by Matt Fey | Jul 10, 2015 | Uncategorized
By Susie Allen Award-winning carillon performer and composer Joey Brink has been selected as the next University Carillonneur. His appointment begins in October. As part of this key ceremonial role, Brink will perform for all major University events and deliver daily...
by Matt Fey | Jun 30, 2015 | Uncategorized
By Susie Allen This summer, the Rockefeller Chapel carillon will ring out in celebration of the 50th anniversary of a beloved tradition: the annual carillon concert series Bells of Summer. Since 1965, visitors have come to Rockefeller Chapel with blankets and picnic...
by Matt Fey | May 3, 2015 | Uncategorized
By John von Rhein Johann Sebastian Bach’s music is ever with us and, indeed, was much in evidence over the weekend in Chicago, what with Bach Week Festival performances at North Park University and at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, all of them involving...
by Matt Fey | Apr 30, 2015 | Uncategorized
By MJ Chen “Intimate” is an unlikely word to describe a space as large and austere as Rockefeller Chapel, and an even unlikelier one to extend to its historic, 8,565-pipe E.M. Skinner organ. Fortunately for us, the Brian Gerrish Organ Performance Series is committed...
by Matt Fey | Apr 19, 2015 | Uncategorized
Blue Heron is engaged in a multiyear project performing and recording music from the “Henrican” partbooks at Peterhouse, Cambridge, and it is from these rather obscure scores that the evening’s selections were drawn. The 13-member choir, conducted by artistic director...
by Matt Fey | Apr 17, 2015 | Uncategorized
By Grace Hauck When I think of Rockefeller Chapel, I think Gothic. I think stone, gargoyles, arches, vaulting, wooden pews, red velvet seats, metal lanterns, and stained glass. I think strength, structure, and command. You can imagine my shock, then, when I walked...
