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4:00 pm
Birdhouse Jazz Series: Jason Stein Trio w/ Kent Kessler, Hamid Drake
A leading voice in the Chicago scene as well as a player of international renown, Jason Stein is also one of the only jazz musicians today to focus solely on the bass clarinet. All About Jazz has called Stein “exhilarating, a young master of his fiendishly difficult horn.” As a player and bandleader his music blends the West Coast cool jazz of Lennie Tristano and...
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Music for Merce
Music for Merce features an all-star cast of former Cunningham collaborators convened by guest curator John King. Each day presents a unique program of the musicians’ historic and new works, with electronic music, traditional instruments, and vocals performed in different small and large ensembles. For the grand finale each day, all ten composers play a version of a Cunningham Event—each individually devising a unique time-score...
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