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TUESDAY MUSIC AT MILLAR
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Feb 07, 2012 12:15 PM
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Please join us at Alice Millar Chapel on February 7, 2012 from 12:15-12:45 PM for a organ concert by Thomas Gouwens. Enjoy the stunning beauty of the stained glass and the magnificent tones of the Aeolian-Skinner organ made of up over 5,000 pipes.
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Please join us at Alice Millar Chapel on February 7, 2012 from 12:15-12:45 PM for a organ concert by Thomas Gouwens. Enjoy the stunning beauty of th...
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•MSA INC: The Black Revolution on Campus featuring Martha Biondi
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University Hall, Room 201, 1897 Sheridan Road
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Feb 08, 2012 12:00 PM
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MSA INC: The Black Revolution on Campus featuring Martha Biondi, noon, Wednesday, Feb. 8, University Hall, Room 201, 1897 Sheridan Road. The black power movement left its mark in numerous ways on college campuses around the nation, including Northwestern. Biondi, associate professor of African American studies at Northwestern’s Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, will share her groundbreaking research, taking a fresh look at how this important period of American history helped shape some of our country’s finest minds.
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MSA INC: The Black Revolution on Campus featuring Martha Biondi, noon, Wednesday, Feb. 8, University Hall, Room 201, 1897 Sheridan Road. The black power movement left its mark in numerous ways on college campuses around the nation, including Northwes...
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Show Boat Symposium
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Pick-Staiger Concert Hall
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Feb 08, 2012 07:00 PM
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The magnificent
score and powerfully dramatic story of Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein’s
Show
Boat created a seismic shift that transformed American
musical theater forever. Show Boat also deals head on
with the ebb and flow of American race relations as it chronicles over three
decades of tumultuous societal change.
For the Show Boat
Symposium, Lyric Opera and Northwestern University bring together international
artists and distinguished scholars to discuss these issues and more in a lively
panel discussion moderated by David Bell, Northwestern’s director of music
theater.
As a bonus, a
selection of Show
Boat numbers that traditionally are no longer in most
productions will be performed by Northwestern music theater
students.
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The magnificent
score and powerfully dramatic story of Jerome Kern and Oscar Ha...
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Jay Nash w/ Andrew Combs
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Jay Nash, East Coast native and rock troubadour, has been blessed with the kind of excruciatingly rustic voice so rarely heard on record. He emerged into the national spotlight from the same Los Angeles music scene that gave rise to Sara Bareilles, Katy Perry and many other current pop luminaries, Nash has shared the stage with everyone from the Counting Crows and Maroon 5 to Keb Mo and Dave Mason (and Sara and Katy…). He has logged over a thousand live performances and sold over 25,000 albums without ever having signed a conventional record label deal. He writes songs that are all at once clever and down to earth. Although subdued at times, his voice articulates a quiet power that commands the attention of his listeners. Jay Nash is a ‘lifer’. He’s a musician dedicated to the craft of songwriting and the life of the rock n roll road show. His loyal fanbase was built brick by brick. See him once, and you will join them.
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Jay Nash, East Coast native and rock troubadour, has been blessed with the kind of excruciatingly rustic voice so rarely heard on record. He emerged into the national spotlight from the same Los Angeles music scene that gave rise to Sara Bareilles...
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by S.P.A.C.E. (Society for Preservation of Art & Culture in Evanston)
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Casablanca
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Mary & Leigh Block Museum of Art
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Feb 09, 2012 07:00 PM
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A&O Films Presents Casablanca
Thursday, February 9, 2012 7:00 PM FREE
(Michael Curtiz, 1942, USA, 35mm, 102 min.)
Voted best romantic film of all time by the American Film Institute, Casablanca stars movie legends Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman as two former lovers who must choose between love and virtue. Set during WWII in Vichy-controlled Morocco, Rick (Bogart) is an American expatriate who claims neutrality while profiting from the war via his popular café. Trouble arises with the unexpected arrival of his ex-lover, Ilsa (Bergman), and her husband, a Resistance leader who is being pursued by the Nazis. A surprise hit for Warner Bros., this enduring classic has become one of the most quoted and admired films of all time.
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A&O Films Presents Casablanca
Thursday, February 9, 2012 7:00 PM FREE
(Michael Curtiz, 1942, USA, 35mm, 102 min.)
Voted best romantic film of all time by the American Film Institute,...
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by Mary & Leigh Block Cinema
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Pop-Up Art Show P"art"y Night
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1627 Chicago Avenue
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Feb 09, 2012 07:00 PM
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FEBRUARY 7-19 IN CHICAGO AVENUE STOREFRONT IN EVANSTON
EVANSTON, January 25, 2012 – Well known Chicago area art gallerist Joy Horwich and her daughters are hosting a unique “Pop Up Art Show” February 7-19 in a 1,200 square-foot Chicago Avenue storefront in Evanston. The event will feature for sale one-of-a-kind fine art created by well known Chicago area and out-of-state artists. The public is invited to a P"art"y Night on Thursday, February 9 from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.
The “Pop Up Art Show” will be held every day from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. at 1627 Chicago Ave., in Evanston (across from Whole Foods). For more information, please call (847) 881-6026, or email popupartshow@gmail.com
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by Joy Horwich Gallery+2
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Marco Benevento
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Long a cult favorite on the East Coast jam-band/avant-jazz circuit, this 31-year-old keyboardist/"sound sculptor" has been building a nationwide following for some jaw-dropping improvisational skills, a no-genres-barred approach and a globe-trotting touring schedule. His first studio release, the spacey yet approachable "Invisible Baby," landed Benevento’s trio at the 2008 JVC Jazz Festival, and there’s no limit to where his next album will take him. Built around Benevento’s shape-shifting acoustic piano and backed by an adventurous rhythm section of Matt Chamberlain and Reed Mathis, the record offers deconstructed reinterpretations of indie favorites such as My Morning Jacket, Beck and Deerhoof while flirting with straight-ahead jazz on his own compositions, like the lovely "Mephisto." Seemingly incapable of resisting an unexplored musical direction, Benevento can, essentially, do just about anything, which makes him exactly the kind of force that deserves notice in today’s contemporary jazz world.
Genre: Jazz/Fusion
Long a cult favorite on the East Coast jam-band/avant-jazz circuit, this 31-year-old keyboardist/"sound sculptor" has been building a nationwide following f...
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by S.P.A.C.E. (Society for Preservation of Art & Culture in Evanston)
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Michael Tolcher
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Agifted artist in every sense of the word - writer, singer, musician and performer - Michael Tolcher deftly blends unfailing melodic and organic pop sensibilities with a deep understanding of soul and urban grooves drawn from his Southern upbringing. Hailing from Lovejoy, GA, Michael began his musical education while singing in the church choir. However, Michael's greatest childhood aspiration was to be an Olympic athlete. He was well on his way, running track at Georgia Tech, until an injury sidelined his career and caused him to question what he wanted out of life. His debut album, I AM, is an inspired collection of songs and melodies that muse on life, love and social consciousness. "When I went out, it was me, my van, and my guitar. It was a reflective time in my life, wandering across the country in solitude, seeking mind-opening experiences. At times it was very humbling, and at other times it was very empowering." This solitary creative pilgrimage ultimately became a time of self-discovery, inspiring many of the songs for the album. Michael saw modest success from I AM that continued to grow in a snowball effect. He has toured with Dave Matthews Band, Maroon 5, Gavin DeGraw, Collective Soul, G Love and the Special Sauce, Blues Traveler, Howie Day, Everclear, and more. Songs from the album were featured throughout hit movies and television shows including One Tree Hill, The Sopranos, and Scrubs. His prolific placements led to an ongoing partnership with Hilton Hotels Corp through their singer / songwriter music initiatives that helped launch the career of James Blunt. Hilton’s success with Michael led to his ultimate goal – The Olympic Dream. Hilton licensed Michael's song, "Speed Feels Better" as the anthem for the 2008 Beijing Olympics. The song was featured throughout the Olympics and Hilton even brought him over to Beijing during the Olympics for an exclusive concert performance at the Great Wall of China. Genre: Singer-Songwriter
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Agifted artist in every sense of the word - writer, singer, musician and performer - Michael Tolcher deftly blends unfailing melodic and organic pop sensibilities with a deep understanding of soul and urban grooves drawn from his Southern upbringing....
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by S.P.A.C.E. (Society for Preservation of Art & Culture in Evanston)
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Love Streams
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Mary & Leigh Block Museum of Art
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Love Streams
Friday, February 10, 2011 7:00 PM
(John Cassavetes, 1984, USA, 35mm, 141 min.)
Adapted from a play by Ted Allan, Love Streams follows a brother (Cassavetes) and his sister (Gena Rowlands) as they each navigate very different means of emotional escape: he repudiates love for casual sex, while she obsessively dives into romantic delusions of intimacy with those she loves. Funniest at its most melodramatic and saddest when its characters strive for levity, Love Streams offers both a summation of a career and detours into new aesthetic territory for a filmmaker who’d just been given (erroneously) six months to live.
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Love Streams
Friday, February 10, 2011 7:00 PM
(John Cassavetes, 1984, USA, 35mm, 141 min.)
Adapted from a play by Ted Allan, Love Streams follows a brother (Cassavetes) and his sister (Gena Rowl...
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Bonerama
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Even in a city that doesn’t play by the rules, New Orleans’ Bonerama is something different. They can evoke vintage funk, classic rock and free improvisation in the same set; maybe even the same song. Bonerama has been repeatedly recognized by Rolling Stone, hailed as “the ultimate in brass balls” (2005) and praised for their “…crushing ensemble riffing, human-feedback shrieks and wah-wah growls” (2007). Bonerama carries the brass-band concept to places unknown; what other brass band could snag an honor for “Best Rock Band” (Big Easy Awards 2007)? As cofounder Mark Mullins puts it, “We thought we could expand what a New Orleans brass band could do. Bands like Dirty Dozen started the “anything goes” concept, bringing in the guitars and the drum kit and using the sousaphone like a bass guitar. We thought we could push things a little further.”
New Orleans’ fertile club scene was directly responsible for Bonerama getting together. Trombonists Mullins and Craig Klein were both members of Harry Connick’s band, where they’d been since 1990. Both were looking to supplement this gig with something a little less structured. “Harry sets the bar pretty high, and you have to play it the same way every night for everyone to follow.”
The big chance came in the summer of ’98, when Mullins had a weekly residency at Tipitina’s in the French Quarter. The club was then turning weekly slots over to some of the city’s favorite musicians, including Allen Toussaint and Cyril Neville; Mullins got charge of Wednesdays. Word got out one week that he and Klein were staging their trombone super-session and everybody they knew wanted to get involved. “It seemed
that half the trombone players in town showed up,” Klein recalls. “At the end of the night we had them all onstage, maybe fifteen trombones at once. It sounded like a freight train; a big wall of sound coming right at you.”
Along with his jazz connections, Mullins is Bonerama’s resident rock ‘n’ roller: It was Mullins who instigated the offbeat classic-rock covers that have become a band tradition. Edgar Winter’s “Frankenstein” was the first nugget to get the treatment and songs by Hendrix, Zeppelin, Black Sabbath and the Allman Brothers Band have since appeared in their set right alongside the funk and jazz-flavored numbers. “There’s definitely something about the guitar and the trombone that are related,” Mullins figures. “You compare the fretboard to the slide; there’s a lot of similarity there.” Indeed, the sounds Mullins makes by playing through a guitar amp and wah-wah pedal may explain why he’s named Jimi Hendrix as one of his favorite trombonists. “It’s great to grab people with the rock songs, and then turn them on to some New Orleans music at the same time,” Klein says.
The buzz on Bonerama grew with hometown acclaim (with the band winning numerous OffBeat Magazine Awards; and Mullins regularly topping OffBeat’s trombone category), lots of roadwork, and three live albums – the first recorded close to home at the Old Point in Algiers; the second on tour in New York and the third album, Bringing It Home, recorded live from New Orleans’ world famous nightclub, Tipitina’s. The Boston Herald called them a “bonehead’s dream”; the Vail (CO) Daily noted that “the sound is fat and wet; sometimes downright lusty.” As hometown music zine OffBeat put it, “That nerdy kid in the band room with the trombone just might have the last laugh after all.”
The new EP Hard Times contains four studio tracks including the title track, “Hard Times,” the instrumental number “Folly” and “Lost My House” which was co-written by Craig Klein and Dave Malone from the Radiators. These three new originals along with a cover of Led Zeppelin's "When the Levee Breaks" marks the band's first ever studio recordings. A bonus fifth track features a live performance of "Turn on Your Love Light" captured live from the stage at The New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival.
“’Lost My House’ is a true story inspired by the levee failures in 2005. The verse was written by Dave Malone, who knows the story of the Rugalator. In the song, it is symbolic of losing everything, but still having the things you love and cherish. Some things can't be taken away," says Klein.
“The song “Hard Times” is really about the antithesis of hard times and flipping our fears over to optimism. To those that say all hell is breaking loose, we say kick out the demons and embrace all the positives that are always around us but often ignored in this world," says Mullins.
Even in a city that doesn’t play by the rules, New Orleans’ Bonerama is something different. They can evoke vintage funk, classic rock and free improvis...
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by S.P.A.C.E. (Society for Preservation of Art & Culture in Evanston)
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Zoë Keating
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Zoë Keating is a one-woman orchestra. She uses a cello and a foot-controlled laptop to record layer upon layer of cello, creating intricate, haunting and compelling music. Zoë is known for both her use of technology - which she uses to sample her cello onstage - and for her DIY ethic which has resulted in the sale of over 40,000 copies of her self-released albums and a devoted social media following.
Zoë's grassroots, label-less approach has garnered her much public attention and press. She has been profiled on NPR's All Things Considered and awarded a performing arts grant from the Creative Capital Foundation. Zoë is also a governor of the San Francisco chapter of the Recording Academy, sits on the board of CASH Music and was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum. Zoë has spent much of 2011 touring across North America, young baby in tow, to support her latest album, Into the Trees, which has spent 49 weeks on the Billboard classical charts, reaching #7.
Born in Canada and classically trained from the age of eight, Zoë spent her 20's working at software startups while moonlighting as a cellist in rock bands. Inevitably, she combined the two and developed her now signature style while improvising for late night crowds at her San Francisco warehouse.
Zoë has performed and recorded with a wide range of artists, including Imogen Heap, Amanda Palmer, Curt Smith of Tears for Fears, DJ Shadow, John Vanderslice, Rasputina, Pomplamoose and Paolo Nutini. She is a regular collaborator with the creators of WNYC's Radiolab and is also known for her work in film. Commissions include music for the San Francisco MOMA's audio tour and soundtracks for the films Ghost Bird, The Devil's Chair and Frozen Angels. Her cello playing can be heard on Mark Isham's scores The Conspirator, Warrior and The Secret Life of Bees.
Zoë makes an effort to reach audiences wherever they are, performing on radio, television and webcasts, outdoors in the desert, in churches and concert halls, at universities, museums, technology conferences, executive brainstorming sessions, house concerts, bars and rock clubs across North America and Europe.
Genre: Modern Classical/Cello
Zoë Keating is a one-woman orchestra. She uses a cello and a foot-controlled laptop to record layer upon layer of cello, creating intricate, haunting and c...
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by S.P.A.C.E. (Society for Preservation of Art & Culture in Evanston)
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Hot Saturday
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Mary & Leigh Block Museum of Art
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Hot Saturday
Saturday, February 11, 2012 2:00 PM
(William A. Seiter, 1932, USA, 35mm, 73 min.)
Nancy Carroll stars as Ruth Brock, a cute young bank teller who longs for adventure and an escape from small town doldrums. Excitement arrives when a wealthy playboy, Romer Sheffield (Cary Grant), comes to town and hosts a summer soiree at his luxe woodland retreat. Soon Ruth must choose between the debonair Sheffield and her former beau, Bill (Randolph Scott), who’s still sweet on her. Hot Saturday is notable for its unexpected (and decidedly pre-Code) conclusion, and for the early roles of its male leads: Randolph Scott, who would later rise to fame as a stoic hero in Budd Boetticher’s westerns, and a young Cary Grant in his first leading man role.
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School for Romance
(Archie Gottler, 1934, USA, 35mm, 20 min.)
In this hilarious short film produced by Columbia Pictures, professor “Romansky” provides lectures on lovemaking to a group of cute co-eds–including a young Betty Grable.
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Hot Saturday
Saturday, February 11, 2012 2:00 PM
(William A. Seiter, 1932, USA, 35mm, 73 min.)
Nancy Carroll stars as Ruth Brock, a cute young bank teller who longs for adventure and an escape from small town doldrums. Exci...
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