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January 22, 2002
Northwestern Schedules
Early Music Events
EVANSTON, Ill. --- The
Northwestern University School of Music will celebrate Western music
and dance of the 17th and 18th centuries during the winter quarter.
A summary of upcoming early music events is listed below.
• Soprano
Patrice Michaels will perform music that Mozart, Salieri, Martín
y Soler, and Cimarosa composed for singers Catarina Cavalieri, Luisa
Laschi-Mombelli, Adriana Ferrarese del Bene, Nancy Storace and Louis
Villeneuve during the "Divas of Mozart’s Day" concert
at 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 10. In addition to singing, Michaels will
profile these five divas. She will be joined on stage by baritone
Peter Van De Graaff and the period-instrument Classical Arts Orchestra
conducted by music faculty member Stephen Alltop. The concert will
be held at Pick-Staiger Concert Hall, 1977 S. Campus Drive, Arts
Circle, Evanston campus. Ticket prices are $12 for the general public;
$8.50 for senior citizens and Northwestern faculty and staff; and
$5.50 for full-time students.
The annual Evelyn Dunbar
Memorial Early Music Festival (Feb. 21 to 24) includes choreographed
opera performances and a baroque dance workshop that is part of
a four-day conference that will be held at various Chicago and Evanston
locations. This year’s festival is co-sponsored by Northwestern
University Schools of Music and Speech, Program in the Study of
Imagination and the Newberry Library’s Center for Renaissance
Studies, with support from the Dunbar-Davee Family. The festival’s
ancillary events, listed below, are open to the public.
• Four performances
of Henry Purcell’s only full-length opera, "Dido and Aeneas,"
and scenes from "The Fairy Queen," will be performed during
the Winter Opera: "Music, Myth, and Magic" at 8 p.m. Thursday,
Feb. 21, through Saturday, Feb. 23, and 2 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 24,
at Northwestern University’s Cahn Auditorium, 600 Emerson St.,
Evanston campus. Adapted from the fourth book of Virgil’s "Aeneid,"
the tragic "Dido and Aeneas," testifies to the irreversibility
of fate and explores a full range of emotions through Purcell’s
best-loved music. It will be performed in the original English by
two separate casts. "The Fairy Queen" sets Shakespeare’s
"A Midsummer Night’s Dream" to a vivid score. The
production will feature The Dunbar Early Music Consort, a period
instrument orchestra conducted by Mary Springfels; period-style
choreography by Thomas Baird and Paige Whitley-Bauguess; and stage
direction by Michael La Tour.
The Winter Opera will
be presented by the Music Theatre Program, a collaboration of Northwestern’s
Schools of Music and Speech. Opera tickets are $22 for the general
public; $18 for senior citizens and Northwestern faculty and staff
members; and $10 for full-time students. For opera tickets, contact
the Pick-Staiger Concert Hall ticket office at (847) 467-4000 or
go to the Pick-Staiger Web site at www.northwestern.edu/pick-staiger.
• The Northwestern
University School of Music and the Evelyn Dunbar Early Music Festival
will present a free, four-day conference titled, "Music, Myth,
and Magic in the Late Medieval and Early Modern World," in
collaboration with the Newberry Library Center for Renaissance Studies,
60 W. Walton St., Chicago. Session I, from 3 to 5 p.m. Thursday,
Feb. 21, will focus on the myths of female metamorphosis. Gary Tomlinson,
Annenberg Professor in the Humanities and chair of the department
of music, University of Pennsylvania, will deliver a keynote lecture
at 6 p.m. The Session II topic, from 9 to 11 a.m. Friday, Feb. 22,
will be "Performing Mythologies." Session III, from 11:30
a.m. to 1 p.m., will focus on "Visualization and Magic."
The topic of Session IV, from 2:30 to 5 p.m., is "Ritual Practice
and Magic."
On Saturday, Feb. 23,
the daylong symposium will be held at Northwestern University’s
Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, 1967 S. Campus Drive, Arts Circle,
Evanston campus. The topic scheduled for Session V, from 10 a.m.
to noon, is "Narrative and Magic." From 1:30 to 3 p.m.,
the Session VI topic is "Theaters of Magic;" and at 4
p.m. Session VII will be a panel discussion on Purcell’s opera
"Dido and Aeneas."
Prior to the final matinee
opera performance, a Baroque Dance Workshop conducted by choreographers
Thomas Baird and Paige Whitley-Bauguess, will be held from 10 a.m.
to noon, Sunday, Feb. 24, at the Northwestern University Theater
and Interpretation Center’s Marjorie Ward Marshall Dance Center
Ballroom, 1979 S. Campus Drive, Evanston campus. Seating will be
on a first-come, first-served basis. Admission is free. For information
on the Dance Workshop, or to be placed on the symposium mailing
list, contact Judith Schwartz at j-schwartz@northwestern.edu,
or call (847) 491-5431.
For further information
on the free symposium, contact the Center for Renaissance Studies
at the Newberry Library via e-mail at renaissance@newberry.org
or go to the Newberry Library’s Web site at www.newberry.org
or Northwestern’s Program in the Study of the Imagination Web
site at www.psi.northwestern.edu.
The annual Evelyn Dunbar
Memorial Early Music Festivals have been made possible through the
generous support of Northwestern alumni Ruth Dunbar Davee and her
late husband, Ken M. Davee, in memory of Ruth’s sister, Evelyn
Dunbar, who was an enthusiastic participant in early music ensembles
at the University.
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