by Matt Fey | Apr 17, 2017 | Uncategorized
CHI: Music of Augusta Read Thomas featuring Spektral Quartet and Third Coast Percussion Chicago, Illinois—On Saturday, April 29, 7:30 pm, the University of Chicago’s soaring Rockefeller Chapel welcomes celebrated composer Augusta Read Thomas at a concert dedicated...
by Matt Fey | Apr 10, 2017 | Uncategorized
Two seasons after the Chicago Chorale performed Bach’s more famous setting in the same venue, Rockefeller Chapel’s Quire and Place series programmed the Matthäuspassion by Heinrich Schütz. As explained in his program note, music director James Kallembach smartly split...
by Matt Fey | Nov 18, 2016 | Uncategorized
By Anne Hartman Raether These days, Browne’s family and friends are embracing her newfound interest, and she is enjoying learning basic techniques from the fellow UChicago students who make up the guild. These 10 students take weekly lessons from University...
by Matt Fey | Nov 17, 2016 | Uncategorized
By Maya Dukmasova Some 1,600 people packed the University of Chicago’s Rockefeller Chapel Wednesday evening to hear a lecture by legendary radical feminist and academic Angela Davis. The one-time Black Panther leader urged the rapt audience to move beyond...
by Matt Fey | Sep 25, 2016 | Uncategorized
By Howard Reich The rolling rhythms and rumbling, right-hand octaves he delivers in his “Blues for Senegal,” the sonorous mid-register lyricism he conjures in his “Berkshire Blues” and the mystical gestures and complex harmonies he coaxes from...
