Classical Mix
For all concerts in this series, get seats in the Choral Balcony for just $10-$15!
The Classical Mix Series includes classical music chamber ensembles and chamber orchestras, vocalists, keyboardists, and other instrumentalists. Concerts are often preceded by a Prelude discussion with members of the ensembles or other special guests. Preludes are usually held in the Krannert Room, and the concerts take place in the Foellinger Great Hall.
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The Seasons Project
Thursday, October 14, 2010, at 7:30pm | Foellinger Great Hall | $10-$38
In the Italy of 1723, Antonio Vivaldi created a sublime musical portrayal of the seasons around him, and his sound-painting in The Four Seasons still intrigues nearly 300 years later. More -
Pacifica Quartet Shostakovich Cycle Part 1
Thursday, October 21, 2010, at 7:30pm | Foellinger Great Hall | $10-$34
Taut, brutally ironic, austere, humorously biting, turbulent, searing. More -
Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin
Thursday, March 10, 2011, at 7:30pm | Foellinger Great Hall | $10-$36
The Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin—“early music’s Bang on a Can All Stars” (Los Angeles Times)—elicits the breathtaking transparency and frenetic fluency of the Baroque period. More -
Leif Ove Andsnes, piano
Tuesday, April 5, 2011, at 7:30pm | Foellinger Great Hall | $10-$40
Classical music is not obsolete. This seven-time Grammy nominee, Gramophone Award winner, and youngest curator and performer of the Carnegie Hall Perspectives concerts reasserts this truth every season with concert stops from Japan to the United Kingdom and his amassed recordings at 30 discs and growing. More -
Ebène Quartet
Thursday, April 14, 2011, at 7:30pm | Foellinger Great Hall | $10-$34
The musicians of the Ebène Quartet—Pierre Colombet and Gabriel Le Magadure on violin, Mathieu Herzog on viola, and Raphaël Merlin on cello—play with “refinement and poise” and “a rare degree of expressive subtlety, blended sonorities and electrifying joy” (The Times, London). More
