Check out the Opening performance of CAIC’s Collaborative Works Festival, which will be held at Ganz on the evening of Sept 7. It will be performed by Ryan Opera Center soprano Kathryn Henry and pianist Kuang-Hao Huang. CONFESSIONS will close the program !

The Festival’s opening program, Chicago’s Own, will feature songs of composers who were born in Chicago as well as those who studied and taught at many of Chicago’s universities and institutions.

​Among those born in Chicago are composers Ernst Bacon and Reena Esmail. We look forward to presenting works from composers who taught and trained at the American Conservatory of Music and Chicago Musical College (now Roosevelt University Chicago College for the Performing Arts), including  Ned Rorem, Joseph Schwantner, and Ruth Crawford Seeger. Their songs will be featured alongside some of those teaching and residing in Chicago today, including Clarice Assad, Stacy Garrop, Lita Grier and Eric Malmquist.
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Concert I photo: View eastward on the Chicago River from the Clark Street

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PROGRAM
Ned Rorem: Early in the Morning
The Serpent
Cecil Cohen:  Epitaph for a Poet
Ned Rorem: Look Down, Fair Moon
Ernst Bacon: Last Lingering Drops
Ned Rorem: O You Whom I Often and Silently Come
Ernst Bacon: Darest Thou Now, O Soul
Lita Grier: Two Songs from Emily Dickinson
Eric Malmquist: Selections from Chicago Songs
Stacy Garrop: We Real Cool
Reena Esmail: Rosa de Sal
Ruth Crawford Seeger: White Moon
Dolores White: The Black Reef
Joseph Schwantner: Black Anemones
Clarice Assad: Confessions
Jule Styne: Time After Time

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ARTISTS

KATHRYN HENRY, soprano
KUANG-HAO HUANG, piano
​NICHOLAS PHAN, tenor & CAIC artistic director
ZOIE REAMS, mezzo-soprano

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