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Music Institut of Chicago Announces 2013-14 Nichols Hall Concert Series

From celebrated solo artists to a classic jazz festival, the Music Institute of Chicago presents its 2013–14 Faculty and Guest Artist Series at Nichols Concert Hall, 1490 Chicago Avenue in Evanston.

 

Music Institute Faculty Concert

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Saturday, September 21, 7:30 p.m.

To open the season, more than 30 members of the renowned Music Institute faculty perform music composed for and of the night. The program includes several Chopin Nocturnes, Rachmaninoff’s Suite No. 1 for Two Pianos “La nuit... L'amour...” (The night...the love...), and Schoenberg’s stunning work for strings Verklärte Nacht (Transfigured Night).

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Benny Goodman Festival

Friday and Saturday, November 1 and 2, 7:30 p.m.

The Music Institute of Chicago’s fourth annual jazz festival celebrates the enduring legacy of Chicago’s own Benny Goodman. On Friday, November 1, guest clarinetist Victor Goines joins an all-star jazz faculty quintet for an evening of high-stepping swing. The festival continues on Saturday with an afternoon documentary film screening and panel discussion (details to follow) and concludes with a concert of music that Goodman performed, commissioned, or premiered. The program includes works by Poulenc and Mozart, including the Clarinet Quintet KV 581 with Quintet Attacca and Music Institute faculty clarinetist Barbara Drapcho. Soloist Larry Combs closes the concert with Bernstein’s Prelude, Fugue and Riffs and a performance of Copland’s Clarinet Concerto with conductor James Setapen leading an orchestra of Music institute faculty, Academy students, and special guests.

 

Peter Seidenberg

Saturday, November 16, 7:30 p.m.

Music Institute alumnus and cellist Peter Seidenberg has performed throughout Europe, the U.S., and Asia, making his concerto debut in 1983 with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. He was a founding member of the Elements String Quartet and has played with members of the Cleveland, Tokyo, Juilliard, and Emerson Quartets. Seidenberg’s program features a work written for this performance by composer and Music Institute alumnus David MacDonald.

 

Quintet Attacca, Axiom Brass, Mark George

Saturday, March 1, 7:30 p.m.

Music Institute of Chicago President and CEO and pianist Mark George collaborates with the Music Institute’s Ensembles in Residence Quintet Attacca and Axiom Brass for an exciting program that includes Beethoven’s Quintet in E-flat, Op. 16 and the music of Alec Wilder.

 

Notes from Hollywood

Co-sponsored by Dempster St. Pro Musica

Sunday, April 20, 7 p.m.

Leonard Slatkin serves as narrator, conductor, and pianist in a tribute to Hollywood movie music of the 1940s and ’50s as well as to his parents, violinist Felix Slatkin and cellist Eleanor Aller, leading film and recording musicians of the era and founders of the Hollywood String Quartet. Slatkin leads an ensemble comprising members of Dempster St. Pro Musica (most also members of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra) and the Chamber Music Society of St. Louis, who perform chamber music by Miklos Rozsa, Erich Korngold, Nino Rota, Enrico Morricone, Franz Waxman, Aaron Copland, and Leonard Bernstein. To acknowledge the close friendship between the Slatkins and Frank Sinatra, vocalist Tom Heitman performs selections from Sinatra’s groundbreaking album Close to You, accompanied by string players using the original Hollywood Quartet orchestrations.

 

Inna Faliks

Saturday, May 3, 7:30 p.m.

The fourth annual Distinguished Alumni Concert features pianist Inna Faliks, one of the most inspiring artists on today’s concert scene. Her imaginative concert program includes live readings by contemporary poets to explore the connection between words and music.

 

Nathan Laube

Saturday, May 17, 3 p.m.

Brilliant young concert organist and faculty member at the Eastman School of Music, Nathan J. Laube delivers a spectacular program in celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Music Institute of Chicago’s E.M Skinner organ.

All concerts take place at Nichols Concert Hall, 1490 Chicago Avenue in Evanston. Tickets, except where noted, are $30 for adults, $20 for seniors and $10 for students, available online or 847.905.1500 ext. 108. All programming is subject to change.

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