FREE PUBLIC PROGRAM Faces of Love Leonard Bernstein Centennial Concert 5:30 pm The Newberry 60 W. Walton St., Chicago Faces of Love: Leonard Bernstein Centennial Concert, a tribute to the musical legacy of Norman Pellegrini, co-founder of Chicago Classical Radio WFMT, voice of the Chicago Symphony and the Lyric Opera. Our concert will highlight the centenary year of Leonard Bernstein with compositions of Bernstein and music of composers that he performed and championed, including those songs of Brahms, Verdi, Mahler, and Poulenc. Led by Music Director and pianist Donald Knight, featured artists include Kimberly McCord, soprano, Marcie Tilkin, soprano, Erich Buchholz, tenor and Alex Honzen, baritone. Norman Pellegrini conducted research at the Newberry for the book, 150 Years of Opera in Chicago, co-authored with Robert C. Marsh (2006). Erich Buchholz, tenor, is well known to Chicago audiences and beyond in a wide variety of musical and theatrical styles. He has performed with Chicago Folks Operetta, Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, Lyric Opera Chorus, and the Chicago Symphony Chorus. Alex Honzen, baritone, performed most recently as Tevye in Chicago Light Opera Works’ production of Fiddler on the Roof. Mr. Honzen also has performed with DuPage Opera Theatre, Chamber Opera Chicago, and da Corneto Opera, among others. Donald Knight, music director and pianist, has been heard on WFMT radio as a tenor and as a pianist. He has been soloist with the Metropolitan Opera Studio, New York Community Opera, the New York Philharmonic, and the American Symphony Orchestra. Kimberly McCord, soprano, was most recently presented in Haydn’s L’isola disabitata as Costanza and the Lyric Opera of Chicago’s Bel Canto, as the German diplomat. Marcie Tilkin, soprano, was a dear friend and an admired artist of Norman Pellegrini, who had been “transported” by Tilkin’s soprano in the solo quartet in Rossini’s Stabat Mater. www.newberry.org/public-programs 60 West Walton Street ♦ Chicago IL 60610 ♦ 312-255-3610 ♦ [email protected] .