“Chicago Composers: the Next Generation” celebrates the work of composers in the Crossing Borders Music Young Composers Project.
In the project, youth from music programs in North Lawndale and Garfield Park receive weekly composition lessons and write a piece for the Crossing Borders Music string quartet. Hear their fresh, new approaches to an age-old genre!
Plus, hear music commissioned by Crossing Borders Music of emerging African-American composers including brand new works by Jessica T Carter and more.
Join La Caccina for Weird Sisters and hear stories of witches, magic, and powerful women. Throughout history, women who possessed deep knowledge in subjects like botany, physiology, and medicine were condemned as witches. This concert sets the record straight, celebrating the power of those knowledgeable women and harnessing the magic that lives within us all.
Expanding brings focus to the voices of the living and inanimate that exist in our shared world. Featuring the premiere of NEW WORK TBD by Emma Hospelhorn, Holocene is joined onstage by the composer herself as vocalist. Vox Balaenae by George Crumb, inspired by an early recording of the voices of whales, immerses listeners in the sense of nature’s powerful and impersonal forces. Works by Tania Rubio, Nina Shekhar, and Shi-An Costello explore the everyday and remarkable features that make up our environment, including shadows, the subjectivity of time, intimacy, and deterioration.
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phoebewupiano.com
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