Pencil This In: 9-11 Peace Concert; Northwest Chicago Film Society Horror Film Double Feature
By Chuck Sudo in Arts & Entertainment on Sep 11, 2012 5:20PM
New Music
Fulcrum Point New Music Project's annual Concert for Peace is inspired by a vision of a harmonious world. Initially created a as an interfaith concert, the concert brings together music, cultures and faiths from around the world in celebration of shared wisdom and the aspiration that we can find common ground in the virtues of peace, kindness, compassion and good will. Tonight's program at the Chase Auditorium (10 S. Dearborn) will feature: Israeli composer Shulamit Ran’s “East Wind” for solo flute; David Dzubay’s “Wintu Dream Song,” based on a Native American song from the Wintu tribe; R. Carlos Nakai’s “Colors Fall” and “Peace Chants;” Zamin’s “Carousel,” based on the poetry of Mirza Ghalib, and “The Wait” based on the poetry of Faiz Ahmed Faiz; and Chinese composer Zhou Long’s otherworldly “Harmony,” blending traditional Chinese and contemporary Western music styles. Tickets are $20, $10 for students, police and firemen and their families, and available here.
Classic Horror Film
The Northwest Chicago Film Society screens its first ever double feature Wednesday, Sept. 12: a screening of Universal's Dracula's Daughter and Werewolf of London in pristine 35 mm prints. Werewolf of London stars Henry Hull as a botanist who succeeds in acquiring a rare flower that only blooms when the moon is full, but not before being attacked by a werewolf. The makeup designed by Universal's Jack Pierce to show Hull's transformation into a werewolf was simpler than the makeup Pierce devised for Lon Chaney Jr. in The Wolf Man six years later, but Hull's makeup is more convincing nearly 80 years later. Dracula's Daughter stars Gloria Holden as a vampire preying on young London girls while being chased by Professor Von Helsing (Edward Van Sloan, reprising his role from Dracula). Dracula's Daughter is notable for its lesbian overtones, a rarity in Hays Code-era Hollywood.
(Portage Theater, 4050 N. Milwaukee Ave., 7:30 p.m., $5)
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