Lively Arts of Chicago presents Music in the Neighborhood in Rogers Park

Ferdinand the Bull and Friends,
featuring WFMT's Noel Morris, narrator

"Introduce your child to classical music the fun way with interactive performances (ages 4 and up)"

Admission is FREE

Sunday, January 22, 2012
3:00 – 3:45 pm

Mayne Stage on Morse Avenue
1328 W Morse Ave
Chicago, IL 60626
773-381-4551

Lincoln Trio Performances
Disney’s Oscar winning short film
Ferdinand the Bull ends the program
followed by a birthday celebration for
Ferdinand’s 75th and Mozart’s 256th
and a free raffle with prizes

Arrvie early for a hands on instrumen "petting zoo" preceding the program at 2:30 pm.

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Music In The Loft presents

Belsky/Maxwell Piano Duo
Saturday, Januray 21, 2012 8 pm &
Sunday, January 22, 2012 3 pm

Music In The Loft
1017 W. Washington Blvd #4H
Chicago, IL 60607
Phone: 312.919.5030

Program

Rachmaninoff - Suite Op. 11
     I. Barcarolle
     II. Scherzo
     VI. Slava (Glory)
Schubert - Fantasy in f minor
Patrick Zimmerli - Fantasy
Stravinsky - Three Movements from Petrouchka (arranged by the performers)
     I. Russian Dance
     II. Petrouchka's Room

Svetlana Belsky and Jennifer Maxwell, piano

The piano four-hands duo of Svetlana Belsky and Jennifer Maxwell debuted with a standing-room-only performance in 2006 and since then have been commended as "artistically attuned to one another" and for "what two women can do with one piano." The Belsky/Maxwell Duo will perform a world premiere by composer-in-residence Patrick Zimmerli, and works by Rachmaninoff, Schubert and Stravinsky.

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Fundraising Benefit Dinner
for Sejong Cultural Society

Saturday, February 25, 2012
Drury Lane, Oakbrook
100 Drury Lane
Oakbrook Terrace, IL 60181
(630) 530-8300

 

Master of Ceremony: Won Jung Park, KBC TV Chicago, Channel 41

Won J. Park is the producer and the host for KBC TV Ch.41's popular evening show News Magazine for 5 years.
Prior to TV, he was announcer and DJ for various radio stations including Seoul Broadcasting, Radio Korea, and KCBS.
Park also has a professional music career as a choir director, composer, and jazz piano.

 

Program:

Keynote Speech

"Culture as Driving Force of Korea's Progress"
Honorable Chul Huh,
Consul General of Republic of Korea in Chicago

Performances:

Byungman Son,
Selected solo dance scenes from the Bongsan Talchum (Korean Traditional Mask Dances) and Salpuri
(solo performances with music accompaniments by Sora Kim, janggu and Noeul Oh, piri)

Korean mask dance dramas are not just dances performed by masked dancers but also include significant dramatic content with masked characters portraying people, animals and sometimes supernatural beings. These folk dramas reflect the frustrations felt by the lower classes towards the Confucian literati Yangban, due to the latter's treatment of the commoners, show the life of the common man and process social problems such as monks who ignore their precepts and men who cast off their old wives.

Mr. Byungman Son has been performing the Korean mask dance over twenty years and has been teaching Bongsan Talchum over eight years in Korea. He is one of the officially designated Bongsan Talchum performer (무형문화재 17호 봉산탈춤 이수자).

What is Bongsan Talchum ? - watch a video clip on YouTube (4 min)
video clip "Welcome to the world of Bongsan Talchum"

Also performances by

Sejong Music Competition Winners:

Trenton Takaki, piano video
(Piano Senior Division First place and
Best Interpretation of Korean Piece award)
Jennifer Cha, violin video
(2010 Violin Senior Division First place and
Best Interpretation of Korean Piece award)
and more...

Ticket: $125 per person,
Current student $60 per person

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Online reservation can be made from the Sejong Cultural Society's website:
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Music In The Loft presents

Young Award Winners
Quartet Ventoso

Friday, March 9, 2012 at 8 pm
Sunday, March 11 at 3 pm

Music In The Loft
1017 W. Washington Blvd #4H
Chicago, IL 60607
Phone: 312.919.5030

Music in the Loft is pleased to announce this year's winner of the Jules M. Laser Chamber Music Competition, the highly-talented Quartet Ventoso! This energetic string quartet will perform a recital at Music in the Loft on March 11 at 8pm and March 13 at 3pm. The concert will also feature a solo performance by Quartet Ventoso cellist, Johannes Gray. We hope to see you there!

Artists
The Quartet Ventoso is one of Chicago's most exciting young quartets. The groups name is derived from the Italian word for windy, which reflects their roots in the fantastic windy city, Chicago. The quartet is made up of prize winning students of the Music Institute of Chicago.

Jennifer Cha, violin
Erika Gray, violin
Caitlin Adamson, viola
Johannes Gray, cello

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Lincolnwood Chamber Orchestra presents "World Music: Korea"
Jennifer Cha, violin

Sunday, March 18, 2012  3PM
Lincolnwood Community Center
6900 N. Lincoln Ave
Lincolnwood, IL 60712
(847) 673-1540

Admission is free,

Contact: Sejong Cultural Society 312-497-3007

Programs:

wu-ri-no-rae (Our Song, 우리 노래 ) by Eun Young Lee
Images from Folk Tales (민화 속으로) by Sungki Kim
Praeludium and Allegro by Fritz Kreisle
            Jennifer Cha, violin

Tapis for Strings by Isang Yun 

 

The Lincolnwood Chamber Orchestra performs “Sounds of Korea” on Sunday, March 18, 3pm, at the Lincolnwood Community Center, 6900 N. Lincoln Ave,, Lincolnwood.

Founder and Music Director Philip Simmons conducts Isang Yun’s Tapis for Strings and two works commissioned by the Sejong Cultural Society especially for this concert: wu-ri-no-rae by Chicago composer Eun Young Lee and "Images from Folk Tales" for Violin and String Orchestra by Sungki Kim.

Violin soloist Jennifer Cha also performs Fritz Kreisler’s Preludium and Allegro.

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