Chicago Sinfonietta-A Dream Unfolds

Sunday, January 16, 2011, 2:30 pm – Dominican University Monday, January 17, 2011, 7:30 pm – Symphony Center

A Dream Unfolds Chicago Sinfonietta Paul Freeman, Music Director and Conductor Leslie B. Dunner, Guest Conductor

Theater Set (overture)...................................................................................Ulysses Kay Lyric for Strings......................................................................................... George Walker

Concerto for a Genius................................................................... Reginald Robinson, arr. Orbert Davis 1. Mr. Murphy’s Blues 2. Janet 3. Ansaar 4. The 19th Galaxy Reginald Robinson, piano Intermission

Porgy and Bess: Concert Version ............................................... George Gershwin, arr. Robert Russell Bennett Lisa Daltirus, Soprano Chauncey Packer, Tenor Donnie Ray Albert, Baritone Chicago Community Chorus led by Dr. Keith Hampton, Artistic Director Lead Season Sponsor

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THE M AESTRO’S FINAL SEASON These 2010-2011 season-opening performances mark the beginning of a season of transition as our beloved Founder and Music Director Paul Freeman takes the podium for the final time. Throughout the year Maestro Freeman will be conducting pieces that have become personal favorites of his, many of which he probably introduced to you, our audience. We will also be sharing some of his compelling life story and reprinting some amazing photos from the Sinfonietta archive. We hope you enjoy this season-long look at Maestro’s career, and encourage everyone you know to join us in celebrating his many accomplishments.

Paul Freeman and Eleanor Roosevelt circa 1962

Paul Douglas Freeman was born in Richmond, Virginia, on January 2, 1936. His father ran a produce shop. He grew up in modest circumstances in the American South in the middle of the twentieth century--difficult beginnings for any African American. “Growing up in segregation in Richmond...to have fulfilled my personal dreams and to have helped to found an entity [the Chicago Sinfonietta] that brings dreams to others, even I sometimes can’t believe what we’ve done,” Freeman told the Chicago Sun-Times.

The dream began with Freeman’s music-loving family. Symphony orchestra concerts on the radio and weekly broadcasts from New York’s Metropolitan Opera, the New York Philharmonic, and the NBC Orchestra were required listening for all twelve Freeman siblings as were music lessons when they grew old enough to handle them. Freeman started piano lessons at age five, and he soon took up the clarinet as well. He took clarinet lessons at Richmond’s Armstrong High School while still in elementary school and took lessons at Virginia State College in Petersburg while in high school. One of the stories Paul shares is about the first time he ever heard an orchestra perform as a child in his hometown of Richmond. He and his mother were directed to sit in the colored section of the theater, or as he likes to refer to it, the “peanut gallery”.

Now, over sixty years later, Paul Freeman prepares to lead his last ever tribute concert to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., a tradition that he began not long after he founded the Sinfonietta in 1987. In a documentary produced to mark the orchestra’s 20th Anniversary Season in 2006, he talked about his personal encounter with Dr. King.

“I saw him at the airport in Atlanta, Georgia at 2 in the morning, and he asked, when I spoke to him, why was I there. I said to guest conduct the Atlanta Symphony. He said, ‘The last bastion of elitism… Glory Hallelujah!’ and he walked away. Three weeks after that he was assassinated. That feeling that the symphony orchestra could become inclusive and diverse, that classical music in particular should be available to anyone and everyone regardless to race, creed, religion, gender, age.. it doesn’t matter, and this is what we strive to do with the Chicago Sinfonietta.”

The entire Chicago Sinfonietta family owes a great debt to Maestro Freeman and his vision and determination. Thank you, Paul.

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PROGR A M NOTES “The future is... black.” - James Baldwin Trailblazer Ulysses Kay provides a perfect opening for a concert dedicated to the work and life of Martin Luther King with the overture to his Theater Set for Orchestra. The piece opens with a bang and bears all of the earmarks of Kay’s distinctive neo-classical style.

While there are countless melodic lines and changing harmonies tumbling off the stage, the orchestration is always clear, clean, and razor-sharp. The overture bears some resemblance to neo-classical works of Stravinsky such as the Symphony in Three Movements, but Kay crafts his own sound filled with angular fanfares and dizzying string runs. The character of the piece can turn on a dime at any moment, from a lyrical line to a percussive outburst, but each section is carved out from the others with a fierce precision.

Kay’s musical accomplishments are even more remarkable given the racially closed world of classical music at the time he was making his way as a composer. Born in Tucson, Arizona in 1917, he was raised in a musical household. Both his mother and sister played the piano and his uncle was the famous New Orleans cornettist and bandleader Joe “King” Oliver. Because Tucson was a small western city, Kay luckily evaded much of the educational segregation in schools of the US at that time. He enrolled at the University of Arizona in 1934 where he fell in love with the music of Hungarian composer Bela Bartók. He quickly picked up speed as a composer, studying at Eastman with American composer Howard Hanson and at Tanglewood with Paul Hindemith. Both teachers were champions of the neoclassical aesthetic and their sense of form combined with the orchestral brilliance of Bartók clearly contributed greatly to the evolution of Kay’s sound.

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The most notable element of Kay’s career is his determination. Though there were many successes along the way; including performances by the New York Philharmonic and other major symphonies, a brief Fellowship in Rome and an eventual faculty position at Lehman College, he also had a three-and-a-half year assignment in the US Naval Reserves, and worked a full time job at BMI for fifteen years before securing an academic position. Through all of it he wrote more than 100 works for a variety of ensembles and several operas. This is to say nothing of his barrier-breaking accomplishments gaining academic positions as an African-American composer, which have inspired the generation of composers following him.

“No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time.”

- James Baldwin George Walker’s Lyric for Strings is a gorgeous, almost haunting, work in a single movement. In a gradual unfolding of assured and subtle musical phrases it constantly surprises the listener with cadences that take the music in unexpected directions.

These quietly startling shifts in tonality cause the listener to reflect on the music just heard as well as strain with curiosity to hear what might be next. Walker’s inventive use of tonal harmony is wholly his own, and marks him as one of the most remarkable American composers.

Born in 1922, Walker studied as a pianist at Oberlin, Curtis Institute, and Eastman.

He then traveled to Paris to study with the renowned Nadia Boulanger (who taught the likes of Philip Glass and Aaron Copland). Later in his academic career he headed the composition department at Rutgers University in New Jersey and in 1996 received the Pulitzer Prize for his work Lilacs, a

P R O G R A M N O T E S ( c o n t .) setting of the Walt Whitman text by the same name. Walker wrote his own notes for the Lyric, which follow: “Written in 1946, this work was premiered that year under the title Lament by the student orchestra of the Curtis Institute of Music conducted

by Seymour Lipkin in a radio concert.

In the following year it received its public premiere by the National Gallery Orchestra conducted by Richard Bales as part of an annual American music festival in Washington. The work, which lasts approximately six minutes, carries the dedication “To my grandmother” and was written while still a graduate student at the Curtis Institute of Music. After a brief introduction, the principal theme is stated by the first violins with imitations appearing in the other instruments. The linear nature of the material alternates with static moments of harmony. After the second of two climaxes, the work concludes with reposeful cadences that were presented earlier.”

Like Samuel Barber’s elegiac Adagio for Strings, Lyric for Strings began life as the slow movement to his first string quartet. Aside from emotional depth and expression, this is where the similarities end. Walker’s piece is unique in its style and masterful in its construction. While it may be dedicated to the loss of a loved one, it expresses far more than a state or mourning. In its closing bars it leaves little doubt as to why it has become one of Walker’s most frequently performed works.

The 19th Galaxy) are each based on solo piano pieces of the same titles written by the pianist/composer Robinson.

They have been reworked for orchestra by trumpeter and composer Orbert Davis, who mentored Robinson early on. To simply call them arrangements would dismiss Davis’s contribution to the work. Full orchestral textures, inventive new musical themes shed new light on already arresting music.

Though it is not the first time that attempts have been made to fuse Ragtime, Jazz, and the classical genre of the Piano Concerto, this is one of the most inventive and successful.

From a very early age, Reginald Robinson was preoccupied with Ragtime. After hunting down whatever information he could find, he followed the lead of Ragtime great Scott Joplin and asked his mother for a piano.

Mostly self taught initially, Robinson was singularly focused on learning the style of Ragtime and creating his own music.

Orbert Davis first met Robinson when he was a 7th grade music student at Emmet Elementary School on the west side of Chicago. Davis has gone on to become one of the most sought after musicians in Chicago as a jazz trumpeter, band leader, and arranger. His reunion with Robinson on the Concerto for a Genius is clearly a happy one.

“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.”

- James Baldwin

Before beginning work on Porgy and Bess Gershwin observed: “It’s going to be a labor of love, and I expect quite a few labor pains with it.” He couldn’t have said it better. Long The aptly named Concerto for a Genius, before tackling the operatic world, featuring 2004 MacArthur Foundation Gershwin had crossed over just about “Genius Award” recipient Reginald every boundary in music possible.

Robinson, is a truly collaborative affair.

With his brother Ira he created some The four movements of the work (titled of the most enduring popular songs, Mr. Murphy’s Blues, Janet, Ansaar, and he wrote for classical ensembles and “The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions which have been hidden by the answers.”

-James Baldwin

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P R O G R A M N O T E S ( c o n t .) orchestras, and several hit Broadway musicals. To the outside world it seemed he could do anything, but when Gershwin first read Heyward’s popular novel Porgy and Bess in 1926, it took him six years to act on his operatic ambitions. Gershwin had always been insecure about his training and technique.

His career in music began in his teens as a “song plugger” earning 15 dollars a week turning out tunes on Tin Pan Alley. As his ambitions grew, so did his desire to learn. He sought out the tutelage of composition greats like Nadia Boulanger, Maurice Ravel, and Arnold Schoenberg. One by one they all rejected Gershwin as a student, advising him that they would only mar the talent and uniqueness of his musical style.

Heyward’s novel about life in the African-American ghetto of Charleston, South Carolina had intrigued other composers besides Gershwin. After writing to Heyward to ask permission to turn the work into an opera, he discovered that Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II were also after it. They wanted to adapt it as a musical comedy vehicle for Al Jolson. Heyward eventually opted for Gershwin’s idea of turning Porgy and Bess into an opera that contained “all the elements of entertainment...humor as well as tragedy.” Once rights were secured, George’s brother Ira was added to the team as lyricist and by September of 1935, Porgy and Bess was finished.

Opening in Boston to overwhelming acclaim, conductor Serge Koussevitzky called it “a great advance in American opera.” Gershwin’s confidence was bolstered:“It sounded exactly as I thought it would sound when I wrote it.”

The reception in New York was quite something else. Theater critics were enthusiastic, but the music critics were ruthless, often questioning how this

piece could be defined as an opera.

Critic and composers Virgil Thomson called it “crooked folklore and halfway opera, a strong but crippled work.”

After a mere 124 performances, the Porgy and Bess closed with a loss of nearly $100,000.

The concert version heard this evening was commissioned by Fritz Reiner, then conductor of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. It was put together by Geroge Gershwin’s longtime friend and sometimes assistant Robert Russell Bennet. In his autobiography The Broadway Sound, Bennett credits Reiner with having chosen most of the excerpts, and their sequence.

“All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it. And even then, on the rare occasions when something opens within, and the music enters, what we mainly hear, or hear corroborated, are personal, private, vanishing evocations.

But the man who creates the music is hearing something else, is dealing with the roar rising from the void and imposing order on it as it hits the air.

What is evoked in him, then, is of another order, more terrible because it has no words, and triumphant, too, for that same reason. And his triumph, when he triumphs, is ours.”

-James Baldwin Composer and writer John Glover writes notes, articles, and online courses for organizations such as the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Glimmerglass Opera, the Chicago Sinfonietta, Carnegie Hall, and Opera America. He has received grants and commissions from organizations including Meet the Composer, Glimmerglass Opera, violist Liuh-Wen Ting, and the American Conservatory Theater. He currently lives in New York City and is developing a new opera ‘Our Basic Nature’ with American Opera Projects

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Paul Freeman, Music Director/ Conductor Maestro Paul Freeman is in his 24th season as Music Director of the Chicago Sinfonietta, a post he has held since his founding of the orchestra in 1987.

Born in Richmond, Virginia, Maestro Freeman has established himself as one of America’s leading conductors. In 1996, he was appointed music director and chief conductor of the Czech National Symphony Orchestra in Prague, a position he held simultaneously with Chicago Sinfonietta till 2009. From 1979 to 1989, he served as music director of the Victoria Symphony in Canada, principal guest conductor of the Helsinki Philharmonic in Finland, associate conductor of the Dallas and Detroit Symphony Orchestras, and music director of the Opera Theatre of Rochester, New York.

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A recipient of the Mahler Award from the European Union of Arts, Freeman as a guest conductor has led more than 100 orchestras in over 30 countries. As one of America’s most successful recording conductors, he has approximately 200 releases to his credit. Freeman has been involved in more than a dozen televised orchestra productions in North American and Europe. He has been nominated for two Emmy Awards and constantly receives rave reviews for his recordings. The December 2000 issue of Fanfare magazine proclaimed Maestro Freeman “one of the finest conductors which our nation has produced.”

Dr. Freeman received his Ph.D. from Eastman School of Music. He studied on a U.S. Fulbright Grant in Berlin, and holds honorary doctorate degrees from Dominican and Loyola Universities. In 2005, Maestro Freeman was designated a HistoryMaker, having been nominated by the DuSable Museum of African

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Maestro Freeman’s talent was summarized in the following quotation from Robert Marsh, longtime music critic for the Chicago Sun-Times: “Freeman conducts performances which are remarkable for their beauty and communicative force. He brings the sound of the Chicago Sinfonietta to the heights of angels.”

Leslie B. Dunner, Guest Conductor One of the premiere American conductors of his generation, Leslie B. Dunner enjoys an international career, distinguished by the breadth of his repertoire as well as his electrifying and critically lauded performances.

Following a summer that included three different programs with South Africa’s KwaZulu-Natal Philharmonic Orchestra, his current season includes return engagements with California’s Symphony Silicon Valley and the Chicago Sinfonietta, as well as debuts with the San Angelo Symphony Orchestra and Orquesta Filarmónica de Jalisco.

With the Louisville Ballet, he returns as Principal Conductor, leading productions of Giselle, The Nutcracker and Le Sacre du printemps.

Leslie B. Dunner’s guest conducting engagements have taken him around the globe, including the major orchestras of Atlanta, Baltimore, Chicago, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Dallas, Indianapolis, Louisville, Minnesota, New York, Pittsburgh, St. Louis, San Francisco, Seattle and Washington, DC. International orchestras have included those of Edmonton, Halifax, Québec, Windsor and México City in North America, plus Russia’s St. Petersburg Philharmonic and Camerata, the Estonian National Symphony, South Africa’s Johannesburg and KwaZuluNatal Philharmonic Orchestras, National

and Transvaal Symphony Orchestras and Johannesburg Festival Orchestra, Orchestra Sinfonica dell’Emilia-Romagna “Arturo Toscanini” in Italy and the Symphony Orchestra of Madrid. In 1996, he stepped in as a last-minute replacement for Lord Yehudi Menuhin on the Warsaw Sinfonia’s debut tour of South Africa, earning enthusiastic critical acclaim.

Equally at home with ballet and opera, Leslie B. Dunner has led performances of American Ballet Theatre (at New York City’s City Center and the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC), New York City Ballet, Washington Ballet, Dance Theatre of Harlem, Madison Ballet, Orlando Ballet, Royal Ballet at Covent Garden, Birmingham Royal Ballet, Michigan Opera Theatre and South African Ballet Theatre, while opera productions have been conducted in Pretoria, South Africa and with Opera Ebony in New York City. Of special note is his having conducted Opera Africa’s production of Mziliazi Khumalo’s Princess Magogo kaDinuzulu at Oslo’s Den Norske Opera.

From 2003 to 2009, Dr. Dunner served as Music Director and Principal Conductor of the Joffrey Ballet.

In 1999, Leslie B. Dunner ended an 11-season association with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. From 19961999, Dr. Dunner was Music Director of Canada’s Symphony Nova Scotia; subsequently, he served five seasons as Music Director of the Annapolis Symphony Orchestra.

From 1994 through 2001, Leslie B. Dunner served as an assistant conductor to Kurt Masur and the New York Philharmonic, accompanying them in this capacity on their 1995 10-city European tour. From 1987 to 1994, he was Music Director of the Detroit Symphony Civic and Dearborn Symphony Orchestras, Music Advisor for the Harlem Festival Orchestra and a cover conductor for Erich Leinsdorf at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. In addition, he was Principal Conductor of the renowned Dance Theatre of Harlem.

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A native New Yorker, Leslie B. Dunner holds advanced degrees in music from the University of Cincinnati’s CollegeConservatory of Music, Queens College in New York City and the University of Rochester’s Eastman School of Music.

He serves on the advisory boards of Houston’s Opera Vista, World Artist Experience in Annapolis and The International Jordania Conducting Competition in Chattanooga.

Reginald R. Robinson, piano Reginald R. Robinson, born and raised in Chicago is a noted pianist/composer of Semi-Classical, Ragtime, Latin American and early Jazz & Blues styles. He is also an educator on ragtime music across the U.S. Reginald became interested in playing Ragtime in 1986 in 7th grade while attending Robert Emmett Elementary School after a city funded arts program visited the school. The musicians covered many different styles from Beethoven to Miles Davis but Reginald paid close attention when the musicians talked about Ragtime and performed The Entertainer by Scott Joplin.

He had heard this melody coming from the ice cream trucks every summer but had never heard the song played as a serious piece of music on piano before.

In June of 1987 just before he graduated from 8th grade and his family moved across town, his mother purchased a piano from a moving neighbor. He began teaching himself how to read and write music from studying out of school music books that were around his home and by comparing note for note ragtime transcriptions to faithful piano roll recordings of the same music. In 1988 he took lessons with The American Conservatory of Music and briefly studied sight reading with a teacher.

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Reginald Robinson recorded three CD’s for the Delmark Record label. In 2004 Reginald received a fellowship Grant from the John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation for his innovation in Ragtime music, and followed that with his fourth album Man Out of Time in 2006. In the summer of 2007 he performed Concerto for a Genius with Orbert Davis and the Chicago Jazz Philharmonic, which consisted of four of Reginald’s original compositions from his Man Out of Time album arranged for full orchestra by Mr. Davis.

In 2008 Reginald teamed with composer/arranger Kerwin Young who arranged two of Reginald’s original tunes for strings and flute. He recently performed with Accessible Contemporary Music, a group led by pianist/ composer/arranger Seth Boustead who scored three of his original compositions for piano, strings and clarinet.

Reginald’s latest music project, called Reflections, is a three disc set which features audio and visual performances of music that he composed over the last twenty years.

Between recording, performing and composing, Reginald is at work on his most ambitious project, a documentary film about the history and development of ragtime music Lisa Daltirus, soprano With a radiant voice of beauty, power, nuance and musicality, as well as a demanding stage presence, Lisa Daltirus is poised for a major career worldwide. In her professional operatic debut as Tosca, the New York Times said, “ ...she exuded an intangible electricity, that charge that comes across to the audience when something is really happening onstage.” Of a subsequent Tosca performance, Opera News reported, “plainly a star in the making...

Leontyne Price is a clear (and welcome) model vocally. Her full, liquid sound

P R O F I L E S ( c o n t .) illuminated line after line with musical polish and detail and soared impressively on high B-flats and Cs.” Engagements from the past few seasons include Ms. Daltirus’ New York City Opera debut as Cilla in Margaret Garner, the title roles of Tosca and Aida and Leonora in Il Trovatore for the Seattle Opera; Aida for the Portland Opera; Tosca for the Connecticut Opera, Lyric Opera of Kansas City, and Arizona Opera; Serena in Porgy and Bess at the Washington National Opera and in concert with the Orlando Philharmonic and the Hollywood Bowl; and Bess in Porgy and Bess at the Lyric Opera of Chicago and on tour in London, Edinburgh and Cardiff with the Cape Town Opera.

Additional recent operatic engagements include Tosca in her debuts with the Palm Beach Opera, Minnesota Opera, Michigan Opera Theatre, Boston Lyric Opera and Opera Carolina; Aida at the Cincinnati Opera, Connecticut Opera, and Opera Delaware; Aida

and Bess in Porgy and Bess with the Michigan Opera Theater; Santuzza in Cavalleria Rusticana at Opera Theatre of St. Louis; Aida, Margaret Garner and Porgy and Bess at Opera Company of Philadelphia; her role debut as Mimi in La Bohème with the Opera Company of North Carolina; and her role debut as Leonora in Il Trovatore in Hartford, Connecticut. Recent European engagements include her Amsterdam debut as Lia in Debussy’s L’Enfant Prodigue under the baton of Valery Gergiev at the Concertgebouw, and Rosalinde in Die Fledermaus in Thessaloniki, Greece.

Ms. Daltirus has received awards and recognition from the NJ State Opera Vocal competition, the Joy of Singing competition, The Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, The Liederkranz International Vocal Competition and the New York Vocal Artists Competition. She is also a grantee of the Singer’s Development Fund in NYC and the William Matthews Sullivan Foundation.

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Chauncey Packer, Tenor American tenor Chauncey Packer is an exciting talent on the stages of opera houses in Europe and the United States. He has recently performed the roles with Atlanta Opera, Shreveport Opera and New Orleans Opera. In past seasons he performed with Pensacola Opera, Mobile Opera, Utah Festival Opera, Opera Grand Rapids, Des Moines Metro Opera and LSU Opera. During the 2010-2011 season, Mr. Packer will perform the role of Monostatos in The Magic Flute with New Orleans Opera, where he will also reprise his portrayal of Sportin’ Life in Porgy and Bess.

Mr. Packer is one of the most indemand artists for his captivating portrayal of Sportin’ Life in Porgy and Bess. Following his debut of this role with Atlanta Opera, the Atlanta Journal proclaimed, “Here Chauncey Packer was the complete entertainer.” Last season, he made his San Francisco Opera debut as Sportin’ Life to rave reviews, and he has also performed the role with Mobile Opera, Opera Grand Rapids, Tulsa Opera and this season in many major European cities with the Munich-based New York Harlem Productions tour. Mr. Packer also performed Porgy and Bess with Opéra Comique in Paris, Caen, and Luxembourg. A recent concert performance of the same work with the Nashville Symphony, conducted

by John Mauceri, was recorded and released on the Decca label.

and Pensacola Opera and has participated in young artist programs with Utah Festival Opera and Des Moines Metro Opera. He has been the recipient of several prestigious awards, including the Huel Perkins Fellowship at Louisiana State University for his doctoral studies. He has won several vocal competitions including National Associations of Teacher’s Singing Competition, Rose Palmai-Tenser Competition, Shreveport Singer of the Year, and was a finalist in Ducrest International Competition. He placed several times in the regional finals of the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, and in 2005, won at the regional level and was a national semi-finalist.

Chauncey Packer is originally from southern Alabama where he received his undergraduate degree from University of Mobile and his master’s degree in music from University of New Orleans where he makes his home.

Donnie Ray Albert, baritone Donnie Ray Albert is a regular guest of opera companies and symphony orchestras around the world, including the Metropolitan Opera, Los Angeles Opera in Mahagonny, A Florentine Tragedy, and Hansel and Gretel, plus numerous appearances with Opera Pacific, Houston Grand Opera, Florentine Opera of Milwaukee, Dallas Opera, Arizona; Atlanta Opera, Austin Lyric Opera, Florida Grand Opera, Minnesota Opera,Utah Opera, and the opera companies of New Orleans, Baltimore, Columbus, Kansas City, Omaha, Pittsburgh, and, in Canada, with the companies in Calgary, Edmonton, Canadian, Montreal, Manitoba, and Vancouver.

He has also performed concerts with Edmonton Opera, Baton Rouge Symphony, Mobile Symphony, Gulf Coast Opera, Shreveport Opera and Pensacola Symphony, in such works as Haydn Mass in C Major, Beethoven Ninth In Europe, he has appeared at the Symphony, Bruckner Te Deum, Schubert Cologne Opera in Les Contes d’Hoffman, Mass in G Major and Handel Messiah.

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Tragedy, the National Theater in Prague, the Deutsche Opera Berlin, Lithuanian National Opera in the title role of Der Fliegende Holländer, plus the opera houses in Bordeaux, Köln, Bregenz, Milan, Mannheim and Hamburg, and in Vienna in the title role in Ernst Bloch’s Macbeth for the Vienna “Klangbogen” Festival. He has appeared in Japan with the New National Theater in Tokyo and in Sao Paolo, Brazil.

As a concert artist, Mr. Albert has sung with the orchestras of Washington DC (National), Cologne, Southwest Florida, Chicago, Cincinnati, Dallas, Fort Worth, Houston, Dallas, Minnesota, Seattle, St. Paul, Los Angeles, Austin, Palm Beach, Greensboro, Grant Park Music Festival, and Madison, Vienna and Linz, in Austria and in Jerusalem. He is also a resident artist with the Center for Black Music Research at Chicago’s Columbia College.

The past two seasons, Mr. Albert performed with Vancouver Opera, Orlando Opera, Kentucky Opera, Washington Concert Opera, Rhode Island Philharmonic, Southwest Florida Master Chorale, the Choral Arts Society of Washington, the Atlanta Symphony, the American Symphony Orchestra, Nashville Symphony, the Kentucky Opera, Latvian Opera, Prague’s National Theater, and the Semper Opera in Dresden.

Donnie Ray Albert was born in Louisiana. He earned a Bachelor of Music Degree at Louisiana State University and a Master of Music Degree from Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. Mr. Albert may be heard on RCA’s Grammy Award and Grand Prix du Disque winning recording of Porgy and Bess, NOW’s recording of The Horse I Ride Has Wings with David Garvey on piano, EMI’s Frühlingsbegräbnis and Eine Florentinesche Tragodie by Zemlinsky conducted by James Conlon, and Simon Sargon’s A Clear Midnight on the Gasparo label.

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Chicago Community Chorus led by Dr. Keith Hampton, Artistic Director Keith Hampton is currently the Director of Choral Activities at Gary Comer College Prep, A Campus of Noble Street Charter School and the Director of Music Ministries and Organist at the Park Manor Christian Church, in Chicago, IL. Dr. Hampton is very active as a conductor, an organ soloist, and an accompanist and is in constant demand as a workshop clinician. He has guest conducted the Rhode Island All-State Chorus, American Choral Directors Association’s Eastern Division High School Honor’s Choir, Baltimore All-County High School Chorus and the Pennsylvania Region I and Region VI High School Choirs.

Dr. Hampton earned a Bachelor of Music Education Degree from Westminster Choir College, Princeton, NJ; a Master of Arts Degree from Marywood University, Scranton, PA; and a Doctor of Music Degree in Church Music from Northwestern University, Evanston, IL. Dr. Hampton was twice chosen as one of fourteen conductors to participate in the Oregon Bach Festival Conducting Master classes. In addition, he was chosen to conduct in the a cappella music workshop sponsored by Chorus America.

Dr. Hampton is the President of Dr. K.T. Productions, Inc., providing music transcriptions of Black Gospel Music with the use of Finale by Coda Music. As a published composer, his arrangements of Spirituals and Gospel Songs can be found at Augsburg Press, Earthsongs Publications and Hinshaw Music. Dr. Hampton’s composition, Praise His Holy Name, is among the most popular pieces to be performed by choirs.

C H I C AG O C O M M U N I T Y C H O R U S H I S TO R Y Founded on August 18, 2003, the one-hundred voiced Chicago Community Chorus (CCC) is comprised of singers from all walks of life and varying levels of musical experience. The chorus actively seeks to reflect the diversity of Chicago by the involvement of singers from a variety of ethnic backgrounds and has a children’s choir called The Voices of the Future. Weekly rehearsals are held on Mondays at the Park Manor Christian Church and on Saturdays at our north side satellite location. The chorus presents at least three performances each year in a variety of venues. It performs a wide variety of repertoire that includes choral literature by the great composers from the fifteenth century to the present, spirituals, gospel music, jazz, folk music and show tunes.

The mission of the Chicago Community Chorus is to provide an advanced choral experience to anyone who loves to sing. Singers do not have to audition in order to participate in the ensemble. The teaching of vocal technique, music reading skills and the performance of high quality music literature from a variety of musical styles are simultaneous goals of this organization.

Choir Officers are members of the choir and have been elected by their peers as responsible for the operations of the choir. Please let them know if you are interested in volunteering in any way.

Eddie Drummond, President & Membership Chair Jodette Adams, Vice President & Librarian Patricia Lampkin-Vinnett, Treasurer Brandon Brown, Financial Secretary Rosie Thomas, Assistant Financial Secretary Luanne Bethke Redmond, Secretary

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C H I C AG O S I N F O N I E T TA H I S TO R Y Maestro Paul Freeman founded the Chicago Sinfonietta in 1987 in response to the lack of opportunity for minority classical musicians, composers, and soloists.

Twenty-four seasons later, the Chicago Sinfonietta remains as the national model and true trailblazer for promoting diversity and inclusiveness in orchestral music.

The Chicago Sinfonietta has a proud history of having enriched the cultural, educational, and social quality of life in Chicago, while gaining significant recognition on the national and international stage. Committed to promoting diversity and inclusiveness in classical music, the Sinfonietta performs at Chicago’s Symphony Center, Lund Auditorium at Dominican University, Wentz Concert Hall at North Central College, and the Harris Theater for Music and Dance at Millennium Park.

The Sinfonietta presents a full season of symphonic concerts as well as a Chamber Series which for the 2010/2011 season will be held at Brookfield Zoo. The Chicago Sinfonietta is the official orchestra of the Joffrey Ballet.

Under the guidance of founding Music Director Paul Freeman, the orchestra performs at the highest artistic level and has achieved an outstanding reputation for its innovative programs. The Sinfonietta is dedicated to the authentic performance of Classical, Romantic and Contemporary repertoire and excels at presenting imaginative new works by composers and soloists of color.

Chicago Sinfonietta musicians truly represent the city’s rich cultural landscape and continue to fulfill the orchestra’s mission of Musical Excellence through Diversity™. A 2007 survey of major orchestras revealed that the Chicago Sinfonietta is the most diverse professional orchestra in the United States.

Through this distinction, the Chicago Sinfonietta serves as a national model for inclusiveness in classical music.

During the first ten years, the orchestra embarked on six international tours performing concerts in Germany, Austria, Italy, Switzerland and the Canary Islands.

The Chicago Sinfonietta has produced fourteen compact discs, including the much heralded three-disc African Heritage Symphonic Series released on Cedille Records in 2002 and a live recording of the 2007 tribute concert to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The orchestra has performed twice at the John F. Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. In August of 2008, the Chicago Sinfonietta made its debut performance at the Jay Pritzker Pavilion in Millennium Park to over 11,000 people and performed for over 90,000 people during 2009-2010.

C H I C AG O S I N F O N I E T TA M I S S I O N The Mission of the Chicago Sinfonietta is to serve as a national model for inclusiveness and innovation in classical music through the presentation of the highest quality orchestral concerts and related programs. The Chicago Sinfonietta aspires to remove the barriers to participation in, and appreciation of classical music through its educational and outreach programs that expose children and their families to classical music, and by providing professional development opportunities for young musicians and composers of diverse backgrounds enabling new, important voices to be heard. This will help America become a true cultural democracy, in which everyone can share fully in its cultural resources and in which all can contribute to its cultural richness.

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CHICAGO SINFONIETTA EDUCATIONAL AND COMMUNITY OUTREACH Audience Matters is the Chicago Sinfonietta’s core educational program. This program provides an immersive introduction to classical music for elementary school students in the Chicago Public School system. Through the program, students learn about the families of instruments in the orchestra from teaching artists – Sinfonietta musicians – who also relate composers, history, art, and architecture to the various periods of classical music. On multiple visits, musicians from different sections of the orchestra demonstrate their instruments through experiential tools, integrating visual, audio, and tactile elements to help the students learn. In addition, students and their families are invited to all Sinfonietta performances for the season. Over 1,000 students are participating in Audience Matters this year thanks to our generous donors.

SEED (Student Ensembles with Excellence and Diversity) provides mentoring for young musicians. The SEED Program identifies talented high school musicians and offers them a series of workshops and master classes taught by Chicago Sinfonietta teacher-musicians in small ensemble settings. The program concludes with a concert performed by the ensembles. The goal of this program is to both inspire and mentor these young artists, and encourage their professional growth for the future.

Project Inclusion: Musicians of Color Fellowship Program The Chicago Sinfonietta is delighted to introduce the 2010 Class of Fellows for Project Inclusion. This program, begun in 2007, provides professional development opportunities for talented minority musicians funded through the generous support of Aon Cornerstone Innovative Solutions, the Chicago Community Trust, and Hewitt. Project Inclusion addresses the Sinfonietta’s long-term goal of increasing the number of minority musicians playing in orchestras across the U.S. by providing fellowships and ensemble experience for promising young musicians. Recent data shows that less than 3% of orchestral musicians performing with the top 1,000 orchestras are people of color.

Project Inclusion provides 2 year fellowships for young musicians of color that include rehearsing and performing with the orchestra, receiving one-on-one mentoring from senior members of the Sinfonietta, attending master classes and mock auditions, and assistance in job placement after completion of the program.

We are delighted to introduce the 2010 class of Project Inclusion Orchestra Fellows.

They are: Name Elizabeth Diaz Tamara Gonzalez Tasha Lawson

Instrument Flute Violin Horn

College Loyola DePaul LSU

We are also delighted to introduce the 2010 Project Inclusion Ensemble Fellows who will be performing in smaller ensembles at various locations throughout the year. They are: Name Ricardo Ferreira Kevin Lin Shawnita Tyus

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Instrument Violin Viola Violin

College DePaul Roosevelt DePaul

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Project Inclusion Orchestra and Ensemble Fellows Program is managed by Renée Baker. Our mentors include orchestra members Renée Baker, Principal Viola, John Fairfield, Principal French Horn, Janice McDonald, Principal Flute, and Karen Nelson, Principal Second Violin.

Maestro Freeman notes, “We look forward to working with these talented musicians and aiding in their professional development. This program addresses the core of our mission and is a wonderful continuation of our past work. We sincerely thank all who have contributed to the development and implementation of Project Inclusion.”

We also wish to acknowledge some very important partners whose assistance has been invaluable in developing and implementing Project Inclusion: Chicago College of the Performing Arts at Roosevelt University – Henry Fogel, Dean DePaul School of Music – Donald E. Casey, Dean Northwestern University School of Music – Toni-Marie Montgomery, Dean We thank Aon Cornerstone Innovative Solutions, the Lead Sponsor of Project Inclusion. Thanks also to Supporting Sponsors Chicago Community Trust and Hewitt & Associates LLC.

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C H I C AG O S I N F O N I E T TA B OA R D O F D I R E C TO R S Cheri Chappelle........................................................................................................................ Chair Tara Dowd Gurber.................................................................................... Immediate Past Chair Anita J. Wilson....................................................................................................................Secretary Mark J. Williams......................................................Treasurer/Finance Committee Co-Chair Patrick Cermak.......................................................................Development Committee Chair Virginia Clarke........................................................................... Nominating Committee Chair Margarete Evanoff..................................................................... Finance Committee Co-Chair Dean R. Nelson..............................................................................Marketing Committee Chair Nazneen Razi.................................................................................... Program Committee Chair Paul Freeman...................................................................................... Founding Music Director Mei-Ann Chen.................................................................................... Music Director Designate Jim Hirsch............................................................................................................Executive Directo Neelum T. Aggarwal Karim HK Ahamed Anne Barlow-Johnston Jetta Bates-Vasilatos Linda Boasmond Phil Engel Phil Gant III Rich Gamble Dan Grossman Steven V. Hunter Gregory P. Jacobson Betty Johnson Nicole Johnson-Scales

Kevin A. Krakora John Luce Stephanie Springs Michelle Vanderlaan Kimberly Waller Greta Weathersby Chairs of Friends Organizations Dr. Lascelles Anderson – West Side Friends Linda Tuggle – South Side Friends

Barbara Harper Norman – North Side Friends Kathleen Tannyhill – North Side Friends LIFETIME TRUSTEES Michelle Collins Bettiann Gardner Weldon Rougeau Audrey Tuggle Roger Wilson

C H I C AG O S I N F O N I E T TA A D M I N I S T R AT I V E P E R S O N N E L Jim Hirsch............................................................................................................ Executive Director Renée Baker..................................................................................................... Personnel Manager Paris Braxton...............................................................................Box Office/Database Manager Enrique ‘Henry’ E. Chang.............................................................................. Marketing Director Jeanetta Hampton............................................................................................Financial Director Jeff Handley..................................................................Education Outreach Program Director Christina Harris..........................................................................Production Manager/Librarian Don Macica..................................................................................................Marketing Consultant Courtney Perkins................................................................................. Director of Development William Porter...................................................................................................Assistant Librarian Ryan Smith....................................................................... Administrative/Website Coordinator We Need You! Volunteer for the Chicago Sinfonietta, meet great people, and make a real difference. For information on how you can become a Sinfonietta volunteer, call Ryan Smith at 312-236-3681 x1552.

Classical music for your special event! The Chicago Sinfonietta’s wonderful and talented musicians are available to perform at parties, weddings, corporate meetings, or special events. For more information, call 312-236-3681 x 1553.

The Chicago Sinfonietta is the official orchestra of the Joffrey Ballet.

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BRIO LEADERSHIP COUNCIL Brio, the Chicago Sinfonietta’s Network for Young Professionals, is an affinity group for the culturally adventurous between the ages of 21 and 44 who embrace the universal language of music. The mission of Brio is to extend the base of support for the Chicago Sinfonietta and its goals by engaging the next generation of culturally adventurous and philanthropically inclined audiences through access to behindthe-scenes experiences and volunteer opportunities.

To learn more about Brio, visit www.chicagosinfonietta.org/brio, or call Courtney Perkins at 312.284.1559.

BRIO LEADERSHIP COUNCIL Stanley Hill ................................................................................................................................. Chair Jasmin French............................................................................................. Immediate Past Chair Dalida Jongsma..................................................................................................................Secretary Mackenzie Phillips.............................................................................................................Treasurer Matthew Braun Michelle Crisanti Steven Hunter

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C H I C AG O S I N F O N I E T TA P E R S O N N E L Paul Freeman, Music Director Leslie B. Dunner, Guest Conductor VIOLIN Paul Zafer, concertmaster Carol Lahti, asst. concertmaster Karen Nelson, principal second Dave Belden, asst. principal Mark Agnor Lucinda Ali Charles Bontrager Melanie Clevert Daniela Folker Terrance Gray Carl Johnston David Katz Carmen Llop-Kassinger Domnica Lungu Todd Matthews Nina Saito James Sanders Phyllis Sanders Michael Shelton Edith Yokley

PIANO Donald Mead

VIOLA RenĂŠe Baker, principal Becky Coffman Andrew Dowd III Robert Fisher Matt Mantell Vannia Phillips

FRENCH HORN John Schreckengost, principal Beth Mazur-Johnson Anna Mayne Tasha Lawson*

CELLO Ann Griffin, principal Mark Anderson Donald Mead Edward Moore William Porter Andrew Snow BASS John Floeter, principal Christian Dillingham Brenda Donati Karl EH Seigfried Alan Steiner HARP Faye Seeman

FLUTE Janice MacDonald, principal Leslie Short Nicole Mitchell OBOE Ricardo Castaneda, principal June Matayoshi Amy Barwan CLARINET Leslie Grimm, acting principal Daniel Won Dileep Gangolli BASSOON Robert Barris, principal Amy Rhodes

TRUMPET Matt Lee, principal Edgar Campos John Burson TROMBONE Katherine Stubbins, principal Robert Hoffhines John McAllister TUBA Charles Schuchat TIMPANI Robert Everson, principal PERCUSSION Jeffrey Handley, principal Michael Folker Jon Johnson

Names of string players are listed in alphabetical order, as the Chicago Sinfonietta uses seat rotation except for principals. * Project Inclusion Fellow 22 Chicago Sinfonietta

I N D I V I D UA L A N D I N S T I T U T I O N A L S U P P O R T E R S The Chicago Sinfonietta gratefully acknowledges the following contributors (as of 12-31-10): Concert Circle ($50,000+) Anonymous Aon Cornerstone Chicago Community Trust The Joyce Foundation The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation National Endowment for the Arts Recovery Act The Wallace Foundation Premier Circle ($25,000-$49,999) Alphawood Foundation Anonymous ABC7 Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois The Boeing Company Charitable Trust Crown Family Philanthropies Mrs. Bettiann Gardner Kraft Foods Global, Inc. Prince Charitable Trust Polk Bros. Foundation Lloyd A. Fry Foundation Southside Friends of the Chicago Sinfonietta Crescendo Circle ($10,000-$24,999) Baxter The Collins Family Fund Exelon Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation Ms. Tara Dowd Gurber Leo S. Guthman Fund Hewitt Illinois Tool Works, Inc. JP Morgan Chase Foundation Japanese Chamber of Commerce Foundation and Industry of Chicago Jenner and Block LLP Mr. and Mrs. William Johnson John Mathias

National Endowment for the Arts The Nielsen Company Northern Trust Charitable Trust Northside Friends of the Chicago Sinfonietta People’s Energy The Albert Pick, Jr. Fund PricewaterhouseCoopers Wight & Company Presto Circle ($5,000-$9,999) Anonymous Ms. Renee Baker Cedar Concepts Corporation Chicago Tribune Foundation DLA Piper US LLP Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Fifth Third Bank – Jacob G. Schmidlapp Trusts Mrs. Jill Fitzgerald Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation Grainger John R. Halligan Charitable Fund Jim and Michelle Hirsch Drs. Peyton and Betty Hutchison Illinois Arts Council Illinois Tool Works Foundation Irving Harris Foundation The Jacobson Group Macy’s Mr. and Mrs. Salhuddin and Nazneen Razi Reed Smith LLP Mr. Mark Williams Vivace Circle ($2,500-$4,999) Dr. Neelum Aggarwal Anonymous Mr. Karim Ahamed Ms. Karen Beal Ms. Anne Barlow Johnston

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Ms. Harriet Hausman Ms. Lori Hayes Shaw Marilyn Heckmyer Mr. William Heelan Ms. Mia Henry Ms. Rhonda Hill Ms. Florence L. Hirsch In Honor of Florence L. Hirsch Mr. John B. Hirsch Alsencia Warren Hodo In Honor of Patricia Bournique Holloway Ms. Holly Hughes Ms. Rosemary Jack Ms. Doris Jackson Ms. Vera Curry James Ms. Argie Johnson Ms. Beulah Johnson Mr. Ray Johnson Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth and Charlotte Kenzel Carol Kipperman George & Velna Kolodziej Mr. Robert Lardner Mr. and Mrs. Samuel and Joan Lovering Mrs. Willie E. Legardy Ms. Pearl Madlock Pearl Malk Alefiyah Master June Matayoshi Mr. John M. McDonald Ms. Yvonne D. McElroy Mr. and Mrs. Dick and Peg McKinlay Mr. and Mrs. Thomas and Sharon McLean Irene M. Meyer Barbara Millar Ms. Vivian Mitchell Ms. Madeline Moon Kathryn and Fred Nirde Ms. Earnestine Norwood Ms. Sally Nusinson Jewell K. Oates Delano and Bonita O’Banion Ms. Irma Olmedo Ms. Gertrude O’Reilly Mr. Gary C. Pelz Noel and Bella Perlman Joan and Robert Pope Mr. Clyde Proctor

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OTHER SUPPORTERS The Chicago Sinfonietta is supported by grants from the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency; the Joyce Foundation; the Chicago Community Trust; the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs CityArts Program; the National Endowment for the Arts, and other generous sponsors.

– Chicago Sinfonietta patrons are invited to enjoy a special $41 three-course pre-or post-concert dining menu at aria.

– The official hotel sponsor of the Chicago Sinfonietta.

– Parking partner of the Chicago Sinfonietta

The Chicago Sinfonietta is represented by the Silverman Group for public relations services.

The Sinfonietta thanks Starbucks for the donation of coffee for our Lund Auditorium concerts.

THANKS TO THE SAINTS, Volunteers for the Performing Arts. For information visit

www.saintschicago.org or call 773-529-5510.

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T H E F R I E N D S G R O U P S O F T H E C H I C AG O S I N F O N I E T TA The Friends of the Chicago Sinfonietta is made up of three volunteer organizations - the North, South, and West Side chapters - that promote the Sinfonietta and its mission. These groups introduce the Sinfonietta to new audiences and seek their involvement as subscribers, attendees, contributors, and volunteers.

For more information about how you can become involved, contact the Chicago Sinfonietta at 312.236.3681.

North Side Chapter Barbara Norman, Co-Chair Kathleen Tannyhill, Co-Chair Rochelle Allen Anna Anthony Rita Curry Dr. Milton Draper Stanley Hilton Drs. Betty and Peyton Hutchison Carol Johnson Constance Montgomery Nailah Muttalib Charlz Payne Beverly Washington South Side Chapter Linda Tuggle, Chair Lonnette Alexander Iris Atkins Julie Bargowski Beulah R. Brooks Pauline Spicer Brown Christine Browne Carole H. Butler Anna Cannon Cheri Chappelle Bobbi Jo Donelson Elise Howard Edmond Emelda L. Estell Eileen Foggie Ellen Gary Joyce R. Grey Janice M. Hamasaki Sharon Hatchett Veronica S. Jenifer Nekesa J. Josey Janis E. Marley Doris Merrity Beatrice W. Miller Helen P. Moore Jacqueline L. Moore Joyce M. Norman Marcia A. Preston Gwendolyn Ritchie

Marion E. Roberts Antoinette Scott Sharon E. Scott Glenda Smith Joyce Occomy Stricklin Sheila Tucker Audrey Tuggle Dorothy R. White Elizabeth Wilkins Rita Wilson Barbara Wright-Pryor Aline O. Young West Side Chapter Dr. Lascelles Anderson, Chair Barbara Ballinger Jann Beauchamp Angela Billings Drs. Ernest and Vanice (Van) Billups, Ph.D. Bruce and Faith Bonecutter Byron T. Broderick Judy Chrisman William and Barbara Coates Bob and Mary Ellen Creighton William Crozier Eleanor M. Dunn Mr. and Mrs. Robert Freeman Flora Green Laurie Heckman Carole Hohmeier Linda Jacobson Mary James Bob Kohl Fred and Barbara Larson Mr.& Mrs. Kweku Leighton-Armah Everlean Manning Dick and Peg McKinlay Dr. John Morrison Adekunle Onayemi Ruth Peaslee John Putnam Richard and Roberta Raymond-Larson Lois Reed Janice Rhodes Jane Shirley Mabel Sims-Barnes John Troelstrup

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C H I C AG O C L A S S I C A L M U S I C .O R G Don’t miss out – visit chicagoclassicalmusic.org today! Highlighting an in-depth, behind-the-scenes look into Chicago’s world of classical music, the site features a comprehensive classical music events calendar, Hot Deal discounted tickets, a classical music news feed, forums to discuss the arts, blogs and articles written by musicians and leaders of top classical organizations in Chicago (including the Sinfonietta’s own Executive Director, Jim Hirsch),and much, much more. You can create your own user profile, post comments, articles and reviews!

So get engaged and join Chicago’s classical music online community – www.chicagoclassicalmusic.org!

Our 31 Participating organizations include Ars Antigua, Ars Viva, Avalon String Quartet, Baroque Band, Cedille Records, Chicago a cappella, Chicago Chamber Musicians, Chicago Cultural Center – Department of Cultural Affairs, Chicago Opera Theater, Chicago Philharmonic, Chicago Sinfonietta, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, CUBE, Dominican University Performing Arts Center, Elmhurst Choral Union, Fulcrum Point New Music Project, Grant Park Music Festival, Harris Theater for Music and Dance, Illinois Philharmonic Orchestra, Light Opera Works, Mostly Music Chicago, Music of the Baroque, Newberry Consort, Pacifica Quartet, Pick-Staiger Concert Hall, Northwestern University, Ravinia, Rembrandt Chamber Players, St. Charles Singers, The Chicago Ensemble, University of Chicago Presents, and WFMT. Generous support is provided by the MacArthur Foundation.

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