Dienstags...

Today I received in the mail a signed score (excerpt from "Licht") from Karlheinz Stockhausen...presumably for my involvement in the Gruppen Project at the Lucerne Festival?

Weird.





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Delusions: Chicago (2007)

All events at Zhou B Art Center First Floor Gallery
1029 W.35th St., Chicago IL
Suggested donation: $15/$10 students, seniors

For more information about the artists, click their name.

Thursday, October 18
7:00pm Brett Baker: Art Opening
7:30pm Phyllis Chen and Robert Dietz: “The Uncaged Toy Piano Roadshow (part 1)”
8:00pm Asylum: Free Jazz Improvisation
8:30pm Opera Cabal: “Ursularia” by DeMaison/Eliot
9:30pm Opening Night Reception at the Zhou B. Café

Friday, October 19
7:00pm Sonic Inertia Performance Group: Works by Burkhout and Coley
8:00pm dal niente: Reflections on the Work of Brett Baker
9:00pm Opera Cabal: “Ursularia”

Saturday, October 20
3:00pm Third Coast Percussion: Works by Skidmore, Reich, Brostrom, Muhly, and Cage
4:00pm Opera Cabal: Works by Berio, Schwitters and Amherkanian
4:30pm Phyllis Chen and Robert Dietz: “The Uncaged Toy Piano Roadshow (part 2)”
5:00pm Nonsense Co.: New Works by Rick Burkhardt

6:00pm-9:00pm Head to the Second Floor for ICE's collaboration with Chicago Composers Forum, and live painting by the Zhou Brothers.

9:30pm Opera Cabal: “Ursularia”

Sunday, October 21
8:00 Nonsense Co.: New Works by Rick Burkhardt
9:00 Third Coast Percussion: New Works by Takemitsu, Farina, Cage

Check back in the next few days for updates featuring the collaborating artists.
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The Delusions Festival is made possible by The Harry and Alice Eiler Foundation, Friends of Opera Cabal, Fractured Atlas, and with the collaboration of the Chicago Composers Forum and Zhou B Art Center.

Thank you for choosing Opera Cabal. Come back soon.

Last Friday Opera Cabal threw a benefit party at Zhou B. Performances included a set of original art-pop music with Quartet Parapluie, a pocketful of weirdness by Opera Cabal, and a free imporv set by Asylum (Dan and Brennen). Beer was 10% off. (Thanks Vernon.) Below are some photos (by Barnaby).

Quartet Parapluie is hiding someplace behind the cadre of singer/songwriters in their closing number.
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Majel's rendition of the Berio Sequenza.

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Nick's rendition of Schwitters's Ursonate.
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Asylum (Dan on drums, Brennen on sax) close the night.
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More Delusions...

More Grandeur...

More Better.

Check back often for updates regarding the upcoming
Delusions : Chicago (2007) Festival.
October 18-21

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Come out and show your love

OPERA CABAL (fundraiser) PARTY

(Kurt Schwitters, b.1887, Germany; exiled to Norway in 1937 for producing "degenerate" art)


7:30-8:30 Quartet Parapluie
8:30-9:30 Opera Cabal
9:30-10:30 Asylum

Zhou B. Center
www.zbcenter.org
1035 W. Halstead (roughly 35th and Halstead)
September 20, 2007
7-10:30p
street parking

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No operas will be harmed in the making of this event. Other strangeness promises to ensue.

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Back in the saddle

Summer wanes.

Opera is in the air.

Join us on FRIDAY September 21st at the Zhou B Art Center for an Opera Cabal fundraiser party (emphasis on the party). This will help support the creation of our next riotously absurd festival, October 18-21. More details to follow.

In the mean time, enjoy pictures from the Lucerne Festival Masterclass: "Gruppen Project." I participated as an Asst. Conductor to a wonderful Bulgarian chap named Yordan, working with Orchestra 3. (warning: the picture formatting doesn't like me tonight)




















Prometheus himself at the first "masters" rehearsal of Gruppen.

Peter Eötvös and sundry musicians of orchestra 2.

Orchestra 3 with Boulez, stage right.

The view from podium 3 with orchestra 1 in the distance.

Me, across the lake from the KKL (Kultur und Kongresszentrum Luzern), the site of all the Stockhausen madness.


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