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Chicago Composers: The Next Generation

Harold Washington Library Center (Grand Lobby), 400 S State St, Chicago, IL 60605 400 S State St, Chicago, IL

"Chicago Composers: the Next Generation" shares the world premiere performances of composers in the Crossing Borders Music Young Composers Project. In the project, youth from music programs in North Lawndale and Garfield Park receive weekly composition lessons and write a piece for the Crossing Borders Music string quartet. Hear their fresh, new approaches to an ... Read more

Rooted: Haitian String Trios

Fulton Recital Hall, Goodspeed Hall, 4th floor, 1010 E. 59th St 1010 E. 59th St., Chicago, IL

Hear string trios by Haitian composers “rooted” in the beauty of Haitian culture and its unique history, religion, and folk traditions! Music by Werner Jaegerhuber, Rudy Perrault, Sabrina C D Jean Louis, and folk song arrangements by Julio Racine celebrate Haiti’s revolutionary freedom-seeking origins, its folk music, its unique religious traditions – and its connection ... Read more