We’re returning to the Harris Theater – this time on their Virtual Stage – with one of our most interactive and inventive programs to date. Something to Write Home About invites you to join the creative process by writing five postcards across an evening of performances with stimulating visuals and provocative writing prompts from us.
A celebration of Chicago’s world-class contemporary music scene, the program orbits five of the city’s most imaginative composers, with each piece vibrantly contextualized by us through interviews, video, and nimble storytelling.
For each number, we will draw you closer to the composer and their composition, using the music as the leaping-off point for you to pen a short message to someone special in your own life. Writing on custom-made postcards featuring the alluring work of Chicago visual artists, you will become creators right alongside us…and reconnect with your loved ones in unexpected ways.
Praised by The New Yorker as providing the “...signal service of obliterating the dividing line between past and present, tradition and avant-garde…” we offer this interactive experience as not only a melding of the head and heart, but an opportunity to celebrate the creative spirit in us all.
This concert is FREE but you must sign up for a free Virtual Stage account
PROGRAM
Eliza Brown | String Quartet No. 1
Sufjan Stevens arr. by Gene Knific | Arnika
Nathalie Joachim | Fanm d'Ayiti: Lamize pa Dous
Samuel Adams | Movement II: For Chris Stark, from String Quartet No. 2: Current
Tomeka Reid | Prospective Dwellers
Our Composers
Samuel Adams
(credit: Marco Giugliarelli)
Eliza Brown
(credit: Mary Rafferty)
Tomeka Reid
Nathalie Joachim
(credit: Erin Patrice O’Brien)
Gene Knific
(credit: Nicole Bitonti)
Our Visual Artists
Brandon Breaux
Karolina Bermudez
Ethan Rodriguez
(credit: courtesy of the artist)
Theaster Gates
(credit: Rankin)
Antonia Contro
(credit Steven E. Gross)
Spektral Quartet’s programming is supported by our members, our donors, and by the following foundations and organizations:
