantata “Der Schulmeister” by
Christoph Ludwig Fehre featuring baritone
Gyuri Barabás and a children’s ensemble
led by Kaitlin Foley.
Penthouse, Logan Center, Free
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 23 • 4:30 PM
South Asian Sound Interventions
Workshop Series: Hindustani music
Chicago-based Hindustani singer
Nirmita Dholakia will join Minu Pasupathi,
Director of UChicago’s South Asian Music
Ensemble, in comparing Hindustani and
Karnatik musical features.
Logan Center, Room 703, Free
FRIDAY, MARCH 6 • 7:00 PM
University Chorus and Women’s Ensemble
The refined voices of the Women’s
Ensemble join the vibrant University
Chorus, comprised of 100 undergraduates,
graduates, faculty and staff members, and
singers from the Hyde Park and University
communities to perform Brahms’ O Heiland,
reiß die Himmel auf and other repertoire
from diverse time periods.
Performance Hall, Logan Center, Free
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 27 • 7:30 PM
UChicago Presents
The Jerusalem Quartet has garnered much
international acclaim and won audiences
over for its rare combination of passion
and precision. Program features works by
Mozart, Bartók, and Schumann. 6:30 PM
pre-concert talk with Woo-Chan Lee.
Mandel Hall, $35/$5 Students
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 28 • 7:30 PM
Rockefeller Chapel Choir
Sacred Powers of Water
World premieres of Oka Ayasha with words
and music by Chickasaw Nation composer
Jerod Impichchaachaaha’ Tate and Water
on the Thirsty Land: Three Songs from
the Book of Isaiah by graduate student
composer Katherine Pukinskis, plus Aaron
Copland’s In the Beginning and Henryk
Górecki’s Szeroka Woda (Broad Waters).
Rockefeller Memorial Chapel
$20/Free with UChicago ID
SATURDAY, MARCH 7 • 8:00 PM
University Symphony Orchestra
The USO’s March concert focuses on a
single, monumental work — Gustav Mahler’s
Symphony No. 5 in C-sharp minor — a
carefully constructed and wholly compelling
five-movement essay that marked a
completely new direction in Mahler’s
compositional output.
Mandel Hall, Free
Donations Requested: $10/$5 Students
SUNDAY, MARCH 8 • 2:00 PM
University Brass Ensemble
Now in its fourth season, the UC Brass
Ensemble presents works in assorted
configurations, including brass choir,
quartets, and quintets. Program features
UChicago Laboratory Schools students.
Fulton Recital Hall, Free
Lecture by Gunther Schuller on Saturday,
February 28. Details at music.uchicago.edu.
SUNDAY, MARCH 8 • 7:00 PM
Middle East Music Ensemble
Traditional, contemporary, and folk music
of Persia with vocal and instrumental pieces
by Majid Derakhshani, Homayoun Khorram,
Hossein Dehlavi, and others performed by
the 50-piece orchestra.
Performance Hall, Logan Center, Free
Donations Requested: $10/$5 Students
COLLOQUIUM
SERIES
All colloquia are open to the public
and take place Fridays at 3:30 PM in
Fulton Recital Hall. Free admission.
FRIDAY, JANUARY 23
John Eaton
Emeritus Professor of Music
University of Chicago
From the Oldest Music-Maker to One
of the Newer Ones: Always in Pursuit
of Human Nuance
THURSDAY, MARCH 12 • 8:00 PM
Jazz X-tet
Now in its 20th season, the Jazz X-tet
transcends the usual repertoire of a
university big band by performing
music from a wide range of local and
contemporary composers, including Lester
Bowie, Bronisław Kaper, Ornette Coleman,
Roscoe Mitchell, and Ann Ronell.
Performance Hall, Logan Center, Free
FRIDAY AND SATURDAY,
MARCH 13 AND 14 • 8:00 PM
SUNDAY, MARCH 15 • 2:00 PM
Gilbert and Sullivan Opera Company
University Chamber Orchestra
Gilbert & Sullivan’s The Yeomen of the Guard
Revered as the most tragic and complex
work of the Gilbert & Sullivan canon,
this operetta features topsy-turvy plot
twists, a trio of reluctant marriages, and
a haunting score regarded by many as
Sullivan’s finest work.
Mandel Hall
$50 Patron/$20 General/$5 Students
(See inside panel for details)
All proceeds benefit the University of Chicago
Department of Music Performance Program.
MARCH
SUNDAY, MARCH 1 • 3:00 PM
Contempo
Contempo at 50: Now and Then II
Commissions by Gunther Schuller and
Sofia Gubaidulina anchor this program.
Additional works by Helen Grime,
Howard Sandroff, and Earl Kim. Conductor
Cliff Colnot, soprano Michelle Areyzaga,
and resident and guest artists perform.
2 PM pre-concert talk with
Sofia Gubaidulina, Gunther Schuller,
Berthold Hoeckner, and Steven Rings.
Performance Hall, Logan Center
$25/$5 Students
TUESDAY, MARCH 10 • 7:00 PM
Chamber Music Showcase
Student-driven chamber music ensembles
present repertoire from the 17th to the
21st century under the direction of
Spektral Quartet and Amy Briggs.
Penthouse, Logan Center, Free
SATURDAY, MARCH 21 • 8:00 PM
Ensemble-in-Residence: Newberry Consort
Copernicus and Beyond: Polish Cultural
Treasures
Co-directed by Chicago native and Consort
audience favorite Tom Zajac, the program
includes foot-stomping Polish dances
(can’t forget the bagpipe!), folk tunes,
songs, and choral repertory from one
of Eastern Europe’s richest cultures
and Chicago’s most important ethnic
communities. 7 PM pre-concert talk.
Performance Hall, Logan Center
$35-$45/$5 Students
Schedule and programs subject to change.
Please visit music.uchicago.edu for
up-to-date information.
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 6
Jann Pasler
Professor of Music
University of California, San Diego
Title TBA
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 27
Olivia Bloechl
Associate Professor of Musicology
University of California, Los Angeles
Lament as Confession: A Foucauldian
Approach to Baroque Lyrical Expression.
FRIDAY, MARCH 6
Victoria Malawey
Assistant Professor of Music
Macalester College
Vocal Prosody in Popular Music
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