Recommended Chicago classical concerts for April 13-19
Apr 19, 2018Ruth Crawford Seeger’s pioneering 1931 String Quartet; 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Fulton Recital Hall, 1010 E. 59th St. The Spektral also will perform excerpts from these works in the informal setting of the Lang House and the Emil Bach House, historic buildings designed by Frank Lloyd Wright; 4 p.m. Sunday, 7421 N. Sheridan Road; www.spektralquartet.comChicago a cappella: The veteran WXRT disc jockey Terri Hemmert curates and hosts “The History of Rock and Soul, Part 2,” including new arrangements of hits by Fleetwood Mac, Gloria Gaynor, Elton John and others. 8 p.m. Friday, Pilgrim Congregational Church, 460 Lake St., Oak Park; 8 p.m. Saturday, Nichols Concert Hall, 1490 Chicago Ave., Evanston; and 4 p.m. Sunday, Wentz Concert Hall, 171 Chicago Ave., Naperville (repeated April 20 at Logan Center for the Arts, University of Chicago); $15-$43; 773-281-7820, www.chicagoacappella.orgChicago Opera Theater: The company closes its season with a double bill of rarely performed one-acters by Gaetano Donizetti – his first opera, “Il Pigmalione,” and one of his last, the opera buffa “Rita.” Francesco Milioto will conduct a production directed by Amy Hutchison that ties together the works and sets them in 1940s Italy. Opens at 7:30 p.m. Saturday and plays through April 22, Studebaker Theater, 410 S. Michigan Ave.; $45-$145; 312-704-8414,www.chicagooperatheater.orgChicago Symphony Orchestra:Riccardo Muti launches his two-week April residency with a “New World”-themed program that includes Copland’s “Lincoln Portrait” (Chicago actor John Malkovich, narrator) and Dvorak’s Symphony No. 9 (“From the New World”); 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, 7:30 p.m. Tuesday; $55-$280. Muti’s second series of subscription concerts holds works by Tchaikovsky (“Francesca da Rimini” and “Swan Lake” Suite) and Debussy (“Sacred and Profane Dances” and “Nocturnes”), with principal harp Susah Bullen and the Chicago Symphony Chorus women’s voices; 8 p.m. Thursday (repeated April 20-21); $36-$250. Symphony Center, 220 S. Michigan Ave.; 312-294-3000,www.cso.orgCSO All-Access Chamber Series: The Kittel Q... (Chicago Tribune)
