2004 - 2005 Season
WP = World Premiere / AP = American Premiere / CP = Chicago Premiere
October 22 & 23, 2004
FRIDA by ROBERT RODRIGUEZ
7:00pm @ MEXICAN FINE ARTS CENTER MUSEUM
November 6, 2004
CHICAGO HUMANITIES FESTIVAL
2:00pm @ FIELD MUSEUM OF CHICAGO
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.
December, 16, 2004
SEVENTH ANNUAL CONCERT FOR PEACE: BRIDGING CULTURES, BUILDING PEACE
7:30pm @ 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
SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST
7:30 P.M. @ The Joan W. and Irving B. Harris Theater for Music and Dance, 205 E. Randolph St. Chicago.
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
LOVE YOUR MOTHER ...EARTH
7:30 p.m. @ The Joan W. and Irving B. Harris Theater for Music and Dance 205 E. Randolph St. Chicago.
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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ESSENTIAL ART, ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS: EARTH TONES
7:30 P.M. @ The Joan W. and Irving B. Harris Theater for Music and Dance, 205 E. Randolph St. Chicago.
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
Guest Artist John Around Him, Lakota Tribal Elder
Jim Gailloreto, saxophone, Art Hoyle, trumpet
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Tuesday, July 19, 2005
MUSIC, POETRY, AND POLITICS OF THE MIDDLE EAST BRIDGING CULTURES, BUILDING
PEACE:
8:00 P.M. @ 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.
Guests
Issa Boulos, oud virtuoso
Chicago Chamber Choir, Timm Adams, Dir.
Lullaby and Doina -- Osvaldo
Golijov
Improvisation -- Issa Boulos
Folk Song Set 11B/15 -- Reza Vali
Consolation -- David Schiff
Open Secret -- Behzad Ranjbaran
Text --
Rumi
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