SPRING 2016 SPECIAL EVENTS

at ROCKEFELLER and BOND

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CALENDAR OF EVENTS Events are at Rockefeller unless otherwise indicated

M A R C H

Monday 28 12 noon The Bells every weekday, tower tour at 11:30 am Page 7

5 pm The Bells every weekday, tower tour at 4:30 pm 7

Tuesday 29 4:30 pm Tea & Pipes ten Tuesdays, tea from 4 pm 6

A P R I L

Saturday 2 7 pm Quince Ensemble: Embodied Fictions Bond 2

Sunday 3 11 am Sung service: The Renaissance plus spirituals 8

4 pm Gerrish organ series: Herndon Spillman in concert 6

Thursday 7 12:10 pm New series Baroque at Bond: Wolfgang Rübsam plays Bach Bond 6

Saturday 9 8 pm Newberry Consort: Juan de Lienas Vespers 3

Sunday 10 11 am Sung service: Music of Shulamit Ran and John Tavener 8

Tuesday 12 5:30 pm Opening reception for The Bridge art installation 4

Wednesday 13 12 noon Bells for Dr. King 7

Sunday 17 11 am Sung service: Pärt Beatitudes and other music for Dr. King 8

Thursday 21 12:10 pm Baroque at Bond: Music of the Spanish Baroque Bond 6

7:30 pm The Rose Ensemble in concert: Land of Three Faiths 3

Saturday 23 1 pm Holi The Quads 9

Sunday 24 11 am Sung service for Earth Day: Kallembach settings of Blake 8

Friday 29 6:30 pm Awaken Chicago: The Sakyong 9

Saturday 30 7:30 pm Quire & Place: Kallembach Passion 1

M AY

Sunday 1 11 am Rockefeller Children’s Choir with the Islamic Foundation’s nasheed choir 8

3 pm Awaken Chicago: Pema Chödrön 9

Thursday 5 12:10 pm Baroque at Bond: Music to puzzle the mind Bond 6

Sunday 8 11 am Sung service: Music for Julian of Norwich 8

Friday 13 8 pm Contempo: Tomorrow’s Music Today I 2

Sunday 15 11 am Sung service: Pentecost music of Jacob Handl 8

5 pm Peter and the Wolf 7

Thursday 18 12:10 pm Baroque at Bond: Thomas Wikman plays Bach and more Bond 6

Sunday 22 11 am Sung service: Music of Stainer and Dering 8

Saturday 28 7:30 pm All Choirs: Music of the French chanson tradition 3

Sunday 29 11 am Sung service: Bass arias from Mendelssohn’s Elijah 8

J U N E

Saturday 4 2 pm Chicago Classics on the Bells 7

Sunday 5 11 am Sung service: Vaughan Williams Mass in G 8

Sunday 26 5 pm The Bells of Summer seven summer Sundays 7

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.

Page 1 Passion 2 Voices 4 Vision 6 Pipes 7 Bells 8 Spirit

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PASSION

Kallembach PassionSATURDAY APRIL 30 | 7:30 PM | ROCKEFELLER

To mark the launch of Rockefeller Chapel’s new CD Kallembach Passion, the Chapel Choir, the Decani, and the Avalon Quartet perform James Kallembach’s groundbreaking Passion, commissioned by the Chapel and premiered in 2014. Featuring soprano Kaitlin Foley as the evangelist, the work intersperses texts on evil from Faust, Lady Macbeth, and Dante, and poetry of William Blake, with the Biblical story. The concert includes Tomás Luis de Victoria’s Salve Regina, and music of J.S. Bach and Sven-David Sandström. $20 at rockefeller.uchicago.edu or at the door, free to students. Reception afterward.

Rockefeller Chapel’s signature concert series: magnificent new music, including newly commissioned works, alongside beloved choral classics

VOICES Quince Ensemble: Embodied FictionsSATURDAY APRIL 2 | 7 PM | BOND

Female vocal quartet Quince Ensemble presents the premières of five new works for four voices by UChicago graduate student composers Marcelle Pierson, Kate Pukinskis, Pierce Gradone, Jack Hughes, and Joungbum Lee. Free.

Presented by the Department of Music

Contempo: Tomorrow’s Music Today IFRIDAY MAY 13 | 7:30 PM | ROCKEFELLER

Cliff Colnot conducts eighth blackbird, with the Decani—the professional vocal ensemble of Rockefeller Chapel—in a special edition of the Contempo series which features the premières of works written by doctoral students graduating in music composition. The works on this program were written with the glorious acoustic of Rockefeller Chapel in mind and include the Stabat Mater of long-time Chapel chorister Kate Pukinskis, and music by Jack Hughes, Joungbum Lee, and Pierce Gradone. Free.

Presented by the Department of Music

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Juan de Lienas: Vespers from Convento de la EncarnaciónSATURDAY APRIL 9 | 8 PM ROCKEFELLER

Newberry Consort artistic co-director and soprano Ellen Hargis recreates the sunset evening service rich with psalms, antiphons, and responsories, as it might have been sung in Mexico City sometime in the early 17th century. She directs an all-female ensemble of thirteen vocalists and instrumentalists. $35 at newberryconsort.org.

Presented by the Newberry Consort in artistic partnership with Rockefeller Chapel

The Rose EnsembleTHURSDAY APRIL 21 | 7:30 PM ROCKEFELLER

Twice crowned at the “best choir in the world” festival in Spain, the Rose Ensemble presents a program of music from Spain, Land of Three Faiths: Voices of Ancient Mediterranean Jews, Christians, and Muslims. Sacred, secular, folk, and classical, and featuring instruments and musical ideas that blur the lines between Arabic and European, this program is steeped in the rich history of the three faiths, achieving a balance of edgy improvisation, exotic vocal styles, and ancient traditions. $25 at roseensemble.org or at the door, free to students.

All Choirs: Music of the French chanson traditionSATURDAY MAY 28 | 7:30 PM ROCKEFELLER

James Kallembach leads Motet Choir, the University Chorus, and the Women’s Ensemble in a program featuring music of the French chanson tradition, including Poulenc, Ravel, and Barber, and also music of John Corigliano. Free.

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eighth blackbird by Saverio Truglia. The Rose Ensemble by Michael Haug. Floral photography by hkase and Ed Suominen.

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VISION

The Bridge is a traveling exhibition showcasing the work of forty-seven premier Arab, Persian, and Jewish contemporary visual artists from fifteen countries, of Muslim, Christian, and Jewish backgrounds. It focuses upon what bridges us to one another, as well as to what is held in common across creeds and cultures. Free.

Since its opening in February 2015 in Paris, The Bridge has been displayed in London, Cairo, Metz (France), and New York. After its time in Chicago, it goes to Portland, Spokane, and Wyoming.

Curated by Paul-Gordon Chandler, Liliane Milgrom, and Reda Abdel Rahman

Presented by Caravan, a peacebuilding arts NGO, in artistic partnership with Rockefeller Chapel and the Pozen Family Center for Human Rights

Tea & Pipes, the weekly organ recital, will feature music related to The Bridge on Tuesday April 12 at 4:30 pm, immediately prior to the opening reception.

The Sunday service on April 10 previews the themes of The Bridge with curator Paul-Gordon Chandler speaking.

The Bridge TUESDAY APRIL 12 THROUGH THURSDAY MAY 19 OPENING RECEPTION TUESDAY APRIL 12 5:30 PM | ROCKEFELLER

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Founding Sponsor

Bridge Ambassadors by Ali Abdel Mohsen, From Here We Start by Qais Al Sindy, One Canvas—Different Voices by Sameh Ismail, Prophet—Bridge by Ronen Siman Tov, The Greatest Love by Asmaa Takieddine, Unified Mass by Lina Mowafy.

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Herndon Spillman in concertSUNDAY APRIL 3 | 4 PM | ROCKEFELLER

Herndon Spillman plays rarely heard African American composer Thomas Kerr’s Anguished American Easter 1968; and music of César Franck, Jéhan Alain, Charles Tournemire, J.S. Bach, and Spillman’s own teacher, famed French composer Maurice Duruflé. $10 at the door, free to students.

A recital in the Gerrish Organ Performance Series

Baroque at Bond new seriesTHURSDAYS EVERY OTHER WEEK | 12 :10 PM BOND

A fortnightly opportunity to hear Bond Chapel’s beautiful Reneker organ, an intimate Baroque-style tracker instrument installed in 2013. Free.

April 7 Concert organist and former University organist Wolfgang Rübsam plays music of Johann Sebastian Bach

April 21 Thomas Weisflog plays music of the Spanish Baroque

May 5 Music to puzzle the mind (a Scav Hunt special) May 19 Thomas Wikman plays Bach and more

Tea & PipesTUESDAYS MARCH 29 TO MAY 31 | 4 :30 PM ROCKEFELLER

Rockefeller Chapel’s world class E.M. Skinner organ is played in recital by Thomas Weisflog and friends on

Tuesdays at 4:30 pm in the beloved Tea & Pipes series. Tea served from 4 pm. Free.

PIPES

Herndon Spillm

an by Jim Zietz

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Bells for Dr. KingWEDNESDAY APRIL 13 | 12 NOON ROCKEFELLER

On the 60th anniversary of the historic first visit of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. to speak at Rockefeller Chapel on April 13, 1956, University carillonneur Joey Brink plays African American spirituals and music of the civil rights era on the bells.

The Sunday service on April 17 also honors the anniversary of Dr. King’s first speech in Chicago.

Peter and the WolfSUNDAY MAY 15 | 5 PM | ROCKEFELLER

World-renowned carillon master Geert d’Hollander teams up with Joey Brink to play Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf, arranged by d’Hollander for carillon duet. Dean Elizabeth Davenport narrates the story. Bring your picnic, your children, or your own enchanted self. Free.

Chicago ClassicsSATURDAY JUNE 4 | 2 PM | ROCKEFELLER

An Alumni Weekend special featuring Joey Brink playing Chicago classics on the bells, to be enjoyed up close or from anywhere on campus. Free.

The Bells of SummerSUNDAYS JUNE 26 THROUGH AUGUST 7 5  PM | ROCKEFELLER

Hour-long concerts on Rockefeller’s famed bells, which you can enjoy on the lawn with your picnic supper!

June 26 Rachel Perfecto Royal Carillon School, Belgium July 3 Carol Jickling Lens Denver University July 10 Wesley Arai University of California, Berkeley July 17 Hylke Banning Amersfoort, The Netherlands July 24 Kymberly Stone Brigham Young University July 31 Ellen Dickinson Yale University August 7 Joey Brink University of Chicago

The Bells every dayWEEKDAYS MARCH 28 THROUGH JUNE 10 SUMMER QUARTER JUNE 20 THROUGH AUGUST 26 | 12 NOON AND 5 PM

Tower tours leave at 11:30 am and 4:30 pm, a half hour before each recital. Climb the famed 271 steps and touch the bells before hearing Joey Brink and students of the Chapel’s carillon studio play. $5, free with UChicago ID.

BELLS

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Sunday at RockefellerEVERY SUNDAY | 11 AM

As we have done every Sunday since 1928, we present a Sunday liturgy designed for this cathedral-like space: the lovely voices of the Chapel Choir, the magnificent sounds of the organ, words drawn from ancient tradition and contemporary sources alike, thoughtful preaching rooted in rigorous inquiry. The table is open to all, always.

APRIL 3 FIRST SUNDAY AFTER EASTER

The students of the Women’s Ensemble pair the sound of spirituals with Orlando di Lasso

Seth Patterson associate director for Chapel Life

APRIL 10 THE BRIDGE: A THEMATIC PREVIEW

Music of Shulamit Ran and John Tavener

Paul-Gordon Chandler executive director of Caravan and co-curator of The Bridge

APRIL 17 THE 60TH ANNIVERSARY OF DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING’S FIRST VISIT

Arvo Pärt Beatitudes and Harry Burleigh My Lord, what a morning

Saeed Richardson graduate student in the Divinity School

APRIL 24 EARTH DAY

Kallembach settings of William Blake’s poem The Sick Rose

Anne Benvenuti assistant priest

MAY 1 CHILDREN SINGING FOR PEACE

The Rockefeller Children’s Choir and the children’s nasheed choir of the Islamic Foundation present music that crosses boundaries and yearns for peace

Tahir Abdullah assistant director of Spiritual Life and advisor for Muslim affairs

MAY 8 MOTHER’S DAY

Music for Julian of Norwich, writer of the first book authored by a woman to be published in the English language

Dean Elizabeth Davenport

MAY 15 PENTECOST

Anthems of Jacob Handl for Pentecost

Seth Patterson

MAY 22 TRINITY SUNDAY

John Stainer I saw the Lord and Richard Dering Duo Seraphim

Elizabeth Davenport

MAY 29 MEMORIAL DAY

Bass-baritone Andrew Schultze sings arias from Mendelssohn’s Elijah

Seth Patterson

JUNE 5 ALUMNI WEEKEND LAST CHORAL SUNDAY

Vaughan Williams Mass in G

Elizabeth Davenport

SPIRIT

April 3 April 17 May 1

Spring light, Women’s Ensemble, and Chapel service by Eden Sabala. Tahir Abdullah by Erielle Bakkum. Holi by Anthony Barlich.

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HoliSATURDAY APRIL 23 | FROM 1 PM THE QUADS

Students celebrate the great Indian festival of Holi, the joyful coming of spring, with large amounts of colored powder!

Awaken ChicagoThe Sakyong, Jamgön Mipham RinpocheFRIDAY APRIL 29 | 6 :30 PM ROCKEFELLER

The world leader of the Tibetan-birthed Shambhala community opens a weekend of engagement with key issues facing the city and the world: violence, isolation, inequality.

Pema Chödrön SUNDAY MAY 1 | 3 PM | ROCKEFELLER

Pema Chödrön, author of many spiritual volumes addressing life’s difficult moments, including Practicing Peace in Times of War and When Things Fall Apart, speaks at Rockefeller Chapel to conclude the weekend’s activities.

Registration $350 for the weekend, and full details of the schedule, at awakenchicago.org.

The University of Chicago5850 S. Woodlawn Ave. Chicago, IL 60637

rockefeller.uchicago.edu773.702.2100Elizabeth J.L. Davenport, Dean

Rockefeller Memorial Chapel