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Jazz, Israeli style, sweeps into Chicago
What does Israeli jazz sound like? It's experimental and traditional, edgy and relaxed, forward-looking and retrospective. The music of this cosmopolitan culture, in other words, proves as stylistically wide-ranging as you might hope of a Middle...
Tags: Music Industry, Religion and Belief, Science and Technology, Customs and Tradition, Theater
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In 'Roadkill' and 'h.g.,' powerful shows for small audiences
Tribune criticThere's nothing new in Chicago about theater in small spaces — that's a crucial part of the city's aesthetic. If you glance at my recommended shows, you'll see several pieces staged in theaters with fewer than 100 seats, including "Rabbit,"...Tags: Bucktown, Navy Pier, Arts and Culture, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Celebrities
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Red Line project kicks off with new signs
RedEyeA good sign: The CTA learned its lesson from past projects and updated much of the signage for the southern Red Line reconstruction project, making it easier for riders to commute on Monday, the first weekday of the five-month initiative. The CTA...Tags: Chicago Transit Authority, Science and Technology, Austin (Chicago, Illinois), Electronics
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Camerata Chicago a small orchestra with big dreams
Camerata Chicago is the best local chamber orchestra you've probably never heard of. But pay heed: The group is celebrating its 10th anniversary this season, is about to release a new recording and is preparing for its first European tour next month....
Tags: Ceremonies, Music Industry, DeKalb, England, International Travel
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StoryCorps booth allows Chicagoans to make history into a microphone
Sitting across from his son Peter in a warmly lit booth at the Chicago Cultural Center earlier this month, Chester Konopacki gave slow, careful answers about his childhood on his family's farm in Eastern Poland. He recalled he was tending horses one night...
Tags: Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Radio, Arts and Culture, New York City, Culture
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Israeli Jazz Festival brings Middle Eastern sounds to Chicago
Though its population hovers at just 8 million, Israel has become a powerhouse in nurturing high-caliber jazz talent. Chicago concertgoers are well acquainted with Anat Cohen, the uncommonly versatile Israeli clarinetist who's based in New York and...
Tags: Music Industry, Israel, Howard Reich, Mayne Stage, Religion and Belief
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'Bodies of Work' is all about art and ability
Lyrical dance pieces incorporating performers in wheelchairs, a one-man show promising "funny stories about cancer" and the Lookingglass Theatre's world premiere adaptation of "Still Alice," a New York Times best-selling novel about a college professor...
Tags: Dance, The New York Times, Arts, Culture, Education
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Puppets and fairy tales are part of 'Stages, Sights and Sounds'
Tribune reporterThe Chicago Humanities Festival is one of those things that many locals have on their calendar, but let's be clear about this — it's people in a room, standing on a stage, talking about stuff. What self-respecting kid will sit still for that?...Tags: Sleeping Beauty (movie), Arts and Culture, Arts, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago Humanities Festival
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Classical Corner
Apollo Chorus of Chicago: Composer Stephen Paulus will be in residence for a program of his choral works under Stephen Alltop's direction. 7:30 p.m. Friday at Fourth Presbyterian Church, 126 E. Chestnut St.; and 3 p.m. Sunday at Alice Millar Chapel,...Tags: Music Industry, Culture, Chicago Park District, Michigan Avenue, Lincoln Center
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Chicago Jazz Festival 2013 lineup announced
Drummer Jack DeJohnette, trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith, pianists Jason Moran and Robert Glasper and saxophonists Donald Harrison, Charles Lloyd, Jimmy Heath and Rudresh Mahanthappa will headline the 35th annual Chicago Jazz Festival, running Aug. 29...
Tags: Teaching and Learning, Music Industry, Howard Reich, Culture, Mike Smith
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Chicago saxophonist Pat Mallinger gets ready for his close-up
When singer-pianist Diane Schuur headlined at the Jazz Showcase last week, she wasn't the most commanding player on stage. At leat not whenever Chicago saxophonist Pat Mallinger stepped up to solo. Each time he brought the mouthpiece to his lips,...
Tags: Music Industry, Mayne Stage, Millennium Park, Theater, New Music Mondays Millenium Park
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Building a bridge between Chicago and France, through jazz
Imagine what might happen if some of Chicago's most inventive jazz musicians embarked on a multi-year collaboration with their counterparts in France. Just think of the music that might result, the insights that could be shared, the audiences that would...
Tags: Music Industry, Tourism and Leisure, Howard Reich, Culture, Paris (France)
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