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Select the early music events listings for another month: Wednesday, March 3, 2004, 12:00 noon.
The Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concert Series will present Passacaglia, with Julia Gooding, soprano, performing works by Couperin, Bach, Gordon, and Fischer. Broadcast live on WFMT Radio.
Cost: Free admission.
Location: Preston Bradley Hall, Chicago Cultural Center, 78 E. Washington, Chicago, Illinois.
For more info: call 312-744-6630.
Wednesday, March 3, 2004, 7:30 PM.
Location: Lily Reid Holt Memorial Chapel, Lake Forest College, 555 N. Sheridan, Lake Forest, Illinois.
For more info: call 847-735-6010; or e-mail ratliff@lakeforest.edu.
Thursday, March 4, 2004, 3:00 PM.
The Newberry Consort in Open Rehearsal for "Baroque Brilliance".
Location: the Newberry Library Ruggles Hall, 60 W. Walton Street, Chicago, Illinois.
Friday, March 5, 2004, 8:00 PM.
The Newberry Consort presents a concert, "Baroque Brilliance". Mary Springfels, together with her eminent long-time friends, flautist Janet See, oboist Washington McClain, and harpsichordist Arthur Haas, will perform a choice selection of trio-sonatas by the most celebrated French, German, and Italian masters of the Eighteenth Century. Pre-concert lecture at 7:00 PM.
Read the press release.
Location: the Newberry Library Ruggles Hall, 60 W. Walton Street, Chicago, Illinois.
For ticket prices and more info: call 312-255-3700; visit the Consort website; or e-mail consort@newberry.org.
Saturday, March 6, 2004, 8:00 PM. Pre-concert lecture at 7:00 PM.
Location: Grace Episcopal Church, 924 Lake Street, Oak Park, Illinois.
Sunday, March 7, 2004, 3:00 PM.
Location: Northwestern University's Lutkin Hall, 700 University Place, Evanston, Illinois.
Friday, March 5, 2004, 7:30 PM.
Trio Settecento, with Amy Conn, soprano, will perform a concert of Baroque chamber music.
Cost: $15 adults, $10 seniors and students.
Location: Evanston campus, Music Institute of Chicago, 1490 Chicago, Evanston, Illinois.
For more info: call 847-905-1500 x100.
Saturday, March 6, 2004, 5:00 PM.
Early Music Now presents Passacaglia performing "An Allegorical Feast", with music by Telemann, Couperin, and Monteclair, plus the premiere of a new work by Geoffrey Gordon. There will be a silent auction and Chocolate Reception at 3:00 PM.
Cost: Tickets are $30, $10 for students. Season subscriptions also available.
Location: the Schwann Concert Hall, Wisconsin Lutheran College, 8815 W. Wisconsin Avenue, Wauwatosa, Wisconsin.
For more info: call 414-225-3113; e-mail emn@execpc.com.
Saturday, March 6, 2004, 8:00 PM.
The Oriana Singers will perform a concert of music by Weelkes, Ravenscroft, Dowland, Flecha, Lassus, and others.
Location: St. Giles Episcopal Church, 3025 Walters, Northbrook, Illinois.
For more info: call 847-272-6622.
Sunday, March 7, 2004, 3:00 PM.
Chicago Syntagma Musicum will perform a concert, "O Fortuna!", featuring music from the "Carmina Burana", hymns, songs and dances from the 12th century.
Read the concert flyer (DOC, 12 KB).
Cost: $15; $10 for students and seniors
Location: First Congregational Church of La Grange, 100 South Sixth Avenue, La Grange, Illinois.
For more info: call Andrew Schultze at 773-774-5706 or e-mail andrew.schultze@juno.com.
Sunday, March 7, 2004, 7:30 PM.
The Northwestern University University Chorale, Robert A. Harris, conductor, will perform the Bach motet Der Geist hilft unsrer Schwachheit auf, along with works by Purcell, Taverner, and Copland.
Cost: Tickets are $6.50/$4.50/$3.50.
Location: Pick-Staiger Concert Hall, Northwestern University, 50 Arts Circle Drive, Evanston, Illinois.
For more info: call 847-491-5441.
Thursday, March 11, 2004, 8:00 PM.
In their North American debut tour, the Netherlands Bach Society, Jos van Veldhoven, conductor, and featuring Marion Verbruggen, recorder, will perform "Bach and His Leipzig Inheritance", cantatas of J.S. Bach, Dietrich Buxtehude, Johann Kuhnau, and Johann Schelle, plus Bach's "Brandenburg Concerto No. 4".
Cost: $35 main floor, $20 galleries (reserved seating in advance for groups of 10 or more for $20 on main floor)
Location: Fourth Presbyterian Church, 126 East Chestnut Street (North Michigan Avenue at Delaware Place), Chicago, Illinois.
For more info: call 312-981-3595; or visit www.fourthchurch.org.
Thursday, March 11, 2004, ???.
Friday, March 12, 2004, ???.
The Comic Intermezzo will present a concert in Grand Rapids, Michigan. (Details available at a later date.)
Thursday, March 11, 2004, 8:00 PM.
Friday, March 12, 2004, 8:00 PM.
Saturday, March 13, 2004, 8:00 PM.
Sunday, March 14, 2004, 3:00 PM.
Tuesday, March 16, 2004, 7:30 PM.
The Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, Peter Schreier, conductor, will perform Handel's Messiah.
Cost: Ticket prices vary; series subscriptions available.
Location: Symphony Center, 220 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Illinois.
For more info: call 312-294-3030; or visit www.cso.org.
Saturday, March 13, 2004, 2:00 PM.
Ars Antigua will perform a concert of music from the Mexican Baroque. European forms such as the motet and the cantata were given "New World" accents by composers working in the Netherlands, and Spanish-speaking colonies. Examples of these compositions will be performed along with contemporaneous works from Italy, Germany, the Netherlands, and Spain as models for comparison. Most of the music performed will be sacred works, and all of the music was written by women who lived over 300 years ago.
Cost: Admission is free.
Location: Quigley Chapel, Rush at Pearson, Chicago, Illinois. Admission is free.
For more info: call 312-415-2391.
Sunday, March 14, 2004, 4:00 PM.
Cost: Individual tickets are $15. The Early Music Series at the Byron Colby Barn 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.
Saturday, March 20, 2004, 7:30 PM.
Baroque Artists of Champaign-Urbana will perform J.S. Bach's Mass in B Minor (BWV 232).
Cost: Tickets are $15, $14 for seniors, $5 for students.
Location: St. John's Catholic Chapel, Champaign, Illinois.
For more info: call 217-378-6802; write Baroque Artists of Champaign-Urbana, P.O. Box 6775, Champaign, IL 61825; or e-mail info@baroqueartists.org.
Saturday, March 20, 2004, 8:00 PM.
Crispian Steele-Perkins, considered by many to be "the world's leading player of the natural (Baroque) trumpet," will perform a concert with the Chicago Brass Band. In this his final U.S. tour, Crispian will perform standard trumpet solos and give natural trumpet demonstrations. The concert will also feature the music CBB will perform at the North American Brass Band Association Championships in April.
Cost: $12 to $15.
Location: Crystal Lake South High School, 1200 S. McHenry Ave., Crystal Lake, Illinois.
For more info: call 847-577-7468, or visit the Chicago Brass Band website.
Saturday, March 20, 2004, 7:30 PM.
Sunday, March 21, 2004, 4:00 PM.
The Home Street Recorder Ensemble will perform a concert, "Sumer is icumen in", celebrating the beginning of spring. The March 21 performance will be a special Children's Program. Light refreshments will be served after each event.
Read the concert flyer (DOC, 87 KB).
Cost: $10 adults, $5 children under 16.
Location: The John Farson House, Historic Pleasant Home, 217 Home Avenue (on Mills Park), Oak Park, Illinois.
For more info: call 708-383-2654.
Sunday, March 21, 2004, 4:00 PM.
Camerata Fucsia will perform a concert of music by Zelenka, Bach, and Telemann.
Location: Winnetka Covenant Church, 1200 Hibbard, Wilmette, Illinois.
For more info: call 847-446-4300.
Sunday, March 21, 2004, 4:00 PM.
The St. Luke Chamber Orchestra & Bach Choir, Mark P. Bangert conductor, will perform Bach's cantata BWV 78.
Location: Evangelical Lutheran Church of St. Luke, 1500 W. Belmont, Illinois.
For more info: call 773-472-3383.
Sunday, March 21, 2004, 7:30 PM.
Music of the Baroque, Jane Glover, Music Director, will perform a concert, "Love and War", madrigals by Monteverdi. With Ellen Hargis and Amy Conn, sopranos; Christine Abraham and Emily Lodine, mezzo-sopranos; Steven Tharp and Edward Zelnis, tenors; and Stephen Morscheck and Peter Van De Graaff, basses.
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, March 22, 2004, 8:00 PM.
Location: Old St. Patrick's Church, 700 W. Adams Street, Chicago, Illinois.
Sunday, March 21, 2004, 7:30 PM.
Baroque Artists of Champaign-Urbana will perform keyboard works of J.S. Bach. Featuring Charlotte Mattax, harpsichord; and Dana Robinson, organ.
Cost: Tickets are $15, $14 for seniors, $5 for students.
Location: Grace Lutheran Church, 313 South Prospect Avenue, Champaign, Illinois.
For more info: call 217-378-6802; write Baroque Artists of Champaign-Urbana, P.O. Box 6775, Champaign, IL 61825; or e-mail info@baroqueartists.org.
Tuesday, March 23, 2004, 6:00 PM.
Ars Antigua will perform a concert, "Rembrandt's Music".
Location: Fullerton Hall, the Art Institute of Chicago, Michigan Avenue and Adams Street, Chicago, Illinois
For more info: call 312-443-3687; or e-mail mglosser@artic.edu.
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.
Saturday, March 27, 2004, 12:00 noon.
Julie R. Hobbs, flute, with Karina Kontorovich, piano, Teresa Suen, harp, and Barbara Ann Martin, soprano, will perform works by Bach, Telemann, and Schumann.
Cost: Free admission.
Location: Northwestern University's Lutkin Hall, 700 University Place, Evanston, Illinois.
For more info: visit music.northwestern.edu/news/ne_concerts.html.
Saturday, March 27, 2004, 7:00 PM.
The Choral Sounds of Chicago, Dan McDaniel, Artistic Director, will perform at its annual dinner show, "Murder at the Manor". Cash bar opens at 6:30 PM.
Cost: $35 per person; $32.50 for students, seniors, and ARS members; advance reservations required (see contact info below).
Location: Royalty West, intersection of Archer Avenue and Willow Springs Road, Willow Springs, Illinois.
For more info: write Sounds of Chicago, 432 East Avenue, La Grange, IL 60525.
Sunday, March 28, 2004, 3:00 PM.
The Scottish Baroque group Temple of Apollo will perform a concert.
Cost: free admission.
Location: Preston Bradley Hall, Chicago Cultural Center, 78 E. Washington, Chicago, Illinois.
For more info: call 312-744-6630.
Monday, March 29, 2004, 8:00 PM.
The Pro Arte Singers, James Kallembach, conductor, will perform an Italian Baroque Concert.
Location: Auer Hall, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana.
For more info: call 812-855-0427; or e-mail murias@indiana.edu.
Friday thru Sunday, March 5-7, 2004.
The Music Institute of Chicago will host the Baroque Chamber Music Festival. With performances and coaching by members of Trio Settecento: Rachel Barton, violin; John Mark Rozendaal, Baroque cello and viola da gamba; and David Schrader, harpsichord. Read about the March 5 Trio Settecento concert here.
Location: the Music Institute of Chicago, 300 Green Bay Road, Winnetka, Illinois.
For more info: call 847-446-3822; or e-mail info@musicinst.org.
Wednesday, March 3, 2004, 12:00 noon.
The Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concert Series will present Passacaglia, with Julia Gooding, soprano, performing works by Couperin, Bach, Gordon, and Fischer. Concert broadcast live from the Chicago Cultural Center on WFMT Radio.
Thursday, March 11, 2004, 8:00 PM CST.
Music of the Baroque performing Bach's "Mass in b". Broadcast on WFMT Radio.
Friday, March 5, 2004, 7:00 PM.
The Newberry Consort will give a pre-concert lecture for "Baroque Brilliance".
Location: the Newberry Library Ruggles Hall, 60 W. Walton Street, Chicago, Illinois.
Saturday, March 6, 2004, 7:00 PM.
Location: Grace Episcopal Church, 924 Lake Street, Oak Park, Illinois.
Sunday, March 14, 2004, 3:00 PM.
The American Guild of Organists will sponsor a panel discussion of J.S. Bach's "Mass in B Minor" (BWV 232), led by Chester L. Alwes (Music Director of BACH), Thomas Schleis, and John Setterlund.
Cost: Admission is free.
Location: Lutheran Campus Center, Champaign, Illinois.
For more info: call 217-378-6802; write Baroque Artists of Champaign-Urbana, P.O. Box 6775, Champaign, IL 61825; or e-mail info@baroqueartists.org.
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