Founded in 1969 at the Marlboro Music Festival, the esteemed chamber music ensemble has decided to disband after its 2006-07 season.
September 10, 2006 (Press Release) --
The Vermeer Quartet
Founded in 1969 at the Marlboro Music Festival, the esteemed chamber music ensemble has decided to disband after its 2006-07 season. Since 1970, the Vermeer has been the string quartet-in-residence at Northeastern Illinois University (a search is under way for a replacement). After two years at the Harris Theater for Music and Dance, the Vermeer will move to Symphony Center's Buntrock Hall for its four-program season, which begins tonight, Sept. 10.
Bruno Bartoletti
Lyric Opera's beloved artistic director emeritus celebrates his 50th anniversary with the company this season. Rising to the occasion, he replaces an ailing Andrew Davis on the podium in Puccini's "Turnadot," which will launch Lyric's 52nd year this Saturday. Bartoletti made his American debut with Verdi's "Il Trovatore" at Lyric in 1956, and fittingly, he will mark his golden anniversary with a new production of Verdi's perhaps most demanding work (Nov. 4 to Dec. 8).
Music of the Baroque, "Judas Maccabeus"
Handel's oratorio about the Jews' resistance against their Syrian conquerors in 2nd century B.C. supposedly rivals the composer's mighty "Messiah" in its choral majesty. It inaugurates Music of the Baroque's 2006-07 season, as principal guest conductor Nicholas Kraemer leads the company's orchestra and chorus, and the Glen Ellyn Children's Chorus, along with vocal soloists soprano Ellen Hargis, mezzo soprano Laura Pudwell, tenor Steven Tharp, bass-baritone Stephen Morscheck (Sept. 17 at Evanston's First United Methodist Church; Sept. 18 at the Harris Theater).
Mary Springfels, Newberry Consort
The woman who almost singlehandledly gave birth to one of the world's foremost early-music ensembles has announced she will retire as artistic director when the Consort's 20th anniversary season ends in May. The program "Harmonies of the Hemispheres: Devotions & Dreams of Spain and Mexico," which explores the indigenous music of the Spanish conquest, kicks off the season (Sept. 28 at Newberry Library; Sept. 29, Mexican Fine Arts Center; Sept. 30, University of Chicago's Fulton Recital Hall; Oct. 1, Northwestern University's Lutkin Hall).
The Chicago Sinfonietta, Concertino for Cell Phones and Orchestra
Patrons will be asked to turn on their cell phones -- to ring in, so to speak, the ensemble's 20th anniversary season. Known for his innovative programming, music director Paul Freeman has commissioned noted composer David Baker to write the Concertino for Cell Phones and Orchestra, which requires heavy audience participation. "It may be cacophony," Freeman told the Los Angeles Times, "but we're looking at it as being a very adventuresome thing" (Oct. 1 at Dominican University's Lund Auditorium in River Forest; Oct. 2 at Symphony Center).
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Founded in 1969 at the Marlboro Music Festival, the esteemed chamber music ensemble has decided to disband after its 2006-07 season. Since 1970, the Vermeer has been the string quartet-in-residence at Northeastern Illinois University (a search is under way for a replacement). After two years at the Harris Theater for Music and Dance, the Vermeer will move to Symphony Center's Buntrock Hall for its four-program season, which begins tonight, Sept. 10.
Bruno Bartoletti
Lyric Opera's beloved artistic director emeritus celebrates his 50th anniversary with the company this season. Rising to the occasion, he replaces an ailing Andrew Davis on the podium in Puccini's "Turnadot," which will launch Lyric's 52nd year this Saturday. Bartoletti made his American debut with Verdi's "Il Trovatore" at Lyric in 1956, and fittingly, he will mark his golden anniversary with a new production of Verdi's perhaps most demanding work (Nov. 4 to Dec. 8).
Music of the Baroque, "Judas Maccabeus"
Handel's oratorio about the Jews' resistance against their Syrian conquerors in 2nd century B.C. supposedly rivals the composer's mighty "Messiah" in its choral majesty. It inaugurates Music of the Baroque's 2006-07 season, as principal guest conductor Nicholas Kraemer leads the company's orchestra and chorus, and the Glen Ellyn Children's Chorus, along with vocal soloists soprano Ellen Hargis, mezzo soprano Laura Pudwell, tenor Steven Tharp, bass-baritone Stephen Morscheck (Sept. 17 at Evanston's First United Methodist Church; Sept. 18 at the Harris Theater).
Mary Springfels, Newberry Consort
The woman who almost singlehandledly gave birth to one of the world's foremost early-music ensembles has announced she will retire as artistic director when the Consort's 20th anniversary season ends in May. The program "Harmonies of the Hemispheres: Devotions & Dreams of Spain and Mexico," which explores the indigenous music of the Spanish conquest, kicks off the season (Sept. 28 at Newberry Library; Sept. 29, Mexican Fine Arts Center; Sept. 30, University of Chicago's Fulton Recital Hall; Oct. 1, Northwestern University's Lutkin Hall).
The Chicago Sinfonietta, Concertino for Cell Phones and Orchestra
Patrons will be asked to turn on their cell phones -- to ring in, so to speak, the ensemble's 20th anniversary season. Known for his innovative programming, music director Paul Freeman has commissioned noted composer David Baker to write the Concertino for Cell Phones and Orchestra, which requires heavy audience participation. "It may be cacophony," Freeman told the Los Angeles Times, "but we're looking at it as being a very adventuresome thing" (Oct. 1 at Dominican University's Lund Auditorium in River Forest; Oct. 2 at Symphony Center).
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