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Select the early music events listings for another month: Friday, October 1, 2004, 7:30 PM.
David Schrader, harpsichord, will perform a concert of Baroque music, featuring works by Bach, Rameau, Bohm, and Scarlatti.
Cost: $8, $5 for students and seniors.
Location: Harold and Margaret Moser Performing Arts Center, University of St. Francis, 500 Wilcox Street, Joliet, Illinois.
For more info: e-mail mweber@stfrancis.edu.
Sunday, October 3, 2004, 7:30 PM.
Chicago a cappella will perform a concert, "Baroque and Beatles". Featured Baroque composers include Monteverdi, Purcell, Schütz, Gesualdo, Guedron, and others.
Cost: $25, $22 seniors, $15 students. Group and series tickets also available.
Location: Unity Temple, 875 Lake Street, Oak Park, Illinois.
For more info: call 773-755-1628 or 1-800-SING-WOW.
Friday, October 8, 2004, 7:30 PM.
Location: GAR Hall, Chicago Cultural Center, 77 E. Randolph Street, Chicago, Illinois.
Sunday, October 10, 2004, 7:30 PM.
Location: Nichols Concert Hall, Music Institute of Chicago, 1490 Chicago Avenue, Evanston, Illinois.
Wednesday, October 6, 2004, 7:00 PM.
Cellists Chase Morrison and Megan Lauterbach will perform a concert of 17th and 18th century duos for Baroque cello, featuring works by Guignon, Cirri, Masse, Jacchini, and Gabrielli.
Cost: Free.
Location: Sherwood Conservatory of Music, 1312 S. Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Illinois.
For more info: call 773-520-8208 or e-mail celtcello@earthlink.net.
Thursday, October 7, 2004, 8:00 PM.
Location: Ganz Hall, Roosevelt University, 430 S. Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Illinois.
Saturday, October 9, 2004, 8:00 PM.
The Callipygian Players, Martin Davids, Director and violin, with guest harpsichordist, David Schrader, will perform a concert "Jewels of Jewish Baroque", featuring music by Salamone Rossi.
Read the press release.
Cost: $20 general admission, $15 students and seniors. For ticket info, call 847-674-3204.
Location: Music Institute of Chicago, 1490 Chicago Avenue, Evanston, Illinois.
For more info: call 847-674-3204, or e-mail martydavids@mac.com.
Sunday, October 10, 2004, 3:00 PM.
Location: Temple Beth Shalom, 772 W. 5th Avenue, Naperville, Illinois.
Sunday, October 10, 2004, 7:00 PM.
Early Music Now presents Fretwork, with Emma Kirby, performing "All the Colours of the Air", featuring English consort song literature of Byrd, Tompkins, and other Elizabethan and Jacobean composers.
Cost: Tickets are $25, $10 for students. Season subscriptions also available.
Location: Schwann Concert Hall, Wisconsin Lutheran College, 8815 W. Wisconsin Avenue, Wauwatosa, Wisconsin.
For more info: call 414-225-3113; e-mail emn@execpc.com.
Friday, October 15, 2004, 8:00 PM.
Trio Settecento, with Rachel Barton Pine, violin, John Mark Rozendaal, violoncello, and David Schrader, harpsichord, will perform a concert of works by Baroque Italian composers.
Cost: $25 for general admission, $12.50 for seniors and students.
Location: Fine Arts Recital Hall, Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago, Illinois.
For more info: call 773-442-4636 or 773-442-5698.
Sunday, October 17, 2004, 5:30 PM.
The Baroque Artists of Champaign-Urbana will perform "BACHtoberfest IX", a concert of Bach's Brandenburg Concertos Nos. 2 & 4.
Cost: Tickets are $50 and must be ordered by Oct 11. Price includes dinner.
Location: Stone Creek Golf Club, 2600 South Stone Creek Boulevard, Urbana, Illinois.
For more info: call 217-378-6802; or e-mail info@baroqueartists.org; or visit www.baroqueartists.org/.
Sunday, October 17, 2004, 7:00 PM.
Ars Musica Chicago, Andrew Schultze Artistic Director, will perform "The Medieval Carmina Burana", lively, bawdy, and colorful music from the 12th and 13th centuries.
Cost: Individual concert ticket is $15 ($12 for students and seniors); four-concert series is $40.
Location: St. Vincent de Paul Church, 1010 W. Webster Street, Chicago, Illinois.
For more info: call 312-409-7874; or e-mail contact@arsmusicachicago.org.
Monday, October 18, 2004, 6:00 PM.
The Newberry Library's Center for Renaissance Studies and the Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Chicago presents Il Cantiere delle Muse performing a selection of Petrarch's lyrics set to music by Italian composers of the Renaissance along with other pieces of early chamber music. In conjunction with the poetry reading, "Poetry and Music: Petrarch from Thought to Thought".
Cost: Free, but call 312-822-9545 to make a reservation.
Location: the Newberry Library Ruggles Hall, 60 W. Walton Street, Chicago, Illinois.
For more info: call 312-822-9545.
Saturday, October 23, 2004, 8:00 PM.
Affetti Musicali, Austria's premier early music ensemble, joined by guest vocalist Andrew Schultze, will present a concert of vocal and instrumental music, including works by Monteverdi, Castello, Biber, and other anonymous composers.
Cost: Free-will offering.
Location: The Shrine of Our Lady of Pompeii, 1224 W. Lexington, Chicago, Illinois.
For more info: call 312-421-3757; or call Andrew Schultze at 773-774-5706; or e-mail andrew.schultze@juno.com.
Sunday, October 24, 2004, 3:00 PM.
The Newberry Consort presents a special prelude performance, "Twixt Firths and Fancies", a concert of Scottish composers writing in the Italian style and 18th century Italian composers writing in the Scottish style. Composers featured are McGibbon, Oswald, Marshall, Gow, Kelly, Geminiani, and Veracini. Performers include Rachel Barton Pine, violin; and the Temple of Apollo.
Read the press release.
Cost: Single ticket: $35; Associates/seniors: $32; students: $30.
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.
Sunday, October 24, 2004, 3:00 PM.
Hank Knox, harpsichord, will perform a recital featuring works by Sweelinck, D'Anglebert, Frescobaldi, Rameau, and J.S. Bach.
Cost: Admission is free. (Donations accepted.)
Location: St. James Lutheran Church, 1380 N. Waukegan Road, Lake Forest Illinois.
For more info: call 847-234-4859.
Sunday, October 24, 2004, 4:00 PM.
The Church of St. Luke Chamber Orchestra and Bach Choir, Mark P. Bangert, director, will perform Bach's Cantata BWV 113, Herr Jesu Christ, du höchstes Gut.
Cost: Free admission.
Location: The Evangelical Lutheran Church of Saint Luke, 1500 West Belmont Avenue, Chicago, Illinois.
For more info: call 773-472-3383; or e-mail stluke@ais.net
Saturday, October 9, 2004.
The Kalamazoo Recorder Players 22nd Annual Fall Workshop, "transferring musical ideas across the centuries". Led by Kim Katulka, the day-long workshop will focus on ensemble pieces, early music to modern. All early instrumentalists are welcome.
Read the workshop brochure here (PDF, 1,042 KB).
Location: Fourth Reformed Church, Oshtemo, Michigan (on Kalamazoo's west side).
For more info: call David W. Fischer at 269-375-0457; or e-mail dw-mefischer@att.net.
Thursday October 21 thru Saturday October 23, 2004.
The Sixth Bethlehem Conference on Moravian Music.
Location: Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
For more info: write Hilde Binford, Moravian College, 1200 Main Street, Bethlehem, PA 18018; call 610-861-1650; e-mail music@moravian.edu.
Sunday October 31 thru Saturday November 13, 2004.
Hidden Valley Institute of the Arts Early Music Elderhostels.
Location: Carmel Valley, California.
For more info: write Peter Meckel, General Director, Hidden Valley Institute of the Arts, PO Box 116, Carmel Valley, CA 93924; call 831-659-3115; e-mail hvms@aol.org; visit hiddenvalleymusic.org.
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