2007-2008 season

Tuesday / 23 Oct 2007 / 7:30 p.m.

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Sound Mirrors

Harris Theater for Music and Dance
Millennium Park
205 E. Randolph Drive

Frederic Rzewski: Pocket Symphony
Martin Bresnick: My Twentieth Century
Tamar Muskal: Sound Mirrors
Thierry de Mey: Musique de Tables

Winner of the American Music Center's 2007 Trailblazer Award, resident ensemble eighth blackbird, in its first full Harris Theater concert, presents some exciting finds. Experience sound as vision in a mixed-media work by the young Tamar Muskal, plus music by Martin Bresnick, Belgian composer Thierry de Mey's Musique de Tables for six hands, and eighth blackbird long-time favorite Fred Rzewski.

$30 general admission/$5 students with valid ID. For tickets, visit harristheaterchicago.org, or call the Harris Theater Box Office at 312.334.7777.

Saturday / 12 Jan 2008 / 7:30 p.m.

Double Bill

Grazyna Auguscik Sextet featuring Jarek Bester, solo accordion
Cliff Colnot, conductor
Tony Arnold, soprano
Amy Dissanayake, piano
Yang Wei, pipa
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Museum of Contemporary Art
220 E. Chicago Avenue

Esa-Pekka Salonen: Floof for voice and instruments
Sofia Gubaidulina: De Profundis for solo accordion
Shih-Hui Chen: Fu II for pipa and five players

Today's ever-expanding musical universe spirals into the future by drawing from a distant and diverse past. Recent works by Sofia Gubaidulina and Shih-Hui Chen explore profoundly expressive sound vistas featuring the accordion and the pipa. Salonen's Floof offers its own beguiling take on vocal and instrumental sound.

$24 general admission/$19 MCA members/$5 students with valid ID. For tickets, visit mcachicago.org, or call the MCA Box Office at 312.397.4010.

Sunday / 16 Mar 2008 / 3 p.m.

Pacifica Quartet
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Tony Arnold, soprano
Sound Matters!

Chicago Cultural Center
78 E. Washington Street

David Karl Gompper: Butterfly Dance for five players
Kaija Saariaho: Lonh for voice and electronics
Henri Dutilleux: String Quartet Ainsi la nuit
Krzysztof Wolek: Changing Lanes for string quartet and electronics

Message and media, inseparable. A composer's chosen soundscape--instrumental, vocal, electronic, or combined--lies at the heart of the creative process. Four uniquely different musical journeys by composers working in America and Europe offer a fascinating glimpse into the exhilarating new sound worlds of our time.

Free admission

Pacifica Quartet
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Fulton Recital Hall
The University of Chicago
1010 E. 59th Street, 4th floor

Tomorrow's Music Today 1

Music by Andres Carrizo, Simon Fink, April Mok, and Dylan Schneider

Performance of works by young talent has always been an integral part of Contempo's mission. In these annual concerts the finest young composers realize their vision through brilliant interactions with Contempo's world-class artists-in-residence. Come hear the results!

Free admission

Cliff Colnot, conductor
Pacifica Quartet
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With guest artists

Ganz Hall
Roosevelt University
430 S. Michigan Avenue, 7th floor

Tomorrow's Music Today 2

Music by Eric Brinkmann, David Gordon, Fusun Koksal, and Michael LaCroix

Free admission