Chicago Symphony Musicians in Local Concert

Date: April 18, 2010
Time: 3:00 p.m.
Location: Glenwood/Granville
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CHICAGO SYMPHONY MUSICIANS IN BENEFIT CONCERT FOR
NORTHSIDE CATHOLIC ACADEMY

On Sunday, April 18 at 3 PM, there will be a concert at St. Gertrude’s Church, 1420 W. Granville (corner of Glenwood) in the Edgewater neighborhood of Chicago.  All proceeds will benefit the Northside Catholic Academy.  Performing will be the Vidula String Quartet, featuring musicians of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.  The violist in the group, Max Raimi, has a son enrolled at the Northside Catholic Academy.

The Vidula Quartet has played educational concerts in schools all over Chicago for many years. The first half of the program will be a child-friendly demonstration. Lively explanations of how great music comes to life, interwoven with excerpts of everything from Beethoven, Mozart, Ravel, Shostakovich, and Schubert to “Meet the Flintstones” and music from “The Simpsons” will give families and children of all ages an enlightening and entertaining musical experience.

The second half of the program will be geared towards older children and adults, though everybody is welcome to stay and enjoy the performance.  It will feature one of the masterpieces of the string quartet literature, Franz Schubert’s Quartet in D Minor (“Death and the Maiden”).  This intensely dramatic work gets its name from one of Schubert’s most powerful songs, on which the second movement is based.  The music is by turns tragic and transcendently beautiful, and it ends with a breakneck dance that races to a brilliant conclusion. 

This promises to be a unique event and will benefit a worthy cause.  Suggested ticket donation $20 adults/$10 students.
For questions contact Max Raimi at 773-381-1331 or .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).