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Music Top 5: February/March 2025

by Todd Hieggelke | January 28, 2025

by Todd Hieggelke
January 28, 2025January 26, 2025Filed under:
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Gerald Clayton

1
Proust’s Salon: Tracing the Spiral of Time
(Guarneri Hall)
The salon was a creative format favored by Proust and his contemporaries, a reflective place ”where past and present intermingle.” Works by Fauré, Schmitt and Koechlin compose this program.
February 10

2
Gerald Clayton “White Cities,” A Musical Tribute to Charles White
(Logan Center)
Jazz pianist Gerald Clayton’s original piece is a tribute to the story of painter Charles White, a Chicago native, whose mural work is remade with melody.
February 14

3
Horsegirl
(Metro)
A homecoming for the “band of best friends” following the release of their second album, recorded in the city’s coldest days of last year’s winter.
February 22

4
Destroyer
(Old Town School of Folk Music)
Journeyman Dan Bejar comes to town for a solo performance true to the longtime project’s home-recording origins.
March 3

5
Kraftwerk
(Auditorium Theatre)
The electronic pioneers celebrate a half-century of “Autobahn” in the city where the record first caught traction, thanks to Triad Radio playing its twenty-three-minute title track.
March 29

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  • Auditorium Theatre
  • Destroyer
  • Gerald Clayton
  • Guarneri Hall
  • Horsegirl
  • Kraftwerk
  • Logan Center
  • Metro
  • Old Town School of Folk

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