Chicagoans are waiting to welcome Riccardo Muti launch his inaugural season as the music director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra with a free concert performance Sunday at 5:30 p.m. Mayor Richard M. Daley, Gov. Pat Quinn and other officials are schedule
Chicagoans are waiting to welcome Riccardo Muti launch his inaugural season as the music director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra with a free concert performance Sunday at 5:30 p.m. Mayor Richard M. Daley, Gov. Pat Quinn and other officials are scheduled to be on hand to provide a great welcome to Maestro Muti.
The program will include Verdi’s Overture to “La forza del destino,” Liszt “Les preludes,” Tchaikovski’s “Romano and Juliet” and Respighi’s “Pines of Rome”. MICHAEL JACKSON, THE LATE significant popular entertainment star is the subject of “Genius Without Borders” presented at the Center for Black Music Research at Columbia College, 600 S. Michigan Ave., September 24 and 25 at 7:30 p.m. SHILOH TRAILBLAZERS PATHFINDER CLUB presents its 2nd annual banquet sailing on the S.S. Japan Sunday at 4 p.m. at the Shiloh Parish Hall, 7008 S. Michigan Ave. Donation $35 per individual. Oriental attire suggested. Madame Lillie Bonner is the coordinator (773-548-7397) and Maxwell Smith is director (773-243-6459). CHURCH OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD CONGREGATIONAL UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST, 57th Street and Prairie Avenue features its 23rd annual homecoming weekend September 25 at 3 p.m. Performances include anthems, spiritual and gospel music featuring special guests, Cornelius Johnson, Keith Hampton Singers and Daniel Dunson.. AVALON STRING QUARTET with guest artist Roger Chase present Opening Night at the Opera September 23 at 7:30 p.m. at Gottlieb Hall of the Merit School of Music, 38 S. Peoria St. Featured compositions are Giocomo Puccini’s “Crisantemi, Elegy for String Quartet”, Benjamin Britten’s “Three Divertimenti”, Giuseppe Verdi’s “String Quartet in E minor” and Mozart’s “String Quintet in C Major”, violist Roger Chase. ALTGELD GARDENS SEVENTH-DAY CHURCH, 945 E. 133rd St. features its 2nd annual Rambo run/walk for non-violence and good health Sunday from 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. Use walking/running shoes and a free T Shirt will be given to the first fifty participants. For more information contact Arvell Robinson or Pastor P. C. Willis at 773-995-9115. UNIVERSAL CIRCUS FEATURES amazing acts inside Washington Park, at 51st and Payne Dr. from September 22 – October 17. Opening Day: Wednesday, Sept. 22 @ 11 a.m. and Tuesdays through Fridays, @ 10:30 a.m. and 7:30 p.m. GOODMAN THEATRE’S production of Leonard Bernstein’s music “Candide” at 170 N. Dearborn St. continues through October 31. Tickets are $23-$85. TEEN TALK RADIO AND ARTS BROADCAST produced by Masequa Myers and Pemon Rami is heard October 4 through December 8 and individual youth participants meet Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. The program airs on WHPK-FM. Interviews and auditions are being held Saturdayfrom 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at 4434 S. Lake Park Ave. in Room 105 call (773) 599-4841 for more information. Copyright 2010 Chicago Defender
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