The Music Institute of Chicago Chorale, conducted by Daniel Wallenberg, offers families a musical menagerie of animal songs with its concert program A Day at the Zoo Sunday, March 29 at 3 p.m. at Nichols Concert Hall, 1490 Chicago Ave., Evanston.
The program offers animal-themed songs from different musical periods, featuring the world premiere of “Two by Two” by Bob Applebaum.
Other songs on the program include “The Cuckoo” by Benjamin Britten,
the South African folk song “Unonkal” (The Crab), “Warnung!” (Warning!
The Scorpion) by Joseph Haydn, “The Lion Sleeps Tonight” by Solomon
Linda, “The Woodpecker” by Stephen Chatman, “Counterpoint of the
Animals” by Adriano Banchieri, and more.
Music Institute of Chicago Chorale
The Music Institute of Chicago Chorale is a community chorus that
provides an opportunity for adult singers with prior experience to study
and perform the best in sacred and secular choral music. Now in its
26th season, the Chorale has one continuing goal: to perform the finest
sacred and secular choral music with the highest of standards in a
community setting. Under the leadership of Conductor Daniel Wallenberg,
the Chorale has developed a wide range of repertoire, including motets,
madrigals, part-songs, folk songs, and larger choral-orchestral works by
Bach, Beethoven, Haydn, Mozart, Duruflé, and many others. Throughout
the years, the Chorale has collaborated with local choirs and symphony
orchestras and has produced two fully costumed Elizabethan madrigal
dinners. In addition, the Chorale has collaborated several times with
the Music Institute’s voice faculty for concerts of opera and Broadway
music.
Chorale conductor Daniel Wallenberg is also on the
staff of the Chicago Children’s Choir, working with the In-School Chorus
and After-School Programs for the Rogers Park and Humboldt Park
Neighborhood Choirs, as well as its world-renowned Concert Choir with
whom he toured Ukraine and the United States. He is the director of the
junior and adult choirs at the Jewish Reconstructionist Congregation and
the founder and artistic director of “Zemer Am,” the Chicago Jewish
Choral Festival. A native of Bogota, Colombia, Wallenberg founded
several adult and children’s choirs while living in Israel.
Chicago Children’s Choir Neighborhood Choirs
The Chicago Children’s Choir’s after-school Neighborhood Choir Programs
provide beginning and intermediate choral training to 500 diverse
children while building community pride and stewardship in each singer.
The Humboldt Park Choir, which rehearses at Casa
Central, Chicago’s largest Hispanic social service agency, has served
boys and girls from the Humboldt Park, Bucktown, Wicker Park, Logan
Square, West Town, Austin, Garfield Park, and other surrounding
neighborhoods since 2001. The Rogers Park Neighborhood Choir has served boys and girls from 10 communities in Chicago as well as Evanston, Lincolnwood, and Skokie since 1991.
Music Institute of Chicago
The Music Institute of Chicago
is a community music school dedicated to transforming lives through
music education. The institution exists to lead everyone in its
community toward a lifelong engagement with music. Founded in 1931, the
Music Institute has grown to become one of the largest and most
respected community music schools in the nation. Offering musical
excellence built on the strength of its distinguished faculty,
commitment to quality, and breadth of programs and services, the Music
Institute is a member of the National Guild for Community Arts Education
and accredited by the Accrediting Commission for Community and
Pre-collegiate Arts Schools (ACCPAS). Each year, the Music Institute’s
teachers and arts therapists reach thousands of students and clients of
all ages and levels of experience. Music Institute locations include
Chicago, Evanston, Winnetka, Lincolnshire, Lake Forest, and Downers
Grove. In addition, the Music Institute is proud of its longstanding
partnership with the Chicago Public Schools through its Arts Link
program. The Music Institute offers lessons and classes, creative arts
therapy, and concerts through its Community Music School, Academy,
Institute for Therapy through the Arts (ITA), and Nichols Concert Hall.
The Music Institute of Chicago Chorale presents A Day at the Zoo
Sunday, March 29 at 3 p.m. at Nichols Concert Hall, 1490 Chicago
Avenue, Evanston. Tickets are $15 for adults, $10 for seniors, and $7
for students, available at brownpapertickets.com/event/1332861. For information, visit musicinst.org.
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