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Sunday Salon: Free Classical Music Concert in Chicago – Mar 14
Come enjoy the free classical music concert in Chicago on March 14, 2010 featuring talented young musicians from throughout Chicago in the Sunday Salon, as the Classical Symphony Orchestra performs Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet Suite No. 3, Thomas’s Mignon Overture, and Nielson’s Symphony No. 2 Op. 1 as Joseph Glymph conducts. Read more
Free SXSW Music Sampler on iTunes
Are you ready for SXSW? Download a free 11-song sampler of the rock bands and artists featured by NPR Music and public radio stations at this March’s South by Southwest music festival in Austin, Texas., including music from rock bands Spoon, Brooklyn Rider, Surfer Blood, Broken Bells and G-Side. NPR Music will offer live streaming of the rock concerts, podcasts and full coverage of the exhausting and exhilarating music event. Read about the bands on the sampler, as well as NPR Music’s full SXSW coverage.
Featuring Rock Bands:
“Written in Reverse” by Spoon from Transference
“The High Road” by Broken Bells from Broken Bells
“I Learned the Hard Way” by Sharon Jones And The Dap-Kings from I Learned the Hard Way
“Canadian Girl” by The Walkmen from You & Me
“Girl In Love” by Smith Westerns from Smith Westerns
“Airplanes” by Local Natives from Gorilla Manor
“Everywhere I Go” by G-Side from Starshipz And Rocketz
“Cleo’s Song” by JBM from Not Even In July
“Achille’s Heel: IV. Shur Landing” by Brooklyn Rider from Dominant Curve
“Hannah” by Freelance Whales from Weathervanes
“Swim” by Surfer Blood from Astro Coast
To download the ‘NPR Music At SXSW Sampler’ on iTunes:
1. Download iTunes for Mac or Windows, free of charge at www.iTunes.com.
2. Open iTunes and click iTunes Store.
3. Click Redeem under Quick Links.
4. Click here.to get your Redeem Code.
5. Enter it into the ITunes Code box.
Your download will start immediately. Enjoy.
The code expires April 30, 2010 and is redeemable only on the U.S. iTunes Store. Available while supplies last. To redeem the code you must have an iTunes account, subject to prior acceptance of license and usage terms. To open an account you must be above the age of 13 and in the U.S. iTunes 9.0 or later, compatible hardware and software, and Internet access (fees may apply) are required. Not for resale. For full terms, see www.apple.com/legal/itunes/us/gifts.html. For more information, see www.apple.com/support/itunes/store. Don’t steal music. TM and c 2010 Apple Inc. All rights reserved. Apple is not a participant or sponsor of this promotion.
Listen Live:
NPR Music’s SXSW 2010 Live Schedule
WEDNESDAY,
March 17th:
NPR Music’s Opening-Night Showcase At Stubb’s
9 p.m. ET/8 p.m. CT): Visqueen
9:45 p.m. ET/8:45 p.m. CT): The Walkmen
10:45 p.m. ET/9:45 p.m. CT): Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings
12 a.m. ET/11 p.m. CT): Broken Bells
1:15 a.m. ET/12:15 a.m. CT): Spoon
THURSDAY,
March 18th:
NPR Music’s Day Party At The Parish
1:30 p.m. ET/12:30 p.m. CT): Smith Westerns
2:15 p.m. ET/1:15 p.m. CT): Brooklyn Rider
3 p.m. ET/2 p.m. CT): Local Natives
3:45 p.m. ET/2:45 p.m. CT): G-Side
4:30 p.m. ET/3:30 p.m. CT): Surfer Blood
5:15 p.m. ET/4:15 p.m. CT): Sleigh Bells
Free Chicago Tenor Concert to Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day – Mar 12
On Friday, March 12 at 12:15 pm, tenor Thomas Broderick will be singing an free all-Irish program in honor of the upcoming St. Patrick’s Day. Come out on your lunch hour for this free concert in downtown Chicago to the Cindy Pritzker Auditorium located at the Harold Washington Library Center (400 South State Street – Chicago, IL) and get in the Irish mood! Read more
Free Kids Arts, Crafts and Music Day at Whole Foods – Mar 13
Come join in with the kids at Whole Foods Lincoln Park on March 13, 2010 for some fantastic free arts and crafts activities by Clementine Arts studio, with some samples, followed by a special free concert performance by one of our Chicago favorites, Laura Doherty. Read more
Free Downtown Chicago Lunchbreak Classical Music Concert – Mar 8
Take a lunch break in downtown Chicago on Monday, Mar 8th to listen to the free concert downtown by Juliani Ensemble, a highly acclaimed chamber music ensemble comprised of world class musicians, has delighted Chicago audiences with inventive, energetic chamber music concerts since its inception in 1999. The LunchBreak’s Classical Mondays offer a great free thing to do in downtown Chicago – free concerts of classical, chamber music, and opera music in the Chicago Cultural Center’s Preston Bradley Hall, located at teh edge of the Loop near Millenium Park.
THE JULIANI ENSEMBLE has been a regular performing partner at the Chicago Cultural Center since 2000, presenting innovative, world-class concerts, and a live performance on WFMT radio. The Ensemble has remained unique because it expands and contracts its membership as necessary to meet the needs of programming. However, the core of the ensemble is Emily Seaberry Graef, founder and flutist, Frank Babbitt, violin, viola, and baritone, Cornelia Babbitt, cello, Jo Rodenburg, mezzo-soprano and Roger Moseley, piano. The Juliani Ensemble is currently initiating chamber music education programs with schools in the Chicago area.
Date: March 8, 2010 at 12:15 pm
Chicago Cultural Center
78 E. Washington St, Preston Bradley Hall
Chicago, IL 60602
Free Movie: The Ramones at Chicago’s Empty Bottle – Mar 7
What better way to spend the end of your weekend than hanging out and watching some free rock and roll cinema at the Empty Bottle in Chicago? A free rock movie at 7pm on March 7, 2010 and cheap drinks sounds like a pretty swell way to spend a Sunday evening, so come on down for End of the Century: The Ramones. Dubbed “a punk ‘Last Waltz“, this free documentary traces the seminal punk band’s trajectory from obscurity to fame to induction into the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame. Including interviews with DEBBIE HARRY, JOE STRUMMER and more, it’s an insider look at the band that’ll make your head spin.
The Empty Bottle is located at the corner of Western and Cortez in Chicago, 1035 N. Western Ave. Chicago, IL, three blocks south of Division and just north of Augusta. The Empty Bottle is most easily accessible from Interstate 90/94 (The Kennedy Expressway).
Hours: Monday through Wednesday
5:00pm to 2:00am
Another Free Chicago Jazz Concert with Scandinavia’s Atomic – Mar 8
Check out this free jazz concert on March 8 as the Chicago Cultural Center’s New Millennium/New Music series showcases Scandinavian jazz band Atomic in a free jazz concert. Celebrating their tenth anniversary, Atomic is taking their explosive blend of American and European jazz on tour with their new CD theater tilters Vol 1. While making no secret of their admiration for leading American jazz musicians, they regard the American and European jazz traditions as an inspiration rather than a restriction, as a springboard to set their own direction and position within jazz music. These diverse elements have inspired a musical style that is new, fresh, and original, winning audiences over wherever they play. The Chicago Cultural Center’s New Millennium/New Music series showcases avant-garde and improvised music by touring artists and local musicians.
Who: ATOMIC
March 8, 2010 at 7 pm
Chicago Cultural Center
78 E. Washington St, Claudia Cassidy Theater
Chicago, IL 60602
Free Chicago Jazz Concert with Reginald Robinson – Mar 7
Come out to hear a free jazz concert on March 7 at 2 pm by gifted pianist and Chicago native Reginald Robinson, who was born and raised in Chicago, and is a noted pianist/composer of Semi-Classical, Ragtime, Latin American and early Jazz & Blues styles. He is also an educator on ragtime music across the U.S. His first musical experiences were listening to his mother and father play records at home of everything from Classical to R&B music. Read more
Free Chicagoland Concert Celebration of Chopin’s 200th Birthday – Mar 1
Happy 200th to Chopin in Chicago land! Come out for some free concerts on Mar 1. 2010 as Northwestern University student pianists celebrate the 200th anniversary of the birth of composer Frederic Chopin at the free “Chopin Fest: Happy 200th Birthday, Chopin!”. Read more
Free Concert “In The Park with Civic” – Chicago Civic Orchestra – Sunday Feb 28
Looking for things to do in Chicago as February comes to a close? Come out and listen to a free concert by the Chicago Civic Orchestra (the Chicago Symphony’s development orchestra -the first US training orchestra — 1919 — affiliated with a major symphony) as they performs free shows at Washing ton Park and elsewhere throughout the season, usually led by big-name conductors and soloists. Read more
Free Concert at Northwestern – Feb 25
On Feb 25, the Windpipe Chinese Ensemble which will be performing a free concert for the first time in North America this Thursday night Feb 25at Northwestern University. The free concert is a collaboration with Chicago-based Fulcrum Point to celebrate the Chinese New Year – the Year of the Tiger – which began on February 14.
The free show will be an eclectic juxtaposition of the new and the traditional. Fulcrum Point is a new-music ensemble that puts together fairly adventurous programs, while the Windpipe Chinese Ensemble is a nine-member group who perform on seventeen different traditional Chinese instruments. The groups plays a mixture of traditional and modern Chinese music, and Thursday’s program will consist of works by contemporary composers, including a pair of world premieres.
One new piece is Li Cheong’s “Drumming Ridge” for dizi, a bamboo transverse flute (a transverse flute is one that requires air blown across the hole and so is played horizontally, like the one we take to American band camp), and string quartet. The other is Ng Cheuk-yin’s “Tiger Sketch,” which will be accompanied by a video of comic artist Lee Chi-ching creating a tiger-themed painting. A half dozen other pieces will be performed, as well as a multimedia finale entitled “Cat and Rat – Legend of the Chinese Zodiac” based on the children’s book of the same name by Chinese illustrator and author Ed Young.
The concert is free, but you have to e-mail rsvp@fulcrumpoint.org in advance to reserve your tickets (four maximum).
Thursday at 7:30 p.m., Thorne Auditorium, 375 E. Chicago, Evanston, e-mail rsvp@fulcrumpoint.org to reserve tickets, FREE
Celebrate Pulaski Day with Free Polish Pride Celebration – Navy Pier – Feb 28
Chicago, the home to the largest Polish population outside of Warsaw, Poland, will host the free Polish Pride Celebration from noon to 5 p.m. Feb. 28 at Navy Pier. The free event takes place in observance of Pulaski Day. Born in Poland, Kazimierz Pulaski was a nobleman and an officer who came to America to assist with military training efforts during the Revolutionary War. Credited for saving George Washington’s life, Pulaski was officially made an American citizen Nov. 6, 2009, 230 years after his death. Read more
Chicago Free Lunchtime Concert Friday: Orquesta Chekara Andalusi Tetuán – Feb 19
Come out on your lunch hour downtown Chicago Friday as Orquesta Chekara Andalusi Tetuán combines the unique sounds of Arabo-Andalusian music with Flamenco in a free concert. This free concert is supported by Instituto Cervantes Chicago. LunchBreak’s Music Without Borders Fridays feature music styles from around the world. Read more
Free Classical & Jazz Concerts in Chicago’s West Loop – Feb 19 and Feb 20
Music lovers are invited to enjoy some excellent West Loop free classical and jazz performances by some of Merit School of Music’s most advanced classical and jazz students, who are playing free music for the public during its “Performathon” extravaganza, Feb. 19 and 20 at the school’s Chicago West Loop music center. This is the 29th year of the free concerts at the Joy Faith Knapp Music Center, 38 S. Peoria St., which is just west of Greektown. Read more
Free Concert: Sunday Salon – Feb 14
Come out on Valentine’s Day in Chicago for the free concert on Feb 14, 2010 as the Sunday Salon weekly free concert series explores the rich landscape of classical music, from familiar Western orchestral compositions to contemporary improvisational forms and international classical traditions, plus family friendly programs. On Feb 14, the exceptional Third Coast Percussion is joined by “New York’s queen of avant-garde piano” (The New Yorker) Lisa Moore. Read more
