Shulamit Ran Portrait Concert with Julia Bentley, mezzo-soprano
10.27.2015
Tuesday, 7:30 pm
Performance Hall, Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts
915 E. 60th Street, Chicago, IL 60637
$25 / $5 students http://ticketsweb.uchicago.edu
Concert Program
O The Chimneys
Verticals
Lyre of Orpheus
Mirage
Bach Shards
The 51st season opens in celebration of Shulamit Ran, recently retired artistic director of Contempo (serving 2002-2015). Ran received the Pulitzer Prize in 1991 and has been awarded most major honors given to US composers. The program features her memorable and significant chamber works, beginning with O The Chimneys (1969), set on poems about those who perished in the Holocaust. The evening concludes with Bach Shards, commissioned in 2003 as part of the Brentano String Quartet’s invitation to 10 composers to write companion pieces for Bach’s Art of Fugue.
This program is a part of Contempo's 51st Season.
Featured Artist(s): eighth blackbird, Julia Bentley, Pacifica Quartet