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Select the early music events listings for another month: Thursday, March 25, 2004, 5:45 PM.
L'Ensemble Portique will perform "The Suite Sonata: the Intellect, the Abstract & the Fanciful", Exploring the Form, Development and Inspiration of the Baroque Sonata. Featuring Lisette Kielson, recorder; Pablo Mahave-Veglia, Baroque cello; and Andrew Paul Fredel, harpsichord and organ.
Cost: Admission is free.
Location: St. Peter's in the Loop, 110 West Madison Street, Chicago, Illinois.
For more info: call 312-853-2397.
Friday, April 2, 2004, ???.
Location: the University of Wisconsin-Platteville, Platteville, Wisconsin.
Thursday, April 1, 2004, 1:00 PM.
The Evelyn Dunbar Memorial Early Music Festival presents pianist Steven Lubin playing works by Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven on his replica of an 18th-century fortepiano. Mr. Lubin will also comment on the music, performance technique, and improvization practices of the period.
Cost: Free admission.
Location: Northwestern University's Lutkin Hall, 700 University Place, Evanston, Illinois.
For more info: call 847-491-5431; or e-mail j-schwartz@nwu.edu.
Saturday, April 3, 2004, 5:00 PM.
Early Music Now presents the Stadler Trio in a concert, "Mozart, Stadler & 3 Basset Horns", with music by Mozart, Stadler, and Salieri.
Cost: Tickets are $30, $10 for students. Season subscriptions also available.
Location: the Sharon Lynne Wilson Center for the Arts, 19805 W. Capitol Drive, Brookfield, Wisconsin.
For more info: call 414-225-3113; e-mail emn@execpc.com.
Saturday, April 3, 2004, 8:00 PM.
The Chicago Chorale, together with an orchestra of period instruments, will perform Mozart's Requiem, also a group of motets for the season of Lent.
Cost: tickets purchased at the door; $15 general admission; $10 students and seniors.
Location: Rockefeller Chapel, 5850 S. Woodlawn Avenue, Chicago, Illinois.
For more info: call 773-702-2100.
Sunday, April 4, 2004, 2:00 PM.
The Pro Arte Singers and Baroque Orchestra, Stanley Ritchie, conductor, will perform works by Blow and Purcell.
Location: Auer Hall, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana.
For more info: call 812-855-0427; or e-mail murias@indiana.edu.
Sunday, April 4, 2004, 7:00 PM.
Ars Musica Chicago will perform a concert "Judaic Journey: Music by and about the Jewish Tradition from the Italian Baroque", featuring the music of Salamone Rossi, one of the few composers of Jewish descent to have a major impact on the Italian 17th century, also Esther, an oratorio by Alessandro Stradella. Readings will further highlight the cultural importance the Jews had in Italy during the Baroque period.
Cost: General admission $15, seniors & students $12.
Location: the Student Center Theater, Depaul University, 2250 N. Sheffield, Chicago, Illinois.
For more info: call 312-409-7874; or e-mail info@arsmusicachicago.org.
Sunday, April 4, 2004, 7:00 PM.
Randi Von Ellefson will conduct the Rockefeller Chapel Choir, Motet Choir, and Schola Antiqua of Chicago performing Tenebrae, a worship concert featuring historic readings, chant, and polyphonic music taken from the liturgies of the Triduum of Holy Week.
Cost: Donations accepted.
Location: Rockefeller Chapel, 5850 S. Woodlawn Avenue, Chicago, Illinois.
For more info: call 773-702-7059, or 312-208-1159.
Thursday, April 8, 2004, 11:30 AM.
The Comic Intermezzo will present a concert at the Fortnightly Club, Chicago, Illinois. (Details available at a later date.)
Sunday, April 11, 2004, 4:00 PM.
The Early Music Series at the Byron Colby Barn presents an Easter Concert by Duo Marini performing Biber's "Crucifixion" Sonata, as well as works by Marini, Fontana, and Castello.
Cost: Individual tickets are $15. Series subscription price is $72, or $12 per concert. Children under the age of 16 are free.
Location: the Byron Colby Barn at Prairie Crossing, 1561 Jones Point Road, Grayslake, Illinois.
For more info: call Stan Rosenberg at 847-543-1202.
Friday, April 16, 2004, 7:30 PM.
St. Gregory the Great Church will host a joint choral performance, "An Evening of Song", by the DePaul University Singers and the Vermont-based Northern Harmony Chorus performing works by Byrd, Tavener, Handel, and Chilcott.
Cost: $10 adults, $5 seniors and students.
Location: St. Gregory the Great Church, 5545 N. Paulina, Chicago, Illinois.
For more info: call 773-561-3546.
Saturday, April 17, 2004, 8:00 PM.
Peter Watchorn, harpsichord, will perform a recital of works by Froberger, Boehm, and Bach.
Location: Concert Hall, DePaul University, 804 W. Belden Avenue, Chicago, Illinois.
For more info: visit music.depaul.edu.
Sunday, April 18, 2004, 3:00 PM.
The Howard Mayer Brown International Early Music Series of the University of Chicago presents Les Talens Lyriques, Christophe Rousset, Director/Harpsichord, with Anna Maria Panzarella, soprano, performing "Baroque in Bloom", music by Couperin, Scarlatti, Handel, and Corelli.
Cost: Single tickets $30 (students $11), series subscriptions (four concerts) $84 (students $40).
Location: Mandel Hall, 1131 E. 57th Street (at the corner of University Avenue), Chicago, Illinois.
For more info: call 773-702-8068; or e-mail concert-office@uchicago.edu.
Sunday, April 18, 2004, 4:00 PM.
The University Singers, Jan Harrington, Conductor, will perform Bach motets, Sandstrom's Singet dem Herrn (premiere), and other works to be announced.
Location: Auer Hall, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana.
For more info: call 812-855-0427; or e-mail murias@indiana.edu.
Sunday, April 18, 2004, 7:30 PM.
Music of the Baroque, Nicholas Kraemer, conductor, will perform works by Purcell and Croft, also Handel's recently discovered Gloria. Featuring Ellen Hargis, soprano.
Cost: Tickets are $29 to $46, seniors $22; season subscriptions are also available.
Location: First United Methodist Church, 1630 Hinman Avenue, Evanston, Illinois.
For more info: call 312-551-1414; e-mail baroque@baroque.org; or visit www.baroque.org.
Monday, April 19, 2004, 8:00 PM.
Location: Old St. Patrick's Church, 700 W. Adams Street, Chicago, Illinois.
Wednesday, April 21, 2004, 8:00 PM.
Location: Grace Lutheran Church, 7300 Division Street, River Forest, Illinois.
Monday, April 19, 2004, 12:15 PM.
The Juliani Ensemble will perform an all-Bach program.
Cost: free admission.
Location: Preston Bradley Hall, Chicago Cultural Center, 78 E. Washington, Chicago, Illinois.
For more info: call 312-744-6630.
Monday, April 19, 2004, 7:00 PM.
The Heroic Bard will perform "Mine Owne Sweete Jewell", with lute music by Dowland and Holbourne and other pieces from Elizabethan England and Italy.
Location: Naperville Public Library, 200 West Jefferson Avenue, Naperville, Illinois.
For more info: call 773-775-6696.
Thursday, April 22, 2004, 8:00 PM.
A performance of "AmerKlavier with Strings Attached", music for keyboard and strings by J.S. Bach.
Location: Recital Hall, DePaul University, 804 W. Belden, Chicago, Illinois.
For more info: visit music.depaul.edu.
Friday, April 23, 2004, 7:30 PM.
Abraham Stokman, piano, will perform Bach's "Goldberg Variations".
Cost: $15/$10.
Location: Nichols Concert Hall, Music Institute of Chicago, 1490 Chicago Avenue, Evanston, Illinois.
For more info: call 847-905-1500; or visit www.musicinst.org.
Friday, April 23, 2004, 8:00 PM.
The Callipygian Players, Martin Davids, Director and violin, will perform its inaugural concert, with music by Vivaldi, Tessarini, Leclair, Corrette, Schmelzer, Brade, and Simpson.
Read the press release.
Cost: $20 general admission, $15 students and seniors. For ticket info, call 847-674-3204.
Location: Immanuel Lutheran Church, 616 Lake Street, Evanston, Illinois. (Parking off Sherman Avenue.)
For more info: call 847-674-3204, or e-mail martydavids@mac.com.
Saturday, April 24, 2004, 8:00 PM.
Location: Trinity United Methodist Church, 605 West Golf Road, Mt. Prospect, Illinois.
Friday, April 23, 2004, 8:00 PM.
Bella Voce, Anne Heider, Artistic Director, will perform "Brahms and Before", including music by Brahms, Schütz, and J.S. Bach.
Cost: Tickets are $25 adults, $20 seniors, $10 students; series subscriptions also available.
Location: St. Clement's Church, 642 W. Deming Place, Chicago, Illinois.
For more info: call 312-461-0723; or visit www.bellavoce.org.
Saturday, April 24, 2004, 7:30 PM.
Location: St. Procopius Abbey, 5601 College Road, Lisle, Illinois.
Sunday, April 25, 2004, 7:30 PM.
Location: St. Joseph's Church, 1747 Lake Avenue, Wilmette, Illinois.
Sunday, April 25, 2004, 2:30 PM.
David Schrader, harpsichord, will perform a concert featuring French music and preludes and fugues from Bach's "The Well-Tempered Clavier".
Location: St. Chrysostom's Church, 1424 N. Dearborn, Chicago, Illinois.
For more info: call 312-944-1083, x19.
Sunday, April 25, 2004, 3:00 PM.
The Comic Intermezzo will present a concert featuring "The Bass Fiddler of Wurgel", a 20-minute mini opera of the Battle of the Sexes; Haydn's "Joke Quartet"; and "Miride and Damari", a charming intermezzo about love.
Cost: $15 for adults.
Location: Reid Chapel, Lake Forest College, 555 N. Sheridan Road, Lake Forest, Illinois.
For more info: visit thecomicintermezzo.com/
Sunday, April 25, 2004, 3:00 PM.
The Tower Brass will perform a Spring Concert, including works by Bach, Gabrieli, and Bruckner.
Cost: Free-will offering.
Location: Fourth Presbyterian Church of Chicago, North Michigan Avenue at Delaware Place, Chicago, Illinois.
For more info: call 312-787-4570.
Sunday, April 25, 2004, 4:00 PM.
Lincoln Chamber Productions presents the Musicam Sacram Choir performing a concert of chant of both the Eastern and Western Church, as well as choral works by Josquin des Pres, Victoria, Bach, Arcadelt, Pitoni, Gabrieli, Allen, Rutter, and others.
Cost: advance ticket prices are $20 general admission, $15 senior (Over 60), $10 student (with ID); tickets at the door will be an additional $3.
Location: Our Lady Queeen of the Angels Chapel, St. Ignatius Church, 6559 N. Glenwood Avenue, Chicago, Illinois.
For more info: all 815-806-0066; e-mail tickets@stignatiuschurch.org; or visit www.northshorechoral.org/othergroups/musicamsacram.htm.
Sunday, April 25, 2004, 7:30 PM.
The Mozart Sinfonia, Diana Kodner conductor, will perform a concert, "Purcell, Pipes and Power", including works by Purcell, Albinoni, Vivaldi, Mozart, and Guilmant. Featured guest artist is Holy Name Cathedral's organist and music director, Matthew Walsh.
Cost: $15 in advance, $20 at the door.
Location: Alice Millar Chapel, 1870 Sheridan Road, Evanston, Illinois.
For more info: call 847-492-0495.
Sunday, April 25, 2004, 7:30 PM.
The Rembrandt Chamber Players to perform a concert of music by Vivaldi, Bach, Handel, Lieberman, and Brahms.
Cost: $28/$6.
Location: Nichols Concert Hall, Music Institute of Chicago, 1490 Chicago Avenue, Evanston, Illinois.
For more info: call 773-929-7277; or visit www.rembrandtchamberplayers.org.
Sunday, April 25, 2004, 7:30 PM.
Kenneth Slowik and Nancy Humphrey, cello, viola da gamba and harpsichord, will perform an all-Bach program.
Location: Highland Park Presbyterian Church, 330 Laurel, Highland Park, Illinois.
For more info: call 847-432-4458.
Friday, April 30, 2004, 8:00 PM.
The Bach Week Festival presents Christine Kraemer, organ, performing J.S. Bach's "Prelude and Fugue in E Minor" ("Wedge") BWV 548; Elizabeth Cifani, harp, performing Vivaldi's "Lute Concerto in D Major" (transcribed for harp); Blair Milton, violin, and David Schrader, harpsichord, performing Tartini's "Sonata in G Minor" ("The Devil's Trill"); Elizabeth Norman, soprano, and Devin Hartman, trumpet, performing Bach's "Cantata 51" (Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen); and the Bach Week Festival Orchestra performing Heinichen's "Concerto in F Major".
A champagne and chocolate reception follows.
At 10:15 PM, a Chapel Candlelight Concert, with Anne Waller and Mark Maxwell, guitars, performing Bach's "Lute Suites" BWV 995 & 996, also Marais' Les Folies D'Espagne.
Cost: Visit www.bachweek.org/bwf/tickets.php for ticket prices.
Location: First Congregational Church, Hinman & Grove, Evanston, Illinois.
For more info: call 847-236-0452; e-mail bachwk@aol.com; or visit www.bachweek.org/.
Thursday, April 8, 2004, 8:00 PM CDT.
Music of the Baroque performing Monteverdi's "Love and War". Broadcast during the 8:00-10:00 "Music in Chicago" program on WFMT Radio.
Tuesday, April 13, 2004, 4:00 PM CDT.
The Heroic Bard will give a live performance of portions of "Mine Owne Sweete Jewell", Love in Shakespeare's Plays and Sonnets. Broadcast during the 4:00-5:00 time period on WFMT Radio.
Friday, April 16, 2004, 3:30 PM.
Anne Stone (Queens College), a specialist in the music of 14th and 15th century Italy and France, will give a talk, "Subjectivity and Song in the Late Middle Ages".
Cost: Free admission.
Location: Fulton Recital Hall, University of Chicago, 1010 E. 59th Street, Chicago, Illinois.
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