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Recordings are the musical legacy of Cedille’s artists. Their body of work, represented by concert performances and recordings, defines their contribution to music history. Cedille’s projects reflect the artists’ musical passions. Sometimes, it’s new commissions or underperformed gems. Sometimes they desire to put their artistic stamp on more well-known repertoire, to document it for posterity. These recordings, made possible by your support, build their legacies. Cedille’s recordings thus become part of your legacy too!
During its 30+ year history, Cedille Records has promoted the work of over 180 distinct Chicago artists and ensembles and released more than 200 albums. Your gifts, now and in the future, will further our efforts on behalf of performing artists and composers in the Cedille family now — and those to come.
[A recording] shows a piece of time. Recording, for us, shapes the way we think about that music knowing that we’re going to put it down for an eternity. It makes you think about the music in a certain way that you might not if you’re just gonna get up and play it once [in concert]. You think about your legacy when you make a recording.
—Brandon Vamos, Pacifica Quartet
The Martin D. Ginsburg Society, named for Cedille’s first Board Chair, honors Marty and others who have elected to include Cedille Records in their estate plans and leave a legacy to Cedille. Please consider joining the Society to show your ongoing support of Cedille’s mission. To discuss how you can support Cedille now and beyond your lifetime, call Julie Polanski at (773) 989-2518 or email julie@cedillerecords.org
Recommended
The Pacifica Quartet presents The Korngold Collection, a landmark recording of Erich Wolfgang Korngold’s complete string quartets and rarely heard chamber works tracing the composer’s extraordinary evolution from prodigy of post-imperial Vienna to pioneering film composer in Hollywood
25-year-old rising American violinist Karisa Chiu and renowned Chinese pianist Zhu Wang unite for Chiu’s debut album, HOME. Influenced by her Chicago upbringing, pandemic discoveries, and Korean and Chinese family roots, the recording reflects on the various interpretations of “home” in Chiu’s life, with works by Jean Sibelius, Claude Debussy, Augusta Read Thomas, Cyril Scott, and Gabriel Fauré.
In honor of this month’s (Nov. 14) release of the Pacifica Quartet’s The Korngold Collection, an update of our 2019 playlist of music by composers who were displaced or killed in WW2 and the Holocaust, to which we’ll add tracks from the new album when it becomes available on streaming.
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