WP = World Premiere / AP = American Premiere / CP = Chicago Premiere
Saturday, Nov. 5, 2005
Enjoy a spectacular family concert featuring Fulcrum Point New Music Project led by Stephen Burns. The concert features two world premiere musical commissions based on children's picture books.
"Frida"
Ana Lara's adaptation of “Frida” by Jonah Winter with illustrations by Ana Juan draws, on both the art and the life to create an insightful, playful tribute to one of the twentieth century's most influential artists. The piece will be narrated by Roseanne Tellez from CBS2-Chicago.
"Just A Dream"
Also featured is Randall Woolf's adaptation of Chris Van Allsburg's “Just A Dream” . Walking home, a young boy is littering when he spies a girl planting a tree. He continues on, still doing things that spoils the environment. That night he dreams of a polluted and dirty world, and when he wakes he realizes he must change his habits.
The Chicago Humanities Festival thanks our generous sponsors for supporting the 2005 Children’s Humanites Festival. Lead Sponsor: Target Stores. Major Support: Takiff Family Foundation, Nuveen Investments
See picture books come to life!
Tuesday, December 13, 2005
Guest Artists:
Chicago Chamber Choir, Timm Adams, director
Timothy Jones, baritone
Fulcrum Point’s 8th Annual Peace Concert draws inspiration from the transcendent wisdom of Zen Buddhism, the poignant poetry of a Hiroshima survivor, and the heartfelt resolution of Negro Spirituals.
Lou Harrison: Peace Piece Three: Little Song the Atom Bomb
Stephen Jaffe: Homage to the Breath
Kevin James: Horobi No Nakakara: from the midst of destruction
Zhou Long: Dhyana (Meditation)
John Harbison: Ain’t Goin’ to Study War No More
The following three concerts are part of Essential Art, Essential Elements a five-year series of Art, Music, and Literature inspired by the Essential Elements of Earth, Wind, Water, and Fire. The first two seasons explored water and earth respectively. This year the element is air and we’re airborne-basking in light and vision, floating on the life of breath, soaring on the winds of change.
Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2006
Guest Artist: George Flynn, piano
Like the air that carries it to the listener, this music generates a tangible atmosphere.
Thomas Ades Darkness Visible
George Benjamine At First Light
Charles Ives The Rainbow
George Flynn Toward the Light
David Stock Available Light
Jimi Hendrix/Daniel Schnyder Purple Haze
Tuesday, March 14, 2006
Guest Artists: Julia Bentley, mezzo-soprano
Jerome Kitzke, composer & vocals
Every breath can be a renewal, a cleansing exchange, an act of opening yourself to new sounds
Melinda Wagner Wing and Prayer
Stephen Jaffe Homage to the Breath
David Lange Sweet Air
Jerome Kitzke Breath and Bone
Lester Bowie When the Spirit Returns
Tuesday, May 30, 2006
WINDS OF CHANGE
Harris Theater for Music and Dance
7:30 p.m.
Guest Artist: Fareed Haque, guitar
A draft, a chill, a change in the pressure – the movements of air harbor ominous overtones.
Peter Lieberson Wind Messengers
Osvaldo Golijov How Slow The Wind
Toru Takemitsu Then I Knew ‘Twas the Wind’
Paul Moravec Tempest Fantasy
Fareed Haque World Premiere