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Sunday, March 31, 2019
African-American Women Composers: Looking Back & Looking Forward | New Music Chicago Impromptu Fest!
Crossing Borders Music participates in the New Music Chicago Impromptu Fest 2019! Honor the past and celebrate the future of African-American women composers as we share their unique perspectives and beautiful music in this concert for string quartet and piano. Florence Price was a trailblazing composer who lived on Chicago’s South Side. Her Five Folksongs in Counterpoint draw on both traditional spirituals and academic musical training from the New England Conservatory, which she managed to attend only by overcoming a…
Find out more »Sunday, April 7, 2019
Of Folk, Faith, and Fellowship: Exploring Chicago’s African-American Women Composers
Join pianist and scholar Samantha Ege in exploring the music and lives of four great composers! Florence Price and Margaret Bonds lived and composed on Chicago's South Side during the remarkable artistic period of the Chicago Black Renaissance in the 1930s. Supported in their friendship in the midst of a thriving arts environment, these trail-blazing women created historic and ground-breaking compositions influenced by African-American folk melodies - especially spirituals. Ege also explores the remarkable music of contemporary composers Dolores White…
Find out more »African-American Women Composers: Looking Back and Looking Forward
Honor the past and celebrate the future of African-American women composers as we share their unique perspectives and beautiful music in this concert for string quartet and piano. Florence Price was a trailblazing composer who lived on Chicago’s South Side. Her Five Folksongs in Counterpoint draw on both traditional spirituals and academic musical training from the New England Conservatory, which she managed to attend only by overcoming a ban on African-American admissions. The granddaughter of slaves and a graduate of…
Find out more »A Meeting of Two Seas: Migration Stories
Following the groundbreaking performances of South Asian music, dance, and poetry offered these past two years at Rockefeller Chapel by a coalition of Hindu and Muslim students working to create a “meeting of two seas,” this year’s concert takes a new direction: celebrating the performance traditions that emerged from the movement and migration of diverse spiritual communities across South Asia, the Middle East, and Andalusia. Join us for performances of Indian Jewish music alongside Hindu abhangs, compositions of Iranian Baha'i…
Find out more »Saturday, May 18, 2019
Cello Around the World
In celebration of Haitian Flag Day, Crossing Borders Music founder Tom Clowes performs solo cello music by composers from Haiti, Cambodia, Germany, Egypt, and Colombia at the Haitian American Museum of Chicago. Said Clowes, "I wanted to volunteer my talents at the Haitian American Museum of Chicago to promote the great work they do exposing people to Haitian culture and beyond." The program will include Solace by Haitian-Canadian composer Gifrants, a transcription of the traditional Haitian melody Erzulie Malade ("Erzulie Is…
Find out more »Sunday, June 23, 2019
Music and Stories Around the World
"Music and Stories Around the World" celebrates music for strings by composers from all around the world! This totally unique, brand new, family-friendly program shares music and stories from Armenia, the Chickasaw Nation, Haiti, Peru, Iran, Taiwan, Uganda, and the US! Learn the story of legendary Armenian composer, music educator, and ethnomusicologist Komitas, and then hear his music performed by string quartet. Learn the proud tradition of the Afro-Peruvian Hatajo de Negritos dance, then hear its music. Learn the story…
Find out more »Wednesday, July 17, 2019
Cello Around the World
Crossing Borders Music founder, Tom Clowes, will perform solo cello music by composers from Haiti, Cambodia, Germany, Egypt, and Colombia. The program will include Solace by Haitian-Canadian composer Gifrants, a transcription of the traditional Haitian melody Erzulie Malade (“Erzulie Is Sick”) by Haitian composer Werner Jaegerhuber, Khse Buon (“Four Strings”) by Cambodian-American composer Chinary Ung, Variations on a Peddler’s Tune by Egyptian composer Gamal Abdel-Rahim, and music for solo cello by German composer JS Bach. Free & Open to the…
Find out more »Pages intimes: A Concert of Haitian Piano Music
Hear music lost for over a century, and a world premiere performance, in this ground-breaking program of Haitian piano music by Crossing Borders Music pianist Marianne Parker! This event marks the official release of Marianne's new CD of Haitian piano music! The performance launches Crossing Borders Music's "Choosing Life and Freedom" series and the Chicago Cultural Center, featuring music by composers who responded to terrible tragedies with music affirming life and to oppression with music affirming freedom. Repertoire: Pages intimes…
Find out more »Music and Stories Around the World
“Music and Stories Around the World” celebrates music for strings by composers from all around the world! This totally unique, brand new, family-friendly program shares music and stories from Armenia, the Chickasaw Nation, Haiti, Peru, Iran, Taiwan, Uganda, and the US! Learn the story of legendary Armenian composer, music educator, and ethnomusicologist Komitas, and then hear his music performed by string quartet. Learn the proud tradition of the Afro-Peruvian Hatajo de Negritos dance, then hear its music. Learn the story…
Find out more »Saturday, August 3, 2019
Music and Stories Around the World
“Music and Stories Around the World” celebrates music for strings by composers from all around the world! This totally unique, brand new, family-friendly program shares music and stories from Armenia, the Chickasaw Nation, Haiti, Peru, Iran, Taiwan, Uganda, and the US! Learn the story of legendary Armenian composer, music educator, and ethnomusicologist Komitas, and then hear his music performed by string quartet. Learn the proud tradition of the Afro-Peruvian Hatajo de Negritos dance, then hear its music. Learn the story…
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