Rockefeller Memorial Chapel

AUTUMN 2018 SPECIAL EVENTS AT ROCKEFELLER AND BOND Page 1 Strings CALENDAR OF EVENTS Events are at Rockefeller unless otherwise indicated 2 Pipes SEPTEMBER 4 Ninety Saturday 29 11 pm Hyde Park Jazz Festival Ravi Coltrane with Brandee Younger Page 10 6 Harmonies 8 Spirit Sunday 30 1 pm Hyde Park Jazz Festival Joey and Vera Brink with Riley Leitch 10 9 Christmas OCTOBER 10 Jazz Thursday 4 5 pm EvenSounds performance series begins 3 Friday 5 7:30 pm Spektral Quartet with Mary Pan Plain, Air 1 Saturday 6 2 pm Irene Hsiao with Joey Brink Dialogo Dialogo 6 5 pm Cardinal Blase Cupich Mass of the Holy Spirit 8 Sunday 7 11 am First Choral Sunday Mass of the Quiet Hour 8 Thursday 11 5:45 pm EvenSounds Alison Luedecke 3 Saturday 13 from 9 am Architecture Center | Open House 5 Sunday 14 from 9 am Chicago Architecture Center | Open House 5 11 am Choral Sunday Music of Russia 8 Tuesday 16 7:30 pm Empty Bottle Presents Anna von Hausswolff The Miraculous 2 Saturday 20 7 pm Silent film with Jay Warren Frankenstein + Metropolis 2 Sunday 21 11 am Choral Sunday Music of Palestrina 8 Friday 26 7:30 pm at 90 A gala performance 5 Sunday 28 11 am Choral Sunday Rockefeller Chapel at 90 5

Rockefeller Memorial Chapel, the ’s NOVEMBER iconic ceremonial and spiritual center, is a major arts Saturday 3 8 pm Ren Soc Alan Licht in concert at Bond Chapel 6 presenter and venue for the performing arts. Under the Sunday 4 11 am Choral Sunday Excerpts from Fauré Requiem 8 Arts Rock label, the Chapel offers diverse programming Thursday 8 7:30 pm Diwali The Festival of Lights 8 in music and visual arts, with a particular focus on choral Saturday 10 7:30 pm Sweet Honey in the Rock 7 performance and music played on—and composed for— Sunday 11 11 am Choral Sunday Music for peace, with the Children’s Choir 8 the world class organ and carillon which form a key part of Thursday 15 7:30 pm EvenSounds Fauré Requiem in concert 3 the spectacular architecture of the building. The performing Friday 16 7:30 pm Empty Bottle Presents LOW Double Negative 7 arts program at the beautiful Bond Chapel is also under Sunday 18 11 am Choral Sunday Excerpts from Missa Luba 8 Rockefeller Chapel management, by kind arrangement with the Divinity School. Thursday 22 11 am Interfaith Thanksgiving Celebration Listen to Them Grow 8 Sunday 25 11 am Choral Sunday Men’s Schola Gregorian Chant 8 VISITOR HOURS ACADEMIC QUARTERS DECEMBER Rockefeller Tuesday through Friday 11 am to 6 pm Sunday 2 11 am Choral Sunday Women’s Schola Gregorian Chant 8 weekends for scheduled events only | closed Mondays 3 pm Handel’s Messiah 9 Sunday 9 3 pm UChicago Presents The Tallis Scholars A Renaissance Christmas 9 Bond Monday through Friday 8 am to 4:45 pm Thursday 13 5 pm EvenSounds Joey Brink Sleigh Bells 9 weekends for scheduled events only Saturday 15 8 pm Newberry Consort A Mexican Christmas at Bond Chapel 9 ACADEMIC BREAK Sunday 16 5 pm Thomas Weisflog and Bryan McGuiggin Pipes for the Season 9 December 17 to January 7 Monday 24 4 pm Christmas Eve Festival of Lessons and Carols 9 Rockefeller and Bond closed except for scheduled events JANUARY Cover collage based on Rockefeller Nighttime by Rick Seidel (above) Thursday 10 5:45 pm EvenSounds Peter Richard Conte 3 used under a Creative Commons license via Flickr Friday 11 8 pm Gerrish Organ Performance Series Peter Richard Conte and Andrew Ennis 3 Back cover: Original Ravi Coltrane portrait by Deborah Feingold, Sunday 13 11 am Choral Sunday Music for Epiphany 8 overlaid and inset painting by Steve Johnson Opposite: Spektral Quartet by Dan Kullman Sunday 20 11 am Choral Sunday Music for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. 8 Friday 25 8 pm Ren Soc Kara-Lis Coverdale in concert at Bond Chapel 3 STRINGS

Spektral Quartet WITH MARY PAN Plain, Air FRIDAY OCTOBER 5 | 7:30 PM

The first opportunity to hear music of Tonia Ko, this year’s postdoctoral researcher at the Chicago Center for Contemporary Composition! Spektral performs Ko’s Plain, Air, a musical illustration of Lake Michigan’s shoreline; and Gloria Coates’ String Quartet No. 7, “Angels,” not the docile angels of grocery store sympathy cards but potent and enigmatic creatures that Coates conjures with colossal chords from the organ, played by Mary Pan, and serpentine slides in the strings. Free.

Presented by Rockefeller Chapel with the Department of Music

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Anna von Hausswolff Silent Film Double Feature The Miraculous Frankenstein + Metropolis TUESDAY OCTOBER 16 | 7:30 PM SATURDAY OCTOBER 20 | 7 PM In celebration of the 200th anniversary of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Rockefeller presents the rarely shown Thomas Edison motion picture adaptation (1910, 16 min), with the German expressionist science-fiction drama Metropolis (1927, 156 min): a highly stylized futuristic city where a beautiful and cultured utopia exists above a bleak underworld populated by mistreated workers. With Chicago’s own Jay Warren on the Skinner organ. Jay Warren brings all the color, Tickets at the door, general $10, excitement, and glamour of the students $1. silent film era back to life with Presented by Rockefeller Chapel in artistic his original scores for the silver partnership with and screen. As a regularly featured photoplay organist for the Silent Film Society of Chicago, he has accompanied most of the great silent films throughout his forty year career in his famous rousing style.

Swedish singer/musician Anna von Hausswolff brings The Miraculous to Rockefeller Chapel’s famed Skinner organ: a work steeped in the complicated history of a place of childhood family stories, a place of natural beauty that became the backdrop for a momentous uprising against the king, a place she calls Miraculous. AVH makes vast use of the organ in recounting the stories with brooding drones and dreamy soundscapes. Tickets at emptybottle.com, general $15–18, students with ID $5.

Presented by Empty Bottle in artistic partnership with Rockefeller Chapel

2 EvenSounds A new performance series featuring choral, organ, and carillon students and those who work with them: James Kallembach, Thomas Weisflog, Joey Brink, and friends in the world of professional music in Chicago and beyond.

THE 10TH GERRISH RECITAL Peter Richard Conte and Andrew Ennis FRIDAY JANUARY 11, 2019 | 8 PM Peter Richard Conte and Andrew Ennis play a brilliant program of their own transcriptions for organ duo and organ and flugelhorn, including selections from Respighi’s Pines of Rome and the première of their arrangements of music from Stravinsky’s Firebird Suite and Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherezade. Conte adds music of Richard Strauss arranged for solo organ. Tickets at the door $10, free to students with ID.

A recital in Rockefeller’s Brian Gerrish Organ Performance Series

Possessing a brilliant ear for tonal Andrew Ennis has gained wide color and innovative programming recognition on the East Coast style, Peter Richard Conte is as a trumpeter, flugelhornist, EVERY THURSDAY | 5 PM one the most sought-after and organist, music educator, and revered orchestral organists of church musician. In addition to The many sounds of the carillon in concert, followed by organ performance this era. Appointed in 1989 as the his instrumental work, Ennis is and master classes and single work choral concerts. Details week by week fourth Wanamaker Grand Court a music arranger and creates at rockefeller.uchicago.edu. organist in Philadelphia, Conte new symphonic scale organ This quarter featuring is regarded as a masterful duets for his performances with ALISON LUEDECKE and enthralling performer. Peter Richard Conte. THURSDAY OCTOBER 11 | 5:45 PM Kara-Lis Coverdale Organist and harpsichordist Alison Luedecke of St. James by the Sea, San Diego, plays a recital of music by Craig Phillips, Mary Beth Bennett, FRIDAY JANUARY 25, 2019 | 8 PM | BOND CHAPEL Charles‑Marie Widor, and Louis Vierne. Free. Pianist, organist, and omnivorous explorer of electronic music Kara-Lis Coverdale manipulates FAURÉ REQUIEM sounds from synthetic and traditional instruments to THURSDAY NOVEMBER 15 | 7:30 PM create layered textures and spacious arrangements. In the week of the 100th anniversary of the ending of the First World War, Her vignettes explore how sonic material can evoke the Chapel Choir and Motet Choir sing Fauré’s haunting Requiem as part of a complex feelings such as sanctity, disembodiment, new Thursday evening concert series, with the restored original orchestration aggression, and ethereal beauty. Free; please RSVP of organ, strings, timpani, and horns, conducted by James Kallembach, at renaissancesociety.org. with soloists Alexandra Olsavsky and Vince Wallace. Free. Presented by the

Anna von Hausswolff by Anders Nydam. Conte & Ennis by Dennis Kelly. EvenSounds background by Matt Frankel. The Chapel’s bay of pipes photographed by Martin Doering. 3 NINETY

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The Chapel’s signature mix of arts + spirit in the magnificent setting of its resonant space

4 Chicago Architecture Center ROCKEFELLER CHAPEL AT 90 SATURDAY OCTOBER 13 AND SUNDAY OCTOBER 14 A Gala Performance 9 AM TO 5 PM FRIDAY OCTOBER 26 | 7:30 PM The Chicago Architecture Center features Rockefeller Chapel in its weekend A celebratory concert featuring the diverse musical sounds of Rockefeller festival of tours of the great architectural treasures of Chicago’s diverse today: the Chapel Choir singing the world première of a new work by choir neighborhoods. Visit some hidden spaces not normally open to the public, alum Shawn Kirchner (“Where were you when I laid the foundations of the enjoy the opportunity to photograph the Chapel from fresh angles, and pick up earth?”), with brass quintet; the South Asian Music Ensemble playing music facsimile copies of the 1928 visitors’ guide to the Chapel, newly reprinted. Free. representing diverse spiritual traditions; and the Hyde Park Youth Symphony celebrating the Chapel’s longstanding cultural legacy in the community. Reception after. Free.

ROCKEFELLER CHAPEL AT 90 The Anniversary Service SUNDAY OCTOBER 28 | 11 AM On the 90th anniversary of the Chapel’s dedication on Sunday October 28, 1928, we draw from the liturgy and music of that very service, including Anton Bruckner’s glorious Locus Iste. Reception after. Free.

Photography: Anne Benvenuti, Martin Doering, Jason John Paul Haskins, Marc Monaghan, UChicago Social Sciences, and Matty Wolin. Archival images from the University of Chicago Photographic Archive: APF3‑00521; APF2-06700; and APF1‑06368 (first dean of the Chapel, Charles W. Gilkey). Original background photo by Matt Frankel. 5 HARMONIES

Dialogo Dialogo SATURDAY OCTOBER 6 | 2 PM ROCKEFELLER CHAPEL AND THE DIALOGO SCULPTURE 5828 SOUTH UNIVERSITY AVENUE Irene Hsiao (dance) teams up with Joey Brink (carillon) to perform Dialogo Dialogo, an improvisatory dance installation set to Brink’s own compositions for carillon. Hsiao explores the relationship between Virginio Ferrari’s bronze Dialogo and the bronze carillon bells. Just as the bells are stationary and clappers move to strike them, Hsiao becomes the moving element within the statue and a visual reminder of how the aleatory and the living affect and respond to an everchanging environment of sound and motion. Free.

In conjunction with Dialogo: Virginio Ferrari and Chicago, an Art Design Chicago public program Alan Licht SATURDAY NOVEMBER 3 | 8 PM | BOND CHAPEL Composer, experimental guitarist, and writer Alan Licht is revered for his work in The Blue Humans and Text of Light. Since the early 1990s he has developed a repertoire of structured improvisation pieces for solo electric guitar, bringing together his interests in reharmonization (from jazz and classical music), process, repetition, and extended duration, and the textural vocabularies of rock and noise music. For this concert, Licht presents a new solo work. Free; please RSVP at renaissancesociety.org.

Co-presented by the Renaissance Society and Lampo 6 Sweet Honey in the Rock WITH THE UNIVERSITY CHORUS AND UNIVERSITY WOMEN’S ENSEMBLE SATURDAY NOVEMBER 10 | 7:30 PM The internationally acclaimed, Grammy Award nominated, female Sweet Honey in the Rock is the 2018–19 Don Michael Randel ensemble in African American a cappella collective Sweet Honey in the Rock, noted residence at the University of Chicago. for its vibrant, versatile, and relevant performances, appears in concert with the two hundred voices of the University Chorus and the Women’s Sweet Honey in the Rock also appears in a panel discussion on Artists and Ensemble, directed by Mollie Stone. Free, with donations appreciated at Activism on Friday November 9 at 4 pm at Rockefeller, with Tracye Matthews the door, $10 general, $5 students. of the Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture. Free.

Presented by the Department of Music

LOW Double Negative FRIDAY NOVEMBER 16 | 7:30 PM LOW at 25! Since 1993, Alan Sparhawk and Mimi Parker—whose heaven-and- earth harmonies hold the band’s center—have pioneered a subgenre, shrugged off its strictures, become a magnetic onstage force, and emerged as one of music’s most steadfast and vital vehicles for pulling light from our emotional recesses. But no mawkish nostalgia or safe runs: LOW releases its most brazen, abrasive, and empowering album Double Negative. Tickets at emptybottle.com, general $25, students with UCID $11.

Presented by Empty Bottle in artistic partnership with Rockefeller Chapel

Irene Hsiao photo courtesy of the artist. Joey Brink by Erielle Bakkum. Original guitar photo by Drew Patrick Miller. Sweet Honey in the Rock by Howard T. Cash. LOW by Shelly Mosman. 7 SPIRIT

Mass of the Holy Spirit WITH CARDINAL BLASE CUPICH SATURDAY OCTOBER 6 | 5 PM Cardinal Blase J. Cupich celebrates a Mass of the Holy Spirit with the University’s Catholic community as the academic year begins. Diwali The Festival of Lights THURSDAY NOVEMBER 8 | 7:30 PM The Hindu Student Sangam, with the South Asian Students Association and Spiritual Life, presents the traditional Diwali puja (offering) for the festival of lights, with classical chant, dance, and song. Free.

Thanksgiving Listen to Them Grow THURSDAY NOVEMBER 22 | 11 AM In its 90th year at Rockefeller Chapel, the South Side’s beloved interfaith Thanksgiving community celebration features the Hyde Park Neighborhood Choir of the Chicago’s Children’s Choir singing world music, with prayers and readings by local leaders of diverse spiritual traditions. Elizabeth Davenport, Dean of Rockefeller Chapel, offers the address. Free.

Presented by the Hyde Park & Kenwood Interfaith Council with Rockefeller Chapel

Sundays at Rockefeller This quarter featuring SUNDAYS OCTOBER 7 TO DECEMBER 2 FIRST CHORAL SUNDAY AND AGAIN FROM JANUARY 13 | 11 AM SUNDAY OCTOBER 7 | 11 AM The Chapel Choir sings George Oldroyd’s mystical Mass of the Quiet Hour On Sundays of the academic year, the choral, for the first choral Sunday of the new academic year. organ, and carillon programs present music THE ANNIVERSARY SERVICE drawn from ancient and contemporary SUNDAY OCTOBER 28 | 11 AM sources in the context of liturgy befitting the On the 90th anniversary of the Chapel’s dedication on Sunday October 28, 1928, we draw from the liturgy and music of that service, including Anton grand space of the Chapel. All are welcome Bruckner’s glorious Locus Iste. at the table, always. Details week by week ALL SAINTS + ALL SOULS at rockefeller.uchicago.edu. GABRIEL FAURÉ REQUIEM SUNDAY NOVEMBER 4 | 11 AM

The Chapel Choir sings excerpts from Fauré’s Requiem (to be sung in full on Thursday November 15, page 3), with Thomas Weisflog (organ).

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Handel’s Messiah Newberry Consort A Mexican Christmas SUNDAY DECEMBER 2 | 3 PM SATURDAY DECEMBER 15 | 8 PM | BOND CHAPEL Continuing the almost 90-year-old beloved tradition of a matinée Angels in the convent, dancing in the streets: the glorious sounds of Mexican performance of Handel’s Messiah to usher in the Christmas season, with Christmas music, performed by Newberry Consort’s women’s ensemble led the Rockefeller Chapel Choir, Motet Choir, and members of Chicago Men’s by Ellen Hargis, plus a street band playing instruments never before heard in A Cappella, conducted by James Kallembach, featuring soloists Kaitlin a Newberry concert: the leona, harp, jarana, quijada de burro, with singers Foley, Lindsey Adams, Matthew Dean, and Vince Wallace, with members led by Francy Acosta and José Luis Posada. Tickets at newberryconsort.org, of the Haymarket Orchestra, concertmaster Jeri-Lou Zike. Tickets at $40 general, $50 preferred. tickets.‌uchicago.edu from October 2, $25–55, $5 students. Pipes for the Season Sleigh Bells SUNDAY DECEMBER 16 | 5 PM THURSDAY DECEMBER 6 | 5 PM University organist Thomas Weisflog and organ scholar ROCKEFELLER CHAPEL LAWN Bryan McGuiggin perform an hour of gorgeous seasonal Hot chocolate, apple cider, yummy snacks, and favorite carols by the fire pit music by candlelight, with delicious hot cider served. Free. played on the carillon by Joey Brink and senior members of the Rockefeller Carillon Studio. Dress for the outdoors! Free. Christmas Eve A Festival of Lessons and Carols Presented by Rockefeller Chapel and the Guild of Student Carillonneurs MONDAY DECEMBER 24 | 4 PM The Rockefeller Chapel Choir and the Rockefeller Children’s Choir sing carols old and new at the beloved candlelit service of Lessons and Carols for Christmas Eve. Members of the Children’s Choir present the Christmas story in the traditional tableau (parents of children ages 3–12 may contact Kaitlin Foley, [email protected], by December 1 for information about participation). Free.

The Tallis Scholars A Renaissance Christmas SUNDAY DECEMBER 9 | 3 PM The world-renowned Tallis Scholars fill Rockefeller Chapel with their pristine intonation and impeccable blend, performing carols, chorales, motets, and mass settings: works by Palestrina, Josquin, Byrd, and others. Tickets at tickets.uchicago.edu, $38 general, $30 University faculty and staff, $20 under-35, $10 students.

A UChicago Presents concert

Thanksgiving and Messiah by Eden Sabala. Cardinal Cupich courtesy of the Archdiocese of Chicago. Bhangra dance by Kiran Misra. Tallis Scholars by Nick Rutter. Ceiling Lights 2.0 by David von Diemar. 9 Rockefeller Memorial Chapel The University of Chicago rockefeller.uchicago.edu 5850 S. Woodlawn Ave. 773.702.2667 Chicago, IL 60637 Elizabeth J.L. Davenport, Dean

Ravi Coltrane WITH BRANDEE YOUNGER Universal Consciousness SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 29 | 11 PM Drawing from his larger septet project Universal Consciousness: Melodic Meditations of Alice Coltrane, saxophonist Ravi Coltrane brings a special quartet featuring harpist Brandee Younger to perform in the spectacular setting of Rockefeller Chapel.

Joey and Vera Brink WITH RILEY LEITCH Bell Jazz! SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 30 | 1 PM Eclectic jazz, from standards (Glenn Miller, Cole Porter, Charlie Chaplin) to contemporary jazz and original compositions. University carillonneur Joey Brink is joined by Vera Brink in carillon duo, and by trombonist Riley Leitch for the second performance of Geert D’hollander’s Introduction & Aria, premiered at the Rockefeller Carillon New Music Festival this past May. Free ($5 donation suggested).

Presented by the Hyde Park Jazz Festival in artistic partnership with Rockefeller Chapel