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 VISIT US FULTON RECITAL HALL 1010 East 59th Street Goodspeed Hall, 4th floor GANZ HALL, ROOSEVELT UNIVERSITY 430 South Michigan Avenue, 7th floor MANDEL HALL 1131 East 57th Street NEWBERRY CONSORT 312.669.7335 Tickets: newberryconsort.org REVA AND DAVID LOGAN CENTER FOR THE ARTS 915 East 60th Street 773.702.ARTS (2787) logancenter.uchicago.edu ROCKEFELLER MEMORIAL CHAPEL 5850 South Woodlawn Avenue 773.702.2100 rockefeller.uchicago.edu UCHICAGO ARTS BOX OFFICE 915 East 60th Street 773.702.ARTS (2787) Tickets: ticketsweb.uchicago.edu UCHICAGO PRESENTS 773.702.8068 chicagopresents.uchicago.edu
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