The University of Chicago Presents

2003-2004
SPECIAL EVENTS
two events

OPENING NIGHT CELEBRATION: 100 YEARS AT MANDEL HALL
Friday / 10 Oct 2003 / 7:30 pm emerson quartet with special guest pacifica quartet	Beethoven Quartet in A Minor, Op. 132 Mendelssohn Octet in E-Flat Major, Op. 20 A “best friend” to University of Chicago Presents’ audiences for many years, the Emerson String Quartet will return to present an opening night celebration. Formed in the nation’s bicentennial year, the Emerson will mark the 100th anniversary of music-making in Mandel Hall. They are joined by Artists-in-Residence, the Pacifica Quartet, in a first-ever collaboration. Artistic daring and virtuosity will prevail when the musicians who took on all 15 Shostakovich quartets pair off with the artists who recently ran the Elliott Carter Quartet marathon. Plan to stay for a surprise celebration following the concert.

REGENTS PARK DISCOVERY CONCERT
Tuesday / 10 Feb 2004 / 7:30 pm jonathan biss, Piano CHICAGO DEBUT	Very possibly the best young American pianist on the scene today, Jonathan Biss offers his prodigious talent to Mandel Hall and Chicago audiences for the first time. A native of Bloomington, Indiana, twenty-three-year-old Biss has already claimed a Gilmore Young Artist Award, an Avery Fisher Career Grant and Lincoln Center’s Martin E. Segal Award. Boasting a distinguished musical pedigree (his mother is violinist Miriam Fried; his father, violist Paul Biss; his teacher, Leon Fleisher), Biss brings both virtuosic flair and musical maturity to the keyboard, proving that warmth and sensitivity need not be divorced from technical proficiency. Experience this remarkable talent in another Discovery Concert of which you will be able to say, “I heard him when. . .”

SPECIAL JAZZ EVENT
Friday / 30 Apr 2004 / 8 pm art ensemble of chicago Joseph Jarman reeds, percussion Roscoe Mitchell reeds, percussion Famoudou Don Moye drum set, African drums with special guests Jaribu Shahid bass, percussion Corey Wilkes trumpet Baba Sissoko n’goni, tama, percussion MANDEL HALL	For the last thirty years, The Art Ensemble of Chicago has been exploring the full range of the Black musical aesthetic -- from ancient rituals to holy pulpits; from the African drum orchestra to chanted incantations; from the Latin tinge to the swing beat. The AEC remains a major force on the jazz scene where its inclusive, many-splendoured music fuses free jazz with the whole jazz tradition, incorporating strong ethnic-African elements in the mix. Experience the incomparable sights and sounds of a group that has been called one of the most “enterprising, adventurous, exploratory and creative forces in the history of Black music.” This concert is presented in collaboration with the Univeristy of Chicago Department of Music and the Jazz Institute of Chicago EXTRA! EXTRA! "Great Black Music: South-Side Aesthetics" Jazz Symposium George Lewis, Keynote Speaker 30 April 2004 / 2pm Franke Institute Regenstein Library, 1100 E. 57th Street, Room S118 Free Admission

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