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Mar. 27--The Chicago Chamber Musicians has a packed performance schedule in May and June of this year and throughout the 2006-07 season when it celebrates its 20th anniversary as the city's leading chamber music ensemble.
For its three-concert Composer Perspectives series this spring, the group will depart somewhat from the format of previous years, in addition to moving from the Museum of Contemporary Art to a new venue, Gottlieb Concert Hall at the Merit School of Music, 38 S. Peoria St.
Composer Bruce Adolphe, who has helped to organize CCM's family concerts, will serve as host and moderator for the 2006 Composer Perspectives, which will focus on the art and poetry of chamber music from 1926 to the present. Previous programs were curated by different composers.
The first concert on May 15 is titled "The Listening Eye -- The Unsung Word" and will be devoted to works by Stravinsky, Oliver Knussen, Steven Hartke and Adolphe.
Paul Gauguin's vibrantly colored canvases serve as inspiration for the June 4 program, "Red Dogs and Pink Skies: Ideas of the Exotic." Mezzo-soprano Julia Bentley is guest artist for works by Ravel, Toru Takemitsu and Chen Yi.
CCM's third and final Composer Perspectives concert this year will be "Music of the Americas," June 18 in the Harris Theater for Music and Dance at Millennium Park. The program of Villa-Lobos, Revueltas, Copland and Barber will be presented free of charge as a thank-you gesture to audiences for their continuing support over two decades.
Four of the five concerts CCM will present during its 20th anniversary subscription season will honor the group's founding directors -- pianist Deborah Sobol, clarinetist Larry Combs, violinist Joseph Genualdi and hornist Gail Williams -- with programs of their choosing.
Moreover, the 2006-07 season will bring the launch of a 13-week radio series of CCM performances syndicated nationally by WFMT-FM 98.7. In September the ensemble will release a Naxos disc containing four works by the Pulitzer Prize-winning American composer John Harbison.
Most subscription concerts will be given Sunday evenings at Pick-Staiger Concert Hall at Northwestern University in Evanston, and repeated on Monday nights at Gottlieb Hall.
The concert dates, programs and guest artists are as follows:
Sept. 16-17: All-Schubert program featuring the "Trout" Quintet and Octet.
Oct. 8-9: Clarinetist Eddie Daniels. Works by Mozart, Webern, G. Gabrieli and Ponchielli.
Nov. 5-6: Vocal soloists including Emily Lodine, Harold Brock and Jeffrey Strauss. Music by Weelkes, Spohr and Brahms.
Jan. 20-21, 2007: Family concert at Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Navy Pier. Adolphe's "Witches, Wizards, Spells & Elves."
Feb. 25-26: Works by Mozart, Shostakovich, Harbison and Brahms. The Feb. 25 concert will be given at the Music Institute of Chicago, Evanston.
March 18-19: Music of Kodaly, Bartok and Kurtag.
April 22-23: Violinist Robert Chen. Works by Bach, Dvorak, Stravinsky and Mendelssohn.
For ticket information, phone 312-225-5226.
jvonrhein@tribune.com
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