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Eliades Ochoa y Barbarito Torres
He began playing the guitar when he was six and in 1978 he was invited to join Cuarteto Patria, a group founded in 1939, as its leader. Although he looks like a guajiro, and he still wears his trademark cowboy hat, his roots are in the son, and he only agreed to take on the role of leader if he was allowed to introduce new...
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Human-Tim + Robot-Tim
Human-Tim + Robot-Tim have been making music for kids and families around the Chicago area since 2009. They have released two CDs of original music, “Pop Of The Tots!” in 2009 and “You Are An Astronaut” in 2013. The unique human/robot make-up of the band allows them to create music that is both danceable and thinkable. Musically, the band encompasses a broad range of styles...
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Spektral Quartet: This album release party is “Serious Business”
The Spektral Quartet ushers in the New Year with a brand new release, Serious Business, an album unpacking humor through four distinctive compositional lenses. Meticulous transcriptions of bits from stand-up comedians provide the launch point for Chris Fisher-Lochhead’s Hack, while Sky Macklay sends the white-knuckled quartet careening through tonality for her aptly titled Many Many Cadences, and Dave Reminick compels the quartet to sing and...
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R. Andrew Lee: Dennis Johnson’s November
R. Andrew Lee, one of the foremost interpreters of minimal music, brings Dennis Johnson's mammoth composition, November, to Chicago for the first time. Clocking in at over four-and-a-half hours, this improvisational work was the inspiration for La Monte Young's own magnum opus, The Well-Tuned Piano. Lee's recording of the piece was named the best classical recording of 2013 by Time Out New York, and #15...
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Darlingside w/ The Suitcase Junket
“Pesticide is used to kill pests. Fratricide is when you kill your brother,” explains Darlingside’s Dave Senft. “A former teacher of ours used to say ‘kill your darlings,’ which is to say, if you fall in love with something you’ve written you should cross it out. We like that idea and we thought a good name for it might be ‘darlingcide’, but we changed the...
Find out more »Mawlid: The Firdaus Ensemble
The Firdaus Ensemble performs as part of the annual evening of poetry, song, and salutation in celebration of Mawlid. Based in Granada, Spain, the ensemble draws upon classical European style, with influences from Celtic and Flamenco traditions, and from the rich heritage of traditional Sufi music from Arabic, Andalusian, and Turkish sources. Presented by Spiritual Life with the Muslim Students Association, and supporting by contributions...
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