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<\/p>\n \n\t\t \n\t\tKnow before you go:<\/strong> Details of listings can change at the last minute. Please call ahead to confirm.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n \n\t2\/22 at 7:30<\/strong> The large volunteer chorus\u2019s winter concert pairs Mozart\u2019s aptly nicknamed \u201cGreat C Minor Mass\u201d with Dvo\u0159\u00e1k\u2019s triumphal Te Deum. $10\u2013$30. Rockefeller Chapel, U of C, 5850 S Woodlawn. apollochorus.org<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n \n\t2\/9, 10 at 7:30<\/strong> Works by two local composers feature on CCM\u2019s first 2014 program. James Stephenson\u2019s Celestial Suite for brass quintet conjures sound-paintings of five astronomers. Stacy Garrop\u2019s The Trumpets at Jericho,<\/em> a world premiere, uses two trumpets and piano accompaniment to tell the story of the walls tumbling down. Also, the oboist Alex Klein performs two Mozart works. $10\u2013$45. 2\/9: Pick-Staiger Concert Hall, Northwestern U, 50 Arts Circle, Evanston. 2\/10: Gottlieb Hall, Merit School of Music, 38 S Peoria. chicagochambermusic.org<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n \n\t2\/2 at 3<\/strong> Kate Carter, former Chicago Q Ensemble violinist, and Louise Chan, piano. \n\tCRITIC\u2019S PICK<\/p>\n \n\t2\/15\u20133\/5<\/strong> Duke Ellington left his only opera, Queenie Pie,<\/em> unfinished at his death, and attempts at reconstruction have struggled with the weird, possibly opera-satirizing plot about a top Harlem beautician and her upstart rival. Of the handful of productions mounted, none of which have played Chicago, reviewers describe the music as unmistakably Ellington, touching on his big-band vibes, his sacred music, and the orchestral sound he just called \u201cAmerican.\u201d $35\u2013$125. Harris Theater, 205 E Randolph. chicagooperatheater.org<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n \n\t2\/16 at 3<\/strong> After a first half of Wagner\u2019s Siegfried Idyll<\/em> and Mahler\u2019s R\u00fcckert-Lieder,<\/em> artistic director Scott Speck oversees a mixed-media showcase of Moli\u00e8re\u2019s Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme,<\/em> with music by Jean-Baptiste Lully from 1670 and then Richard Strauss from the nineteen-teens. $25\u2013$75. Nichols Concert Hall, 1490 Chicago, Evanston. chicagophilharmonic.org<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n \n\t2\/1 at 8<\/strong> Riccardo Muti returns for his winter residency, beginning his nonconsecutive tour of Schubert\u2019s symphonies with Nos. 3 and 4 (\u201cTragic\u201d). Cellists Giovanni Sollima and Yo-Yo Ma also pair up for a world premiere of Sollima\u2019s concerto. $50\u2013$285.<\/em> \n\t2\/7\u20138 at 7:30, 2\/9 at 2:30<\/strong> The trumpeter Brandon Ridenour left the Canadian Brass, arguably the world\u2019s top brass quintet, last spring after seven years. Now solo but not yet 30, he travels to the northwestern suburbs to toot out Vivaldi\u2019s Agitata da due venti<\/em> and his own composition Fantasy Variations on a Theme by Paganini, a world premiere here. $25\u2013$60. 2\/7: Batavia Fine Arts Centre, 1201 Main St, Batavia. 2\/8\u20139: Hemmens Cultural Center, 45 Symphony, Elgin. elginsymphony.org<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n \n\t2\/2 at 8:30<\/strong> The rarely assembled new-music saxophone ensemble Anubis Quartet comes together for a program that includes Monte Weber\u2019s Lucidity,<\/em> for saxophones, soprano, and electronics. $5\u2013$10.<\/em> \n\t2\/16\u20133\/2<\/strong> The 15th annual celebration of G. F. Handel actually spans three weekends, with one concert per weekend. First, Mozart\u2019s unfamiliar beefed-up version of Messiah.<\/em> Second, smaller-scale cantatas for soprano, oboe, and continuo. Third, a remount of the festival\u2019s first concert, with the popular Music for the Royal Fireworks,<\/em> two coronation anthems, and the brassy Dettingen Te Deum,<\/em> for chorus and orchestra. $30\u2013$45. Grace Episcopal Church, 924 Lake, Oak Park. handelweek.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n \n\t2\/1\u201328<\/strong> The Barber of Seville.<\/em> Beefcake baritone Nathan Gunn plays Figaro in Lyric\u2019s new production of this popular opera, reprising his 2008 role. Not sure how the director might arrange for Gunn to take off his shirt, but listen well, Lyric\u2014that is what the people want. $20\u2013$274.<\/em> \n\t2\/3 at 7<\/strong> Mason Bates and Anna Clyne, the CSO\u2019s two composers in residence, occupy two-thirds of Folk Songs, the third of four concerts in the orchestra\u2019s new-music series. Clyne\u2019s world premiere piece, Postponeless Creature,<\/em> sets the poetry of Emily Dickinson to music. $10\u2013$25. Harris Theater, 205 E Randolph. cso.org\/musicnow<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n \n\t2\/7\u20138 at 7, 2\/9 at 2<\/strong> As with aces and eights or Our American Cousin,<\/em> sometimes circumstantial details travel along with history. Here, this early-music group has cobbled together the program from the February 1454 Feast of the Pheasant, a banquet drumming up enthusiasm for a crusade against the Turks, with entertainment including motets by Guillaume Dufay and Gilles Binchois. $35\u2013$45. Locations: newberryconsort.org<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n \n\t2\/9 at 7<\/strong> To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Alice Millar Chapel, Northwestern pulls out all the stops on Louis Vierne\u2019s Marche Triomphale,<\/em> for brass, timpani, and organ, and premieres Chapel Music: Five Diverse Songs for Chorus and Orchestra,<\/em> by Joseph Schwantner, an NU grad, Chicago native, and Pulitzer winner. Freewill donations. Alice Millar Chapel, 1870 Sheridan, Evanston.<\/em> \n\tFREE!<\/p>\n \n\t2\/1<\/strong> Franz Schubert apparently threw great parties. Not quite two centuries after his too-young death, his shindig legacy lives on in the Schubertiade, a chamber-music-focused get-together celebrated all over the world, but specifically by PianoForte near his birthday, January 31, in a day of drop-in concerts and Viennese coffee and sweets from Julius Meinl. PianoForte Studios, 1335 S Michigan. pianofortefoundation.org<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n \n\t2\/9 at 3<\/strong> How old can a prodigy get before people stop mentioning his age at every opportunity? Older than 22, that\u2019s for sure. The 22-year-old pianist Daniil Trifonov plays a recital of shorter Stravinsky, Debussy, and Ravel works, then caps it off with Schumann\u2019s Symphonic Etudes. $20\u2013$78.<\/em> \n\t2\/4 at 7:30<\/strong> Contempo, the U. of C.\u2019s new-music series, convenes some of Chicago\u2019s contemporary specialists, Eighth Blackbird, Anubis Quartet, and the mezzo-soprano Julia Bentley among them. Composers on the program include the Australian Brett Dean and the local Augusta Read Thomas. $5\u2013$25. Logan Center, U of C, 915 E 60th.<\/em> <\/p><\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.chicagomag.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Related Content How we pick the events: These listings are not advertisements. They are a selective guide to arts events recommended by Chicago\u2019s culture critics. 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How we pick the events:<\/strong> These listings are not advertisements. They are a selective guide to arts events recommended by Chicago\u2019<\/em>s culture critics.<\/p>\n\n\tApollo Chorus<\/h2>\n
\n\tChicago Chamber Musicians<\/h2>\n
\n\tChicago Cultural Center<\/h2>\n
2\/3 at 12:15<\/strong> The Avalon Quartet plays Joan Tower\u2019s string quartet and then joins pianist Meng-Chieh Liu for early-20th-century composer Amy Beach\u2019s piano quintet.
2\/5 at 12:15<\/strong> Kinga Augustyn, violin, and Matthieu Cognet, piano.
2\/9 at 3<\/strong> International Contemporary Ensemble.
2\/10 at 12:15<\/strong> Stuart Thompson, baritone, and Michael Miller, piano.
2\/16 at 3<\/strong> Illinois Modern Ensemble.
2\/19 at 12:15<\/strong> The antique-instruments ensemble Rook.
2\/23 at 3<\/strong> Fifth House Ensemble.
2\/24 at 12:15<\/strong> Carrie Schafer, trumpet.
2\/26 at 12:15<\/strong> For the 124th birthday of Myra Hess, the eponym of the Wednesday lunchtime free concert series, the esteemed young pianist Benjamin Hochman plays her arrangement of J. S. Bach\u2019s Jesu, Joy of Man\u2019s Desiring,<\/em> along with Brahms\u2019s Variations on a Theme by Haydn.
78 E Washington. chicagoculturalcenter.org<\/em><\/p>\n\n\tChicago Opera Theater<\/h2>\n
\n\tChicago Philharmonic Orchestra<\/h2>\n
\n\tChicago Symphony Orchestra<\/h2>\n
2\/6\u20138 at 8<\/strong> Remarkably, Muti finds time in his Schubert encyclopedism for a weekend trip to the composer\u2019s Mass in A-Flat and Overture in the Italian Style in C Major. In between, the orchestra and Symphony Chorus perform the 9\/11 commemoration Voices from the Silence,<\/em> by Ennio Morricone, best known as a composer of film scores such as The Untouchables,<\/em> Bugsy,<\/em> and The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.<\/em> $32\u2013$217.<\/em>
Child friendly<\/span> 2\/8 at 11 and 12:45<\/strong> Magic Circle Mime Company and aliens descend for a show called Alien Invasion: Orchestra from Planet X, with music by American composers such as Aaron Copland, Scott Joplin, and John Williams. $6\u2013$57.<\/em>
2\/13 at 8, 2\/18 at 7:30<\/strong> The CSO goes baroque only a few times a season, one of which comes now, with Vivaldi, Handel, and J. C. Bach butting up against arias originally written for castrato, here performed by a mezzo-soprano. Haydn\u2019s Symphony No. 100 (\u201cMilitary\u201d) ends the night. $31\u2013$218.<\/em>
2\/14 at 7:30, 2\/16 at 3<\/strong> The Beyond the Score program delves into the \u201cMilitary\u201d Symphony, with actors, illustrations, and live musical examples. $24\u2013$151.<\/em>
Critic\u2019s Pick<\/span> 2\/20 at 8, 2\/21 at 1:30, 2\/22 at 8, 2\/25 at 7:30<\/strong> The cancellation rate of orchestral conductors, generally no spring chickens, rises as they age. Pierre Boulez, 88, hasn\u2019t led the CSO in three years, after scrubbing two consecutive residencies. If he makes it to this concert of Debussy, Ravel, and a string of Stravinsky shorts, catch it. $27\u2013$214.<\/em>
Free!<\/span> 2\/26 at 6:30<\/strong> Fully booked at presstime, this edition of the All-Access Chamber series includes CSO strings on Ravel\u2019s string quartet, Stravinsky\u2019s Three Pieces for String Quartet, and Beethoven\u2019s late quartet Op. 132.
2\/27\u20133\/1 at 8<\/strong> Boulez\u2019s second program eschews the two-big-works approach to programming in favor of three pieces by Ravel and five by Stravinsky. $28\u2013$214.<\/em>
Symphony Center, 220 S Michigan. cso.org<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\tElgin Symphony Orchestra<\/h2>\n
\n\tFrequency<\/h2>\n
2\/9 at 8:30<\/strong> The vibrant string group Spektral Quartet sets Bach\u2019s Art of Fugue<\/em> against Shulamit Ran\u2019s Bach-Shards<\/em> and movements from Ligeti, late Beethoven, and Chicago\u2019s own Marcos Balter. $10.<\/em>
2\/16 at 8:30<\/strong> Fonema Consort, a new-music group dedicated to works incorporating the often-neglected voice, premieres Alexander Sigman\u2019s Epiglottis<\/em> in a program called Amplified. $10.
2\/23 at 8:30<\/strong> The soprano Amanda DeBoer Bartlett of Ensemble Dal Niente sings\/whispers\/shrieks\/coughs\/whoops the contemporary solo-voice tour de force R\u00e9citations,<\/em> by Georges Aperghis. $10.<\/em>
Constellation, 3111 N Western. constellation-chicago.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\tHandel Week<\/h2>\n
\n\tLyric Opera<\/h2>\n
2\/22\u20133\/16<\/strong> Rusalka.<\/em> Dvo\u0159\u00e1k\u2019s opera, never before staged at Lyric, tells the dark fairy tale of the water nymph Rusalka, who falls in love with a prince and wishes to become human. Ana Mar\u00eda Mart\u00ednez, who sang Desdemona in Otello earlier this season, plays the title role. $44\u2013$274.<\/em>
Civic Opera House, 20 N Wacker. lyricopera.org<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\tMusic Now<\/h2>\n
\n\tNewberry Consort<\/h2>\n
\n\tNorthwestern University<\/h2>\n
2\/27\u20133\/2<\/strong> Since its 1998 premiere, Mark Adamo\u2019s opera Little Women<\/em> has scored dozens of repeat performances. The accessible and maybe the tiniest bit cloying score strikes operagoers as modern but not scary. $7\u2013$16. Pick-Staiger Concert Hall, 50 Arts Circle, Evanston. pickstaiger.org<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\tPianoforte Foundation<\/h2>\n
\n\tSymphony Center<\/h2>\n
2\/12 at 8<\/strong> Joshua Bell performs Beethoven\u2019s Violin Sonata in G Major, Stravinsky\u2019s The Fairy\u2019s Kiss<\/em> divertimento, and Giuseppe Tartini\u2019s \u201cDevil\u2019s Trill\u201d Sonata, which has a Robert-Johnson-at-the-crossroads dream behind its composition. $35\u2013$111.<\/em>
Free!<\/span> 2\/17 at 8<\/strong> Civic Orchestra of Chicago, the CSO\u2019s training orchestra, plays Bach\u2019s Orchestral Suite No. 3 and Brahms\u2019s Serenade No. 1 in a D-Major smackdown
2\/21 at 8<\/strong> In his second installment of chamber programs pairing Brahms with complementary new commissions, Emanuel Ax teams up with Yo-Yo Ma for Brahms\u2019s Cello Sonatas Nos. 1 and 2 and a new work by the Swedish composer Anders Hillborg, in the process also setting a record for the shortest-surnamed chamber duo in history. $76\u2013$195.<\/em>
Symphony Center, 220 S Michigan. cso.org<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\tUniversity of Chicago Presents<\/h2>\n
2\/21 at 7:30<\/strong> The ascendant ensemble Third Coast Percussion brings another Augusta Read Thomas composition, Resounding Earth,<\/em> to Chicago for the first time after touring it around the country. The piece calls for more than 100 bells from global traditions, such as Burmese spinning bells, Thai gongs, and Japanese singing bowls. $5\u2013$25. Logan Center, U of C, 915 E 60th.<\/em>
2\/22 at 2<\/strong> Third Coast Percussion puts on a family concert, with an instrument petting zoo to follow. $5\u2013$10. Logan Center, U of C, 915 E 60th.
2\/28 at 7:30<\/strong> If you\u2019re a fan of the 18th-century composer Nicola Porpora, this is your month. The now-obscure Neapolitan, known for arias for castrato, appears not only on the CSO\u2019s 2\/13 and 2\/18 program but also in profusion here in a recital by the countertenor Philippe Jaroussky, accompanied by the Venice Baroque Orchestra. Handel also features. $5\u2013$35. Mandel Hall, U of C, 1131 E 57th.<\/em>
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