Chicago Classical Music

Charles Geyer, Trumpet; Jonathan Boen, Horn; David Perry and

Ann Palen, Violins; Frank Babbitt and Patrick Brennan, Violas;

Barbara Haffner, Cello; Collins Trier, Bass; Craig Terry, Piano

Music in the Loft commissioned five composers to write music for a number of Billy Collins poems.  Cedille records will be producing a CD of the Billy Collins Suite to be released in 2009.  For tickets please contact Fredda at Music in the Loft (312) 243-9233.

The Rembrandt Chamber Players presents The Other Mahler: Symphony No. 4 transcribed for chamber ensemble by Arthur Schoenberg and his student, Stein.

This transcription has never been performed in Chicago! Listen to an excerpt on our web site.

With Jane Glover, conductor and Christine Brandes, soprano

Sunday, May 4, 2008 at 5:30 PM
Merit School of Music, 38 S. Peoria St., Chicago

A pre-concert conversation with renowned Mahler scholar Dr. James L. Zychowicz will begin at 5:00 PM

A special benefit party with Jane Glover at Osteria Via Stato follows the performance.

Tickets for the concert only are $30 general admission and $10 student (SPECIAL HOT DEAL 2-for1 admission for Chicago Classical Music subscribers!)

For tickets and more information about the benefit call 312-360-3145.

Guitarists Anne Waller and Mark Maxwell gather with duo-pianists Claire Aebersold and Ralph Neiweem and flutists Richard and Emily Graef to perform a potpourri of opera arrangements and chamber works typically heard in 19th-century European salons. Experience the elegant and subtle voices of original instruments by Panormo, Godfroy, Vissonaire, and Broadwood in a program of engaging works by Beethoven, Rossini, Carulli, Giuliani, Berlioz, and Bizet. An instrument show-and-tell and question-and-answer session follow the concert.

Part of the Segovia Classical Guitar Series,supported in part by the Chicago Classical Guitar Society.

Tickets are $19 general admission, $16 for seniors and Northwestern University faculty and staff, and $8 for students.  

This concert will feature Concerto in D Minor for two violins, BWV 1043 with Desiree Ruhstrat and Mathias Tacke, violins; Cantata: Non sa che sia dolore, BWV 209 with Patrice Michaels, soprano and Louise Dixon, flute; Motet: Singen dem Herrn ein neues Lied, BWV 225 with the Bach Week Festival Chorus; and Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G, BWV 1048 with the Bach Week Festival Orchestra, conducted by Richard Webster.

Tickets to this and all Bach Week festival performances are available at www.bachweek.org or 800-595-4849.

 Performances take place at Nichols Concert Hall of the Music Institute of Chicago, 1490 Chicago Ave., Evanston.