Concerts & Events
Our 2010-11 Season
Old Favorites Made New
September 12, 2010, 3:00 PM
Skokie Public Library, 5215 Oakton St.,
Skokie, IL 60077
Free Admission!
November 28, 2010, 3:00 PM
Chicago Cultural Center
78 E Washington St.
Chicago, IL 60602
Free Admission!
This concert features familiar songs and instrumental works that have become modern standards in the musical world and have been altered in the process. Some were changed in instrumentation, some grossly edited to conform to modern stylistic and technical views. We will dust them off and play them in their original versions, with all the excesses, passions, and beauties they contained when they were first penned. Featuring songs and cantatas by Handel, Bononcini, Caccini, and Carissimi as well as sonatas by Handel, Corelli, and Eccles, this concert will surely breathe life into music that was so well written it has never gone out of fashion.
Dixit Dominus
March 4, 2011, 7:30 PM
Glenview Community Church
1000 Elm St, Glenview
March 5, 2011, 7:30 PM
Harris Theater for Music and Dance
205 E. Randolph Dr., Chicago
March 6, 2011, 7:30 PM
Rockefeller Memorial Chapel
5850 S. Woodlawn Ave., Chicago
Our first collaboration with a cappella choir Bella Voce was a huge success, not to mention Chicago's only performance of Monteverdi's Vespers in their 400th anniversary year. This season we will team up again to perform some fantastic works by Handel and Vivaldi. Each composer wrote a setting of Dixit Dominus and we will perform them both, along with concertos by Vivaldi and Corelli. This is some of the most exciting choral music ever written and the Callipygian Players will add to the fireworks.
Tickets available soon