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from Bach & Vivaldi

SUNDAY

JULY 19

JOIN THE CHICAGO FRIENDS OF APOLLO’S FIRE The Inaugural Benefit Event for APOLLO’S FIRE-CHICAGO at The University Club of Chicago

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

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WELCOME TO “WINTER SPARKS!"

APOLLO'S FIRE CHICAGO BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Elisa Ross M.D. President

Katrina Pipasts President Emeritus

Doug Miller

Vice President

Patricia (“Patti”) Skigen Secretary

Shay Olson Treasurer

Michael Angell

Charles A. Bittenbender

Stephanie Champi

Patricia Costante

Blondean Davis, Ed.D.

Rosalind Jackson, Ph.D.

Marietta McPike

Michael J. Meehan

Florence Nelson

Phillip Rowland-Seymour

Marlon Rucker

James C. Sheinin, M.D.

Jeannette Sorrell*

David Walker*

We’re so glad you are here for this sparkling program of baroque virtuosity on period instruments. In exciting news, Apollo’s Fire’s performance of Bach’s B Minor Mass was chosen by Chicago Classical Review for one of the “Top 10 Concerts of 2025.” The editor wrote, “Apollo’s Fire gave a luminous account of the Bach Mass in B Minor at St. James Cathedral, a highlight of the ensemble’s five-year presence in Chicago. Jeannette Sorrell led a performance imbued with spiritual grace and gravitas that had the full measure of Bach’s transcendent statement of belief.”

Looking ahead, I can’t wait for our April 17-19 performances of “O Jerusalem! Crossroads of Three Faiths.” Ringing with urgency in our time, this acclaimed program created by Jeannette Sorrell won rave reviews in 2018. It brings together 26 artists from Jewish, Palestinian, Muslim, and Christian backgrounds. How lucky we are to catch this international troupe right here in Chicago! “O Jerusalem!” plays in Evanston, downtown Chicago, and Hyde Park, where AF is proud to debut at the historic KAM Isaiah Synagogue—come early and catch the beautiful stained-glass windows in their full splendor before the sun sets. Other performances include New York City (April 12) and London (April 25). We are also thrilled to announce our first-ever Benefit Event in Chicago – A Midsummer Night’s Dream on Sunday, July 19. In the gorgeous setting of Cathedral Hall at the historic University Club, this will be a delightful evening of music, feasting, and merriment to support AF's Chicago concerts and education programs. Please plan to join us!

After tonight’s concert, please say hello to any Board member with a name tag. We look forward to connecting with you!

Warmly,

*ex officio

Elisa K. Ross, M.D., Board President Apollo’s Fire-Chicago

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from Bach & Vivaldi

Jeannette Sorrell, harpsichord & direction

Debra Nagy, oboe

Kathie Stewart, traverso

Alan Choo & Susanna Perry Gilmore, violins

Sarah Stone, cello

Tuesday, February 3, 7:30pm Art Institute of Chicago, IL

Wednesday, February 4, 7:30pm Music Institute of Chicago, Evanston, IL

Friday, February 6, 7:30pm Big Arts Sanibel Island, FL

Sunday, February 8, 3:00pm VCU Arts, Richmond, VA

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In April 2026, Apollo's Fire returns to London and the English countryside. What better way to visit England than in the company of the charming AF musicians? Join us for all of the tour or any part of it.

Program

EVARISTO FELICE DALL'ABACO

(1675-1742)

Passepieds from Concerto à più Istrumenti in E minor, Op. 5 No. 3

Kathie Stewart, traverso | Debra Nagy, oboe

ANTONIO VIVALDI

(1678-1741)

Oboe Concerto in A minor, RV 461

Allegro non molto | Larghetto | Allegro

Debra Nagy, oboe

JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH

(1685-1750)

Orchestral Suite no. 2 in B minor, BWV 1067

Ouverture | Rondeau | Sarabande | Bourrée I & II

Polonaise | Menuet | Badinerie

Kathie Stewart, traverso —

Intermission —

MARIN MARAIS (1656-1728), arr. J. Sorrell

Sonnerie de Sainte Genevieve du Mont de Paris

VIVALDI

Concerto il Mondo al Roverscio, RV 572

Allegro | Largo | Allegro

Kathie Stewart, traverso | Debra Nagy, oboe

Alan Choo, violin | Sarah Stone, cello

BACH

Concerto in D minor for Two Violins, BWV 1043

Vivace | Largo ma non tanto | Allegro

Alan Choo & Susanna Perry Gilmore, violins

On Wednesday night, enjoy light bites, “spark”ling beverages, and great conversation! Open to all.

NOTES ON THE PROGRAM

The Golden Age of Concerti

by Alan Choo & Jeannette Sorrell

The Baroque period was the golden era for the concerto genre, as composers pushed the technical and expressive boundaries of all kinds of instruments, thereby attaining new heights in virtuosity and dramatic possibilities. Today’s program aims to fire up your cold, wintry day with a selection of concertos featuring the baroque flute, oboe, violin and cello.

The composer Evaristo Felice Dall’Abaco (16751742) was born in Verona, just about an hour’s drive outside of Venice. His father was a renowned guitarist who saw his son’s talent and provided him with violin and cello lessons. Growing up in the shadow of Vivaldi, Dall’Abaco’s musical style very much emulates the Red Priest’s work. However, Dall’Abaco eventually went north to the courts of Munich and Brussels, where he worked as a chamber musician. During his years in Brussels he absorbed the French style.

The Passepieds from his Concerto à piu strumenti (“concerto for multiple instruments”) is a classic example of a composer writing in the French musical style within an Italian genre. The Passepied is a brisk dance in triple meter, here appearing as a pair of dances in minor and major keys, with a reprise of the first passepied after.

While Antonio Vivaldi is generally known today for his violin concertos, it is notable that he, together with Tomaso Albinoni and Alessandro Marcello, wrote one of the first concertos for the oboe. Composed in the 1720s very

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shortly after the Albinoni and Marcello concertos, the Oboe Concerto in A minor, RV 461 is one of around 20 concertos Vivaldi wrote for the oboe. The outer movements of the concerto feature orchestra ritornelli that are driving, slightly dark and intensely rhythmic, interspersed with oboe solo passages that range from light virtuosity to impassioned outcries. The middle movement provides a stark contrast in mood, creating a more contemplative, pastoral atmosphere in C major. Here, the oboe takes on an operatic role, singing long, expressive phrases that soar above a gentle, pulsating accompaniment in the strings.

For six years (1717-1723), Johann Sebastian Bach led one of the two finest orchestras of Germany. As music director at the palace of Köthen, he presided over a small but excellent orchestra of musicians who had formerly worked at the palace of Berlin. The prince of Köthen had successfully recruited these musicians from Berlin. The Berlin-Köthen musicians inspired in Bach an outpouring of virtuoso compositions for small orchestra. These pieces have become amongst the most beloved orchestral works in the world – the Brandenburg Concertos, the orchestral suites, and the violin concertos.

The pieces that we call the Orchestral Suites were labeled by Bach as “Ouvertures.” All of them are French-inspired suites consisting of a virtuosic overture in French style, followed by a series of dance movements. The great Ouverture no. 2 is essentially a flute concerto, and was clearly intended for a quite small ensemble so that the gentle baroque flute (or traverso) could be heard.

The opening Overture follows the classic French style, featuring a grand opening and closing section of dotted rhythms, sandwiching a fast, fugal middle section. The flute often doubles the first violins but breaks away for virtuosic episodes. The Rondeau is a graceful dance characterized by a recurring theme interspersed with contrasting episodes, providing a sense of balanced, courtly symmetry. The Sarabande is a slow, stately dance in triple meter. Bach employs a canon here — the bass line follows the melody exactly but at a different interval, creating a dense, emotive texture.

The pair of Bourrées are lighthearted, earthy dances, featuring the flute in a playful display of virtuosity in the second Bourrée. The Polonaise pays homage

NOTES ON THE PROGRAM (continued)

to the Polish folk dance, followed by its Double – its variation whereby the continuo section maintains the Polonaise theme while the flute performs a dazzling, continuous stream of sixteenth notes above them. The penultimate Menuet is elegant and understated, serving as a momentary breath of air before the high-energy finale. The closing Badinerie gets its name from the French word badiner (to jest or trifle). This is the suite's most famous movement—a lightning-fast display of flute virtuosity that has made its way to become a staple of popular culture.

The French Baroque composer Marin Marais was a central figure at the court of Louis XIV. His Sonnerie de Sainte-Geneviève du Mont-deParis (The Bells of St. Genevieve) is named after the Abbey of Sainte-Geneviève in Paris (the site where the Panthéon now stands). Marais captures the acoustic experience of standing near the abbey as its bells rang out across the city, creating a dense, overlapping web of sound. The entire composition is built upon a three-note basso ostinato (a repeating ground bass): D-F-E, evoking the carillon that never ceases. While the bass remains constant, Marais weaves an increasingly complex and virtuosic series of variations above it, and occasionally heightens the drama through subtle harmonic shifts.

Vivaldi's Concerto in F major, RV 572, an example of a “concerto for multiple instruments,” is an arrangement of an earlier concerto for just violin and cello, RV 544, with the same subtitle of "Il Proteo o sia il mondo al rovescio" (Proteus, or the World Turned Upside-Down). The latter phrase is a popular Baroque trope often associated with Carnival, where social and natural orders are inverted. In its original form of RV 544, Vivaldi turns the world “upside down” by writing the violin part in the bass clef (as if it were a cello) and the cello part in the treble clef (as if it were a violin), letting them occupy tonal registers that subvert traditional expectations. The evocative drone of the viola throughout the first movement acts as the central axis in the middle of the score, becoming the horizontal axis of this mirror where the two soloists switch roles. The viola drone is also widely interpreted to represent the shape-shifting god Proteus, whose omnipresence is felt through his ability to take different forms.

Vivaldi later expanded RV 544 into a concerto that also included solos for flute, oboe and harpsichord. Recent research suggests that this expanded version (RV 572) may have been prepared for the orchestra of Cardinal Pietro Ottoboni in Rome. Ottoboni’s ensemble was one of the few in Italy at the time that could boast the specific "extra" wind players and virtuoso harpsichordist required. Whilst the original “upside down” switching of the violin and cello

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ranges went away with this version, Vivaldi gained access to the tonal colors of more instruments as soloists pair up to engage in friendly conversation and dramatic sparring.

We close our program with the ever-popular Concerto for Two Violins, which, as with most of Bach’s concertos, had most likely been written for Köthen, but was revived by Bach for the Leipzig Collegium. In the first movement, the two soloists engage in a dramatic discourse, building on a ritornello that clearly shows the influence of Vivaldi. In the second movement, they converse serenely as two intimate friends, in sunny F major. In the third, they launch into a fiery and virtuosic duel, showing that Bach could fully challenge Vivaldi at his own game.

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Apollo's Fire has been chosen for the "Top 10 Concerts of 2025" in Chicago.

AF's April 2025 performance of Bach's B Minor Mass was picked for this honor by Chicago Classical Review, writing, "Apollo's Fire gave a luminous account of the Mass... easily one of the most memorable musical evenings of recent years."

Bach in the City

Successor to Bach Week Festival

JS Bach

ST. MArk PAssion

Friday, March 20, 2026 | 7:30 PM St. Vincent de Paul Church

Hannah De Priest, soprano Ryan Belongie, countertenor

Oliver Camacho, tenor

David McFerrin, bass Bach in the City Chorus & period-instrument orchestra conducted by

For the finale of its inaugural season, Bach in the City will present J. S. Bach’s St. Mark Passion. This Midwest premiere of Malcolm Bruno’s acclaimed new reconstruction of Bach’s lost masterpiece will includ newly composed music for recitatives and turba choruses by Richard Webster.

SOLOIST PROFILES

ALAN CHOO, violin, is Concertmaster and Associate Artistic Director of Apollo’s Fire. His album of Biber's Mystery Sonatas with AF debuted at #2 on the Billboard Classical chart, earning rave reviews from BBC Music Magazine, The Strad and Classica Magazine. Alan is Founder and Artistic Director of Red Dot Baroque, Singapore’s first professional baroque ensemble. He has appeared as soloist with FVG Orchestra (Italy), St. Petersburg Symphony, Singapore Symphony, and more. He holds a Doctorate in Historical Performance from CWRU.

SUSANNA PERRY GILMORE, violin, enjoys a multifaceted career as orchestral concertmaster, soloist, chamber musician and Celtic fiddler. She has performed with Apollo’s Fire since 2014 when she joined them for the Sugarloaf Mountain concerts and recordings as well as the Sephardic Journey CD. She is concertmaster of the Omaha Symphony and co-creator of Celtic Journey, a touring orchestral pops production. She received her degrees from Oxford University and New England Conservatory.

DEBRA NAGY, oboe, is recognized as “a baroque oboist of consummate taste and expressivity” (Cleveland Plain Dealer). She has acquired a reputation for creating fascinating and inviting concert experiences as Artistic Director of Les Délices, and plays principal oboe with the Handel & Haydn Society and other ensembles around the country. Debra was awarded a 2022 Cleveland Arts Prize (Mid-Career Artist) and honored with the 2022 Laurette Goldberg Prize from Early Music America for her outreach work with Les Délices.

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KATHIE STEWART, traverso, is Curator of Historical Keyboard Instruments and Teacher of Baroque Flute at Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music. She is a founding member and principal flutist of Apollo’s Fire, and has performed with ensembles including The Cleveland Orchestra, Tafelmusik, Portland Baroque, Philharmonia Baroque and the Washington Bach Consort. She is also Assistant Director of the Seattle Baroque Flute Workshop. Kathie is an avid proponent of Celtic music, playing Irish flute and whistle on several Apollo’s Fire recordings.

SARAH STONE, cello, was drawn to baroque cello and viola da gamba through a curiosity in the cultural background of the music she plays. She is executive director of Repast Baroque, a chamber music ensemble based in New York City, and manages Bitterroot Baroque, a community orchestra in Hamilton, Montana. Performances include with Trinity Baroque Orchestra, Seraphic Fire, and The Sebastians. Sarah holds a Masters in Historical Performance from the Juilliard School, a Masters from San Francisco Conservatory of Music, and a Bachelors of Music from Rice University with studies with Norman Fischer, Jean-Michel Fonteneau, Mara Finkelstein, Elizabeth Reed, Sarah Cunningham, and Phoebe Carrai.

VIOLIN I

Alan Choo, concertmaster

Susanna Perry Gilmore, associate concertmaster

Kiyoe Matsuura

VIOLIN II

Emi Tanabe, principal

Hanna Bingham

Yaël Senamaud Cohen

VIOLA

Nicole Divall, principal

Yaël Senamaud-Cohen

CELLO

Sarah Stone

APOLLO'S FIRE

CONTRABASS

Sue Yelanjian

TRAVERSO

Kathie Stewart

OBOE

Debra Nagy

THEORBO/GUITAR

William Simms

HARPSICHORD

Jeannette Sorrell

JEANNETTE SORRELL, Artistic Director

“Sorrell is an absolute dynamo onstage and a pleasure to see conduct… a force to be reckoned with.”

–SAN FRANCISCO CLASSICAL VOICE

GRAMMY®-winning conductor Jeannette Sorrell is recognized internationally as one of today’s most compelling interpreters of Baroque and Classical repertoire. She is the subject of Oscar-winning director Allan Miller’s documentary, PLAYING WITH FIRE: Jeannette Sorrell and the Mysteries of Conducting, commercially released in 2023.

Bridging the period-instrument and symphonic worlds from a young age, she studied conducting under Leonard Bernstein, Roger Norrington and Robert Spano at the Tanglewood and Aspen music festivals; and studied harpsichord with Gustav Leonhardt in Amsterdam. She won First Prize in the Spivey International Harpsichord Competition, competing against over 70 harpsichordists from four continents.

As a guest conductor, Sorrell has led the New York Philharmonic three times since her acclaimed debut there in 2021. She has repeatedly conducted the Pittsburgh Symphony, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, Seattle Symphony, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, Philharmonia Baroque in San Francisco, and New World Symphony, among others; and has also led the Philadelphia Orchestra, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Festival Orchestra of Lincoln Center (NYC), Baltimore Symphony, the National Symphony at the Kennedy Center, Houston Symphony, Indianapolis Symphony, New Jersey Symphony, Royal Northern Sinfonia (UK), and the Orchestra of St. Luke’s at Carnegie Hall, among others. Her 2025-26 schedule includes return engagements with the New York Philharmonic, Detroit Symphony, Indianapolis Symphony, and Detroit Symphony, and debuts with the Manchester Hallé Orchestra (UK) and the Oregon Symphony,

As founder and conductor of APOLLO’S FIRE, she has led the renowned ensemble at London’s BBC Proms, Carnegie Hall, and many international venues. Sorrell and Apollo’s Fire have released 34 commercial CDs, including 13 bestsellers on the Billboard classical chart and a 2019 GRAMMY® winner. Her CD recordings of the Bach St. John Passion and Vivaldi’s Four Seasons have been chosen as best in the field by the Sunday Times of London (2020 and 2021). Her Monteverdi Vespers recording was chosen by BBC Music Magazine as one of “30 Must-Have Recordings for Our Lifetime” (2022).

With over 22 million views of her YouTube videos, Sorrell has attracted national attention and awards for creative programming. She received an honorary doctorate from Case Western Reserve University and an award from the American Musicological Society.

APOLLO'S FIRE BAROQUE ORCHESTRA

“Sorrell and her dazzling period band… are incandescent”

– THE SUNDAY TIMES, London

GRAMMY®-winning ensemble Apollo’s Fire is praised as “the USA’s hottest baroque band” (Classical Music Magazine, UK). Led by award-winning harpsichordist and conductor Jeannette Sorrell, the period-instrument orchestra is dedicated to the baroque concept of moving the passions of the listeners. Apollo’s Fire has performed six European tours, with sold-out concerts at the BBC Proms in London, Madrid’s Royal Theatre, Bordeaux’s Grand Théàtre de l’Opéra, St Martin-in-the-Fields, the Heidelberg Spring Festival, the National Concert Hall of Ireland, and venues in Germany, France, Italy, Austria, and Portugal. Chosen by the DAILY TELEGRAPH as one of London’s “Best 5 Classical Concerts of the Year,” Apollo’s Fire’s 2014 London performance was praised for “superlative music-making... combining European stylishness with American entrepreneurialism.”

North American tour engagements include Carnegie Hall (twice), the Tanglewood and Ravinia festivals (several times), the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City (several times), the Boston Early Music Festival series, the Aspen Music Festival, Library of Congress, the National Gallery of Art, and major venues in Toronto, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. Apollo’s Singers have twice performed with the New York Philharmonic under the baton of Jeannette Sorrell, winning rave reviews.

At home in Cleveland and Chicago, Apollo’s Fire enjoys sold-out performances at its series, which has drawn national attention for creative programming.

With over 22 million views of its YouTube videos, Apollo’s Fire has released 34 commercial CDs and won a GRAMMY® award in 2019 for the album Songs of Orpheus with tenor Karim Sulayman. Thirteen of the ensemble's CD releases have become best-sellers on the classical Billboard chart, including Vivaldi’s Four Seasons, Monteverdi Vespers, Bach's Brandenburg Concertos, and Sorrell’s crossover programs including Sacrum Mysterium – A Celtic Christmas Vespers; Sugarloaf Mountain – An Appalachian Gathering; Sephardic Journey –Wanderings of the Spanish Jews; and Christmas on Sugarloaf Mountain.

MUSICIAN PROFILES

HANNA BINGHAM , violin, is based in the greater Chicago area. Raised in Dekalb, Illinois, she holds a Bachelor of Music in violin performance from Northern Illinois University and earned her Master’s degree in string performance from Northwestern University’s Bienen School of Music. Hanna gained a strong love for early music from her time at Northwestern, where she studied with David Douglas of the Newberry Consort and Stephen Alltop. During the 2024-25 season Hanna was a Young Artist Fellow for Apollo's Fire.

NICOLE DIVALL , viola, was a core member of the Australian Chamber Orchestra from 2005 to 2020. She has held the position of Principal Viola with ensembles including the Ohio Chamber Orchestra, Cleveland Chamber Symphony, and Sydney Philharmonia. She has appeared as Guest Principal with the Sydney Symphony, Handel & Haydn Society, Albany Symphony, and as soloist with Apollo’s Fire and New York Baroque Incorporated. She is currently Principal Viola of Apollo’s Fire and a core member of Four Nations Ensemble.

WILLIAM SIMMS, lute, appears regularly with Apollo’s Fire, The Thirteen, Heartland Baroque, Indianapolis Baroque, The Arcadia Players, and The Washington Bach Consort. He has performed numerous operas and oratorios with such ensembles as The Washington National Opera, Opera Philadelphia, and American Opera Theater. Venues include Carnegie Hall, The Kennedy Center, The Barns of Wolf Trap, Tanglewood, and the National Cathedral. He performed on the GRAMMY®-winning Songs of Orpheus with Apollo’s Fire and Karim Sulayman.

SUE YELANJIAN, contrabass, has performed with many of the leading North American baroque orchestras, including Relic, Tafelmusik, the Handel & Haydn Society, and Chatham Baroque. She has performed at the

Carmel Bach Festival, Tanglewood, and Ravinia, as well as the Sturm und Drang Festival in Germany. She attended Oberlin Conservatory and received degrees from the Cleveland Institute of Music and Boston University.

KIYOE MATSUURA , violin, performs with Haymarket Opera, Ensemble Affect, Indianapolis Baroque, Bella Voce, Bach & Beethoven Experience, Madison Bach Musicians, Ars Musica Chicago, and Callipygian Players. She is a co-founder of Ensemble Vitelotte. Kiyoe was an Apollo's Fire Young Artist Fellow for the 2024-25 season. Based in Chicago, she is also a dedicated violin teacher and has recorded over 250 YouTube videos of violin student repertoire.

EMI TANABE , violin, enjoys a multifaceted career as a baroque violinist and a solo crossover artist. In addition to her work with Apollo's Fire, she performs with Haymarket Opera in Chicago. Her facility with improvisation has led to many solo performances with world music, Latin, and jazz ensembles across the country, including the renowned Surabhi Ensemble, children’s music band Wendy & DB, and Teatro ZinZanni. She holds degrees in violin performance from the University of North Texas and Roosevelt University.

YAËL SENAMAUD-COHEN, violin and viola, is recognized for her versatility in a wide variety of musical styles, including modern and baroque viola, baroque violin, and viola d’amore. She is Principal Viola of the South Carolina Philharmonic and of the Jackson Symphony, and has been a member of Apollo’s Fire, Indianapolis Baroque, and CityMusic Cleveland. She also regularly collaborates with Les Siècles, a period orchestra based in France. She is a graduate of the Conservatoire National de Paris and Peabody Institute.

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Coming soon... the new Young Professional Board of Apollo’s Fire-Chicago

For Greater Chicago’s arts-loving young professionals

We are thrilled to be launching a new Young Professional Board under the leadership of Stephanie Champi, a brilliant young board member of Apollo’s FireChicago. This group of young community leaders will share their talents and contacts by strategizing about AF’s outreach to young adults, bringing their friends to concerts, and occasionally hosting their own events.

Want to get involved? Scan to complete the interest form and our staff will be in touch!

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This project was supported in part by the Ohio Arts Council, which receives support from the State of Ohio and the National Endowment for the Arts.

ADMINISTRATION

MANAGING DIRECTOR

David Walker, Managing Director

INSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT

David Sands, Senior Advancement Manager, Chicago

DEVELOPMENT & DONOR RELATIONS

Barbara Feld, Director of Development, Summit County

Rees Taylor Roberts, Development Manager

MARKETING & COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT

Wendy Parkulo, Director of Marketing & Community Engagement

Tikal Rivera, Marketing & Community Relations Manager, Chicago

Carsyn Avegno, Community Engagement & Operations Coordinator

Hanna Bingham, Social Media Consultant

BOX OFFICE

Kelly Cosgrove, Patron Services Manager

Shannon Cooch, Box Office & Hospitality Associate

ARTISTIC, PRODUCTION, & TOURING

Edward Vogel, Artistic Administrator

Amy Tarantino-Trafton, Manager of Operations & Grants

Tom Frattare, Production Stage Manager

Erica Brenner, Director of Media Production

FINANCE

Martins Daukss, Stage Manager & Staff Accountant

Sarah Emig, Bookkeeping Associate

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O Jerusalem! Crossroads of Three Faiths

“A voyage of faith for the 21st century” – SEEN & HEARD

Ringing with urgency in our time, this acclaimed program created by Jeannette Sorrell returns in a fresh version. Honoring the peoples whose music and faith brought such vibrancy to the Middle East, 26 artists from Jewish, Palestinian, Muslim, and Christian backgrounds perform on oud, theorbo, medieval harp, zither, strings, and exotic percussion.

In this musical tour of the four quarters of Old Jerusalem (Jewish, Christian, Arab, and Armenian), surprising cross-influences emerge. A Sephardic ballad leads to a classical Arabic love song; selections from Monteverdi’s great Vespers of 1610 echo the exotic and rapturous singing of the Jewish cantors in the temples. The rhythms of daily life – love, singing, dancing and prayer – culminate in a joyous celebration of shared humanity.

Generously sponsored by PATRICIA COSTANTE & STEPHANIE CHAMPI (Chicago) and DR. JAMES & MRS. RITA SHEININ (Evanston)

Friday, April 17, 7:30pm Music Institute of Chicago, EVANSTON

Saturday, April 18, 7:30pm KAM Isaiah Israel, HYDE PARK

Sunday, April 19, 5:00pm CHICAGO Cultural Center