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June 21,
2017
11:30AM-12:00PM
& 5:00PM-7:00PM
Rockefeller Lounge
Free and open to the public; refreshments served during the evening
program
Make Music Chicago returns to International House
for a day of free performances! Taking its cue from the Fête de la Musique,
a national musical holiday in France, Make Music Chicago brings
together musicians of all ages and skill levels, neighborhoods and
specialties. Amateur and professional musicians join in
celebrating Hyde Park’s own iteration of this fantastic global
event.
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11:30AM-12:00PM
The Volta String Quartet will perform Samuel Barber’s Adagio for Strings and
George Walker’s Lyric
for Strings simultaneously with other string
quartets across the country. This performance is part of the Lift Every Voice Project—a
musical statement about racial justice aiming to honor victims of
hate crimes and promote unity in a divided population.
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5:00PM-5:30PM
Jeff Wichmann, a Chicago
native, has been playing koto—a
Japanese plucked string instrument—for nearly 20 years, exploring
traditional and contemporary Japanese music. He holds an Advanced
Koto License from the Sawai Koto Institute in Tokyo, Japan, where
he studied under koto master Kazue Sawai.
5:30PM-6:00PM
Jia Senghe has been playing
the shakuhachi
since 1984. The shakuhachi is the traditional flute of Japan and
each one is made by hand using a special strain of bamboo. The
sounds of this instrument have been described to be like "the
freedom of wind, the fluidity of water, and the intensity of
fire."
6:00PM-6:30PM
Rena Slavin, a student at
the University of Chicago and a Global Voices Metcalf Fellow at
International House, has been playing the piano for 15 years. She
studied at the Manhattan School of Music Precollege Division for 10
years. Currently, she is an active member of the University of
Chicago Piano Program.
6:30PM-7:00PM
Nitsana Lazerus has
enthralled and entertained thousands since she began
performing puppet shows in 1983.She offers a variety of shows,
each of them full of fun, with underlying themes about
values and life lessons. Together with jazz musician, John Wesley,
she presents Sox
and Sax, an
interactive puppet show.
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Through the Global Voices Community Co-sponsorship
Program, International House offers its conference venues,
performance space and professional support to educational and
cultural organizations, as part of an ongoing effort to foster
culturally authentic programs and to raise awareness of contemporary
global issues. We invite your group to apply for Global Voices
Community Co-sponsorship when planning your next public event. Click here for more
information.
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International House of Chicago was founded in 1932
through a gift from John D. Rockefeller, Jr. as a coeducational
residential and program center for students and scholars from
around the world. For over 82 years, International House public
programs have advanced cross-cultural understanding and promoted
opportunities for civic discourse on community, national and world
affairs, and have provided Chicago's citizens, universities,
cultural institutions and community groups meaningful engagement
with master artists, scholars and leading figures from the world
stage.
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