Join us for our last concert of the season on Saturday, June 22nd at 7pm at St. Gregory the Great Church in Chicago’s northside Edgewater neighborhood. We are extremely excited to perform three world premieres. ”On the Breakwater” by Eric Malmquist, “Clark Street Bridge” By Elizabeth Lim, and “Sanctus” by Edward F. Davis. The concert [...]
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We are currently accepting submissions of scores for us to perform at our upcoming summer concert on Saturday, June 22, 2013. The concert theme is on the subject of our Chicago community. We are interested in seeing works from upcoming composers that fit one of two criteria: The composer currently or has previously lived in the Chicagoland area or the piece is somehow related to the city of Chicago –neighborhoods, landmarks, history, architecture, people, anything at all. Application Deadline is Sunday April 28th by Midnight (Central Time Zone). Submit electronically to mark@wickerparksings.org.
“So that’s what you really like about your project, then?” I asked. “That you get to give back? Engage people?” “Yeah, that’s definitely part of it,” Mark mused. “But, you know, I also enjoy that at some point, after a few seasons of honing the choir, of honing our musicianship, it was really no longer [...]
By the time I was ready to meet with “The Gentleman” and his “Lady,” again, I had encountered so many different kinds of choir members, my head was spinning. Singing administrators, consultants, teachers, commodity traders, engineers, architects, MORE lawyers, hell…even a law enforcement official. It was completely fascinating to me. I mean, Mark had said [...]
My next visit was no less nerve-wracking. It turned out that one of Chicago’s top lawyers moonlighted as a member of the choir. I’d seen him before outside of the courthouse, but only from afar as I jostled with other reporters in the hopes of a statement. And here I had a one on one [...]
I took a day off between interviews and headed out a bit later in the day for my next two. I had a meeting with a chorister whose day job was as school marm, and she had specifically requested that I show up in her classroom at 3:15 sharp. Not a second sooner or later. [...]
Born in New Orleans in 1957, Moses Hogan was a world-renowned arranger of African American spirituals, a gifted pianist, a fine conductor, and a close friend of my mother’s. During his brief career, Hogan led choral workshops all over the world and published over seventy works. One of his most popular arrangements, the traditional spiritual, Walk Together, Children, has [...]
Wicker Park Choral Singers praise community and raise voices in fifth anniversary choral concert International folk songs, modern compositions, and holiday-themed arrangements characterize Wicker Park Choral Singers’ fifth anniversary winter concert, It Takes a Village. This season opening performance will take place on Saturday, December 8 at 3 p.m. at Wicker Park Lutheran Church, 1502 [...]
I made my way out of the banquet hall and hailed a cab. It was early in the day. I had time for another interview, and I was particularly curious about this one. I gave my driver the address, leaned back in my seat, and smiled to myself in amusement. The cab dropped me off a little [...]
Joan was easy to track down. Dame leaves a paper trail you could make an informative snowdrift out of—schedules here, rolodex there, lists of venues and vendors and appointments. We walked as we talked. Rather, I ran after her as she breezed through a pre-wedding set up, shouting directions between lines of conversation. “So what [...]
