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	<title>Newcity Music &#187; Chamber Music</title>
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		<title>Preview: Singing in the Abbey/PianoForte&#8217;s Studio 825</title>
		<link>http://music.newcity.com/2011/03/14/preview-singing-in-the-abbeypianofortes-studio-825/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Mar 2011 22:07:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tomnewcity</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Chamber Music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chamber Pop]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chicago Artists]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Classical]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Annie Higgins]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cole Porter]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[RECOMMENDED Chicago’s Singing in the Abbey effectively balances smart, moody chamber pop with trained classical-music instincts. On “Wake Up, Sardis!”—the quartet’s debut full-length officially released in early 2010—leader Annie Higgins drives the band’s gothic sound forward with her haunting, often mesmerizing, vocals and graceful piano playing. (The exquisite string accompaniments help the cause as well.) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Question of Power: eighth blackbird explores the capability of music</title>
		<link>http://music.newcity.com/2011/01/18/a-question-of-power-eighth-blackbird-explores-the-possibility-of-music/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jan 2011 17:53:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Classical]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Minimalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New Music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bach]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bob Dylan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brahms]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chinua Achebe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[eighth blackbird]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Frederic Rzewski]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Igor Stravinsky]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Corigliano]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Luther Adams]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Katie Calcamuggio]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lisa Kaplan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Matt Albert]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Museum of Contemporary Art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sam Melville]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Steve Reich]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By Dennis Polkow When Igor Stravinsky wrote his 1936 “An Autobiography,” he made what has become an infamous statement that, “I consider that music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all, whether a feeling, an attitude of mind, a psychological mood, a phenomenon of nature, etc.” Coming from the composer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Preview: Esperanza Spalding/Symphony Center</title>
		<link>http://music.newcity.com/2010/12/06/preview-esperanza-spaldingsymphony-center/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Dec 2010 15:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ernest Barteldes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Chamber Music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jazz]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Esperanza Spalding]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[RECOMMENDED On the opening track of her much-lauded 2008 self-titled major label debut (Heads Up), bassist and vocalist Esperanza Spalding covered Milton Nascimento&#8217;s timeless gem &#8220;Ponta de Areia.&#8221; On her new disc, &#8220;Chamber Music Society&#8221; (Heads Up), she did not do another of his tunes. Instead, she featured Nascimento himself on &#8220;Apple Blossoms,&#8221; an original [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Autumn Serenade: Boulez returns with weakened eyes yet strengthened vision</title>
		<link>http://music.newcity.com/2010/11/29/autumn-serenade-boulez-returns-with-weakened-eyes-yet-strengthened-vision/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Nov 2010 22:33:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dennis Polkow</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Chamber Music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Classical]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Orchestral]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vocal Music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anne-Sophie Mutter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Arnold Schoenberg]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bruckner]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chicago Symphony Orchestra]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Daniel Barenboim]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Janacek]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ligeti]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mahler]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pierre Boulez]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ravel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Riccardo Muti]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By Dennis Polkow “I knew when I received ‘the call’ that something was out of the ordinary,” admits Pierre Boulez, who was on sabbatical from conducting in order to compose back in October when Chicago Symphony Orchestra management interrupted him with an SOS to step in for an ailing Riccardo Muti. “The second sentence,” he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Preview: Tortoise 2.0/Millennium Park’s Pritzker Pavilion</title>
		<link>http://music.newcity.com/2010/07/27/preview-tortoise-2-0millennium-park%e2%80%99s-pritzker-pavilion/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 15:02:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dennis Polkow</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Dubstep]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Electro]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Experimental]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Festivals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Indie Rock]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jazz]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Post-Rock]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Techno]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[World Music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dan Bitney]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Department of Cultural Affairs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Douglas McCombs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ed Wilkerson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fred Lonberg-Holm]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Greg Ward]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jazz Institute of Chicago]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jazz Links Student Ensembles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jeff Parker]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jim Baker]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Herndon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John McEntire]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Made in Chicago: World Class Jazz]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Millennium Park’s Pritzker Pavilion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nicole Mitchell]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tortoise]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[RECOMMENDED The annual weekly summer jazz series “Made in Chicago: World Class Jazz” makes a welcome return to Millennium Park’s Pritzker Pavilion tonight for six weeks of Thursday night concerts through September 2. Spotlighting Chicago’s leading jazz artists across the spectrum of the genre—from Latin and Big Band to experimental, avant-garde and fusion forms—the series, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Preview: CUBE/Merit School of Music</title>
		<link>http://music.newcity.com/2010/06/07/preview-cubemerit-school-of-music/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jun 2010 17:43:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dennis Polkow</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Chicago Artists]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Classical]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Experimental]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vocal Music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Carolyn Hove]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chiara Benati]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CUBE]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DePaul University]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[George Flynn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Janice Misurell-Mitchell]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jorge Luis Borges]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Julia Bentley]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lorraine Schechter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Los Angeles Philharmonic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[M. William Karlins]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marcela Pavia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Merit School of Music’s Gottlieb Hall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Northwestern University]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Patricia Morehead]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[RECOMMENDED For its 2009-10 season finale, CUBE Contemporary Chamber Ensemble presents a program of recent works of Chicago and “Chicago-connected” composers with special guests Carolyn Hove, English horn of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and mezzo-soprano Julia Bentley. Among the works included are longtime DePaul University professor and composer George Flynn’s “Charged and Calm Surfaces” for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Preview: Harpsichords Galore!/Baroque Band</title>
		<link>http://music.newcity.com/2010/06/01/preview-harpsichords-galorebaroque-band/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jun 2010 19:16:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dennis Polkow</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Chamber Music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chicago Artists]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Classical]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Orchestral]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alex Kelber]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Baroque Band]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Schrader]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Garry Clarke]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Graun]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Graupner]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hyde Park Union Church]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jason Moy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Johann Sebastian Bach]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Music Institute of Chicago]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paul Nicholson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Symphony Center’s Grainger Ballroom]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vivaldi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wilhelm Friedemann Bach]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[RECOMMENDED The harpsichord—the forerunner of the modern piano that is also played with a keyboard but which plucks its strings rather than hammers them as a piano does—was a favorite instrument of Johann Sebastian Bach. Seven complete harpsichord concertos have survived along with three concertos for two harpsichords, two concertos for three harpsichords and even [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Preview: P.D.Q. Bach Musical Mayhem/Peter Schickele &amp; the Chicago Symphony Orchestra</title>
		<link>http://music.newcity.com/2010/05/17/preview-p-d-q-bach-musical-mayhempeter-schickele-the-chicago-symphony-orchestra/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 May 2010 21:48:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dennis Polkow</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Classical]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Orchestral]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vocal Music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chicago Symphony Orchestra]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Johann Sebastian Bach]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michèle Eaten]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mozart]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[P.D.Q. Bach]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peter Schickele]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rossini]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spike Jones]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Victor Borge]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[William Walters]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[RECOMMENDED P.D.Q. Bach is the brainchild of “Professor” Peter Schickele, who has made a forty-five-year plus comedy career out of “discovering lost” works of this supposedly twenty-first and illegitimate son of Johann Sebastian Bach. Being the funniest and most popular music satirist since Spike Jones and Victor Borge has been both a curse and a blessing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Preview: An Evening of English Choral Music/John Rutter &amp; the St. Charles Singers</title>
		<link>http://music.newcity.com/2010/05/17/preview-an-evening-of-english-choral-musicjohn-rutter-the-st-charles-singers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 May 2010 21:17:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dennis Polkow</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Baker Memorial United Methodist Church]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bella Voce]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Benjamin Britten]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Charles Stanford]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chicago a cappella]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Douglas Anderson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fourth Presbyterian Church]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jeffrey Hunt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Rutter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michelle Areyzaga]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ralph Vaughan Williams]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shakespeare]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[St. Charles Singers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[St. Michael’s Catholic Church]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tracy Watson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Trevór Mitchell]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[RECOMMENDED Celebrated British choral composer and director John Rutter makes a rare area appearance this weekend as the guest conductor for the St. Charles Singers, an extraordinary thirty-member-plus professional chamber choir based in the far western suburb. Rutter is the founder of the internationally known and revered Cambridge Singers, which has performed and recorded countless [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Natural Selection: Inside the search for music director of America’s most diverse orchestra</title>
		<link>http://music.newcity.com/2010/05/11/natural-selection-inside-the-search-for-music-director-of-america%e2%80%99s-most-diverse-orchestra/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 May 2010 15:48:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dennis Polkow</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Chicago Artists]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Classical]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Orchestral]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brahms]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chicago Sinfonietta]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dominican University’s Lund Auditorium]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[George Frederick McKay]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Harlem Quartet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John McLaughlin Williams]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kodály]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michael Abels]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mozart]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paul Freeman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Symphony Center]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By Dennis Polkow “The news here is that no music director has been appointed yet,” says Chicago Sinfonietta founder and music director Paul Freeman, anticipating curiosity about whether or not there is an end in sight to an ongoing and speculative process. “In other words,” he laughs, “I’m still here.” Freeman, 74, announced his retirement [...]]]></description>
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