The Joffrey Ballet has announced the world premiere of Rita Finds Home, a family-friendly program and collaborative project between the Joffrey and Miami City Ballet, which will make its debut at the Navy Pier Lake Stage this July.
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DuPage Community Concert Band, under the baton of Dr. Mark A. Taylor, performs an excitingly diverse program for its spring concert at the McAninch Arts Center (MAC) 7:30 p.m. Monday, May 2.
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TimeLine Theatre Company recently announced that it has named Mica Cole as the company’s new executive director, effective May 16.
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The Joan W. and Irving B. Harris Theater for Music and Dance will present Emancipation by Adrian Dunn with the The Adrian Dunn Singers and Rize Orchestra on the Harris Theater Mainstage on Friday, April 29, 2022 at 7:30 p.m..
Emancipation is the second installment in the trilogy cycle composed by Adrian Dunn exploring Black life in America, through genres created by Black Americans. The program will be performed by The Adrian Dunn Singers and Rize Orchestra, all-Black professional ensembles founded by Dunn and dedicated to transforming classical music and the music industry at large. This performance of Emancipation marks the first time that an all-Black professional orchestra has played at the Harris Theater. This historic moment will be filmed and recorded for a live album.
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Throughout the Elmhurst Art Museum’s 25th year of inspiring its community, the museum will host a year-long celebration, with a focus
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Northeastern Illinois University and Ensemble Español Spanish Dance Theater will host the Cardinal Bartolucci Foundation Choir from Rome at Northeastern Illinois University’s Auditorium, 3701 W. Bryn Mawr Ave., at 11:30 a.m. and 7:30 p.m. Friday, April 22.
For almost 50 years, Cardinal Domenico Bartolucci, choirmaster of the Sistine Chapel Choir, oversaw the music of the sacred liturgies of the successors of St. Peter. The choir established in his name now disseminates and promotes knowledge of the most celebrated composers of religious music from the Renaissance to present day.
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In conjunction with Elmhurst Art Museum’s 25th year of inspiring its community, the museum and RGL Marketing for the Arts launch summer festival season with
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Chicago Symphony Orchestra (CSO) Music Director Riccardo Muti returns to Chicago in March and April to lead the symphony orchestra in works by Mazzoli, Mahler, Bruckner, Britten, Strauss and Schumann during two weeks of subscription concerts.
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Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestras (CYSO) hosted its 2022 Gala “Listen to the Future,” celebrating CYSO’s 75th Anniversary season at the Marriott Marquis Chicago, 2121 S. Prairie Ave., Saturday, March 12.
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One year after its April 2021 announcement of $3 million in expedited funding, and two years after its April 2020 announcement of nearly $3 million in expedited finding, the Chicago-based Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation (the Foundation) has announced a third wave of support, expediting an additional $2.1 million that includes: $1.6 million in expedited payments to Chicago small arts organizations in the midst of their multi-year award; and $576,000 in general operating renewal grants.
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