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« Monday March 31, 2008 »
3:00pm - 5:00pm

Acappellago is pleased to announce the second concert of its sixth season "Escape to...Wonderland". The program features music based on nursery rhymes, fairy tales and fantastic stories including:

John Rutter - Five Childhood Lyrics

Arrangements of the Disney hits: Under the Sea, Kiss the Girl, I Wan'na be Like You and Can you Feel the Love Tonight

Songs from film and television: Peter Gunn Theme, Moon River, Over the Rainbow, William Tell Overture

And LOTS of fun surprises!

Performances will be held on Saturday, March 29, 2008 at 7:30 pm, Mayslake Peabody Estate, 1717 W. 31st Street, Oak Brook and on Sunday March, 30, 2008 at 3 pm, Naperville Congregational Church, 1 Bunting Lane, Naperville. Tickets are $14, $11 for seniors and students. Children under six will be admitted free.

Call 708-484-3797 x. 2 or visit www.Acappellago.org for tickets and more information.

7:30pm - 9:30pm

A musical masterpiece of profound spirituality and one of the supreme creative achievements of all time, Johann Sebastian Bach’s St. Matthew Passion speaks as urgently of conscience, compassion and hope today as it did when it was written nearly 300 years ago. This is music drawn on a vast emotional canvas, scored for double orchestra, performed with the power and passion Music of the Baroque always brings to Bach’s great choral works. It is certain to be one of the most important events of the classical music year.

J. S. Bach St. Matthew Passion

For tickets and more information, call 312.551.1414 or visit our website.

Note: Student Rush tickets may be available one hour before the performance (6:30) for $10, cash only, to Harris Theater performances. Call the box office (312.551.1414) the day of the performance for availability.

7:30pm - 9:30pm

Featuring Devin DeSantis and the Mercutio String Quartet

Ryan T. Nelson, conductor

Thursday, April 10, 7:30 p.m.
Lutkin Hall

The 1993 collaboration between pop star Elvis Costello and England's renowned Brodsky String Quartet was inspired by reports of a Verona professor who was answering letters he found addressed to Juliet Capulet. The result was a critically acclaimed series of 20 dramatic ballads, influenced by the songs of Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht, in which male and female characters of varying ages and degrees of sanity tell stories of love, betrayal, and death. Don't miss this little-known theatrical, musical gem.


7:30pm - 9:30pm

The Chicago Sinfonietta welcomes guest conductor Tania León to the podium in a program dedicated to the contributions that women have made to classical music. Ms. León conducts two of her own compositons, one of which features pianist Jade Simmons, plus other works by women from around the world. Trumpeter Alison Balsom guests on Haydn's Concerto for Trumpet.

Ellen Taafe Zwilich, Prologue and Variatons

Augusta Holmès, Irelande, poem symphonique

Tania León, Horizons

Tania León, Kabiosile

Franz Joseph Haydn, Concerto for Trumpet

Chen Yi, Ge Xu (Antiphony)

Orchestra Hall at Symphony Center, 220 S. Michigan Avenue, Chicago 

For tickets and information, click here or call 312.236.3681 ext. 2.