There’s nothing plain about the exhibit of Plains Native art and culture that will be on view from July 3 to October 17.
 
This exhibit focuses on tribes of the northern Great Plains during the period of forced removal from ancestral lands and the Reservation Period of the 1880s to the 1930s. The exhibit also touches on how traditional art is kept alive today on Plains reservations and will include contemporary Plains ledger art (created on accounting paper) and animal-hide art.

The exhibit will comprise approximately 50 historic objects from the museum’s permanent collection and on loan from private collectors, including pictorial beadwork; beaded bags, purses and moccasins; painted hide bags; clothing; quillwork; and dolls.
 
Displays will trace changes in designs, materials, and methods of Plains artists, such as the adoption of sewing machines, often introduced at boarding schools that taught industrial arts, and the cultural interplay between Natives and white settlers and traders.
 
“Dazzling Colors” takes its name from the written account of a U.S. Cavalry officer who in 1881 witnessed a Lakota Sun Dance attended by approximately 12,000 Oglala and Brulé Lakota. “Nothing could be added in the way of dazzling colors,” wrote Army Captain John Gregory Bourke.  “Calico shirts in all the bright hues of the rainbow, leggings of cloth, canvas, and buckskin, moccasins of buckskin, crusted with fine beadwork were worn by all.”
 
In a departure from most temporary exhibits at the Mitchell, “Dazzling Colors” will be mounted in themed sections, many with their own atmospheric environment. For example, visitors will view some materials by walking into a canvas replica of a tipi flanked by ledger art depicting resistance and battles in the early reservation years.  Some items will be displayed in a vignette modeled on a historic photo of a merchandise stand operated by a Native couple selling art and craftwork.
 
A computer terminal in the gallery will have an interactive program to introduce visitors to the concept of the Lakota winter count, a pictorial calendar with images representing each year’s most memorable event. Users will hear words spoken in the Lakota language when they scroll over the pictures. The winter count was used as a visual aid in retelling oral histories.
 
Among topics to be explored in the exhibit is the difference in the arts practiced by Plains Indian men and women. According to exhibit curator Laura McDowell, men created representational and narrative art, such as images and scenes documenting historical and current events or illustrating spiritual themes, and they tended to work alone. The women typically worked in groups, crafting domestic items decorated with abstract and geometrical designs.
 
“As a follow-up to the Mitchell’s recent exhibit about Pacific Northwest Coast Native peoples, it seemed appropriate to look at Native communities closer to home,” McDowell said. “This is a geographic region familiar to those who drive west on summer vacations, but the history and culture of the indigenous peoples there remain little-known to many of those passing through.”

For more information, contact the Museum at 847.475.1030 or click here to email visitorservices@mitchellmuseum.org

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There’s nothing plain about the exhibit of Plains Native art and culture that will be on view from July 3 to October 17.
 
This exhibit focuses on tribes of the northern Great Plains during the period of forced removal from ances... more

American baritone Thomas Hampson enjoys a singular career as a recitalist, opera singer, and recording artist while maintaining an active interest in teaching, research, and technology. He has performed in the world’s most important concert halls and opera houses with many of today’s most renowned singers, pianists, conductors, and orchestras. Exploring the rich repertoire of song in a wide range of idiomatic styles, languages, and periods, Hampson has won worldwide recognition for his thoughtfully researched and creatively constructed programs. He is one of the most important interpreters of German romantic song, especially the works of Schumann, Mahler, and Wolf.
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American baritone Thomas Hampson enjoys a singular career as a recitalist, opera singer, and recording artist while maintaining an active interest in teaching, research, and technology. He has performed in the world’s most important concert halls a... more

The Center for the Writing Arts is proud to announce Zakes Mda as the Visiting Writer in Residence for Fall Quarter 2010. Mda will be teaching Writing 301: The Art of Fiction for the CWA and a literature course cross-listed with the English Department.

Q&A will follow the reading, as well as a book signing by the author.

Zakes Mda is a South African writer, painter, filmmaker and music composer. He has published sixteen books, eight of which are novels and the rest collections of plays, poetry and a monograph on the theory and practice of theater-for-development. His works have been translated into 20 languages, including Catalan, Korean, Serbian, Norwegian and Italian. They have won a number of awards including the Amstel Playwright of the Year Award, the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Africa, the Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Legacy Award and designation as an American Library Association Notable Book.  His novel Cion, set in southeast Ohio, was nominated for the NAACP Image Award.  He commutes between the USA and South Africa, working as a professor of creative writing at Ohio University, as a beekeeper in the Eastern Cape, a dramaturge at the Market Theater, Johannesburg, and a director of the Southern African Multimedia AIDS Trust in Sophiatown, Johannesburg.  

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The Center for the Writing Arts is proud to announce Zakes Mda as the Visiting Writer in Residence for Fall Quarter 2010. Mda will be teaching Writing 301: The Art of Fiction for the CWA and a literature course cross-listed with the... more

A former member of the Philadelphia Orchestra and Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Adam Unsworth is associate professor of horn at the University of Michigan. His solo recordings demonstrate his strong versatility and musicality as a jazz musician and composer. Featuring music by Cherubini, Nurock, Sansom, Ballou, Ernste, and Thimmig, his recital will be preceded by a free master class at 5:30 p.m. in Lutkin Hall.
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A former member of the Philadelphia Orchestra and Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Adam Unsworth is associate professor of horn at the University of Michigan. His solo recordings demonstrate his strong versatility and musicality as a jazz musician and com... more

This Month the South Branch Book Club will be discussing The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester. 

"The Professor and the Madman is an extraordinary tale of madness and genius, and the incredible obsessions of two men at the heart of the Oxford English Dictionary and literary history. With riveting insight and detail, Simon Winchester crafts a fascinating glimpse into one man's tortured mind and his contribution to another man's magnificent dictionary." - Bookbrowse.com

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This Month the South Branch Book Club will be discussing The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester. 

"The Professor and the ... more

Daniel J. Farris, conductor

Kick off Northwestern’s Homecoming Parade in high spirits as the Wildcat Marching Band brings the sights and sounds of Ryan Field to Deering Meadow. In case of rain, this event will be held at Pick-Staiger Concert Hall.

Admission is free.

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Daniel J. Farris, conductor

Kick off Northwestern’s Homecoming Parade in high spirits as the Wildcat Marching Band brings the sights and sounds of Ryan Field to Deering Meadow. In case of rain, this event will be held at... more

Richard Boldrey, James Giles, and Xiao-Min Liang, piano; Sunny Joy Langton, soprano; Karen Brunssen, mezzo-soprano; Kurt Hansen, tenor; Bruce Hall, bass; Michael Henoch, oboe; Joseph Genualdi, violin; Kristin Figard, viola; Tahirah Whittington, cello

Robert Schumann, Three Romances, Spanisches Liederspiel, and Piano Quartet in E-flat Major

6:45 p.m. preconcert student recital: Schumann's Dichterliebe with Klaus Georg, tenor, and Wei-Han Wu, piano

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Richard Boldrey, James Giles, and Xiao-Min Liang, piano; Sunny Joy Langton, soprano; Karen Brunssen, mezzo-soprano; Kurt Hansen, tenor; Bruce Hall, bass; Michael Henoch, oboe; Joseph Genualdi, violin; Kristin Figard, viola; Tahirah Whittington... more

Main Library, Community Meeting Room

Is your teen or pre-teen wedded to a cell phone? You may want to consider the possible health risks of cellular technology. Full Signal, an award winning documentary by former CBS News producer Talal Jabari, addresses the issue of cell phone proliferation and the effect on developing brains. Part of the fall Kids and Health series.

www.fullsignalmovie.com

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Main Library, Community Meeting Room

Is your teen or pre-teen wedded to a cell phone? You may want to consider the possible health risks of cellular technology. Full Signal, an award winning documentar... more

Robert G. Hasty, conductor; Anna Burden, cello

Robert Schumann, Cello Concerto in A Minor

Anton Bruckner, Symphony No. 7 in E Major

Robert G. Hasty, conductor; Anna Burden, cello

Robert Schumann, Cello Concerto in A Minor

Anton Bruckner, Symphony No. 7 in E Major

By Dario Fo
A hilarious farce about real economic farce

Translated by Joseph Farrell
Edited by Franca Rame
Directed by John Szostek

Previews, Sept 3-5
Runs Sept 10-Oct 23

Housewives Antonia and Margherita, fed up with high prices in the supermarket, take matters into their own hands and "liberate" some items from the local grocery store. Keen to hide their light-fingered antics from their hot-headed husbands, Giovanni and Luigi - not to mention the police - the women are forced to resort to more and more inventive hiding places, as slapstick confusion leads to rollicking chaos.

Nobel prize winner Dario Fo, "the people's jester", is Italy's leading contemporary playwright, a master of political farce, and is renowned for his hilarious satires including Accidental Death of an Anarchist and About Face.

Cast members: Amy Gorelow, David W.M. Kelch, Glenn Proud, Ken Raabe, Brianna Sloane

Call the box office for details or buy tickets.
FOR INFORMATION
John Szostek (847-424-0089), Fax (847) 328-2295, info@piccolotheatre.com
Purchase Tickets

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By Dario Fo
A hilarious farce about real economic farce

Translated by Joseph Farrell
Edited by Franca Rame
Directed by John Szostek

Previews, Sept 3-5
Runs Sept 10-Oct 23

Housewives Antonia and Margherita, fed ... more

Our 65th anniversary celebration begins with audience favorites by Brahms, Beethoven and Tchaikovsky. The Lincoln Trio, Ensemble in Residence at the Music Institute of Chicago, lend their collective talents to the “Triple” Concerto of Beethoven. Tchaikovsky’s dramatic Fourth Symphony ends with a dazzling display of brass and percussion.

BRAHMS
  Academic Festival Overture

BEETHOVEN
  “Triple” Concerto for Violin, Cello and Piano in C Major
  The Lincoln Trio

TCHAIKOVSKY
  Symphony No. 4 in F Minor

INDIVIDUAL CONCERT TICKETS:
Advance Sales:
$27 Adult, $22 Seniors
Children 12 and younger are admitted absolutely FREE.
Please call 847.864.8804 or email tickets@evanstonsymphony.org for all orders with children’s tickets.

Box Office Sales:
$30 Adult, $25 Seniors
Children 12 and younger are admitted absolutely FREE.
$5.00 Student Tickets, subject to availability, at the box office with ID.

Group discounts are available for parties of 10 or more. Please call 847.864.8804 for further information

All tickets are assigned seating.

Subscribers get first choice of the best seats in the section they desire.

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Our 65th anniversary celebration begins with audience favorites by Brahms, Beethoven and Tchaikovsky. The Lincoln Trio, Ensemble in Residence at the Music Institute of Chicago, lend their collective talents to the “T... more

To open its 15th season, the Chicago Chamber Choir (CCC), a skilled choral ensemble of 40 singers under the artistic director of Timm Adams, collaborates for the first time with the esteemed Milwaukee Choral Artists (MCA) for “Songs of War and Peace.”

“Songs of War and Peace” is a special choral meditation on the human cost of war and the hope for peace. The program, featuring music inspired by conflict and the frailty of the human condition, will showcase the skill and creativity of CCC and MCA, separately and together. CCC will perform “Go Down, Moses” from Michael Tippett’s oratorio A Child of Our Time, “Alleluia” by Randall Thompson, “Find the Cost of Freedom” by Stephen Stills and others, while MCA will offer, among others, “Hard Times Come Again No More” by Stephen Foster, “Only Light, Only Love” (with the CCC women) by Joan Szymko and “August 1914” by Joel Boyd, winner of MCA’s Young Composer Contest for 2010. CCC and MCA will perform works together in Latvian, Greek, Hebrew and Latin.

Tickets are $18 in advance, $20 at the door, and $15 for students and groups of 10 or more. Season subscriptions for all three of CCC’s Chicago-area concerts are $50 for adults, $40 for students. Tickets and information are available at chicagochamberchoir.org or 312-409-6890.

SONGS OF WAR

Kyrie   Knut Nystedt

Kyrie Eleison – Allah husm’hus salaam            Lee Kesselman

Go Down, Moses          Arr. by Michael Tippett

Johnny, I Hardly Knew Ye    Arr. by Alice Parker

Workin’ for the Dawn of Peace      Arr. by Ron Jeffers

Find the Cost of Freedom        Stephen Stills, arr. by Nick Page

Hard Times Come Again No More Stephen Foster

August 1914        Joel Boyd

Horobi No Naka Kara    Kevin James

Invalit malitia   Piae Cantiones 1582,

arr. Jaakko Mäntyjärvi

Teiksma            Peteris Plakidis

SONGS OF PEACE

Dance of Zálongo   Carol Barnett

Ma Navu      Original Melody by Yossi Spivak,

arr. Shira Cion

Only Light, Only Love (with CCC women)   Joan Szymko

The Peace of the Wild Things   Joan Szymko

A Prayer for Peace       Paula Foley Tillen

Verleih’ uns Frieden Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy

Sure, On This Shining Night        Morten Lauridsen

Alleluia      Randall Thompson

Shalom, v’shalom, v’shalom          Bob Applebaum

Dona Nobis Pacem Giulio Caccini, arr. by Moore

Hope for Resolution        by Paul Caldwell and Sean Ivory

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To open its 15th season, the Chicago Chamber Choir (CCC), a skilled choral ensemble of 40 singers under the artistic director of Timm Adams, collaborates for the first time with the esteemed Milwaukee Choral Artists (MCA) for “Songs of War and P... more

Stephen Alltop, conductor; Alice Millar Chapel Choir and Millar Brass Ensemble

Come sing mighty hymns in a majestic space! The Chapel Choir, Millar Brass Ensemble, and audience will join the 100-rank Aeolian Skinner organ to “raise the roof” in hymn arrangements by Jeffrey Blersch, John Ferguson, Charles Ore, Paul Manz, Mack Wilberg, and others.

Admission is a freewill offering.

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Stephen Alltop, conductor; Alice Millar Chapel Choir and Millar Brass Ensemble

Come sing mighty hymns in a majestic space! The Chapel Choir, Millar Brass Ensemble, and audience will join the 100-rank Aeolian Skinner organ to “ra... more

Mary Jane Ratty
John Allen & Gina Morri of "Firehouses across America"

Artist Reception
Saturday October 2, 1:00-5:00

Mary Jane Ratty
John Allen & Gina Morri of "Firehouses across America"

Artist Reception
Saturday October 2, 1:00-5:00

Willy Claflin

Willy Claflin