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2001 - 2002 Season

WP = World Premiere / AP = American Premiere / CP = Chicago Premiere

October 5, 2001

Family Fun! - Marita and the Wild Things
@ Columbus Auditorium of the SAIC

Public Performance

Kathy Brock, ABC-TV anchor, guest narrator reading from classic literature accompanied by art projections from students at Rush Hospital's Snow City Arts Program; Jaso Star, Coordinator.

• Bruce Adolphe Marita and her Hearts Desire (CP)
• Randall Woolf Where the Wild Things Are Concert Suite (CP)

November 11, 2001

Chicago Humaities Festival: Copland, Corigliano and the Movies
@ 1st Methodist Church

Guest Artist - Maria Bachmann, violin

• Bernard Herrmann Psycho Narrative
• John Corigliano / Maria Bachmann, violin Red Violin Suite
• Toru Takemitsu Toward the Sea II
• Aaron Copland Music for the Movies

December 18, 2001

4th Annual Hoilday Candlelight Concert for Peace: An Interfaith Concert for Healing
@ St. James Cathedral

Music with meditations, readings, chants and recitations from Buddhist, Christian, Islamic and Jewish traditions with Sonam Dhargye, Bishop Scantlebury, Syed Sikander and Rabbi Lowenstein

• Arvo Pârt Fratres
• Aaron J. Kernis Musica Celestes
• Behjad Ranjbaran Elegy (CP)
• Somel Satoh Toward the Night (CP)
• Alan Hovhaness Tzaikerk: Evening Dance

February 12, 2002

Carnivale! Mardi Gras Concert / Dance Party
@Ballroom of the SAIC

• Sedicias Metalifonico (CP) 
• Frank Zappa Dupree's Paradise; Harry, you're a beast; T'mershi DuWeen; Big Swifty
• Daniel Schnyder Brass Quintet (CP)
• Antonio Carlos Jobim Wave, One Note Samba
• John Halle Soft Shoe (CP)
• John Nelson Fanfare for Nothing / Sleepless (CP)
• Trad. Costa Rican Coballito Nicoyano

April 6, 2002

Bowles, Brecht, Burlesque and the Blues 
@ Columbus Auditorium of the SAIC

Special Guests - Studs Terkel / Tony Arnold, soprano / Dave Belden, actor

• Paul Bowles Music for a Farce, Next to Nothing: Collected Poems of Paul Bowles
• Christopher Berg Three Songs by Frank O' Hara:Lana Turner has collapsed!, Is it dirty?, I'm goint to New York!
• James Sellars Beulah in Chicago (CP)

**Intermission**  

• Stefan Wolpe Quartet, Brecht Songs
• Hanns Eisler Hollywood Elegies
• Kurt Weill Surabaya-Johnny
• Paul Shoenfield Burlesque (CP)

May 11, 2000

¡Viva Frida! ¡Viva Mexico!
@ Fullerton Hall at the Art Institute of Chicago

Concert with Art Lecture / Slide Show.  Guest Artist - Angelina Reaux, soprano

• Javier Alvarez Quemar las Naves (CP)
• Arturo Marquez Octeto Malandro (CP)
• Frida Khalo art lecture by Mary Sue Glossner from the AIC  
• Robert Xavier Rodriguez Frida, Opera Suite on the life of Khalo (CP)