Results tagged “concert”

New-music group Fulcrum Point will play a concert tomorrow night to preview their November 12 show at the Harris Theater. While, yes, it is to a large degree "only" a preview concert, the fact is sometimes watching a trailer is pretty cool.

This trio of concerts includes solos, duets, and a bunch of people playing a concert entitled "Duality."

Do you demand satisfaction? You'll be able to find it at either solo violin recital going on this weekend, as two accomplished musicians play works from opposite ends of the Western music spectrum.

Third Coast Percussion opens its season this Saturday at Roosevelt University with a program connecting music and architecture. The concert is an extension of the group's recent week-long residency at Taliesin, the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture. Taliesin, located in Spring Green, Wisconsin, was Wright's summer home and started as a school in 1932 when the architect brought out twenty-three apprentices to study with him. TCP filled their week with outreach concerts, panel discussions, and a final concert, which will be replayed on Saturday night.

Remember when Bush cut taxes disproportionately for the wealthy, and you were all, "This is exactly what I was afraid was going to happen," and then he sent out those rebate checks, and you were like, "Oh sure, he's just throwing money at us to distract us from all the terrible things he's doing," but then you got your few hundred dollars in the mail, and you went, "Eh, I might as well buy an iPod"? Well, think about that this Sunday when the Chicago Symphony Orchestra shows its support for the "Back the Bid" campaign by having a one-day sale where tickets are just $20.16.

Innovative, thoughtful programming and unorthodox venues were hallmarks of Anaphora's inaugural season, and it looks like they'll be picking up where they left off with tomorrow night's opener of their Contemporary Series at the Jazz Showcase. The concert will highlight a recent contemporary music trend of incorporating jazz in more sophisticated ways. Many of the early attempts to combine the two genres treated jazz as a novelty - an orchestra playing swing eighth notes, say - but now the fusion is becoming more organic and less overt, due in large part to a shrinking music world that allows composers to be exposed to and influenced by a wider variety of sources. Augusta Reed Thomas, the former Chicago Symphony Orchestra Composer-in-Residence whose “D(i)agon(als)” for solo clarinet will be performed Tuesday, described this new approach:

It is clear, in all my works, that I have been listening to jazz for 30 years. I am not a composer who does empty-headed "cross-over" jazz pieces where the jazz bits make all the jazzer's blush with embarrassment.... rather, there is a deeply integrated and digested set of references and perfumes which can be sensed.

Summer Sessions on the Square, a brand new concert series in Logan Square, makes its debut this Saturday. The concerts, which will take place on the last Saturday of every month through the end of September, will feature diverse line-ups of bands from the surrounding community, and will attempt to keep a family-friendly vibe with an early start time and a youth component among the performers.

       

Mandy Moore appeared at the LaSalle Power Company last night to perform a private concert for the winner of a Gain detergent competition. The show was exactly what our 15-year-old selves would have loved in 1999, including a singer who opened for The Backstreet Boys along with free candy and free drinks. Surprisingly, though, our 25-year-old selves enjoyed a very different Mandy as she performed an hour-long acoustic set. She hasn’t yet collaborated with her new hubby Ryan Adams, but Mike Viola, the musical director for her new album Amanda Leigh, has also worked with Adams, and the influence shows. (Fun fact: Viola was also the voice of the film That Thing You Do.)

Goran Bregovic and his Wedding and Funeral Orchestra bring their raucous live show back to Chicago for a performance at Ravinia this Sunday at 7:00 p.m.

Local ensemble Anaphora has put together another can't-miss mix of new music by local and big name contemporary composers for the final concert of this season's Contemporary Series.

Hear ye, hear ye! The honorable Richard M. Daley has declared today Rush Hour Concerts Day in Chicago! All his subjects are required by law to submit to his will and attend the opening concert of the tenth Rush Hour season tonight!

Alright, folks, I have to make this quick before my editors get back from their coffee run. Here's the deal: By now you probably know about our fifth anniversary party this Saturday night at The Whistler. I want to tell you about a great concert going on that night, but if my editors find out I plugged something other than our party, they'll make Gitmo look like a Mancow stunt. They are not fucking around on this one.

If you're not familiar with the marimba, check out the eight marimbists, bassist, and percussionist of Marimba Nacional de Concierto perform folk, popular, and contemporary music at the Cultural Center tonight and the Old Town School of Folk Music on Wednesday.

Problem: You want to treat your mom to some classy tunes this Sunday, but you don't know which concert to see.

Double bass virtuoso Edgar Meyer finishes his residency with the University of Chicago Presents with a series of events from Thursday through Saturday.

Chicago new music group dal niente will be performing a show entitled "Hard Music, Hard Liquor" at The Spot this Saturday night. The program gets its name because it features five solo pieces so mind-numbingly difficult, it took these accomplished musicians up to six months to prepare for this concert.

The Carnatica Brothers, the South Indian classical vocal duo performing tomorrow night at the Cultural Center, have a misleading name. Their family name isn't Carnatica, and, actually, they're not even brothers.

Third Coast Percussion wraps up their season tomorrow night at the Chopin Theatre with a concert featuring music with a political bent.

Tonight at the Merit School of Music, the 11 young musicians of Fifth House Ensemble will double as actors in the third act of their Commedia dell'Arte concert series. Fifth House presents unconventional concerts, connecting music with seemingly unrelated things (recently they worked with a biology class relating classical compositions to ecosystems). Tonight they combine an old Italian theater form with works by Arnold Schoenberg, Anton Webern, and...Jacob TV?

Even though we weren't as excited about it as some people, we knew tickets for the July 21 Elton John-Billy Joel concert at Wrigley Field would sell pretty fast. So, too, it seems, did the promoters. In a move that's not really a surprise, a second date has been added. The promoters sent an email to ticket holders informing them of the decision. The original show on July 21 is still on but the second show will now happen on July 16. In addition to the second show, ticket holders for the 21st can stop by this website and apply to have their tickets swapped for "comparable" seats for the show on the 16th if they prefer. The deadline for applying for the seat swap is 5 p.m. this Saturday, February 21. So far, there's no concrete general on sale information for the newly added show but it can't be too far away.

Last week, we mentioned Flight of the Conchords' upcoming show at the Arie Crown. It now seems demand was so high for New Zealand's "fourth most popular guitar-based digi-bongo acapella-rap-funk-comedy folk duo" that they've added an additional date for April 29. Presale tickets are available now and general onsale begins this Saturday. [via]

We've mentioned OFFICE a bunch, and how much we like their smarty-pants pop, so we're pleased to be giving away two pairs of tickets to see them headline Reggie's Rock Club later tonight. Another Chicagoist fave, Ultra Sonic Edukkators is also playing, and the thought of they're hyper Brit-pop running headfirst into OFFICE's super tight arrangement makes us get all giddy, jumping up and down and clapping our hands.

While we're fans of Fu Manchu, we were going to skip their appearance at Double Door tonight. They always put on a dependable show, and we've never been let down by Scott Hill and his band of skater stoner-rockers, but every once in a while even we need to stay in and take an evening off to relax. Well, at least that was our plan.

, Chicago has long been home to one of Steve Earle's strongest fan bases. He's such a gifted songwriter that fans often overlook the fact that he's essentially made the same record since 1996, right down to the obligatory duet with a female singer, "state of my life" liner notes and beautiful artwork by his good friend, the local artist and noted unemployed film-goer Tony Fitzpatrick.

This Sunday, Old Town School of Folk Music is hosting a hootenanny! Kids are invited to come in their pajamas and tote along their favorite plushie for this twee pre-bedtime show featuring Wiggleworms teachers Lindsay Weinberg, Rob Newhouse, Elaine Moore and others. Chicago Children's Theater promises to bring their own, life-sized Teddy Bear to join in the festivities. Show starts at 5 p.m. at Old Town's Lincoln Square location, and tickets are $11 for members and $12 for everyone else.

We know you head to Beat Kitchen to enjoy the likes of artists like Plane, New Duncan Imperials and Deadstring Brothers. Be prepared for your toddler to start dragging you back out when they hear about the “Concerts for Kids” shows on Sunday afternoons … at the same Beat Kitchen where you were rockin’ the night before. Once a month, Beat Kitchen opens up its concert space for local talent that caters to the younger...

All across the Ist-A-Verse (or at least the American parts thereof), writers and editors are in the midst of enjoying their three-day weekend. But after the week we've all had, we feel like the break is not only needed, but deserved. Just look at everything we've been doing! Gothamist headed into the Memorial Day weekend with a number of tasks accomplished. They worried about Long Islanders giving New Yorkers a bad name. They tried...

We usually hate to just throw up a bunch of stuff in list form, but we’ve gotten wind of so many cool things that we just had to share 'em all. The kicker? They’re all free. No matter what your taste in celluloid or pixel, you’re bound to find something here to whet your whistle: Chicago indie flick The Minx is having a free screening on Saturday at Schubas, 3159 N. Southport Ave. Director Michael...

Now that City Council has banned smoking tobacco on Chicago stages, city actors and audiences will have to get used to that cool herbal cigarette smell. If you're Jonesing for the real thing, you’ll have to head out to suburban Next, Circle, and Northlight theaters. Architect David Fisher, of “Leonardo da Vinci Smart Bathroom” fame, is hoping city leaders will go to bat for his next idea: a skyscraper whose floors spin slowly and independently,...

Thanksgiving is over and the power shopping days are here. Taking some time out for music this week shouldn’t be too hard – it’s getting up early for work after four days off that’s difficult. Following are a few shows that will carry us from November’s rain to December’s snow.