BACH WEEK FESTIVAL To Take Final Bow With 50th Anniversary Season Photo
by A.A. Cristi
- March 01, 2024
Celebrate the final season of the Evanston-based BACH WEEK FESTIVAL, a beloved Chicago spring tradition since 1974. The 50th anniversary season, running from April 26 to May 5, 2024, will conclude with J. S. Bach's final sacred masterpiece, the Mass in B Minor....
Third Coast Baroque's LUCIFERA To See Return Of Mezzo-Soprano Vivica Genaux And Music Photo
by A.A. Cristi
- April 01, 2022
Chicago early-music ensemble Third Coast Baroque will mark its pandemic-delayed return to full-scale mainstage productions with 'Lucifera: Illuminating the Darkness,' a new project conceived and headlined by mesmerizing mezzo-soprano Vivica Genaux, with the period-instrument Third Coast Baroque Orchestra, led by its Argentina-born, Vienna-based music director Rubén Dubrovsky conducting from the colascione, a lute-like instrument rarely seen in North America....
Orion to Continue in March with Farrenc & More Photo
by Chloe Rabinowitz
- January 24, 2022
Music from the 19th and 20th centuries fills the program for the third concert of The Orion Ensemble’s 29th season, featuring works by Schoenfield, Still and Tchaikovsky at three venues: New England Congregational Church in Aurora (March 6), PianoForte Studios in Chicago (March 9) and Nichols Concert Hall in Evanston (March 13)....
The Orion Ensemble Cancels May 2020 Concerts Photo
by Chloe Rabinowitz
- April 21, 2020
The Orion Ensemble announced that, after considering all options, it is cancelling its final series of performances in its 2019-20 season, scheduled May 3 at New England Congregational Church in Aurora, May 6 at PianoForte Studios in Chicago and May 10 at Nichols Concert Hall in Evanston....
Chicago's Bach Week Festival Unveils 2020 Season Photo
by Stephi Wild
- March 15, 2020
The Chicago area's 47th annual Bach Week Festival has announced details of its 2020 season of concerts in Chicago and Evanston, Illinois, May 1 to May 30, 2020, including the Baroque music festival's first mainstage period-instrument program and its first concert in Chicago's Ravenswood neighborhood, among other events....