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Select the early music events listings for another month: Sunday, January 28, 2007, 7:30 PM.
The Music of the Baroque Chorus and Orchestra, Nicholas Kraemer, conductor, will perform a concert of works by Telemann and Bach. Featuring soloists Barbara Butler, trumpet; Patrick O'Malley, recorder; Suzie LeBlanc, soprano; Laura Pudwell, mezzo-soprano; Alan Bennett, tenor; Thomas Meglioranza, baritone.
Cost: Visit www.baroque.org/subscribe/ for details.
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.
Friday, February 2, 2007, 8:00 PM.
Location: Joan W. and Irving B. Harris Theater for Music and Dance, 205 E. Randolph (Millennium Park), Chicago, Illinois.
Saturday, February 3, 2007, 5:00 PM.
Early Music Now presents the Baltimore Consort performing "Cupid's Cabinet: Amorous Chansons and Dances for Valentine's Day", a collection of amorous and risqué chansons, ballads, and dances. With guest countertenor José Lemos.
Cost: Tickets are $28-35, $10-17.50 for students. Season subscriptions also available.
Location: All Saints' Episcopal Cathedral, 818 E. Juneau Avenue,, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
For more info: call 414-225-3113 or 877-546-8742 (877-54music); e-mail info@earlymusicnow.org; or visit www.earlymusicnow.org.
Wednesday, February 7, 2007, 7:00 PM.
Gravitacion will perform a concert in connection with the group's "Elements" CD Release Tour. Gravitacion will showcase their acclaimed debut album Elements, a collection of virtuosic and evocative music from the middle ages and renaissance.
Cost: $10 admission.
Location: Trinity Lutheran Church, 1904 Winnebago Street, Madison, Wisconsin.
For more info: e-mail mleese@millikin.edu; or visit www.gravitacion.org.
Saturday, February 10, 2007, 7:30 PM.
Cost: $10 admission.
Location: McKinley Presbyterian Church, 809 S. Fifth Street, Champaign, Illinois.
Sunday, February 11, 2007, 2:00 PM.
Cost: Free admission.
Location: Tarble Arts Center, Eastern Illinois University, 600 Lincoln Avenue, Charleston, Illinois.
Thursday, February 8, 2007, 3:00 PM.
The Newberry Consort in Open Rehearsal for "A Portrait of Renaissance Brughes".
Location: the Newberry Library Ruggles Hall, 60 W. Walton Street, Chicago, Illinois.
Friday, February 9, 2007, 7:30 PM.
The Newberry Consort will present a concert, "A Portrait of Renaissance Brughes", Franco-Flemish music from the 15th century. Performers include Newberry Consort regulars David Douglass, Mary Springfels, and Drew Minter; and guest artists Mark Rimple, James Ruff, and Richard Wistreich. Pre-concert lecture at 7:00 PM.
Cost: Ticket prices vary by section and venue, also by time of performance. A ten-percent discount is available for seniors and Newberry Library Associates, and students receive a fifty-percent discount on tickets. Visit the Ordering Tickets page for details.
Location: the Newberry Library Ruggles Hall, 60 W. Walton Street, Chicago, Illinois.
For more info: call 312-255-3700; visit the Consort website; or e-mail consort@newberry.org.
Saturday, February 10, 2007, 7:30 PM. Pre-concert lecture at 7:00 PM.
Location: The University of Chicago's Fulton Recital Hall, 1010 E. 59th Street (4th floor), Chicago, Illinois.
Sunday, February 11, 2007, 3:00 PM.
Location: Northwestern University's Lutkin Hall, 700 University Place, Evanston, Illinois.
Sunday, February 11, 2007, 2:30 PM.
The Callipygian Players will join with the Camerata Singers of Lake Forest for a concert, "Love, Love, Love...", featuring music by Legrenzi and Monteverdi.
Cost: General Admission $20, Student/Senior $15.
Location: Call 847-295-8427 for location.
For more info: Call 847-295-8427; or visit www.calplayers.org.
Sunday, February 11, 2007, 4:00 PM.
The Early Music Series at the Byron Colby Barn presents Patrick O'Malley and Lisette Kielson performing a concert, "T for Two", featuring works by Telemann and other composers for two recorders.
View the 2006-2007 season flyer.
Cost: Individual tickets are $15. Series subscription (six concerts) price is $72, or $12 per concert. Children under the age of 16 are free. As always at the Barn, you may BYOB.
Location: the Byron Colby Barn at Prairie Crossing, 1561 Jones Point Road, Grayslake, Illinois.
For more info: call 847-543-1202; or e-mail bcbarn@prairiecrossing.com.
Friday, February 16, 2007, 8:00 PM.
The University of Chicago Chamber Music Series presents Viktoria Mullova, violin, and Ottavio Dantone, harpsichord, performing an all-Bach program.
Cost: Chamber Series subscriptions (six concerts) $130, $60 for students; single-event tickets (if available) $30, $11 for students.
Location: Mandel Hall, 1131 E. 57th Street (at the corner of University Avenue), Chicago, Illinois.
For more info: call 773-702-8068; e-mail concert-office@uchicago.edu; or visit chicagopresents.uchicago.edu/.
Saturday, February 17, 2007, 7:30 PM.
Handel Week, Dennis Northway, Director, presents a concert, "The Grand Handel", with two of Handel's concerti grossi and two cantatas for soprano, featuring vocalist Sarah Gartshore. Pre-concert lecture at 6:45 PM.
Cost: Varies by seating and performance. Please visit www.handelweek.com/tickets.html or call 708-524-0695 for details.
Location: Grace Episcopal Church, 924 Lake Street, Oak Park, Illinois.
For more info: Call 708-383-2216; e-mail [email protected]; or visit www.handelweek.com.
Sunday, February 18, 2007, 7:00 PM.
Ars Musica Chicago will present "Ladies and Gentlemen of the Baroque", a concert of rarely heard vocal and instrumental works. Featuring the Ars Musica Baroque Ensemble, Stephen Alltop, conductor; and soprano Sherezade Panthaki.
Cost: $20, $15 seniors, $5 students. (Seabury & North Shore AGO members free admission.)
Location: DePaul University Art Museum in the Richardson Library, 2350 North Kenmore (at Fullerton), Chicago, Illinois.
For more info: call 312-409-7874; e-mail ArsMusicaChicago@aol.com; or visit www.arsmusicachicago.org.
Monday, February 19, 2007, 7:30 PM.
Handel Week, Dennis Northway, Director, presents a concert, "The Intimate Handel", with an unusual program of Handel's chamber music featuring Kimberly McCord, soprano; Thomas Yang, violin; Susan Ross, cello; and Dennis Northway, harpsichord. Pre-concert lecture at 6:45 PM.
Cost: Varies by seating and performance. Please visit www.handelweek.com/tickets.html or call 708-524-0695 for details.
Location: Grace Episcopal Church, 924 Lake Street, Oak Park, Illinois.
For more info: Call 708-383-2216; e-mail [email protected]; or visit www.handelweek.com.
Monday, February 19, 2007, 7:30 PM.
Selections from the Baroque opera La Comica del Cielo by Antonio Maria Abbatini will be performed by the McKenna Ensemble, with Louis Playford, harpsichord and Laurence MaCauley, narrator, under the direction of Reverend Edward McKenna. Featured vocal soloists include: Carol LoVerde, Donna Sadlicka, Christine Schultze, Christopher Chroniak, Henry Hunt, Wayne Parham, Matthew Dean, and Andrew Schultze.
View the La Comica del Cielo flyer.
Cost: $20 free-will offering.
Location: The Shrine of Our Lady of Pompeii, 1224 West Lexington Street, Chicago, Illinois. Parking Available at the UIC lot (Racine/Harrison).
For more info: Call 312-421-3757; or visit www.ourladyofpompeii.org.
Friday, February 23, 2007, 8:00 PM.
The Howard Mayer Brown International Early Music Series presents the Venice Baroque Orchestra, Andrea Marcon, Director, with Giuliano Carmignola, violin, performing a concert, "The Devil and the Red Priest", with concertos by Tartini and Vivaldi.
Cost: Early Music Series subscriptions (four concerts) $85, $40 for students, or (five concerts) $100, $50 for students; single-event tickets (if available) $30, $11 for students.
Location: Mandel Hall, 1131 E. 57th Street (at the corner of University Avenue), Chicago, Illinois.
For more info: call 773-702-8068; e-mail concert-office@uchicago.edu; or visit chicagopresents.uchicago.edu/.
Saturday, February 24, 2007, 8:00 PM.
The Rockefeller Chapel Choir and Metropolis Baroque Orchestra, James Kallembach, Conductor, will perform Bach's St. John Passion. Featuring vocal soloists Hyun Suk Jang, Lon Ellenberger, Trevor Mitchell, Andrew Schultze, and Matthew Dean.
Cost: $30 chancel, $20 general, $10 student & senior.
Location: Rockefeller Memorial Chapel, University of Chicago, 5850 South Woodlawn Avenue, Chicago, Illinois.
For more info: call 773-702-9075.
Sunday, February 25, 2007, 3:00 PM.
Handel Week, Dennis Northway, Director, presents a performance of Handel's oratorio Samson. Featuring Eric Ashcroft as Samson; Kimberly McCord as Delilah; and Nicci Krebasch, Rosalind Lee, Ruth Lidecka, Anne Reisig, Henry Hunt, Philip Kraus, and Warren Kaplan. Pre-concert lecture at 2:15 PM.
Cost: Varies by seating and performance. Please visit www.handelweek.com/tickets.html or call 708-524-0695 for details.
Location: Grace Episcopal Church, 924 Lake Street, Oak Park, Illinois.
For more info: Call 708-383-2216; e-mail [email protected]; or visit www.handelweek.com.
Saturday, February 17, 2007.
Lisette Kielson will direct the Portique Midwest Recorder Workshop Series Winter Workshop 2007, "Tone, Technique & Telemann". Open to intermediate and advanced recorder enthusiasts. Viols and other compatible instruments welcome.
Cost: $90/$85 ARS members; full-time students $35.
Location: Bloomington Center for the Performing Arts, Room 231, 110 E. Mulberry Street, Bloomington, Illinois.
For more info: call 309-828-1724; or e-mail LKielson@LEnsemblePortique.com.
Thursday, February 1, 2007, 9:00 AM CST.
Vivaldi's Winter (Violin Concerto in f) from The Four Seasons. Broadcast toward the beginning of the 9:00-10:00 time period on WFMT Radio.
Thursday, February 1, 2007, 3:00 PM CST.
Folias Antiguas by Anonymous. Broadcast during the 3:00-7:00 "Afternoons with Kerry Frumkin" program on WFMT Radio.
Thursday, February 1, 2007, 6:00 PM CST.
Vivaldi's Violin Concerto in g, R 317. Broadcast during the 6:00-7:00 time period on WFMT Radio.
Friday, February 2, 2007, 10:00 PM CST.
Troubadour song, Calenda Maia, by Anonymous, with Hispanic-American Cuando por el Oriente. Handel's Coronation anthem, Zadok the Priest. Broadcast during the 10:00-12:00 time period on WFMT Radio.
Saturday, February 3, 2007, 11:00 AM CST.
Purcell's Suite from Abdelazer, or The Moor's Revenge. Broadcast toward the beginning of the 11:00-12:30 time period on WFMT Radio.
Sunday, February 4, 2007, 12:00 noon CST.
Tartini's Violin Sonata in g, Devil's Trill. Broadcast toward the beginning of the 12:00-1:00 time period on WFMT Radio.
Monday, February 5, 2007, 10:00 AM CST.
Avison's Concerto grosso #10 in D, after Domenico Scarlatti. Broadcast during the 10:00-3:00 "Midday with Don Tait" program on WFMT Radio.
Tuesday, February 6, 2007, 9:00 AM CST.
Bach's Brandenburg Concerto #2 in F, BWV 1047. Tallis' Motet, Honor, Virtus et Potestas; Handel's The Water Music Suite in F. Broadcast during the 9:00-10:00 time period on WFMT Radio.
Tuesday, February 6, 2007, 12:00 noon CST.
Vivaldi's Concerto in C con molti stromenti, R 558. Handel's Gloria. Broadcast during the 12:00-3:00 time period on WFMT Radio.
Tuesday, February 6, 2007, 11:00 PM CST.
Bach's Solo Violin Sonata #2 in a, BWV 1003. Broadcast during the 11:00-12:00 time period on WFMT Radio.
Wednesday, February 7, 2007, 3:00 PM CST.
Bach-Segovia's Three Lute Pieces. Broadcast during the 3:00-7:00 "Afternoons with Kerry Frumkin" program on WFMT Radio.
Thursday, February 8, 2007, 12:00 noon CST.
Bach's Cantata #51, Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen. Broadcast toward the beginning of the 12:00-3:00 time period on WFMT Radio.
Thursday, February 8, 2007, 6:00 PM CST.
Bach's Orchestra Suite #3 in D, BWV 1068. Broadcast toward the beginning of the 6:00-7:00 time period on WFMT Radio.
Friday, February 9, 2007, 8:00 PM CST.
Music of the Baroque performs music of Mozart. Broadcast during the 8:00-10:00 time period on WFMT Radio.
Saturday, February 10, 2007, 11:00 AM CST.
Handel's Why Do the Nations So Furiously Rage Together from Messiah. Broadcast during the 11:00-12:30 time period on WFMT Radio.
Sunday, February 11, 2007, 11:00 PM CST.
Bach's Chaconne from Violin Partita #2 in d. Broadcast during the 11:00-12:00 time period on WFMT Radio.
Monday, February 12, 2007, 10:00 AM CST.
Scarlatti's Sonata in E, Kk 162. Bach's Sinfonia (Overture) in D, Op 18/4. Broadcast during the 10:00-3:00 "Midday with Don Tait" program on WFMT Radio.
Monday, February 12, 2007, 12:00 noon CST.
Bach's Triple Concerto in a, BWV 1044. Broadcast during the 12:00-3:00 time period on WFMT Radio.
Tuesday, February 13, 2007, 9:00 AM CST.
Tartini's Flute Concerto in G. Tallis' Jesu Salvator Saeculi. Broadcast during the 9:00-10:00 time period on WFMT Radio.
Tuesday, February 13, 2007, 12:00 noon CST.
Bach's Violin Sonata #6 in G, BWV 1019. Broadcast during the 12:00-3:00 time period on WFMT Radio.
Friday, February 23, 2007, 9:00 AM CST.
Couperin's Le Dodo, ou l'Amour au berceau. Broadcast during the 9:00-10:00 time period on WFMT Radio.
Friday, February 23, 2007, 1:00 PM CST.
Bach's St. John Passion. Broadcast during the 1:00-3:00 time period on WFMT Radio.
Saturday, February 24, 2007, 11:00 AM CST.
Bach's Three-Keyboard Concerto #2 in C, BWV 1064. Broadcast during the 11:00-12:30 time period on WFMT Radio.
Sunday, February 25, 2007, 11:00 PM CST.
Bach's Violin Partita #1 in b, BWV 1002. Broadcast during the 11:00-12:00 time period on WFMT Radio.
Monday, February 26, 2007, 9:00 AM CST.
Tallis's Motet, Videte Miraculum. Vivaldi's Cello Concerto in b, R 424. Broadcast during the 9:00-10:00 time period on WFMT Radio.
Monday, February 26, 2007, 12:00 noon CST.
Vivaldi's Violin Concerto in f, R 297. Broadcast during the 12:00-3:00 time period on WFMT Radio.
Monday, February 26, 2007, 3:00 PM CST.
Bach's Orchestra Suite #2 in b, BWV 1067. Broadcast during the 3:00-7:00 "Afternoons with Kerry Frumkin" program on WFMT Radio.
Tuesday, February 27, 2007, 9:00 AM CST.
Handel's Organ (Harp) Concerto in F, Op 4/5. Broadcast during the 9:00-10:00 time period on WFMT Radio.
Wednesday, February 28, 2007, 11:00 PM CST.
Sephardic Song, Las Estrellas de los Cielos. Broadcast during the 11:00-12:00 time period on WFMT Radio.
Friday, February 9, 2007, 7:00 PM.
The Newberry Consort will give a pre-concert lecture for "A Portrait of Renaissance Brughes".
Location: the Newberry Library Ruggles Hall, 60 W. Walton Street, Chicago, Illinois.
Saturday, February 10, 2007, 7:00 PM.
Location: The University of Chicago's Fulton Recital Hall, 1010 E. 59th Street (4th floor), Chicago, Illinois.
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