Honoring Refugee Composers

Plymouth Place Senior Living 315 N La Grange Rd, La Grange Park, IL, United States

Crossing Borders Music honors refugees around the world in this performance of music written by or about refugees! Hear the proud "Refugees Anthem" by Moutaz Arian. Be stirred by Tatev Amiryan's "Tristesse," a homage to the famous Armenian musician Komitas. The piece expresses Komitas' pain and sorrow as the Armenian Genocide forced him from his ... Read more

Free and open to the public

Night Out in the Parks: Music and Stories of Resilience

Buttercup Park 4901 N Sheridan, Chicago, IL, United States

Crossing Borders Music, in association with the Chicago Park District’s Night Out in the Parks initiative, presents “Stories and Music of Resilience,” a program of string quartet music by composers from around the world! This family-friendly program features music by composers from Uganda, Argentina, the Soviet Union, the Chickasaw Nation, Iran, Taiwan, and the US. ... Read more

Free and open to the public

Night Out in the Parks: Music and Stories of Resilience

Chicago Park District Smith Park 2526 W Grand Ave, Chicago

Crossing Borders Music, in association with the Chicago Park District's Night Out in the Parks initiative, presents "Stories and Music of Resilience," a program of string quartet music by composers from around the world! This family-friendly program features music by composers from Uganda, Argentina, the Soviet Union, the Chickasaw Nation, Iran, Taiwan, and the US. ... Read more

Free and open to the public

Night Out in the Parks: Music and Stories of Resilience

Jesse White Community Center 412 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL, United States

Crossing Borders Music, in association with the Chicago Park District's Night Out in the Parks initiative, presents "Stories and Music of Resilience," a program of string quartet music by composers from around the world! This family-friendly program features music by composers from Uganda, Argentina, the Soviet Union, the Chickasaw Nation, Iran, Taiwan, and the US. ... Read more

Free and open to the public

Residency at United World College of South East Asia

United World College of Southeast Asia 1 Tampines Street 73, Singapore

Crossing Borders Music will share its "Stories and Music of Resilience" in-school performances, work with K-12 students exploring music and its links to other important subjects and ideas, and perform "Music Sustains Us: Haitian and African-American Spiritual Music," a concert for all ages featuring arrangements of Haitian and African-American spiritual music by composers Julio Racine ... Read more

Music Sustains Us: Haitian and African-American Spiritual Music

Buttercup Park 4901 N Sheridan, Chicago, IL, United States

With the Buttercup Park Advisory Council, Crossing Borders Music shares Music Sustains Us: Haitian and African-American Spiritual Songs! Hear spiritual songs of Haitians and African-Americans provided solace, resilience, and strength in the face of oppression. These powerful traditional melodies have been arranged by keyboard, violin, and cello by composers Julio Racine and Samuel Coleridge Taylor.

Free

Celebrating Music from Syria and Egypt

Mount Prospect Public Library 10 S Emerson St, Mount Prospect, IL, United States

Syrian and American musicians come together to celebrate music by composers from Syria and Egypt for the Mount Prospect Public Library's Festival Night! The ensemble will present original works composed by Issam Rafea, Sufi-inspired violin solos by Abdo Dagher, and the violin-cello duo of Gamal Abdel-Rahim, whose music combines Egyptian modal scales, rhythms, and melodies ... Read more

Crossing Borders Music at the Arts in the Dark Halloween Parade!

on State St. heading south from Lake to Van Buren State and Lake, Chicago, IL, United States

Crossing Borders Music is excited to announce its participation with the Haitian American Museum of Chicago-HAMOC in Chicago's Arts in the Dark Halloween Parade! Hear rara-inspired Haitian string quartets accompany Haitian dancers! See scores of Chicago artists exploring the magic of Halloween in this iconic annual Chicago event! The parade will start on State Street heading south from ... Read more

free and open to the public

Celebrating Resilience: Music by Iranian Bahá’ís

Presbyterian-Congregational Church 214 Vaughn Ave, Ashland, WI, United States

With the Ashland Chamber Music Society, Crossing Borders Music shares this special concert shares music and stories of resilience of Bahá’í composers from Iran in the face of their government's systematic persecution of members of the Bahá'í religion. Officially barred from attending college or university because of their religion, Iranian Bahá'ís and their Muslim supporters ... Read more

$15

Music Sustains Us: Haitian and African-American Spiritual Music

Glacier Hills Senior Living 1200 Earhart Rd, Ann Arbor, MI, United States

With Glacier Hills Senior Living, Crossing Borders Music shares Music Sustains Us: Haitian and African-American Spiritual Songs! Hear spiritual songs of Haitians and African-Americans provided solace, resilience, and strength in the face of oppression. These powerful traditional melodies have been arranged by keyboard, violin, and cello by composers Julio Racine and Samuel Coleridge Taylor.