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...Founded by Maestro Paul Freeman, the Chicago Sinfonietta - the most racially diverse orchestra in the country, according to a recent survey - has long struck a chord with fans of innovative classical music. "We've done some pretty wacky things," says executive director Jim Hirsch. "You haven't heard anything until you've heard thirty steel drums banging simultaneously with an orchestra." Hirsch says the Sinfonietta had also hosted concerts with bagpipes, and once featured an Indonesian gamelan orchestra, using gongs and mallet-struck instruments. Two years ago, the Sinfonietta collaborated with alternative rock band Poi Dog Pondering in a "remix...
Attendees of the Chicago Sinfonietta's 20th anniversary season performance on Oct. 1 and 2 will be asked to do something unusual: turn on their cell phones. Quirky chimes, song melodies and ring tones will be the concert's opening notes...
...AUDIO: Hear a ring tone medley that is joined by the Chicago Sinfonietta performing Beethoven. The project was conceived by Maestro Paul Freeman, left
...audience members to follow the red-light and green-light cues for their phones before the concert opens with "Redes," a piece by Mexican composer Silvestre Revueltas. Green light means turn your phone on and/or play you ringtone; red means let the orchestra take charge. Chiming in with the Sinfonietta will be two accomplished young musicians: pianist Alexander Kobrin from Moscow, performing Franz Liszt's Piano Concerto No.2 in A major, and violinist Melissa White playing Max Bruch's Violin Concerto No.1 in G minor...
...night began with Heitor Villa-Lobos’s “Sinfonietta No. 1,” a work that the composer dedicated to the memory of Mozart. Although one probably cannot have enough Mozart, classical music during this illustrious year—and in the wake of the Mozart Society Orchestra’s (MSO) own tribute to Amadeus—has begun to seem as repetitive as carols around Christmastime, and the Brazilian’s tribute was a nice variation...