Accompanying the Chicago performances of two operatic works with modern Polish Jewish themes, the Lyric Opera’s production of Mieczysław Weinberg’s The Passenger and the premiere of Wlad Marhulets’s operatic realization of Rutun Motan’s graphic novel, The Property, at the Logan Center the New Budapest Orpheum Society launches its new exploration of twentieth-century “Polish Cabaret.” The eight-member ensemble-in-residence of the Humanities Division brings to life the complex traditions of music and poetry that converge at the crossroads of Jewish Poland draw upon Yiddish and Polish, Hebrew and German repertories, unfolding along the paths from the shtetl to the urban ghetto. The genres of song and poetry form a rich counterpart of the folk, popular, and cosmopolitan, sounding the voices too often lost to the Holocaust and its aftermath in Polish. In its Logan Center performance, the NBOS locates Jewish music’s modernity at the Polish crossroads of Yiddish film and Polish poetry, filled with the street songs and political ballads of workers and intellectuals, secular and orthodox alike, all drawing audiences to the historical landscapes from which The Passenger and The Property emerge.

David Yonan, violin & Steven Greene, piano

Monday, January 19, Monroe Room, 5:30 pm
67 East Monroe, Chicago, IL 60605

David Yonan live at the University Club of Chicago

W.A. Mozart, Violin Sonata No. 32 in B-flat major, K. 454
Ilya Levinson,(*1958) Memory Tango (World Premiere of violin-piano version)
Igor Frolov, (*1937), Concert Fantasy on Themes of Gershwin's "Porgy and Bess" op.19

Intermission

Augusta Read Thomas, (*1964) INCANTATION for solo violin
Edward Grieg, Violin Sonata No. 3 in C minor, Op. 45
Paganini-Schumann, Four Caprices from the 24 Paganini Caprices (No. 10, No 5. No. 6, No. 24) with a piano accompaniment by Robert Schumann 

This event is free for members of the University Club of Chicago. Non-members may attend the concert free of charge but need to R.S.V.P with Elizabeth Stein, President of the Live Music Society: steinstrad@gmail.com.

Please consider making a donation towards the Fine Arts Music Society.

A CONCERT OF INTERNATIONAL CLASSICAL AND SEVDAH MUSIC
Lincolnwood Chamber Orchestra
Philip Simmons, Founder and Music Director
Tuesday, November 25, 7:30 PM
Doors open at 6:45PM

COPERNICUS CENTER ANNEX
5216 W. Lawrence, Chicago, IL 60630

CONCERT PROGRAM:
Der Asra  — Anton Rubinstein
Prelude from “Le Deluge”  —  Camille Saint-Saens
Elegy —  Edward Elgar
Ricercari — Franciscus Bossinensis
Capriccio No. 1 — Dragan Suplevski
Sevdah Songs — Traditional, arr. Ilya Levinson
Samir Hadzalic, vocalist

General admission tickets $20 in advance; $25 at the event 

For more information, call 224-456-2399
Sponsored in part by the Copernicus Foundation

A world premier of Ilya's latest cello concerto commissioned by the Gulf Coast Symphony.

Cellist Ian Maksin will continue the well-established collaboration between himself and Ilya with this performance. Ian says his main goal as an artist is “to close the gap between generations and societies through art, and make the beauty of cello music accessible to everyone.”

For more information, visit the Gulf Coast Symphony online.

The New Budapest Orpheum Society brings a CD release concert for As Dreams Fall Apart - The Golden Age of Jewish Film Music, 1925-1955, to the north side of Chicago at DANK Haus German American Cultural Center. 

This event, co-sponsored by Cedille Records as a part of Chicago Artists Month, is free and open to the public. There will be a pre-concert lecture at 7:00pm and the music will begin at 7:30pm.

The New Budapest Orpheum Society is hailed for its interpretations of Jewish Cabaret music and political songs from the turn of the 20th century to the present. Their newest CD, As Dreams Fall Apart: The Golden Age of Jewish Film Music, 1925-1955 explores the first 30 years of film which were critically influenced by the traditions of Jewish Cabaret and provided the musical mise-en-scène of Jewish history during the critical moments of exile, Holocaust, and revival.

Presented by the Logan Center, Cedille Records, and the Department of Music.
Admission to this event is free. To RSVP, visit the UChicago Arts website.
 

Join Ilya and The New Budapest Orpheum Society, a Division of the Humanities ensemble-in-residence, as they bring the golden age to of Jewish music for film to life for a Humanities Day performance at the University of Chicago. 

This performance will be part of the Session 2 series of events, beginning at 2:00pm. For further information about all of the events taking place, visit the U of C website.

Delve into the world premiere of Ilya Levinson’s Cello Concerto, performed by the Racine Symphony's 2011 Artist in Residence Ian Maksin. The evening will open with Mozart’s intellectually stimulating opera Cosi fan tutte and close with one of Beethoven’s self-described “best works,” Symphony No. 7 in A Major, Op. 92.

For tickets, visit the Racine Symphony website.

Live performance on WFMT, 98.7FM.

The New Budapest Orpheum Society is an Ensemble-in-Residence in the Humanities Division at the University of Chicago. The ensemble draws upon a wide range of repertories, many forgotten, others preserved in European archives, all poignantly bearing witness to the great tradition of Jewish cabaret.

Turn on your radio, or listen live at wfmt.com.

Ian Maksin is coming out with a new album of his original music for solo cello inspired by folk music from around the world as well as by music of Sting. The album also includes pieces that Maksin has commissioned from Ilya Levinson as well as other award-winning composers Paul Yeon Lee and Seth Boustead. 

The release concert will take place at Old Town School of Folk Music. 
Click here for tickets.

Ilya and Gregory Levinson will perform a piano/violin duet to the delight of the crowds at the Chicago Waldorf School's 2014 May Fair.