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Opening CONCERT: Gateways Chamber Players
Igor Stravinsky’s The Soldier’s Tale Suite and Wynton Marsalis’s A Fiddler’s Tale featuring Tai Murray, violin, and special guest Phylicia Rashad, narrator
Monday, April 15, 2024 | 7:30 PM
Pick-Staiger Concert Hall
Bienen School of Music at Northwestern University
50 Arts Circle Drive
Evanston, IL 60208
monday, april 15, 2024
Left to Right: Tai Murray, violin; Billy Hunter, trumpet; Monica Ellis, bassoon; Weston Sprott, trombone; Phylicia Rashad, narrator, Wesley Sumpter, percussion; Patricia Weitzel, double bass; Damien Sneed, conductor; Alexander Laing, clarinet
Tuesday, April 16 2024
concert: Chamber music I
Celebrating the legacy of African American music from one generation to the next, this concert is inspired by the long-time St. Mark United Methodist Church organist and music director Charles Kendrick (1929-2020). The concert will feature world-renowned artists including Kendrick's grandson, bass trombonist Martin McCain; commissioned works by the McCain Duo; distinguished worship minister Dr. Leo Davis; and introducing new compositions by rising star Joshua David Davis. Curated by the award-winning pianist, Artina McCain and Martin McCain.
Tuesday, April 16, 2024 | 7:30 PM
St. Mark United Methodist Church
8441 S. St. Lawrence Ave.
Chicago, IL 60619
St. Mark United Methodist
Church, Chicago, IL
Dr. Leo Davis, Jr., organ
The McCain Duo
Artina McCain, piano
Martin McCain, bass trombone
Joshua David Davis, piano
Tickets are free, but advance registration is required.
Wednesday, April 17, 2024
Concert: Gateways Brass Collective
Gateways’ exciting brass quintet performs on the renowned Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concert series in downtown Chicago.
Wednesday, April 17, 2024 | 12:15 PM
Seventeenth Church of Christ, Scientist
55 East Wacker Drive
Chicago, IL 60601
Gateways Brass Collective
Solomon Leonard, viola
Young Musicians Institute RECITAL: Solomon Leonard, viola
Violist, Solomon Leonard, winner of the 2023 National Association of Negro Musicians’ Scholarship Competition, performs the music of Dr. Frederick C. Tillis and leads a masterclass for the Hyde Park Suzuki Institute.
Wednesday, April 17, 2024 | 5:00 PM
Hyde Park Suzuki Institute
VanderCook College of Music
3125 South Federal
Chicago, IL 60208
RECITAL: STEWART GOODYEAR, PIANO
Proclaimed “a phenomenon” by the Los Angeles Times and “one of the best pianists of his generation” by the Philadelphia Inquirer, Stewart Goodyear is an world-class concert pianist, improviser and composer. Mr. Goodyear has performed with, and has been commissioned by, many of the major orchestras and chamber music organizations around the world.
PROGRAM
Beethoven | Sonata No. 17 in, Op. 31, No. 2 D minor "Tempest"
Goodyear | Rhapsody
Beethoven | Sonata No. 14 in C-sharp minor, Op. 27, No. 2 "Moonlight"
Goodyear | Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso
Beethoven | Andante Favori in F major, WoO 57
Beethoven | Sonata No. 23 in F minor, Op. 57 "Appassionata"
Wednesday, April 17, 2024 | 7:30 PM
Mary B. Galvin Recital Hall
Bienen School of Music at Northwestern University
70 Arts Circle Drive
Evanston, IL 60208
Stewart Goodyear
(Photo credit: Anita Zvonar)
Mary B. Galvin Recital Hall, Bienen School of Music at Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
Dr. Frederick C. Tillis (1930-2020)
Thursday, April 18, 2024
Gateways Showcase at the
South Shore Cultural Center
Three Events, One Night!
South Shore Cultural Center
Chicago, IL
paul J. Burgett lecture & community conversation
“Musical Emblems, Signification, and Ruminations around a Black Compositional Tradition” featuring Horace Maxiel, Jr. PhD.
Thursday, April 18, 2024 | 6:30 PM
South Shore Solarium
South Shore Cultural Center
7059 S. South Shore Dr.
Chicago, IL 60649
concert: Chamber Music II
A musical extravaganza showcasing some of the nation’s finest classical musicians, curated by Caitlin Edwards.
Thursday, April 18, 2024 | 7:30 PM
Paul Robeson Theatre
South Shore Cultural Center
7059 S. South Shore Dr.
Chicago, IL 60649
Dr. Horace Maxile, Jr.
Tickets are free, but advance registration is required.
Derek Menchan, cello
D-Composition X Love is…
D-Composed is a Chicago-based Black chamber music collective that celebrates Black culture and creativity through the music of Black composers.
(This performance includes poetry containing mature content)
Thursday, April 18, 2024 | 8:30 PM
Paul Robeson Theatre
South Shore Cultural Center
7059 S. South Shore Dr.
Chicago, IL 60649
Caitlin Edwards, violin
D-Composed
Tickets are free, but advance registration is required.
Tickets are free, but advance registration is required.
Friday, April 19, 2024
Gateways Festival Orchestra
Carnegie Hall, April 2022 (Photo credit: Chris Lee)
Take 6
Concert: Gateways Festival Orchestra
Anthony Parnther, conductor
Take 6, Guest Artist
Celebrating professional classical musicians of African descent, Symphony Center Presents features the New York-based Gateways Festival Orchestra in its Chicago debut.
Comprised of the finest classical musicians in the country, the all-Black Gateways Festival Orchestra concludes its week-long Chicago residency with a Symphony Center concert featuring Take 6, the award-winning a cappella group Quincy Jones called the “baddest vocal cats on the planet.” The program highlights works by African-American composers including Chicago-native Margaret Bonds, whose Montgomery Variations was inspired by Martin Luther King Jr.
In addition to the collaboration with Take 6, the program includes:
Margaret Bonds | Montgomery Variations
Edward Elgar | Variations on an Original Theme, “Enigma,” op. 36
Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson | Worship: A Concert Overture
Friday, April 19, 2024 | 7:30 PM
Orchestra Hall
220 South Michigan Avenue
Chicago, IL 60604
Anthony Parnther