Date & Time

Saturday, February 18, 2017
7:30 PM

Location

Rockefeller Chapel

Admission

Free

More Information

http://rockefeller.uchicago.edu/events/quire-place

Contact

Rockefeller Memorial Chapel

773-702-2100

Description

As part of the Concrete Happenings series, Rockefeller Chapel presents a concert of acoustically provocative twentieth century compositions from the contrasting streams of Fluxus and choral mysticism. With the Chapel Choir, Thomas Weisflog, organ, and soloists Kaitlin Foley, soprano, Lindsey Adams, mezzo soprano, and Matthew Dean and Ryan Townsend Strand, tenor, directed by James Kallembach. Free.

Featuring:
Julian Anderson “At the Fountain” from Four American Choruses
John Tavener Two Hymns to the Mother of God
Arvo Pärt Sarah was Ninety Years Old
Alfred Schnittke Requiem

A concert in Rockefeller Chapel's signature Quire & Place series: Rockefeller Chapel’s singers, directed by James Kallembach, presenting magnificent new music of great beauty alongside choral classics.