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

J.S. Bach: Komm, heiliger Gott, Schöpfer (The Eighteen Chorales)
Messiaen: Introit: The tongues of flame (Messe de la Pentecôte) (1949–50)
J.S. Bach: Dies sind die heiligen zehn Gebot (Clavier-Übung, BWV 678) (1739)
Messiaen: Offertoire: Things visible and invisible (Messe de la Pentecôte)
Couperin: Dialogue sur la Voix humaine (Messe pour les Couvents) (1690)
J.S. Bach: Christ unser Herr zum Jordan kam (Clavier-Übung, BWV 684) (1739)
Messiaen: Consécration: The gifts of the Spirit (Messe de la Pentecôte)
Couperin: Elevation: Récit de tierce en taille (Messe pour les Couvents)
Messiaen: Communion: The birds and the springs (Messe de la Pentecôte)
Messiaen: Sortie: The Wind of the Spirit (Messe de la Pentecôte)
Liszt: St. Francis Walking on the Waves (1863)
Langlais: Variations on a Theme of Frescobaldi
Peeters: Toccata, Fugue, and Hymn on Ave Maris Stella (1935)
Sergei Slonimsky: Toccata (1961)
Mushel: Toccata (1947)
Lanquetuit: Toccata (1926)

Dame Gillian Weir bio
Program notes
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; Tamara Stefanovich, piano (sound clip)
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 4 in G major, op.58; Pierre-Laurent Aimard, conductor/piano

The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra bio
Pierre-Laurent Aimard bio
Tamara Stefanovich bio
Program notes
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)

Cliff Colnot bio
eighth blackbird bio
Pacifica Quartet bio
Shulamit Ran bio
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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)

John Bruce Yeh bio
Cho-Liang Lin bio
Gary Hoffman bio
Christopher Taylor bio
Program notes
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

Sowerby: Prelude on Deus tuorum militum (1955)
Messiaen: Le Banquet Céleste (1928)
Mathias: Antiphonies
Messiaen: O sacrum convivium! (1937)
Eben: Moto ostinato from Nedelní Hudba (Sunday Music) (1957–59)
Messiaen: L’Ascension (1933)
Boulanger: Psaume 24 (1916)
Sowerby: Passacaglia from Symphony in G major (1930)

Thomas Weisflog bio
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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

Tony Arnold bio
Sibbi Bernhardsson bio
Amy Briggs bio
Program notes
Thursday / October 9 / 12:15 pm
Tony Arnold, soprano
Jacob Greenberg, piano
Fulton Recital Hall
Free admission

Messiaen: Harawi (Song of Love and Death)

Tony Arnold bio
Jacob Greenberg bio
Program notes
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

Alain Daboncourt bio
Lei Weng bio
Program notes
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)

Christopher Taylor bio
Program notes
Saturday / October 11 / 1 pm
Piano Master Class with Peter Hill
Fulton Recital Hall
Free admission

Peter Hill bio
Saturday / October 11 / 7:30 pm
Pacifica Quartet
Julia Bentley, soprano
Jessica Warren-Acosta, flute
Barbara Drapcho, clarinet
María Luisa Rayan-Forero, harp
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

Pacifica Quartet bio
Julia Bentley bio
Jessica Warren-Acosta bio
Barbara Drapcho bio
María Luisa Rayan-Forero bio
Program notes

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