July 13-16, 2017
Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts
915 E 60th St
Chicago, IL 60637

A four-day summer workshop for experienced amateur and student musicians.

Full Participant Tuition: $500 tuition includes all coaching, seminars, master class, and evening sessions.

Tuition due July 1, 2017.

Thursday, July 6, 5:30-7pm
Logan Center, Gidwitz Lobby
6:30-8pm Café Logan Happy Hour

Celebrate the beginning of summer with high energy exercise and classic play. This workshop features guided double-dutch workouts with Black Girls Jump, hoop arts with Hula-Hooping group Emerge and Circulate, and Jukefit dance with Starr Fitness.

Tickets: $10 (limit 4)

Southside Circuit: Summer DJ’s, Dance and Happy Hour

Southside Circuit is a series of social dance mini-workshops. Each Thursday evening workshop will begin with a one-hour lesson accompanied by a live DJ. Participants are invited to practice their moves and purchase drinks at Café Logan’s Happy Hour following each class.

Friday, July 7, 9:00am
Six Flags Great America
Gurnee, IL

Join the Center for Leadership and Involvement for our annual Six Flags Off-Campus Trip! Buses leave from the Reynolds Club at 9:00am and we will arrive back at around 6:00pm.

Tickets: $20 in advance / $30 on or after July 3rd, 2017.

Limit of 4 per person.

Email Tempris Daniels at tedaniels@uchicago.edu with questions.

TICKETS GO ON SALE JUNE 23RD AT 3 PM.

Tuesday, July 11, 5:30-7:30pm
Logan Center, Room 028

Designed for storytellers and story lovers, this workshop will explore how personal stories can intersect with folktales. How do we activate stories to share? What engages the listener in our stories? The workshop focuses on developing stories for the oral storytelling tradition.

Tickets: $10 (limit 4)

Word Space: Storytelling and Creative Writing Workshops

Grab a pen and bring a friend to this engaging series of Tuesday evening workshops exploring different forms of storytelling.

Thursday, July 13, 5:30-6:30pm
Logan Center, Gidwitz Lobby
6:30-8pm Café Logan Happy Hour

Learn the fundamentals of Chicago Stepping with legendary stepping master David Maxx. Following the lesson, put your stepping dance skills into practice with curated sounds by DJ Dave Maze.

Tickets: $10 (limit 4)

Southside Circuit: Summer DJ’s, Dance and Happy Hour

Southside Circuit is a series of social dance mini-workshops. Each Thursday evening workshop will begin with a one-hour lesson accompanied by a live DJ. Participants are invited to practice their moves and purchase drinks at Café Logan’s Happy Hour following each class.

Tuesday, July 18, 5:30-7:30pm
Logan Center, Room 028

This workshop is an introduction to the process of creating dramatic theatre. Drawing on common storytelling elements used in film, television, graphic novels, and classic literature, the workshop will focus on developing the dramatist's practical and critical skills. Participants will have the opportunity to utilize aspects of character, conflict, and storytelling in a collaborative performance laboratory.

Tickets: $10 (limit 4)

Word Space: Storytelling and Creative Writing Workshops

Grab a pen and bring a friend to this engaging series of Tuesday evening workshops exploring different forms of storytelling.

Thursday, July 20, 5:30-6:30pm
Logan Center, Gidwitz Lobby
6:30-8pm Café Logan Happy Hour

Get ready for the dance floor with basic salsa steps for beginners. You will learn how to lead and/or follow as well as practice partner techniques and turn combinations. Following the lesson, practice your skills with a partner with a live DJ.

Tickets: $10 (limit 4)

Southside Circuit: Summer DJ’s, Dance and Happy Hour

Southside Circuit is a series of social dance mini-workshops. Each Thursday evening workshop will begin with a one-hour lesson accompanied by a live DJ. Participants are invited to practice their moves and purchase drinks at Café Logan’s Happy Hour following each class.

Tuesday, July 25, 5:30-7:30pm
Logan Center, Room 028

Examine the work of Natalie Diaz and Patrick Rosal, and consider perspectives on writing one's way back to sanity while negotiating liminal spaces designed to exclude. Participants will deconstruct poems, write their own, share their work, and get feedback for next steps.

Tickets: $10 (limit 4)

Word Space: Storytelling and Creative Writing Workshops

Grab a pen and bring a friend to this engaging series of Tuesday evening workshops exploring different forms of storytelling.

Thursday, July 27, 5:30-6:30pm
Logan Center, Gidwitz Lobby
6:30-8pm, Café Logan Happy Hour

Juke and Pound to the sounds of House and Afro-beat in this afro diasporic fusion workshop led by Vicki Rinata. Following the workshop get grounded and centered with your favorite moves as you vibe to the Afro-fusion sounds of DJ Rae Chardonnay.

Pound is a drumming-inspired cardio jam session that fuses cutting-edge music & functional and strength exercises. The use of Ripstix challenges the body's stability during each technique and targets & strengthens the core and muscles. See, hear, feel results!

Tickets: $10 (limit 4)

Southside Circuit: Summer DJ’s, Dance and Happy Hour

Southside Circuit is a series of social dance mini-workshops. Each Thursday evening workshop will begin with a one-hour lesson accompanied by a live DJ. Participants are invited to practice their moves and purchase drinks at Café Logan’s Happy Hour following each class.

Wednesday, August 9, 6:30pm
Navy Pier

Join the Center for Leadership and Involvement as we end our summer with a boat cruise! This off-campus event will include music, dinner, soft beverages and fireworks! There will be a cash bar available with a two drink maximum. Soft drinks and water will be available for no additional charge.

Transportation will not be provided. Directions will be emailed to attendees closer to the event.

Tickets: $30 in advance / $40 on or after August 2, 2017.

Limit of 4 per person.

Email Tempris Daniels at tedaniels@uchicago.edu with questions.

Friday, October 6, 7:30 pm
International House Assembly Room

In the late 17th century, when theaters were shuttered due to religious reasons, many English alehouses were turned into so-called Musick-Houses. There, musicians gathered to play for enthusiastic (and tipsy) audiences; even Henry Purcell was known to premiere some of his music in this informal, intimate setting. The Norwegian ensemble Barokksolistene pays homage to the tavern tradition with this lively program.

Program:

An Alehouse Session 

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Individual tickets go on sale August 21, 2017.

Saturday, October 7, 11:30am-11:30pm
Logan Center for the Arts
Various Locations

Join us to kick-off a yearlong celebration of the five year anniversary of the Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts.

The Logan Center Five Year Bash will include 12 hours of art-making activities, exhibitions, performances, a BBQ and more, celebrating the work of our community partners, artists, neighbors, students, faculty, scholars, and staff.

Admission: Most programs are free and open to the public. Visit loganfiveyear.uchicago.edu for more information.

Saturday, October 7, 7:30 pm
Logan Center, Performance Hall

Clarinetist Anat Cohen and her Tentet – plus a surprise guest – celebrate the Logan Center's fifth anniversary as they open the Jazz at the Logan series.

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Individual tickets go on sale August 21, 2017.

Friday, October 20, 7:30 pm
Mandel Hall

Bartók String Quartet No. 3
Ligeti String Quartet No. 1 "Métamorphoses nocturnes"
Ligeti String Quartet No. 2
Bartók String  Quartet No. 4

The legendary and formidable Arditti Quartet brings its international reputation as a pre-eminent interpreter of 20^th century and contemporary music to open the Classic Concert Series and launch the Gyorgy Ligeti Series being offered this season.

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Individual tickets go on sale August 21, 2017.

Friday, October 27, 7:30pm
Logan Center, Performance Hall

Contempo presents new works by fresh, exciting talent – young international composers whose works already have a worldwide presence.

Program:

Vito Zuraj: Framed
Justyna Kowalska-Lason: A Light exists in Spring
Nicolai Worsaae: WaWV
Christian Mason: Noctilucence
Ondřej Adámek: Ça tourne ça bloque

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Individual tickets go on sale August 21, 2017.

Friday, November 3, 7:30 pm
Mandel Hall

The dazzling, fearless, and inspired Leila Josefowicz partners with superb pianist John Novacek.

Program:

Sibelius Valse Triste, Op 44, arr. Friedrich Hermann  

Prokofiev Sonata No. 1 in F minor, Op. 80 

Mahler Adagietto (from Symphony No. 5), arr. Otto Wittenbecher

Kaija Saariaho Calices  

Bernd Alois Zimmermann Sonata

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Friday, November 10, 7:30 pm
Logan Center, Performance Hall

The dynamic and adventurous Imani Winds – along with Ensemble Dal Niente and guests – showcases György Ligeti’s chamber music, including two of his important works – his Ten Pieces for wind quintet and the Horn Trio, written as an homage to Johannes Brahms.

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Friday, November 17, 7:30 pm
Rockefeller Memorial Chapel

Founded in 1992 by former members of the St. Thomas Boys Choir in Leipzig, amarcord has since become one of the world’s premier vocal ensembles. To mark the 500^thanniversary of the Lutheran Reformation, they offer a program of five Gregorian chants – in the original Latin and in Martin Luther's translation – alongside Reformation and Counter-Reformation era motets by J. S. Bach.

Program:

Lutherand Music / Verleih uns Frieden – Da Pacem

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Friday, December 1, 7:30 pm
Logan Center, Performance Hall

The American pianist, composer, and arranger and his trio perform numbers from their 2016 album Blues and Ballads and more.

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Friday, January 19, 7:30 pm
Logan Center, Performance Hall

René Marie reunites with the Experiment in Truth trio to share highlights from 2016's Sound of Red, her first album of self-penned originals.

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Sunday, January 21, 2:00 pm
Rockefeller Memorial Chapel

The Play of Daniel is a powerful medieval mystery play composed eight centuries ago in Beauvais, France. Under Anne Azéma's direction (music and staging), this ambitious production combines old and new, bringing together music and movement, theater and liturgy, light and shadow, to retell the biblical story of the young prophet for today's audiences.

Program:

The Play of Daniel: A Medieval Masterpiece Revisited

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Sunday, January 28, 2:00 pm
Mandel Hall

Inspired by Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier, Shostakovich wrote this work as a set of twenty-four pieces – one in each major and minor key of the chromatic scale. Rarely heard in recital, the opus is performed by Alexander Melnikov, who has made full performances of the set a signature and whose recording was named one of the fifty best recordings of all time by BBC Music Magazine.

Program:

Shostakovich 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87

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Friday, February 2, 7:30 pm
Logan Center, Performance Hall

Hungarian percussion group Amadinda, for whom Ligeti composed, and Chicago-based Eighth Blackbird join forces for a program of influences – music by his son, by his young country mate (Máté Bella), and by an American composer also influenced by African drumming polyrhythms. The program concludes with Eighth Blackbird’s fascinating arrangements of several Ligeti piano etudes.

Program:

Lukas Ligeti: New work
Máté Bella: New work
Steve Reich: Sextet
G. Ligeti: Etudes, arr. Eighth Blackbird

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Friday, February 9, 7:30pm
Logan Center Performance Hall

with Imani Winds, Ensemble Dal Niente, Geri Allen, piano, and guests

The Contempo-Jazz Double Bill returns, featuring incomparable women composers across generations and genres.

Program:

Marta Ptaszyńska: Sextet, Poetic Impressions
Reena Esmail: The Light is the Same
Augusta Read Thomas: Bassoon Concertino
Jazz set with Geri Allen

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Friday, February 16, 7:30 pm
Logan Center, Performance Hall

Third Coast Percussion presents three Ligeti works, including the virtuosic Continuum, the whimsical song cycle Síppal, dobbal, nádihegedüvel, and Poème Symphonique, a “spectacle” for 100 mechanical metronomes, produced here with UChicago students. Pulitzer Prize finalist Christopher Cerrone’s new piece for voice and percussion draws on Ligeti’s Síppal, dobbal, nádihegedüvel using the same instrumentation.

Program:

G. Ligeti: Continuum
Christopher Cerrone: The Goldbeater's Skin (Chicago premiere)
G. Ligeti: Poème Symphonique (for 100 metronomes)
G. Ligeti: Síppal, dobbal, nádihegedüvel (With Pipes, Drums, Fiddles)

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Sunday, February 18, 2:00 pm
Mandel Hall

Lyric tenor and lieder specialist Christoph Prégardien makes a rare stateside visit with the pianist Julius Drake; together, they present an afternoon of poems set to music by Franz Schubert.

Program:

Poetische Tagebuch - Schubert songs

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Friday, March 2, 7:30 pm
Mandel Hall

Versatility is a trademark of the much-lauded French quartet; here they breathe new life into a program of classics.

Program:

Haydn: Quartet in D minor, Op. 76, No. 2 “Fifths”
Fauré: Quartetin E minor, Op. 121
Beethoven: Quartet in E-flat Major, Op. 74 “Harp”

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Tuesday, March 6, 7:30 pm
Logan Center, Performance Hall

The Ligeti series concludes with the highly lauded Pierre-Laurent Aimard, who had a long association with Ligeti. He pairs the composer’s études with a Beethoven sonata widely considered to be one of the most demanding works in the piano repertoire.

Program:

G. Ligeti: Etudes
Beethoven: Sonata No. 29 in B-flat Major, Op. 106 “Hammerklavier”

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Friday, April 6, 7:30 pm
Logan Center, Performance Hall

feat. Theo Bleckmann, Alicia Olatuja, Joanna Majoko

Julie and Parker Hall Annual Jazz Concert. Songs of Freedom, developed at Jazz at Lincoln Center, explores the 1960s through the work of three prolific, indelible artists: Joni Mitchell, Abbey Lincoln, and Nina Simone.

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Sunday, April 8, 2:00 pm
Logan Center, Performance Hall

Conductor Nicholas McGegan, , soprano Sherezade Panthaki, singers, and members of the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra lead a multimedia tour highlighting the music of Jewish composer Salamone Rossi and his contemporaries, including Claudio Monteverdi. A reception with the artists follows the performance.

Program:

Sessions: Italian Baroque Music from the Jewish Ghetto

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Friday, April 20, 7:30 pm
Mandel Hall

In 2014, former violinist Martin Beaver and cellist Clive Greensmith of the famed Tokyo Quartet joined with their long-time collaborator, pianist Jon Kimura Parker (“a musician with a rich soul and great artistic depth” – Musical Toronto), to form the vibrant and luminous Montrose Trio.

Program:

Turina: Trio in B minor, Op. 76
Beethoven: Trio in E-flat Major, Op. 1, No. 1
Mendelssohn: Trio in C minor, Op. 66

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Sunday, April 22, 2:00 pm
Logan Center, Performance Hall

with International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE)

Major composers’ inspirations by and reflections on nature form the theme for this Contempo program.

Program:

George Crumb: 11 Echoes of Autumn
Harrison Birtwistle: Some Petals from my Twickenham Herbarium
Mario Davidovsky: Synchronisms No. 3
Toru Takemitsu: Rain Spell
Pauline Oliveros: Earth Ears
Krzysztof Penderecki: Sextet

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Friday, April 27, 7:30 pm
Logan Center, Performance Hall

Tomorrow's Music Today concerts feature music by some of today's finest young composers – University of Chicago doctoral candidates in composition – performed by Chicago-based Ensemble Dal Niente.

Free admission / No reservations required

RESERVATIONS ARE RECOMMENDED BUT NOT REQUIRED FOR THIS EVENT. SEATING WILL BE GENERAL ADMISSION.

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Friday, May 4, 7:30 pm
Logan Center, Performance Hall

Tomorrow's Music Today concerts feature music by some of today's finest young composers – University of Chicago doctoral candidates in composition – performed by Chicago-based Ensemble Dal Niente.

Free admission / No reservations required

RESERVATIONS ARE RECOMMENDED BUT NOT REQUIRED FOR THIS PERFORMANCE. SEATING WILL BE GENERAL ADMISSION.

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Friday, May 11, 7:30 pm
Logan Center, Performance Hall

Imani Winds closes its UChicago residency with a concert celebrating the continuing civil rights movement. Frederic Rzewski's work is dedicated to John Hope Franklin, a distinguished scholar of African-American history who taught at UChicago; Vijay Iyer's piece was partially influenced by the death of Trayvon Martin; and Pulitzer Prize winner Henry Threadgill's new work reflects both his time in Chicago and acivil rights theme.

Program: A Change is Gon' Come

Frederic Rzewski: Sometimes
Vijay Iyer: Bruits
Henry Threadgill: new work - world premiere
Traditional arr. Jeff Scott: American spirituals
Sam Cooke arr. Imani Winds: A Change is Gonna Come

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Thursday, May 17, 7:30 pm
Logan Center, Performance Hall

Drummer Brian Blade brings his Fellowship Band to close the season.

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