The third annual "Celebrating Resilience: Music from the Unvanquished Bahá'í University of Iran" features music composed or performed by former music teachers and students who risked their safety to attend the Bahá'í Institute for Higher Education. This grassroots school was created because the Iranian government doesn't allows Bahá'ís in Iran to enter official colleges or ... Read more

The program features compositions and folk song arrangements by Colombian composers, including the song "A Mother to Her Son" by early-20th century composer Eustasio Rosales, which was recently unearthed by The Mulati Ensemble in the composer's great-grandson's basement. Rosales came to Chicago from Colombia and is thought to be Chicago's first Hispanic composer. While in ... Read more

The program features compositions and folk song arrangements by Colombian composers, including the song "A Mother to Her Son" by early-20th century composer Eustasio Rosales, which was recently unearthed by The Mulati Ensemble in the composer's great-grandson's basement. Rosales came to Chicago from Colombia and is thought to be Chicago's first Hispanic composer. While in ... Read more

Haiti: Music of Life, Loss, and Hope features Jean "Rudy" Perrault's powerful "Exodus" String Quartet, which is dedicated to refugees around the world. It tells the gripping, pained story of a Haitian refugee, ending with the hope that life will be better for the next generation. It also features Robert Durand's lively string quartet that ... Read more

Haiti: Music of Life, Loss, and Hope features Jean "Rudy" Perrault's powerful "Exodus" String Quartet, which is dedicated to refugees around the world. It tells the gripping, difficult story of a Haitian refugee, ending with the hope that life will be better for the next generation. It also features Robert Durand's lively string quartet that ... Read more

Renowned sitarist Gaurav Mazumdar, a student of the legendary Ravi Shankar, joins Crossing Borders Music to present his original compositions for sitar, tabla, and European strings. The compositions depict through music a human life journeying from birth to the worldly affairs of adulthood to the renunciation of old age. The music merges traditional North Indian ... Read more

Renowned sitarist Gaurav Mazumdar, a student of the legendary Ravi Shankar, joins Crossing Borders Music to present his original compositions for sitar, tabla, and European strings. The compositions depict through music a human life journeying from birth to the worldly affairs of adulthood to the renunciation of old age. The music merges traditional North Indian ... Read more

Around the World in Music invites you to go around the world through music with this interactive string quartet program for people of all ages. We'll use music to explore the cultures of Uganda, Haiti, Iran, the Czech Republic, and the United States! This program is partially supported by a grant from the Illinois Arts ... Read more