2004-2005

Season at Harris Theater for Music and Dance:

Other concerts:

October 22 & 23, 2004, 7:00 p.m.

Frida, by Robert Rodriguez

Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum

Fulcrum Point, in partnership with the Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum, will present Frida, a concert opera by Robert Rodriguez based on the life of legendary Mexican artist Frida Kahlo. The performances are part of the museum’s Sor Juana Festival.

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November 6, 2004, 2:00 p.m.

Chicago Humanities Festival

Field Museum

The Festival will present Fulcrum Point in a family program celebrating the Caldecott winning children’s books Time Flies, by Eric Rohman set to music by Bruce Adolphe and June 29, 1999, by David Wiesner with an original score by David Stock. The performance will also feature illustrations from the books.

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December, 16, 2004, 7:30 p.m.

Seventh Annual Concert for Peace: Bridging Cultures, Building Space

Fourth Presbyterian Church, North Michigan Ave. at Delaware Place and Chestnut St.

Special Guests:
  • Chicago Chamber Choir, Timm Adams, director, Issa Boulos, Rabbi Philip Bentley, and Yaser Tabbara.

Music, poetry and inspiration from America and the Middle East. Music by Osvaldo Golijov, Issa Boulos, Reza Vali, David Schiff, and Behzad Ranjbaran represents songs and dances from the Middle East taken from Jewish and Arab cultures and inspired by poems of transcendent clarity and juxtaposed with visions of peace and prayers for understanding and healing.

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Tuesday, January 25, 2005, 7:30 p.m.

Survival of the Fittest

Harris Theater for Music and Dance, 205 E. Randolph Drive

Earth’s creatures live in delicate balance, companionship weighed against competition. Musical selections include the work of Derek Bermel, Augusta Read Thomas, Silvestre Revueltas, George Crumb, Stephen Montague and Jerome Kitzke.

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Tuesday, March 22, 2005, 7:30 p.m.

Love Your Mother… Earth

Harris Theater for Music and Dance, 205 E. Randolph Drive

If communion with nature lifts us to a level beyond words, then music is the most potent way to explore that relationship. Featured are composers, Louis Andreissen, Joan Tower, Astor Piazzolla, George Crumb, and John Halle.

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Tuesday, May 31, 2005, 7:30 p.m.

Essential Art, Essential Elements: Earth Tones

Harris Theater for Music and Dance, 205 E. Randolph Drive

Essential Art, Essential Elements is a five-year series of Art, Music, and Literature inspired by the Essential Elements of Earth, Wind, Water, and Fire. This year we’re exploring “Earth”---observing the animal kingdom, contemplating the environment, and celebrating the diversity of its people.

Earth tones supply a palette rich enough to embrace every shade of human skin. Our musical investigation of earth culminates with a celebration of the colors and cultures that comprise the globe. Composers are Hannibal Lokumbe, Tania León, Randall Woolfe, and Duke Ellington.  Read more details here.

Guest Artists:
  • John Around Him, Lakota Tribal Elder
  • Jim Gailloreto, saxophone, Art Hoyle, trumpet

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Tuesday, July 19, 2005, 8:00 p.m.

Music, Poetry, and Politics of the Middle East: Bridging Cultures, Building Peace

Ravinia Festival - Martin Theater

How do you build a bridge across a raging torrent?  Digging a caisson is deep and dirty work, but that is where the bedrock is found.  This program digs deep into the essence of human experience: suffering and solace, praise and celebration, conflict and reconciliation, life and death.  The music represents songs and dances from the Middle East taken from Arab and Jewish cultures and inspired by poems of transcendant clarity that bring understanding and helaing.

  • Lullaby and Doina -- Osvaldo Golijov
  • Improvisation -- Issa Boulos
  • Folk Song Set 11B/15 -- Reza Vali
  • Consolation -- David Schiff
  • Open Secret -- Behzad Ranjbaran
  • Text --  Rumi

Guests
  • Issa Boulos, oud virtuoso
  • Chicago Chamber Choir, Timm Adams, Dir.

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