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Episode 42 – Sean Connors (Third Coast Percussion)
On this episode of Classical Chicago, Cedille President Jim Ginsburg joins Third Coast Percussion’s Sean Connors in conversation about their new album.
Archetypes features a collection of collaboratively written musical portraits of twelve universal characters. Listen to learn more about this intriguing new collaboration between Grammy Award-winning Third Coast Percussion and celebrated Brazilian musicians and composers Sérgio and Clarice Assad.
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From Chicago-based composter Stacy Garrop comes INVICTUS, Latin for “unconquered.” The work unfolds across four movements and an interlude, moving between lyrical introspection, fierce determination, and triumphant resolve, with Grammy-nominated pianist Marta Aznavoorian and the Chicago Philharmonic under the direction of Artistic Director Scott Speck. Available 5/8.
Haymarket Opera Company presents early-18th-century master Leonardo Vinci’s rare operatic gem, Artaserse (1730). A prominent figure of the Neapolitan School of opera, whose work influenced composers such as Johann Adolph Hasse and Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, Vinci’s three-act opera seria centers on the Persian prince, Artaserse, who must bring his father’s murderer to justice amidst betrayal, deceit, and mistaken identity.
For the first full month of spring this year, an update of our original “Spring & Renewal” playlist (created in 2020), featuring pieces with themes of spring, creation, growing, nature, rebirth, and renewal.
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