Bach in the City, successor to the Chicago area’s long-running Bach Week Festival, will present “Bach and the Venetians,” the new organization’s inaugural concert program, at 7:30 p.m. March 21, 2025, at its home venue, St. Vincent de Paul Church, 1010 W. Webster Avenue, in Chicago’s Lincoln Park neighborhood. The concert, on J. S. Bach’s […]
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Stare at the Sun presents “You Through Me” in Chicago, featuring Caroline Shaw’s “To the Hands”
Stare at the Sun, a Chicago-based chamber choir, is presenting a concert exploring the ways in which human beings form meaningful interpersonal connections as well as the means by which we partition ourselves from one another. With performances on May 18 and 19, You Through Me explores the issue of human migration and the ways […]
Dreamsong with Vox Venti – Chicago
The closing concert of Vox Venti‘s second season under the direction of ed Frazier Davis explores the concept of dreams -some fantastical, others grounded in the here and now. Works include compositions by Eriks Esenvalds, Adolphus Hailstork, Caroline Mallonee, Andre Thomas, Mari Esabel, Eric Whitacre and Ralph Vaughan Williams, plus the 1st and 2nd prize winners […]
William Baker Festival Singers & Vox Venti in Concert – Chicago, April 28
The Kansas City-based William Baker Festival Singers will conclude their Chicago residency in a joint performance with the Chicago-based Vox Venti, under the direction of Ed Frazier Davis. There will be one performance only, Sunday, April 28, 3:00 PM, at the St. Chrysostom’s Episcopal Church, 1424 N Dearborn Street, Chicago, IL 60610. Admission is free with donations gratefully […]
Constellation Men’s Ensemble presents NOVA VI: pathways
NOVA VI: pathways will feature music exploring the ideas of place, home, journey, and nostalgia. NOVA VI will feature the world premiere of cardinal directions by award-winning composer Alex Berko. The rest of the program will premiere more composers’ works giving voice to identity, perspective, and understanding all within our collective existence on this earth. […]
Bach Week Festival Opening Night
The Chicago area’s 50th annual Bach Week Festival opens with an overture: Georg Philipp Telemann’s Overture (Suite) in D Major for Two Trumpets, Timpani, Strings and Continuo, TWV 55:D18, at 7:30 p.m. Friday, April 28, at North Park University’s Anderson Chapel, 5159 N. Spaulding Avenue, Chicago. The program features two large-scale sacred works of J. […]