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11:00 am
Third Coast Percussion
Third Coast Percussion brings percussive energy to the Sunday morning service at Rockefeller Chapel as part of their winter quarter residency at UChicago! Free
Find out more »2:00 pm
Avalon String Quartet—Written In Fire
Hear chamber works of great narrative intensity—Weinberg’s Quartet no. 7 and Janácek’s Quartet no. 2 (“Intimate Letters”)—complemented by vivid imagery from our galleries.
Find out more »Schola Antiqua: Slavic Routes, Music from the Crossroads of Renaissance Europe
In the sixteenth century, all roads led to Prague. Schola Antiqua’s program brings a fascinating cross-section of sacred vocal polyphony from this musical crossroads to life. Directed by Michael Alan Anderson, with commentary by Erika Supria Honisch, assistant professor of music history and theory at Stony Brook University. Sponsored in part by the Lumen Christi Institute, and presented by Schola Antiqua in artistic collaboration with...
Find out more »8:00 pm
Dirty Dozen Brass Band
In 1977, The Dirty Dozen Social and Pleasure Club in New Orleans began showcasing a traditional Crescent City brass band. It was a joining of two proud, but antiquated, traditions at the time: social and pleasure clubs dated back over a century to a time when black southerners could rarely afford life insurance, and the clubs would provide proper funeral arrangements. Brass bands, early predecessors...
Find out more »8:30 pm
Latitude 49
The dynamic chamber ensemble Latitude 49 presents Labyrinths, a musical and visual journey through labyrinths literal and figurative, mythological and contemporary. Through twists and turns, audience and performers will engage with questions of perspective and choice (when you hit a fork in the road, take it, as they say) and of home and homelessness (including the labyrinthine paths that many must take in the pursuit...
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