SPRING/SUMMER 2017 SPECIAL EVENTS AT

ROCKEFELLER AND BOND

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CALENDAR OF EVENTS Events are at Rockefeller unless otherwise indicated

M A R C H

Friday 3 7:30 pm UChicago Presents Stile Antico 7

Sunday 5 11 am Choral Sunday Music of Orlando di Lasso 7

Friday 10 8 pm CMAC Winter Song 7

Sunday 12 11 am Choral Sunday Music of Francis Poulenc 7

Sunday 26 3 pm Chicago Chorale Bach Mass in B Minor 6

Monday 27 12 noon Carillon recitals recommence (spring quarter) 9

Tuesday 28 11:30 am Tower tours recommence (spring quarter) 9 4:30 pm Tea & Pipes recommences (spring quarter) 3

A P R I L

Saturday 1 3:30 pm UChicago Guild of Carillonneurs in concert Centralia, IL 9

Sunday 2 11 am Choral Sunday Music of Gerald Finzi 7 2 pm UChicago Guild of Carillonneurs in concert Springfield, IL 9

Sunday 9 11 am Choral Sunday Selections from Schütz Matthäuspassion 7 3 pm Quire & Place Schütz Matthäuspassion 1

Thursday 13 7 pm Holy Thursday Music of Poulenc and Duruflé 7

Sunday 16 11 am Easter Festival Eucharist and Easter Egg Hunt 7

Friday 21 8 pm Lampo/Ren Soc Olivia Block 132 Ranks 2

Sunday 23 11 am Choral Sunday Selections from Misa Criolla 7

Saturday 29 7:30 pm CHI: An Augusta Read Thomas triptych 4

Sunday 30 11 am Choral Sunday Imani Winds 3

M AY

Friday 5 7:30 pm A French Shabbat, with Cantor David Berger 10

Sunday 7 11 am Choral Sunday Music of Arvo Pärt 7

Wednesday 10 12 noon Tiffany Ng Carillon and electronics 8 2 pm Tiffany Ng presents Logan 802 8

Friday 12 7 pm Chicago a cappella ¡Cantare! Chicago 7

Sunday 14 11 am Choral Sunday Music of Kate Pukinskis 7

Sunday 21 11 am Choral Sunday Music of Flor Peeters 7

Tuesday 23 5 pm UChicago Guild of Carillonneurs in concert 9

Sunday 28 11 am Choral Sunday A Sunday in Venice 7

Tuesday 30 4:30 pm Last Tea & Pipes recital of the academic year 3

J U N E

Sunday 4 11 am Last Choral Sunday Bach Jesu Meine Freude 7

Monday 26 12 noon Carillon recitals recommence (summer quarter) 9

Tuesday 27 11:30 am Tower tours recommence (summer quarter) 9

J U LY

Sunday 2 7 pm Joey Brink and the Banda Municipal de Barcelona L’Auditori, Barcelona 9

Sunday 23 5 pm The Bells of Summer Jon Lehrer 9

Sunday 30 5 pm The Bells of Summer Parker Ludwig 9

A U G U S T

Sunday 6 5 pm The Bells of Summer Lynnli Wang 9

Sunday 13 5 pm The Bells of Summer Roy Kroezen 9

Sunday 20 5 pm The Bells of Summer Linda Dzuris 9

Rockefeller Memorial Chapel, the University of Chicago’s iconic ceremonial and spiritual center, is a major arts presenter and venue for the performing arts. Under the Arts Rock label, the Chapel offers a diverse programming in music and visual arts, with a particular focus on choral performance and music played on—and composed for— the world class organ and carillon which form a key part of the spectacular architecture of the building. The performing arts program at the beautiful Bond Chapel is also under Rockefeller Chapel management, by kind arrangement with the Divinity School.

VISITOR HOURSAcademic quarters Winter, until March 17; Spring, March 27 to June 9; Summer, June 26 (week 2) to August 25 Tuesday through Friday 10 am to 5:30 pm weekends for scheduled events only | closed Mondays

Academic breaks March 18–26, June 11–23, August 26 through September 15 Closed except for scheduled events

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Schütz MatthäuspassionSUNDAY APRIL 9 | 3 PM

A concert for Passion Sunday, with the Matthäuspassion of Heinrich Schütz

interpolated with Lenten motets of Francis Poulenc and Gerald Finzi’s Lo,

the Full, Final Sacrifice. Artist in residence Matthew Dean sings the part of

the Evangelist. Tickets $20 general at the door, free to students with ID.

Quire & Place VI Rockefeller Chapel’s singers, directed by James Kallembach, presenting magnificent new music of great beauty alongside choral classics

Extinguishing the LightTHURSDAY APRIL 13 | 7 PM

Poulenc’s Quatre motets form the centerpiece of the traditional liturgy for Holy Thursday, including the ritual extinguishing of the lights and preparing of the tomb—a service that counts as one of the most dramatic of the year. Free.

Maurice Duruflé Ubi Caritas Francis Poulenc Quatre motets pour un temps

de pénitence Gregorian chant Pange Lingua

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PIPES AND WINDS

Olivia Block 132 Ranks FRIDAY APRIL 21 | 8 PM

132 Ranks, Olivia Block’s newly commissioned work for the famed E.M. Skinner organ at Rockefeller Chapel, emphasizes the instrument’s relationship with its surrounding architecture and explores the line between musical composition and sound installation. Block has spent time studying this particular organ and how its sounds move around the Chapel. Here she plays long tones on the organ while additional prerecorded sounds come from speakers placed around the space. 132 Ranks includes both the lowest pedal notes, felt in the body, as well as the highest bell tones, at extreme dynamic levels. Free.

A special project by the Renaissance Society and Lampo

Olivia Block is a media artist and composer. Her body of work includes sound recordings, audio-visual installations, performances, sound design for cinema, and scores for orchestra and chamber music concerts. Over the last twenty years, she has pioneered the utilization of audio field recordings and found materials in the realms of music and sound art. She combines field recordings, chamber instruments and electronic textures, resulting in mysterious and vivid electroacoustic sound pieces including Pure Gaze, Mobius Fuse, Karren, and others. Block creates multimedia installations and performances utilizing found sounds from micro cassette tapes, field recordings, video, and curated 35 mm slides. Block’s work reflects her interests in site specificity, ethnographic sound, and architectural sound.

Andrea Bauer

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Imani WindsSUNDAY APRIL 30 | 11 AM

In a Sunday morning service focused on music more than word, Grammy-nominated quintet Imani Winds plays music of two of its members, Homage to Duke by Jeff Scott (horn/composer), and arrangements of traditional spirituals by Valerie Coleman (flute/composer), with a new arrangement/reduction of Gustav Holst’s great orchestral work The Planets. Free.

Imani Winds is the Don Michael Randel ensemble in residence at the University of Chicago.

Tea & PipesTUESDAYS MARCH 28 TO MAY 30 4:30 PM

The Chapel’s beloved weekly organ recital completes its ninth year, with University organist Thomas Weisflog, distinguished guests, and students from the Rockefeller organ studio. Free.

“. . . strikingly virtuosic, immaculately tight,

stylistically agile.”

“. . . strikingly virtuosic, immaculately tight,

stylistically agile.” THE BOSTON MUSICAL INTELLIGENCER

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CHI

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A Triptych EARTH, MOON, PEACE WORKS OF AUGUSTA READ THOMAS PLAYED BY SPEKTRAL QUARTET AND THIRD COAST PERCUSSION

SATURDAY APRIL 29 | 7:30 PM

Three major works by Augusta Read Thomas, featuring the world première of Chi for String Quartet. Tickets $35 preferred, $20 general at tickets. uchicago.edu or 773.702.ARTS. Free to students with ID.

Spektral Quartet writes:

It would appear that Augusta Read Thomas didn’t slow down her writing process one bit during the three years she spent spearheading the Ear Taxi Festival, and that’s great news for us because she’s written us a marvelous new quartet, titled CHI. That’s “chi” as in “vital life force,” so this show is going to go a lot deeper than just your ears. . .

Those of you who made it to Ear Taxi heard us deliver the Chicago première of Gusty’s octet (with the 2017 Grammy winning Third Coast Percussion!), Selene, which got quite a doffing of the hat from the Chicago Tribune.

We’ll be reprising it with Third Coast on this concert before our mallet-wielding friends inflate the massive Rockefeller Chapel acoustic with Resounding Earth.

This show is a portrait of University Professor Augusta Read Thomas, and the music itself finds that elusive balance for new music aficionados and newbies alike!

Chi Selene, Moon Chariot Rituals Resounding Earth ChiI Chi vital life forceII Aura atmospheres, color, vibrationsIII Meridiens zenithsIV Chakras center of spiritual power in the body

Chi was co-commissioned by Rockefeller Chapel and Spektral Quartet, and is being recorded by Spektral Quartet this spring. Selene is recorded by Spektral Quartet on Nimbus Records. Resounding Earth is recorded by Third Coast Percussion on New Focus.

Photography: Augusta Read Thomas by Anthony Barlich, Spektral Quartet by Joe Mazza, Third Coast Percussion by Saverio Truglia.

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Chicago Chorale Bach Mass in B MinorSUNDAY MARCH 26 | 3 PM

Chicago Chorale presents Bach’s iconic work, with the Haymarket Opera Orchestra, conducted by Bruce Tammen. Free preconcert lecture by Carl Grapentine at 2 pm at Ida Noyes Hall. Tickets at chicagochorale.org or 773.306.6195, $40 reserved, $30 general, $20 students with ID.

Sponsored in part by the Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation

Choral Sundays SUNDAYS DURING THE ACADEMIC YEAR | 11 AMCelebrating the spiritual arts of cathedral traditions: the theatre of liturgy, glorious music, poetry and literature illuminating sacred text, preaching rooted in reason and rigorous inquiry

MARCH 5 LENT IMotets for Lent by Franco-Flemish master Orlando di Lasso

MARCH 12 LENT IISelections from Poulenc’s Quatre motets pour un temps de pénitence

MARCH 19 & 26 NO SERVICES DURING SPRING BREAK

APRIL 2 LENT VGerald Finzi Lo, the Full Final Sacrifice

APRIL 9 PASSION SUNDAYExcerpts from Heinrich Schütz Matthäuspassion

APRIL 16 EASTER SUNDAYA festival service with Easter anthems of Felice Anerio and Charles Stanford, and hymns accompanied by trumpets. Followed by the traditional Easter Egg hunt!

APRIL 23 EARTH DAYSelections from the Latin American folk mass Misa Criolla

APRIL 30 A Sunday with Imani Winds (see page 3)

MAY 7The choral scholars and artists in residence sing music of Arvo Pärt

MAY 14 MOTHERS’ DAYUniversity of Chicago alum Kate Pukinskis’ Latvian folklore and nature triptych Tris Dainas

MAY 21Music of modern Belgian composer Flor Peeters

MAY 28 ASCENSIONA Sunday in Venice—the artists in residence sing solo music from seventeenth century Venice

JUNE 4 PENTECOST | LAST CHORAL SUNDAYThe Chapel Choir finishes the year with Bach’s powerful motet Jesu Meine Freude

Choral Sundays resume on October 1.

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Stile Antico In a Strange Land: Elizabethan Composers in ExileFRIDAY MARCH 3 | 7 :30 PM

The vibrant British vocal ensemble Stile Antico presents emotionally charged music of Catholic composers who, dispirited with Queen Elizabeth I’s increasingly harsh measures for supporters of the old religion, sought refuge in other lands. Preconcert lecture with the artists at 6:30 pm. Tickets at tickets. uchicago.edu or 773.702.ARTS, $35, students $5.

Presented by UChicago Presents as part of the Howard Mayer Brown Early Music Series, and sponsored in part by the Nicholson Center for British Studies, the Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation, and the University of Chicago Divinity School

CMAC Winter Song FRIDAY MARCH 10 | 8 PM

CMAC commemorates Leonard Cohen with an arrangement of his beloved Hallelujah, and adds folk song arrangements from Argentina, Sweden, Ireland, Russia, Korea, and South Africa, conducted by Bruce Tammen. With special guests the University Women’s Ensemble, conducted by Mollie Stone. Tickets at the door $10 general, $5 students.

¡Cantare! Chicago FRIDAY MAY 12 | 7 PM

A joyous celebration of Mexican culture, with composer in residence Rodrigo Cadet. Students from participating schools in the yearlong ¡Cantare! Program join with Chicago a cappella and its High School Intern Ensemble. Free.

Eden Sabala

Eric Richmond

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Tiffany Ng Carillon and electronics WEDNESDAY MAY 10 | 12 NOON | THE CARILLON WEDNESDAY MAY 10 | 2 PM | LOGAN 802

Tiffany Ng’s concert program includes a world première for carillon and electronics: a new sketch in Paul Coleman’s Tiffany Sketches. Coleman teaches computer music and composition at SUNY Fredonia and is sound director for the New York based Ensemble Signal. The concert is followed by a public presentation at the Logan Center. Free.

Tiffany Ng is assistant professor of carillon at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She holds a doctorate in musicology and new media studies from the University of California, Berkeley, where her dissertation explored how two contemporaneous developments shaped each other: cold war technology and diplomacy, and the historicist revival of organ and carillon building in America and the Netherlands. Ng earned a master’s degree in organ from Eastman and a licentiate from the Royal Carillon School in Belgium. Her concert career has taken her to major festivals in a dozen countries in Europe, Asia, and North America, where she has premiered over two dozen acoustic and electroacoustic works. She also serves on the faculty of the North American Carillon School.

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The Bells of Summer FIVE SUNDAYS | 5 PM

The annual summer festival of bells! Five relaxed Sunday evenings on the Rockefeller lawn. BYOP: bring your own picnic (or popsicle, or pooch). Free.

July 23 Jon Lehrer Yale University / Vancouver, BC

July 30 Parker Ludwig Creighton University School of Medicine

August 6 Lynnli Wang Yale University / Arlington National Cemetery Netherlands Carillon

August 13 Roy Kroezen City Carillonneur, Centralia, IL

August 20 Linda Dzuris University Carillonneur, Clemson University

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The BellsTUESDAY THROUGH FRIDAY DURING THE ACADEMIC YEAR 12 NOON AND 5 PM

Join University carillonneur Joey Brink and his students as they fill the campus with music of the bells. To accompany them up the 271 steps, please arrive by 11:30 am or 4:30 pm. Donation of $5 invited.

Carillonneurs on the road

Joey Brink and the Banda Municipal de Barcelona SUNDAY JULY 2 | L’AUDITORI , BARCELONA

University carillonneur Joey Brink headlines a performance at the World Carillon Congress in Spain’s beautiful Barcelona, with the world première of music written for the occasion.

Guild of Carillonneurs in concertSATURDAY APRIL 1 | 3 :30 PM | CENTRALIA , ILSUNDAY APRIL 2 | 2 PM | SPRINGFIELD, ILTUESDAY MAY 23 | 5 PM | ROCKEFELLER TOWER

The fifteen students of the Rockefeller Chapel carillon studio, directed by Joey Brink, take their talents on the road, visiting city carillons elsewhere in Illinois for a master class and performance.

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A French Shabbat FRIDAY MAY 5 | 7 PM

Music of the great synagogues of prewar France, with Rabbi Frederick Reeves and Cantor David Berger of Congregation KAM Isaiah Israel, with the KAM Isaiah Israel Choir and Rockefeller Chapel Choir. Free.

Left: Pariz—yidish hant-bukh: veg-vayzer un firer [Naye prese]. Cover for a Yiddish language guidebook to the 1937 World’s Fair.