Rockefeller Memorial Chapel. WINTER 2016 SPECIAL EVENTS at ROCKEFELLER and BOND

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1 Rockefeller Memorial Chapel WINTER 2016 SPECIAL EVENTS at ROCKEFELLER and BOND

2 Page 1 Spirit 2 Sound 4 The Bard 6 Resonance 8 Sundays & Evensong 10 Passion Rockefeller Memorial Chapel is the spiritual and ceremonial center of the University of Chicago and a major performing arts producer offering music, theatre, and visual arts events to citywide audiences. A leading venue for the choral arts, it is a prized event location for major speakers and international artists. The performing arts program and event calendar at the beautiful Bond Chapel is also under Rockefeller Chapel management by kind arrangement with the Divinity School. Rockefeller Chapel is part of Campus and Student Life. Cover collage based on Rockefeller puja by Eden Sabala (below). Back cover: James Kallembach by Andrew Nelles. Arts Rock designed by Gearóid Burke. CALENDAR OF EVENTS Events are at Rockefeller unless otherwise indicated JANUARY Tuesday 5 4:30 pm Tea & Pipes: Thomas Weisflog Page 7 Sunday am Sung service: Palestrina Surge Illuminare 8 Tuesday 12 4:30 pm Tea & Pipes: Thomas Weisflog 7 Sunday am Sung service: Music of Michael Tippett and Moses Hogan 8 Tuesday 19 4:30 pm Tea & Pipes: Michael Thorn 7 Sunday am Sung service: Music of Purcell 8 Tuesday 26 4:30 pm Tea & Pipes: Thomas Weisflog 7 Friday 29 7:30 pm Spartimu in concert 7 Sunday am Sung service: Music of Victoria 8 7 pm Mawlid: The Firdaus Ensemble 1 FEBRUARY Tuesday 2 4:30 pm Tea & Pipes: Walter Whitehouse Page 7 Sunday 7 11 am Third Coast Percussion at the Sunday service 8 2 pm Schola Antiqua: Slavic Routes 7 Monday 8 6 pm Tsugaru-jamisen: Satō Michiyoshi in concert Bond Chapel 2 Tuesday 9 4:30 pm Tea & Pipes: A Mardi Gras special! 7 Wednesday 10 5 pm Ash Wednesday Bond Chapel 8 Saturday 13 7 pm Empty Bottle: Godspeed You! Black Emperor 3 Sunday am Sung service: Allegri Miserere 8 12:15 pm Romance at the Carillon (for Valentine s Day!) 6 4 pm Chicago a cappella: Shakespeare a cappella 5 Tuesday 16 4:30 pm Tea & Pipes: Thomas Weisflog 7 Sunday am Sung service: Missa Luba 8 5:30 pm Come in from the Cold: Aromatherapy yoga 1 Tuesday 23 4:30 pm Tea & Pipes: Thomas Weisflog 7 Wednesday 24 8 pm Fonema Consort / Mesias Maiguashca Bond Chapel 2 Friday 26 5 pm The Bell Invites Me: Shakespeare at the Carillon 5 Saturday 27 7:30 pm Quire & Place: Music in the Time of Shakespeare 4 Sunday am Sung service: Music of Gerald Finzi 8 MARCH Tuesday 1 4:30 pm Motet Choir: Choral Evensong Page 9 Sunday 6 11 am Sung service: Music of Francis Poulenc 8 12:15 pm A Guilded Age: Carillon students in recital 6 Tuesday 8 4:30 pm Tea & Pipes: Rich Spotts 7 Saturday 12 7:30 pm Apollo Chorus: Mendelssohn s Elijah 7 Sunday am Sung service: Lenten arias by Bach and Handel 8 Sunday am Sung service: Gregorian chant for Passion Sunday 9 3 pm Quire & Place: Bach St. John Passion 10 Monday 21 7 pm Empty Bottle: José González with ymusic 3 Thursday 24 7 pm Holy Thursday Vigil 9 Sunday am Easter Day: Festival Eucharist, music of César Franck 9

3 SPIRIT Mawlid: The Firdaus Ensemble SUNDAY JANUARY 31 7 PM ROCKEFELLER The Firdaus Ensemble performs as part of the annual evening of poetry, song, and salutation in celebration of Mawlid. Based in Granada, Spain, the ensemble draws upon classical European style, with influences from Celtic and Flamenco traditions, and from the rich heritage of traditional Sufi music from Arabic, Andalusian, and Turkish sources. Free. Come in from the Cold SUNDAY FEBRUARY 21 5:30 PM ROCKEFELLER Meredith Haggerty offers a winter special: yoga with aromatherapy, in the beautiful space of Rockefeller Chapel. Donation of $5 requested, free to students. Presented by Spiritual Life Presented by Spiritual Life with the Muslim Students Association, and supported by contributions from the wider Muslim community 1

4 SOUND 300 Years of Tsugaru-jamisen: Satō Michiyoshi MONDAY FEBRUARY 8 6 PM BOND CHAPEL Shamisen virtuoso Satō Michiyoshi is an award-winning performer of Tsugaru-jamisen, the dynamic style of music of the shamisen, a three-stringed Japanese banjo. South/North: Mesias Maiguashca WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 24 8 PM BOND CHAPEL Located in Germany for much of his career as a composer and teacher of composition and electronic music, Ecuadorian native Mesias Maiguashca s trajectory recalls that of Argentinian/German Mauricio Kagel. Descended from parents indigenous to the Andes and a student of Stockhausen, his musical language reflects the folklore and Andean cosmology of his youth and the rigor and mediums of the avant-garde scene in Europe. The Fonema Consort presents the première of a new work by Maiguashca alongside works of Kagel, Helmut Lachenmann, and Chicago-based Ecuadorian composer Juan Campoverde. Free. Presented by the Frequency Series Mini-Festival and the Renaissance Society with the support of the Goethe-Institut This musical style has been adapted for contemporary audiences, and Michiyoshi glides between traditional, jazz, pop, and neo-folk modes. On his first US tour, he demonstrates the range and flexibility of the instrument, with introductory remarks by Joshua Solomon. Reception to follow in Classics 110. Free. Supported by the Japan Studies Committee 2

5 SOLD OUT! EMPTY BOTTLE PRESENTS: Godspeed You! Black Emperor SATURDAY FEBRUARY 13 7 PM ROCKEFELLER Empty Bottle brings Godspeed You! Black Emperor to Rockefeller Chapel, for a sense-rattling wall-of-sound evening, with the band s trademark orchestral dynamics, epic rock power and clunky, beautiful film loops in the extraordinary acoustic setting of the Chapel! Tickets online only at emptybottle.com, preferred $40/general $30/student limited number at $5 25. Presented by Empty Bottle in collaboration with Rockefeller Chapel Godspeed You! Black Emperor by Yannick Grandmont The Fonema Consort by Marc Perlish José González by Malin Johansson EMPTY BOTTLE PRESENTS: José González, with ymusic MONDAY MARCH 21 7 PM ROCKEFELLER Traces of inspired protest songs and eccentric folk rock here: monotonous grooves and rhythms, frustration and optimism. Empty Bottle brings José González, with ymusic, to the fabulous acoustic of Rockefeller Chapel! Tickets at emptybottle.com, preferred $40/general $30/student limited number at $5 25. Presented by Empty Bottle in collaboration with Rockefeller Chapel 3

6 THE BARD The Decani: Music in the Time of Shakespeare SATURDAY FEBRUARY 27 7:30 PM ROCKEFELLER PRE-CONCERT LECTURE BY PROFESSOR DAVID BEVINGTON AT 6:30 PM Commemorating the 400th anniversary of the death of William Shakespeare, the winter Quire & Place concert features the Decani, the professional vocal ensemble of Rockefeller Chapel, in an a cappella celebration of Thomas Tallis and the Elizabethans, including Tallis famous Lamentations and music of William Byrd and Thomas Weelkes, paired with settings of Shakespeare texts by University Professor Emerita Shulamit Ran, including the world première of her Sonnet 64. Tickets at rockefeller.uchicago.edu or at the door, general $20/free to all students with college ID. 4

7 The Bell Invites Me: Shakespeare at the Carillon FRIDAY FEBRUARY 26 5 PM ROCKEFELLER I go, and it is done; the bell invites me. Hear it not, Duncan, for it is a knell that summons thee to heaven or to hell. Joey Brink plays music from the time of Shakespeare, written or arranged for carillon, as an overture to the next day s Quire & Place concert. Seth Patterson joins him with readings from Shakespeare in the Chapel below. Free. Chicago a cappella: Shakespeare a cappella SUNDAY FEBRUARY 14 4 PM ROCKEFELLER Actors from the Chicago Shakespeare Theater join Chicago a cappella on stage to enhance the drama, as the Bard s sonnets and soliloquies are illuminated through innovative and artful a cappella music, set by composers around the world. Tickets at chicagoacappella.org or at the door, preferred $38/general $30/senior $27/student $12. Presented by Chicago a cappella in collaboration with Chicago Shakespeare Theater and Rockefeller Chapel The Decani by Eden Sabala Shulamit Ran by Chris Sweda Chicago a cappella by Jennifer Girard 5

8 RESONANCE The Bells MONDAY JANUARY 4 THROUGH FRIDAY MARCH 11 WEEKDAYS 11:30 AM AND 4:30 PM ROCKEFELLER University carillonneur Joey Brink invites you to ascend the famed tower and encounter one hundred tons of bronze up close. Hear Joey and the students of his carillon studio play everything from medieval to newly composed carillon music, and enjoy the views from the top of the tower, whatever the weather. Donation $5/free with UCID. Romance at the Carillon SUNDAY FEBRUARY 14 12:15 PM ROCKEFELLER Joey and Vera Brink (below) play a Valentine s Day special: romantic duets on the bells. They re playing your song? Yes, you may ask on the Rockefeller website carillon request page. A Guilded Age SUNDAY MARCH 6 12:15 PM ROCKEFELLER The students of the University of Chicago Guild of Carillonneurs host their first ever winter recital. 6

9 Spartimu in Concert FRIDAY JANUARY 29 7:30 PM ROCKEFELLER Corsican ensemble Spartimu offers a program of traditional secular and religious songs from their homeland. Their unique singing style, with its intricate ornamentation and improvisatory sense of timing, is not to be missed! Tickets at the door, $15 general, $5 students. Presented by the Department of Music Tea & Pipes TUESDAYS THROUGH MARCH 8 4:30 PM ROCKEFELLER What it says: tea and pipes. You drink hot tea, and listen to music on the University s grand 8,565 pipe E.M. Skinner organ. Played by University organist Thomas Weisflog with special guests: January 19 Michael Thorn, Morgan Park Baptist Church, performing his own Sonata in G Minor and Fantasy on The Wayfaring Stranger February 2 Walter Whitehouse Schola Antiqua: Slavic Routes Music from the Crossroads of Renaissance Europe SUNDAY FEBRUARY 7 2 PM ROCKEFELLER In the sixteenth century, all roads led to Prague. Schola Antiqua s program brings a fascinating cross-section of sacred vocal polyphony from this musical crossroads to life. Directed by Michael Alan Anderson, with commentary by Erika Supria Honisch, assistant professor of music history and theory at Stony Brook University. Tickets $25 general, $5 students, at at schola-antiqua.org or at the door. Sponsored in part by the Lumen Christi Institute, and presented by Schola Antiqua in artistic collaboration with Rockefeller Chapel February 9 A Mardi Gras special! March 1 Motet Choir sings Choral Evensong (see page 9) March 8 Rich Spotts, Princeton University, performing selections from Charles Tournemire s L Orgue Mystique Apollo Chorus: Mendelssohn s Elijah SATURDAY MARCH 12 7:30 PM ROCKEFELLER Preconcert talk by Stephen Alltop at 6:45 pm The Apollo Chorus presents Mendelssohn s Elijah, a true choral legend, with baritone Gerard Sundberg in the title role, soloists Patrick Muehliese, Kelsey Park, and Michelle Areyzaga, and the Elmhurst Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Stephen Alltop. Tickets $30 general, $10 students at apollochorus.org or at the door. Presented by Apollo Chorus in collaboration with the Elmhurst Symphony Orchestra and Rockefeller Chapel Joey and Vera Brink / Romance at the Carillon by Elizabeth Davenport. Strike! by Robert Kozloff. Pipes by Eden Sabala. 7

10 SUNDAYS Sung Services EVERY SUNDAY 11 AM As a University chapel, Rockefeller is used as a gathering place by members of the University community of many world traditions and faiths. On Sundays, we continue the cherished tradition of offering choral services drawing from the great body of world music devoted to the seasons of the Christian year. The communion table is open to all, always. Note: We do not hold a Sunday service at Rockefeller Chapel on December 27 or January 3. Epiphany Lententide A SEASON OF JOY A SEASON OF REFLECTION JANUARY 10 EPIPHANY I Palestrina Surge Illuminare Seth Patterson, Associate Director for Chapel Life JANUARY 17 DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. Moses Hogan Every Time I Feel The Spirit, Michael Tippett, arr. Deep River Karlene Burrell-McRae, Associate Vice-President of Campus & Student Life JANUARY 24 EPIPHANY III Henry Purcell Jehova quam multi and I Was Glad Dean Elizabeth Davenport JANUARY 31 EPIPHANY IV Tomás Luis de Victoria Salve Regina and Ave Maria Professor Jeffrey Stackert, Associate Professor of Hebrew Bible in the Divinity School FEBRUARY 7 LAST SUNDAY IN EPIPHANY Third Coast Percussion (below) brings percussive energy to this festival service; and the children s and young adult choirs of Rockefeller Chapel and the Presbyterian Church of Barrington combine to sing James Kallembach s newly composed The Lamb for choir, strings, harp, and chimes Seth Patterson WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 10 ASH WEDNESDAY Ashes to go, 8:30 am to 1 pm ROCKEFELLER Communion for Ash Wednesday, 5 pm BOND CHAPEL FEBRUARY 14 LENT I Allegri Miserere, Gregorian chants for the first Sunday in Lent Elizabeth Davenport FEBRUARY 21 LENT II Kyrie, Sanctus, and Agnus Dei from the traditional African Missa Luba Marcus Lohrmann, MDiv 16 FEBRUARY 28 LENT III Finzi s Lo, the full, final sacrifice, paired with organ music of William Byrd Elizabeth Davenport MARCH 6 LENT IV ROSE SUNDAY Poulenc s Vinea mea electa and Timor et Tremor, with selections from Marcel Dupré Le Chemin de la Croix for organ Seth Patterson MARCH 13 LENT V Artist in residence Lon Ellenberger sings arias by Bach and Handel Elizabeth Davenport 8

11 EVENSONG Holy Week and Easter MARCH 20 PASSION SUNDAY Sung Passion using traditional Gregorian Chant Quire & Place Bach St. John Passion (see page 10) MARCH 24 HOLY THURSDAY Artist in residence Matthew Dean sings Were You There and other Passiontide spirituals Seth Patterson MARCH 27 EASTER DAY FESTIVAL EUCHARIST Traditional hymns with brass and organ, with the Rockefeller Children s Choir singing music to welcome the spring. The Chapel Choir offers Cesar Franck s Psalm 150, with festive French organ music of Jean Langlais and Eugène Gigout Elizabeth Davenport Choral Evensong with Motet Choir TUESDAY MARCH 1 4:30 PM The University s premier undergraduate choir sings the hauntingly beautiful choral evensong of the Anglican tradition, with the Collegium Regale of Herbert Howells for this Lenten season. Chancel by Megan Parker. Third Coast Percussion by Saverio Truglia. A pelican in her piety from a 17th century coverlet at the Museo Nacional de Artes Decorativas, Spain. Easter images by Eden Sabala. Motet Choir courtesy of the choir. 9

12 Rockefeller Memorial Chapel The University of Chicago 5850 S. Woodlawn Ave. Chicago, IL rockefeller.uchicago.edu Elizabeth J.L. Davenport, Dean Non-Profit Org. U.S. Postage PAID Chicago, IL Permit No Bach St. John Passion SUNDAY MARCH 20 3 PM ROCKEFELLER Often heard with larger forces, Bach s magnificent St. John Passion was likely performed in his own day with a mere two singers per part. Rockefeller recreates the experience with a total of nine Decani singers in company with Chicago s finest consort of period instrumentalists, led by concertmaster Jeri-Lou Zike. Acclaimed tenor Matthew Dean sings the role of the Evangelist. Tickets at rockefeller.uchicago.edu, general $20/free to all students with college ID. Quire & Place is Rockefeller Chapel s signature concert series, now in its fifth season, with director James Kallembach, the Chapel Choir, and the Decani the professional vocal ensemble of Rockefeller Chapel presenting the best of new choral music, including newly commissioned works, alongside beloved classics.