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SOLD OUT // Rivers Empyrean: Renewal and Rebirth

  • Arbor Room of the Thornhill Education Center at the Morton Arboretum 4100 Illinois 53 Lisle, IL, 60532 United States (map)

Featuring music heralding the arrival of Spring that celebrates the wonder of nature, musicians of Chicago's Fifth House Ensemble feature music by classical masters (J.S. Bach, whose birthday coincides with the first day of Spring) along with music by three living recipients of the Pulitzer Prize who consider the cyclic renewal of the earth from a contemporary perspective. It's an afternoon for appreciating some of nature's most special places as we look forward to enjoying another season of the great outdoors.

Program:
Caroline Shaw — in manus tuas 
Edgar Meyer — Duo for Viola and Bass
John Luther Adams, arr. Alex Goodin — The Wind in High Places
I. Above Sunset Pass
Jason Charney — Ocean Body 
J.S. Bach — Sonata No. 2 in A Minor, III. Andante
Steve Snowden — Appalachian Polaroids
W. A. Mozart — Oboe Quartet in F Major 
Marc Mellits — Quartet No. 2: Revolution

$30 Arboretum Member

$35 Nonmember

This performance is supported by Sweetwater.