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2010-2011 Season Sneak Peek:

Season_Preview With Fulcrum Point, you're among cultural adventurers, exploring the pulse of music today, sharing endless surprises for each of your senses.

Mischa ZupkoExperience music that can't quite be captured–pieces that embrace chance, silence, improvisation and technology. Fulcrum Point has its finger on the pulse of it all. With composer-in-residence Mischa Zupko on hand at every performance, you're in good company.

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(Programs are subject to change without notice.)

Season at Harris Theater for Music and Dance:

Other concerts

12th Anniversary Benefit Concert

Wednesday, September 22, 2010, 7:30 PM
Thorne Auditorium at Northwestern University of Law
375 E Chicago Ave, Chicago

Cocktail reception* + concert: $100/$75 (Seniors/Students) – Click here to buy
Concert only: $50/30** (Seniors/Students) – Click here to buy

*Cocktail reception tickets are only sold online, and not at the door.  (Please RSVP by September 18, 2010.  RECEPTION TICKETS NOT GUARANTEED TO BE AVAILABLE AFTER SEPTEMBER 18.)
** $60 at the door / General admission

Add $5 to your purchase and receive admission to our upcoming Motown Metal concert (sold only through our website, original price $20) – Click here to buy

Program:

Randall Woolf- Franz Schubert (2005) – watch excerpt
  • Rika Seko, violin; Carmen Kasstinger, violin; Claudia Lasareff-Mironoff, viola; Ed Moore, cello
Mischa Zupko- Shunt (1999) – listen to excerpt
  • Mischa Zupko, piano with pre-recorded electronics
Elizabeth Brown- Arcana (2004) – listen here
  • Mary Stolper, flute
Randall Woolf- Try to Believe (2005) – listen to excerpt
  • Julia Ghica, violin, Merit School of Music
SOUND TRACKS Persentation

Law Wing-Fai- Yi Zhi Shan (1996) – watch excerpt
  • Yang Wei, pipa
  • Dance Choreography by Melissa Thodos (2009), performed by Mollie Mock, Thodos Dance Chicago
Steve Reich- Nagoya Marimbas (1994) – watch excerpt
  • Jeff Handley, Brandon Podjasek, percussion
Stefan Freund- Metal (2000)
  • Stephen Burns, trumpet; Kevin Hartman, trumpet; Greg Flint, french horn; Peter Ellefson, trombone; Rex Martin, tuba

The net proceeds of this concert will benefit Sound Tracks: Exploring the Global Cultures through World & New Music, Fulcrum Point’s innovative program that brings global music to Chicago Public Schools.

A big Thank You goes to all the artists & the Thodos Dance Chicago in donating their performances to support this concert.

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Motown Metal

MotownWednesday, October 27, 2010, 7:00 PM
Harris Theater for Music and Dance, 205 East Randolph Drive
$20/$15 (seniors/students)

Take this outrageous trip across the ever-changing landscape of new art music. Inspired by the sounds of Motown and Led Zeppellin this one-time event combines Fluxus Theatrics with the best of Chicago’s Brass, Percussion, and Electronics.
  • George Brecht/FLUXUS
  • Motor Vehicle Sundown Event – 50th Anniversary
Email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it if you’d like to participate in Brecht’s 50th anniversary of Motor Vehicle Sundown Event.
Featured Artists:
  • Simon Anderson & the Chicago Fluxus Ensemble
  • Stephen Burns, Christopher Martin, trumpet
  • Jeff Handley, percussion
Photo courtesy of Michael Daugherty

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Holding Fast with Jacob TV: New Art Music with Video!

Friday, November 5, 2010, 6:00 to 7:00 PM – FREE event!
Claudia Cassidy Theater of the Chicago Cultual Center
77 E Randolph, 2nd Floor, Chicago
This event will feature music from four award-winning composers -- Jacob TV, Yan Maresz, Randy Woolf and Mischa Zupko - accompanied by outrageous short videos and exquisite images.  Zupko will lead a post-concert discussion.

  • Yan Maresz – Metallics for trumpet & surround-sound electronics
  • Randall Woolf – Holding Fast
  • Jacob TV – Grab It!
  • Mischa Zupko – Shunt

    • CALL FOR VIDEO/VISUAL ARTISTS:  You are invited to create imagery to complement Yan Maresz & Mischa Zupko's pieces for the above performance.  Please send a 1-page resume and DVD work sample before SEPTEMBER 16     to Stephen Burns, Artistic Director, 30 E Adams, Suite 1201, Chicago, IL 60603.  The candidates for the 2 works will be chosen on Setpember 23 with fianl imagery to be completed by OCTOBER 29.  An honorarium will be awarded to each winner and an open invitation to attend Fulcrum Point 2010/11 concerts.
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Speaking In Tongues

Tuesday, March 22, 2011, 7:30 PM
Harris Theater for Music and Dance, 205 East Randolph Drive
$20/$15

ComposersDiscover what Ezra Pound called “the spiritual food” in the musical ritual and lore of the Naxi minority tribes poetry of China. This program celebrates through music, words and electronics the power and inspiration in the poetry of the dying aboriginal language in Australia and British poetry titan Ted Hughes.
Featured artists: Julia Bentley, soprano

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Movies concert

May 18, 2011

Information coming soon

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