Thursday / October 2 / 7:30 pm
Dame Gillian Weir, organ
Rockefeller Memorial Chapel
6:15 pm: Pre-concert lecture by
Robert Fallon, PhD
$32 / $5 students
Performing on the newly restored E.M.
Skinner organ, Dame Gillian’s program will
include Messiaen’s Messe de la Pentecote,
interspersed with movements by J.S. Bach
and Couperin. Also included are Toccatas by
Peeters, Slonimsky, Musehl, and Lanquetuit.
Co-sponsored by Rockefeller Chapel
Friday / October 3 / 7:30 pm
The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra
Pierre-Laurent Aimard, conductor/piano
Tamara Stefanovich, piano
Mandel Hall
6:15 pm: Pre-concert conversation with
Pierre-Laurent Aimard and Gerard McBurney
$35 / $5 students
Debussy/arr. Busser: Petite Suite
Messiaen: Oiseaux exotiques
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 4 in G major,
op.58
Saturday / October 4 / 7:30 pm
Contempo: Spheres of Influence
Mandel Hall
Cliff Colnot, conductor
Stephen Gosling, piano
Featuring members of eighth blackbird and
the Pacifica Quartet
$20 / $5 students
Messiaen: Piece for Piano and String Quartet
Takemitsu: Ame no jumon (Rain Spell)
Gerald Levinson: Time and the Bell...
Pierre Boulez: Derive I
George Benjamin: Viola/Viola
Marta Ptaszynska: Trois visions de
l’arc-en-ciel (World Premiere)
Sunday / October 5 / 3 pm
John Bruce Yeh, clarinet
Cho-Liang Lin, violin
Gary Hoffman, cello
Christopher Taylor, piano
Mandel Hall
2 pm: Pre-concert performance by
New Budapest Orpheum Society
$32 / $5 students
Debussy: Premiere Rhapsody
Ravel: Duo For Cello and Piano
Messiaen: Quatour pour la fin du temps
(Quartet For the End of Time)
Monday / October 6 / 7:30 pm
Thomas Weisflog, organ
Rockefeller Chapel Choir
Elizabeth Shapovalov, conductor
Rockefeller Memorial Chapel
6:30 pm: Pre-concert lecture by
Andrew Shenton, PhD
$15 / $5 students
Works by Messiaen, Mathias, Eben,
Boulanger, and Sowerby
Messiaen’s numerous expressions of faith,
including his profoundly personal and moving
motet for a capella women’s voices,
O sacrum convivium!, are highlighted
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Tuesday / October 7 / 7:30 pm
Tony Arnold, soprano
Sibbi Bernhardsson, violin
Amy Briggs, piano
Sylvie Goutas, orator
Fulton Recital Hall
6:15 pm: Pre-concert lecture by
David Bevington, Phyllis Fay Horton
Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus
in the Humanities
$20 / $5 students
Messiaen: Theme and Variations
Messiaen: Fantaisie
Messiaen: Poèmes pour Mi
Thursday / October 9 / 12:15 pm
Tony Arnold, soprano
Jacob Greenberg, piano
Fulton Recital Hall
Free admission
Messiaen: Harawi (Song of Love and Death)
Thursday / October 9 / 6:15 pm
Alain Daboncourt, flute
Lei Wang, piano
Alliance Française de Chicago
Pre-concert lecture by Peter Hill, PhD
$12 / $5 students
Debussy: Prélude à l’après midi d’un faune
Messiaen: Le merle noir
Debussy: Syrinx
Jolivet: Selections from Incantations
Jolivet: Chant de Linos
Friday / October 10 / 3:30 pm
Visiting Committee Colloquium Series
Peter Hill, Pianist, Musicologist, Composer,
University of Sheffield, UK
Fulton Recital Hall
Free admission
Messiaen and Birdsong in the 1950s
Friday / October 10 / 7:30 pm
Christopher Taylor, piano
Ganz Hall, Roosevelt University
$20 / $5 students
Messiaen: Vingt regards sur l’Enfant Jésus
(Twenty Contemplations on the Infant Jesus)
Saturday / October 11 / 1 pm
Piano Master Class with Peter Hill
Fulton Recital Hall
Free admission
Saturday / October 11 / 7:30 pm
Pacifica Quartet
Julia Bentley, soprano
Mandel Hall
6 pm: Pre-concert performance/lecture
by Peter Hill
$20 / $5 students
Ravel: Introduction et Allegro
Berg: Lyric Suite
Beethoven: String Quartet in A minor, op. 132
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Want to know more about Messiaen?
Come to one of our symposium events,
which are free and open to the public.
SYMPOSIUM SCHEDULE
Friday / October 3
10 am / Fulton Recital Hall
Steven Rings, Assistant Professor of Music,
The University of Chicago
"Rainbows and Impossibilities: Listening to the
Quartet for the End of Time"
11:15 am / Classics 110
Keynote Address: Restaging Messiaen’s Four
Dramas on the Platform of Faith
Robert Fallon, Assistant Professor
of Musicology,
Bowling Green State University
2 pm / Fulton Recital Hall
Performance: In the style of Messiaen:
U of Chicago graduate compositions
Moderated by Marta Ptaszynska,
Helen B. & Frank L. Sulzberger
Professor in Composition
Saturday / October 4
10 am / Max Palevsky Cinema @ Ida Noyes Hall
Andrew Shenton, James R. Houghton Scholar of Sacred Music, Boston University
"The Secrets of Glory: Cataloguing
Messiaen’s Theologia Gloriae"
11:15 am / Max Palevsky Cinema @ Ida Noyes Hall
Film Screening: Apparition of the Eternal Church
Followed by Q&A session with
Paul Festa, director
1:30 pm / Fulton Recital Hall
"Messiaen as Pedagogue and Musician"
Panel discussion moderated by Anne Robertson, Claire Dux Swift Distinguished Service Professor of Music,
The University of Chicago
Participants: Robert Fallon, Gerard Levinson, Marta Ptaszynska, Andrew Shenton
Thank you to our sponsors:
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
The Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation
Chicago Humanities Festival
France Center Chicago
The Franke Institute for the Humanities
Rockefeller Memorial Chapel
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