Featured in the eleven new programs is a wide array of music conducted by Muti, including selections by Bruckner, Berlioz, and Verdi. Additional programs are dedicated to performances conducted by Fritz Reiner, Pierre Boulez, and Bernard Haitink.
Though firmly avant-garde, Standing On The Corner's talents have earned them notoriety among mainstream acts. Now, the "post-genre" ensemble's distinctive musical palette has grown to include classical music.
Librettist Wende Persons on the creation of Patience & Sarah, an opera based on a self-published novel by Isabel Miller (aka Alma Routsong) of the same name. Third Eye Theatre Ensemble's production runs through October 21 at Chicago's Theater Wit.
A statement released by the music company Saturday night says the agreement would extend through the 2020-21 season, if ratified by members of the Chicago Federation of Musicians, Local 10-208.
