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Double Bill
Contempo and Patricia Barber |
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Saturday, 7 January 2006, 7:30pm
Museum of Contemporary Art
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Musicians to include:
eighth blackbird
Pacifica Quartet
Cliff Colnot conductor
Patricia Barber vocals and piano
Joe Locke vibraphone
Patricia Barber Quartet
Choral Thunder
György Ligeti
String Quartet No. 1 (Métamorphoses nocturnes)
Yao Chen
Transience for chamber ensemble
Joan Tower (arr. Allen Otte)
Petroushskates for sextet
Patricia Barber
Mythologies
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In its second annual double bill and first appearance at the MCA, Contempo continues to seek the common ground between some of today's finest music, regardless of genre. Complementing a performance of recent favorites by Contempo's celebrated resident ensembles eighth blackbird and the Pacifica Quartet, jazz pianist, singer and songwriter Patricia Barber will preview her highly-anticipated new song cycle Mythologies, inspired by Ovid's Metamorphoses. Also featured on the program will be a rare Chicago appearance by vibraphonist Joe Locke and participation by the gospel choir Choral Thunder.
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Continental Divide
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Sunday, 5 March 2006, 5:00pm
Roosevelt University, Ganz Hall
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Musicians to include:
eighth blackbird
Pacifica Quartet
Julieanne Klein soprano
John Sampen saxophone
David Schrader harpsichord
Marilyn Shrude piano
Cliff Colnot conductor
Barbara White
Learning to See for sextet
Vache Sharafyan
Sonata for saxophone and piano
Sofia Gubaidulina
Meditation on the Bach Chorale "Vor deinen
Thron tret ich hiermit" for string quintet and harpsichord
Betty Olivero
Kave'i Avi'r (a volo d'uccello) for chamber ensemble
Roberto Sierra
Cancionero Sefardi for soprano and quintet
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Examining the intersections between creative inspiration, personal style and cultural identity, Contempo presents the Chicago premieres of works from three separate continents and five very different artistic perspectives. From Barbara White's vibrant and quirky set of visually-inspired miniatures, through Betty Olivero's mysteriously evocative homage to Luciano Berio, to Roberto Sierra's festive and exotic set of songs, this program will delight in both its richness and its depth.
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Pierrot Lunaire: a Cabaret Opera
directed and designed by Blair Thomas |
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Thursday, 30 March; Friday, 31 March; Saturday, 1 April 2006, 7:30pm
Museum of Contemporary Art
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Musicians to include:
eighth blackbird
Lucy Shelton voice
Arnold Schoenberg
Pierrot Lunaire for voice and chamber ensemble
Jacob Druckman
Reflections on the Nature of Water for marimba
Jennifer Higdon
Zango Bandango for sextet
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Contempo's acclaimed resident sextet eighth blackbird and soprano Lucy Shelton team up with Blair Thomas in a staging of Arnold Schoenberg’s seminal atonal song-cycle Pierrot Lunaire. Pierrot — the comic stock character from Italian commedia dell’arte — is reflected through the dark lens of late nineteenth-century European cabaret. Richly emotive and overflowing with expressionistic longing, Schoenberg’s masterful setting of twenty-one poems by the Belgian symbolist Albert Giraud summons the spirit of Pierrot in a search for artistic inspiration. Thomas’s evocative staging of puppetry, shadows, and costumed members of eighth blackbird visually underscores Schoenberg’s powerful, hallucinatory musical landscape.
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Tomorrow's Music Today
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Performance of works by young talent has always been an integral part of Contempo's mission. In these annual concerts, some of today's finest young composers turn their mental sound images into reality, interacting with Contempo's world-class artists-in-residence throughout the compositional and rehearsal process. Come hear the results!
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Concert 1  |
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Friday, 12 May 2006, 7:30pm
The University of Chicago, Fulton Recital Hall
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Musicians to include:
eighth blackbird
Pacifica Quartet
New works by Eric Brinkmann, Simon Fink,
Carmel Raz and Steve Winfield
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Friday, 19 May 2006, 7:30pm
Roosevelt University, Ganz Hall
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Musicians to include:
eighth blackbird
Pacifica Quartet
Tony Arnold soprano
Cliff Colnot conductor
New works by David M. Gordon, April Mok
and Krzysztof Wolek
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