AUTUMN 2016 | WINTER 2017 SPECIAL EVENTS AT

ROCKEFELLER AND BOND

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CALENDAR OF EVENTS Events are at Rockefeller unless otherwise indicated

S E P T E M B E R

Tuesday 21 11:45 am Noon carillon recitals recommence 5

4:45 pm Afternoon carillon recitals recommence 5

Saturday 24 11 pm Hyde Park Jazz Festival: Randy Weston 1

Tuesday 27 4:30 pm Tea & Pipes organ recitals recommence 6

Friday 30 10 am Concrete Happenings Arts Lobby opens 2

O C T O B E R

Sunday 2 11 am First choral Sunday: Bach Cantata BWV 29 8

Thursday 6 12 noon Ear Taxi Festival: Letters from the Sky 4

Sunday 9 11 am Sunday: Music of Vaughan Williams and Britten 8

Saturday 15 10 am to 4 pm Chicago Architecture Foundation open house Rockefeller and Bond 2

Sunday 16 10 am to 4 pm Chicago Architecture Foundation open house Rockefeller and Bond 2

11 am Sunday: Music of Palestrina and Howells 8

Sunday 23 11 am Sunday: Excerpts from Missa Luba 8

Sunday 30 11 am Sunday: Music from the great churches of Paris 8

7:30 pm Silent film: Hunchback of Notre Dame 5

N O V E M B E R

Tuesday 1 4:30 pm All Saints Day: Howells Requiem 8

Friday 4 8 pm Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe Bond 3

Sunday 6 11 am Sunday: Howells Requiem 8

Sunday 13 11 am Sunday: Kaitlin Foley | Rockefeller Children’s Choir 8

Wednesday 16 8 pm CSRPC presents: Angela Davis 10

Sunday 20 11 am Sunday: Music of Julian Anderson 8

Sunday 27 11 am Sunday: Schola Antiqua | Mediaeval Advent music 8

5 pm Schola Antiqua in concert 9

D E C E M B E R

Friday 2 7 pm Chicago Men’s A Cappella Christmas Concert 9

Sunday 4 11 am Sunday: Women’s Ensemble | Sacred music for Advent 8

3 pm Handel’s Messiah 8

Sunday 11 11 am Sunday: Kaitlin Foley | French noël tradition 8

5 pm Pipes for the Season: The Organ by Candlelight 6

Saturday 17 8 pm Chicago a cappella: Tales and Legends 9

Sunday 18 11 am Sunday: Matthew Dean | Traditional carols 8

Saturday 24 4 pm Lessons and Carols for Christmas Eve 8

J A N U A R Y

Tuesday 3 4:30 pm Tea & Pipes organ recitals resume 6

Sunday 8 11 am Sunday: Renaissance and contemporary British music 8

Sunday 15 11 am Sunday: Music of André Thomas 8

Sunday 22 11 am Sunday: Music of William Byrd 8

Sunday 29 11 am Sunday: Music of John Tavener 8

F E B R U A R Y

Sunday 5 11 am Sunday: Music of Pukinskis and Sumsion 8

Sunday 12 11 am Sunday: Music of J.S. Bach 8

4 pm Chicago a cappella: Bound for Glory 9

Wednesday 15 8 pm R. Andrew Lee in concert Bond 3

Saturday 18 7:30 pm Quire & Place: Sound and Silence 7

Sunday 19 11 am Sunday: Motet Choir | Music of Rachmaninoff 8

Sunday 26 11 am Sunday: Cajun Mardi Gras music 8

4 pm Gerrish Organ Recital: David Briggs plays Mahler 6

Rockefeller Memorial Chapel, the University of Chicago’s iconic ceremonial and spiritual center, is a major arts presenter and venue for the performing arts. Under the Arts Rock label, the Chapel offers a diverse programming in music and visual arts, with a particular focus on choral performance and music played on—and composed for— the world class organ and carillon which form a key part of the spectacular architecture of the building. The performing arts program and event management at the beautiful Bond Chapel is also under Rockefeller Chapel management, by kind arrangement with the Divinity School.

Hours Academic quartersSeptember 19 through December 9, and from January 3 Rockefeller Tuesday through Friday | 10 am to 5:30 pm Weekends for scheduled events only | Closed Mondays Bond Monday through Friday | 8 am to 5 pm

Hours Academic break December 10 through December 24 Rockefeller Tuesday through Friday | 11 am to 5 pm Weekends for scheduled events only December 25 through January 2 closed Bond Open for scheduled events only

Page 1 Jazz 2 Visual 3 Minimal 4 Bells 6 Pipes 7–9 Voices

Cover collage based on Carillon 10 by Erielle Bakkum (below). Opposite: Randy Weston by Carol Friedman.

Arts Rock designed by Gearóid Burke

JAZZ

Randy Weston in concert SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 24 | 11 PM

Randy Weston plays a solo concert at Rockefeller Chapel at the apex of the weekend-long Hyde Park Jazz Festival. The Chicago Tribune’s Howard Reich says of Weston that the “towering pianist remains at the forefront of interweaving musical practices of Africa with contemporary jazz improvisation and composition.” Free.

Presented by the Hyde Park Jazz Festival in partnership with Rockefeller Chapel

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Open House Chicago SATURDAY OCTOBER 15 AND SUNDAY OCTOBER 16 | 10 AM TO 4 PM | ROCKEFELLER AND BOND

Chicago Architecture Foundation volunteers take pride in offering behind the scenes tours at Rockefeller Chapel and Bond Chapel, along with two hundred other architectural treasures, as part of the annual Open House Chicago. Free.

Concrete Happenings Arts LobbyFRIDAY SEPTEMBER 30 TO FRIDAY DECEMBER 2

OPEN TUESDAY THROUGH FRIDAY 10 AM TO 4:30 PM WEEKENDS LISTED ONLINE

Professor Harold Haydon, whose stained glass adorns Rockefeller Chapel, was a contemporary to Wolf Vostell and head of Midway Studios when Concrete Traffic arrived at the University. Historical documents pertaining to Haydon will be on view, while documentary footage of the original installation of the sculpture on campus will be exhibited in the lobby to orient visitors to Concrete Happenings events throughout the campus. Free.

VISUAL

Shifted Light by Quinn Dombrowski. Wide Open and Step Up by Matt Frankel. Entering Bond Chapel by Chris Smith. Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe by Liz DeLeo. R. Andrew Lee by BRS Photography.

Installation view of Wolf Vostell’s Concrete Traffic courtesy of the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago Library and Archives. © MCA Chicago.

R. Andrew LeeWEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 15 | 8 PM | BOND

Denver pianist R. Andrew Lee specializes in minimalist works and gained broad acclaim for his stunning performance of the landmark Dennis Johnson composition November. His 2013 recording featuring the piano music of Wandelweiser Group composer Eva-Maria Houben was named one of the top ten albums of 2013 by critic Alex Ross in the New Yorker. Free.

Presented in partnership with the Renaissance Society as part of the Frequency Series Festival of Chicago New Music

Robert Aiki Aubrey LoweFRIDAY NOVEMBER 4 | 8 PM | BOND

Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe, who performs under his own name or as Lichens, uses his voice and modular synthesizers to create immersive listening experiences. In his mesmerizing performances, layered vocals join other sounds to form a reverberating drone. This concert is presented by the Renaissance Society in conjunction with the exhibition Ben Rivers, Urth (September 10 to November 6). Lowe collaborated with Ben Rivers on the feature film A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness. Free.

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MINIMAL

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BELLS

Letters from the SkyTHURSDAY OCTOBER 6 | 12 NOON

Joey Brink plays three world premières on Rockefeller Chapel’s world class carillon, as part of the citywide Ear Taxi Festival (October 5–10). Brink plays . . . the way nets cannot hold water (2016) by Iddo Aharony; Invention—An Ascent (2016) by Tomás I. Gueglio Saccone; his own Letters from the Sky (2016); and two further compositions of his own, Capriccio (2015) and Invocation (2016). Free.

Presented by the Ear Taxi Festival in partnership with Rockefeller Chapel

Letters from the Sky MUSIC COMPOSED FOR THE LAURA SPELMAN ROCKEFELLER MEMORIAL CARILLON

We are proud to present Joey Brink’s new CD of classics from the earliest days of the Rockefeller bells to the three Ear Taxi Festival premières of new carillon music, recorded summer 2016 and released October 5. Available at all Ear Taxi Festival events and at Rockefeller Chapel itself, $15.

The Bells JOEY BRINK AND MEMBERS OF  THE CARILLON STUDIO IN RECITAL

TUESDAY THROUGH FRIDAY DURING THE ACADEMIC QUARTER 11 :45 AM AND 4:45 PM

SUNDAY | 12 :15 PM

A sixty-minute visit to Rockefeller’s famed carillon: climb the 271 steps, and hear the bells from the playing cabin and (toward the end of the recital) from the top of the tower. Tickets $7 available at the front desk half an hour before the start of the tour. Each tour is limited to 15 participants.

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SAVE THE DATE!

Triptych: Earth, Moon, PeaceMUSIC OF AUGUSTA READ THOMAS PLAYED BY SPEKTRAL QUARTET AND THIRD COAST PERCUSSION

SATURDAY APRIL 29 | 7:30 PM

Three major works by Augusta Read Thomas: Resounding Earth, played by Third Coast Percussion, the world première of a new work for string quartet commissioned by Spektral with Rockefeller Chapel, and the two ensembles combining in Selene, Moon Chariot Rituals.

Hunchback of Notre DameSUNDAY OCTOBER 30 | 7 PM

Rockefeller Chapel and Doc Films (and Chapel cat Quasimodo, known to all as Modo) present the 1923 silent film classic Hunchback of Notre Dame, starring Lon Chaney, with live organ accompaniment by Dennis James and live carillon by University carillonneur Joey Brink. Tickets at the door, $20 general, free to students and to Doc pass holders.

Joey Brink by Erielle Bakkum. Moving Pictures by Kmeron. The Tour Begins by Matt Frankel. Augusta Read Thomas by Anthony Barlich.

PIPES

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Tea & PipesTUESDAYS SEPTEMBER 27 TO NOVEMBER 22 AND AGAIN FROM JANUARY 3 | 4 :30 PM

University organist Thomas Weisflog, Rockefeller organ scholar Bryan McGuiggin, and guests offer a half hour of music on the Chapel’s magnificent Skinner organ. Help yourself to a cup of tea and to the sound of 8,565 pipes.

Including OCTOBER 11 Jewish music for the High Holy Days

NOVEMBER 1 Howells Requiem for All Saints Day, sung by the Chapel Choir

JANUARY 3 Music for Epiphany

David Briggs Plays MahlerSUNDAY FEBRUARY 26 | 4 PM

World renowned organist and composer David Briggs presents a unique recital of his own orchestral transcriptions from the symphonies of Gustav Mahler. The magnificent E.M. Skinner romantic organ is wonderfully suited to these transcriptions, with its abundance of orchestral organ stops. Reception afterwards. $10 at the door, free to students with ID.

With an extensive repertoire spanning five centuries, David Briggs is best known for his brilliant organ transcriptions of symphonic music by composers such as Mahler, Schubert, Tchaikovsky, Elgar, Bruckner, Ravel, and Bach. From 1981 to 1984 he was the organ scholar at King’s College, Cambridge, during which time he studied organ with Jean Langlais in Paris. The first British winner of the Tournemire Prize at the St. Albans International Improvisation Competition, he also won the first prize in the International Improvisation Competition at Paisley. He subsequently held positions at

Hereford, Truro and Gloucester Cathedrals. He is currently artist in residence at St. James Cathedral, Toronto. In addition, he teaches at Cambridge, frequently serves on international organ competition juries, and gives master classes at colleges and conservatories across the US and Europe.

A recital in the Brian Gerrish Organ Performance Series

Pipes for the Season: The Organ by CandlelightSUNDAY DECEMBER 11 | 5 PM

University organist Thomas Weisflog is joined by Rockefeller Chapel organ scholar Bryan McGuiggin in a candlelit hour of seasonal favorites for organ including works by Bach, Daquin, Titcomb, and Dupré. We serve hot cider before the program begins. Free.

Thomas Weisflog by Elizabeth Davenport. Gustav Mahler etching by Emil Orlik (1902). David Briggs courtesy of the artist. Bryan McGuiggin and James Kallembach portraits by Erielle Bakkum.

VOICES

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Rockefeller Chapel’s singers, directed by James Kallembach, presenting magnificent new music of great beauty alongside choral classics

Sound and SilenceSATURDAY FEBRUARY 18 | 7:30 PM

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.

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

COMING IN THE SPRING

Schütz Passion SUNDAY APRIL 9 | 11 AM AND 3 PM

For Passion Sunday, a morning performance of Heinrich Schütz Matthauspassion in the liturgical context, repeated in an afternoon concert in the QUIRE & PLACE series, with music of Francis Poulenc.

VOICES continued

JANUARY 8 EPIPHANYOrland Gibbons and Charles Wood: two settings of O Thou the Central Orb, with Georges Bizet March of the Three Kings

JANUARY 15The Chapel Choir with choral scholar Will Myers BASS: spirituals arranged by André Thomas, including Keep Your Lamps

JANUARY 22The choral scholars and artists in residence: music of William Byrd, including Civitas sancti tui

JANUARY 29John Tavener Two Hymns to the Mother of God, and organ music of William Mathias

FEBRUARY 5Kate Pukinskis The Lord will Guide You, and Herbert Sumsion “Nunc Dimittis” from Evening Service in G

FEBRUARY 12Music of Johann Sebastian Bach, including duets from B Minor Mass

FEBRUARY 19Motet Choir: music of Sergei Rachmaninoff, with Alexander Tcherepnin Processional and Recessional on the organ

FEBRUARY 26 LAST OF EPIPHANY

Traditional Cajun Mardi Gras songs arranged by Michael McGlynn

Sundays at RockefellerEVERY SUNDAY | 11 AM

Celebrating the spiritual arts of cathedral traditions: the theatre of liturgy, glorious music, poetry and literature illuminating sacred text, preaching rooted in reason and rigorous inquiry.

The Chapel Choir, with Rockefeller Chapel’s artists in residence and choral scholars, sings in concert (see previous page) and on Sundays, unless otherwise listed here.

NOVEMBER 20Music of acclaimed British composer Julian Anderson, in residence at Augusta Read Thomas’ Chicago Center for Contemporary Composition

NOVEMBER 27Schola Antiqua of Chicago, directed by Michael Alan Anderson: mediaeval Advent music, including carols Ecce quod natura and There is no rose of swych vertu

DECEMBER 4The University Women’s Ensemble: Gregorian chant and sacred Advent music

IN THE AFTERNOON

HANDEL’S MESSIAH See next page

DECEMBER 11Kaitlin Foley SOPRANO: vocal and organ music of the French noël tradition

DECEMBER 18Matthew Dean TENOR: traditional Advent carols and music for organ

DECEMBER 24 | 4 PM CHRISTMAS EVE

The Merrie Organ and the Choir: the beloved Lessons and Carols for Christmas Eve by candlelight, featuring Christmas classics for organ, with the children’s tableau of the nativity story—featuring Thomas Weisflog ORGAN, with the Decani and the Rockefeller Children’s Choir

OCTOBER 2 FIRST CHORAL SUNDAY

The Chapel Choir and soloists from the University of Chicago Symphony Orchestra: J.S. Bach’s Cantata BWV 29 “Wir danken dir, Gott”

OCTOBER 9Vaughan Williams and Britten: two Antiphon settings, and organ music of Vaughan Williams

OCTOBER 16 The choral scholars and artists in residence: Palestrina Sicut cervus, and Howells Like as the hart

OCTOBER 23Excerpts from Missa Luba

OCTOBER 30Music of the great churches of Paris for choir and organ: Lili Boulanger Psaume 24, Fauré Cantique de Jean Racine

IN THE EVENING

HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME See page 5

NOVEMBER 6Herbert Howells Requiem and Psalm Prelude I for Organ

NOVEMBER 13The Rockefeller Children’s Choir sing their first service of the year, with director Kaitlin Foley SOPRANO

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University Women’s EnsembleSee December 4

University Women’s Ensemble by Elizabeth Davenport. Marie-Juliette (“Lili”) Boulanger, photographer unknown. Candlelit Christmas Eve by Eden Sabala. Kate Pukinskis photo courtesy of the artist.

Schola Antiqua of ChicagoSUNDAY NOVEMBER 27 | 5 PM

Schola Antiqua offers a program of pre-modern music for Advent, with a series of chant and choral readings and responses from the service of Matins on Christmas Eve, transcribed from a manuscript in The Hague, as the centerpiece. The program is complemented by tuneful English carols from the late Middle Ages and the set of seven plainchants known as the O Antiphons. Tickets at schola-antiqua.org.

Chicago Men’s A Cappella Christmas ConcertFRIDAY DECEMBER 2 | 7 PM

Chicago Men’s A Cappella presents a Christmas special, with the Chicago Children’s Choir | Hyde Park Neighborhood Choir, directed by Mollie Stone, and Rockefeller organ scholar Bryan McGuiggin. Featuring a set of Argentinian songs by Oscar Escalada and Alberto Ginastera, music by Alan Hovhaness and Hugo Wolf, and a carol sing-along. Directed by Bruce Tammen. Tickets $4 students ($5 at the door), $10 general, $20 families at tickets.uchicago.edu.

Handel’s Messiah DECEMBER 4 | 3 PM

Continuing the beloved tradition of a matinée performance of Handel’s Messiah to usher in the Christmas season, with the Rockefeller Chapel Choir, Motet Choir, Chicago Men’s a Cappella, and Haymarket Opera Orchestra, led by Jeri-Lou Zike. Featuring Stephanie Washington SOPRANO, Lindsey Adams ALTO, Matthew Dean TENOR, and Dashon Burton BASS conducted by James Kallembach. Tickets $55 chancel, $35 front nave, $25 rear nave at tickets.uchicago.edu. Limited $5 tickets for students also available.

Chicago a cappella: Tales and LegendsSATURDAY DECEMBER 17 | 8 PM

Chicago a cappella rings in the season with stories that bring light, warmth, and hope: holiday tales from the Old World and the New, including stirring folk tunes, Renaissance treasures, and familiar Chanukah melodies and Christmas carols. With Anne Heider, guest music director. Tickets at chicagoacappella.org.

Chicago a cappella: Bound for GlorySUNDAY FEBRUARY 12 | 4 PM

No other music matches the power and sheer beauty of spirituals. Music director John William Trotter prepares a concert including early traditions like the “moan” and the Fisk Jubilee Singers, as well as contemporary and fusion works by musical greats like Moses Hogan and Adolphus Hailstork. Tickets at chicagoacappella.org.

9Schola Antiqua by Frank Wang. Chicago Men’s A Cappella by Diane Lee. Red, Green and Gold by Elizabeth Davenport. Background photo by Joshua Lurie-Terrell.

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Angela DavisWEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 16 | 8 PM

Activist, scholar, and author Angela Y. Davis discusses her new book, Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement, with author and activist Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor. Free and open to the public.

Presented by the Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture and publisher Haymarket Books