Ongoing Concerts:
Paul Manz Organ Series
First Tuesday of each month
12:20-12:50 p.m.
Free Admission
Thomas Wikman,
artistic director
January 5, February 2,
March 2, April 6, May 4
Thomas Wikman and others, organists
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Our 2009-2010 Chapel Music Series
Upcoming Concerts:
March 21, 2010, 4:00 p.m.
Music for Trumpets and Organ
Augustana Chapel
Freewill Offering
Three of Chicago’s best musical treasures, Thomas Wikman, Barbara Butler, and Charles Geyer, come together for this internationally-acclaimed program of exciting music. Butler and Geyer employ all the horns at their disposal to show the panoply of sounds that together with the organ make this concert a sounding of life itself.
April 11, 2010, 4:00 p.m.
LSTC Gospel Choir
Augustana Chapel
Benefit Concert for Grover Wright and
Rev. Carole Burns Scholarship Funds
Under its new director, George Cooper, the LSTC Gospel choir links hands with other local choirs to present a lively, energetic, and gala concert. Come and be drawn into music that is irresistibly magnetic with the opportunity to support these important scholarship funds.
April 25, 2010, 4:00 p.m.
La Paloma in Concert
Augustana Chapel
Freewill Offering
For their second CMS performance, this acclaimed string ensemble consisting of CSO members and friends present Arnold Schoenberg’s Verklärte Nacht, Op. 4, scored for string sextet.
Performances are at the Augustana Chapel at LSTC*
1100 East 55th Street, Chicago (Corner of 55th & University) easily accessible from I-94 (Garfield Blvd. exit) or Lake Shore Drive (exit at 57th Street.)
By public transportation:
#55 Garfield bus, from the red line, green line or Metra Electric line to the stop at University Avenue
Free off-street parking is available at:
54th & University (north of the seminary buildings) or 55th & Ellis in the University of
Chicago parking garage
On-street parking available in front of the Augustana Chapel at LSTC
*January 10 performance, Bach for the Sem is at the Grace Lutheran Church, 7300 Division Street, River Forest, IL
For more information about the Chapel Music Series please contact:
Daniel Schwandt
Cantor to the Seminary Community
773-256-0700 Ext. 799
dschwand@lstc.edu
Mark Bangert
John H. Tietjen Professor Emeritus, of Pastoral Ministry: Worship and Church Music
773-256-256-0770
mbangert@lstc.edu
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Recent Concerts
September 27, 2009, 4 p.m.
Jazz at the Sem
Augustana Chapel
Freewill Offering
City of Fiction - a Chicago/Minneapolis collective. Kurt Schweitz brings together musicians from Chicago and Minneapolis for an afternoon of exploring musical narratives. The quartet makes music both steeped in the rich traditions of jazz and heavily influenced by the sounds of contemporary music.
October 25, 2009, 4 p.m.
CUBE
Augustana Chapel
Tickets, students at no cost
Chicago’s premiere contemporary music ensemble presents “Sounding the Sacred V,” a program including “Jizo” for clarinet, cello and piano, a new work by Elizabeth Start, and “The World Within,” by Howard J. Buss, a musical metaphor of yearning for one’s spiritual past in the midst of the distractions of contemporary life.
November 6,7, 8, 2009
Paul Manz Gala, celebrating the organist/composer’s 90th birthday
Various Locations
Freewill Offerings
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Friday, November 6, 7:30 p.m.: Winners of Manz Competition in recital-Augustana Chapel
Saturday, November 7, 10:30 a.m.: Master Class with John Schwandt-Augustana Chapel
Sunday, November 8, 4:00 p.m.: Hymn Festival with John and Daniel Schwandt-
St. Luke Church, 1500 West Belmont, Chicago
A monthly organ series on LSTC’s Ruth and Paul Manz honors his years as artist in residence. The November 8 hymn festival marks his cantorate at St. Luke. John Schwandt, organist and professor at the University of Oklahoma headlines the weekend’s events.
December 6, 2009, 7:00 p.m.
Advent Lessons and Carols
Augustana Chapel
Freewill Offering
Join the seminary community as it welcomes Advent with lessons and carols for congregation, choir and instruments. Daniel Schwandt, cantor to the seminary community, and Ben Stewart, Dean of the Chapel lead the worshipers. LSTC’s Cantorei, soloists, and instrumentalists present Paul Manz’s cantata, “Savior of the Nations, Come.”
January 10, 2010, 4 p.m.
Bach for the Sem
Benefit concert by Chicago-area professional musicians
Grace Lutheran Church
7300 Division Street
River Forest, IL
Call 773-256-0712 for tickets
Bach for the Sem, will be held at Grace Lutheran Church, 7300 West Division Street, River Forest, Ill., on January 10, 2010. This year’s concert features the first part of J.S. Bach’s Christmas Oratorio and his Concerto for Oboe d’amour and Orchestra. The Bach for the Sem Choir and Orchestra will present the world premier of a Paul Weber’s “Hodie coelesti.” Thomas Wikman and Michael Costello are guest organists for the afternoon of music. Carols of the season round out the program performed as a benefit for the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago, by Chicago area Lutheran professional instrumentalists and singers.
February 14, 2010, 4:00 p.m.
Romantic Songs for Soprano and Piano
Augustana Chapel
Freewill Offering
As a valentine, Andrea Holliday and Thomas Wikman offer a program of delightful love songs written by late Romantic composers.
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