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Thu Jan 01, 1970 ― 12:00 AM CST
ACM Presents: Graceland Portraits
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Just across the street from The CheckOut lies one of Chicago’s most extraordinary collections of stories. Graceland Portraits is a new commissioning project created in partnership with historic Graceland Cemetery. Five American composers each choose a notable Chicagoan buried at Graceland and create a new work inspired by their life, work, and legacy. Together, the… Read More
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Thu Jan 01, 1970 ― 12:00 AM CST
NLM Presents: First Light: Rabia Brooke & Haddon Kay
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Every season has a first night, and this one belongs to chamber music. The evening moves between the familiar and the newly imagined: works drawn from the heart of the repertoire alongside music written for this moment. Strings have carried human feeling across four centuries of music-making, from the courts of Baroque Europe to the… Read More
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Thu Jan 01, 1970 ― 12:00 AM CST
NLM Presents: The World Made Larger: Elizabeth Younan World Premiere
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The World Made Larger is when the season closes the way it should: with something that has never been heard before. A world premiere by composer Elizabeth Younan anchors an evening alongside works that have shaped Rabia Brooke’s musical life – pieces from the canon that illuminate what Younan’s new work is in conversation with,… Read More
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Thu Jan 01, 1970 ― 12:00 AM CST
NLM Presents: Into the New Year: Rabia Brooke and Chelsea Wang
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music tradition has always found its deepest expression in rooms like this one: close, warm, unhurried, alive to the details that larger halls swallow whole. The CheckOut in January is its own particular thing – the lake outside, the audience near, the conversation between performers and listeners something closer to a dialogue than a performance…. Read More
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Thu Jan 01, 1970 ― 12:00 AM CST
NLM Presents: Inheritance: Chen Yi World Premiere
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Inheritance is what we carry forward, and what we make new. This evening moves between musical generations, pairing works that have endured with music heard for the first time, and at its center is the World Premiere of Chen Yi’s “My Childhood Memories,” a solo violin work commissioned by Nova Linea Musica. Memories rendered in… Read More
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Thu Jan 01, 1970 ― 12:00 AM CST
NLM Presents: Score Call Winner Concert: An Evening of Premieres
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A season that began with premieres ends with three more. Score Call, the national call for scores funded by Nova Linea Musica and directed by Clarice Assad, drew submissions from composers across the country, and the three selected winners hear their work brought to life tonight by the Nova Linea Musica Piano Trio: Rabia Brooke,… Read More
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Thu Jan 01, 1970 ― 12:00 AM CST
ACM Presents: Cello Resonance
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With a range that can move from the depths of the bass register to soaring melodic lines, the cello can be almost orchestral on its own. Multiply that by eight, place the musicians around the room, and the possibilities become enormous. This one-night-only program explores those possibilities through music that moves from stillness and shimmering… Read More
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Thu Jan 01, 1970 ― 12:00 AM CST
Discovery Series – Mazzoli
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Missy Mazzoli’s Dark with Excessive Bright is a haunting contemporary work built from rich harmonies, restless motion, and a sense of tension that never quite lets go. The music feels both ancient and completely new—full of shadows, glowing textures, and ideas that seem to emerge from somewhere just beyond reach. It’s the kind of piece… Read More
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Thu Jan 01, 1970 ― 12:00 AM CST
Discovery Series – Prokofiev
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Five instruments that have almost no business being together. Prokofiev makes them sound inevitable. Prokofiev’s Quintet in G minor, Op. 39 brings together oboe, clarinet, violin, viola, and double bass in a wildly colorful, rhythmically charged piece full of sharp edges, strange turns, humor, and unmistakable Prokofiev attitude. Originally connected to music Prokofiev wrote for… Read More
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Thu Jan 01, 1970 ― 12:00 AM CST
Discovery Series: Saariaho
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Kaija Saariaho’s Nymphéa is a mesmerizing work for string quartet and electronics in which harmony, texture, noise, and instrumental color are constantly shifting and transforming. Inspired in part by the image of a water lily floating on water, Nymphéa creates a musical world that feels simultaneously delicate and enormous. Familiar string sounds dissolve into whispers,… Read More
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Thu Jan 01, 1970 ― 12:00 AM CST
Discovery Series – Dutilleux
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Henri Dutilleux’s Ainsi la nuit is one of the great string quartets of the 20th century—a mysterious, luminous work built from fleeting musical ideas that continually return in new forms.
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Discovery Series: Schubert
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One of the most beautiful slow movements ever written. And one that becomes even more extraordinary the closer you listen. Franz Schubert wrote his String Quintet in C Major, D. 956 in 1828, during the final months of his life. Scored unusually for two violins, viola, and two cellos, it has become one of the… Read More
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Thu Jan 01, 1970 ― 12:00 AM CST
Score & Screen: Ballet Mécanique
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Machines. Motion. Rhythm. Dada. Welcome to the moment when movies went completely off the rails. Score & Screen: Ballet Mécanique — Machines, Motion & the Avant-Garde dives into the radical explosion of experimental filmmaking in the 1920s, when artists stopped asking movies simply to tell stories and began treating the screen itself as a laboratory…. Read More
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Thu Jan 01, 1970 ― 12:00 AM CST
Score & Screen: A Mélange of Méliès
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Before movies learned to tell stories, Georges Méliès taught them how to dream. Magician, filmmaker, inventor, and one of cinema’s great visionaries, Georges Méliès transformed the new medium of film into a world of impossible voyages, multiplying heads, devils, fairies, celestial bodies, disappearing people, and astonishing visual tricks. For this special Score & Screen program,… Read More
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Thu Jan 01, 1970 ― 12:00 AM CST
Aelita: Queen of Mars
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Score & Screen continues with the Soviet silent classic Aelita: Queen of Mars with a new score by Maxx McGrath.
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ACM Presents: Score & Screen – Fantômas Superfan Package
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Five films. Five world-premiere scores. Five Wednesday nights. One seriously evil badass. Can’t wait to find out if Inspector Juve ever actually catches Fantômas? Neither can we. Go all in with the Fantômas Super Fan Package and experience Louis Feuillade’s complete five-film saga across five consecutive Wednesday nights at The CheckOut. Follow cinema’s first great… Read More