<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Thank you Lorraine! I will not be able to attend this one.<div class="">Amy<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Mar 2, 2020, at 2:57 PM, Lorraine Kells via Communications <<a href="mailto:communications@chicagocommunitygardens.org" class="">communications@chicagocommunitygardens.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Hello all,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">With little advance notice unfortunately, yet happily we are once again offered tickets to a performance by this wonderful group. Called, "Sight and Sound: a Sonic Art Exhibition, March 9, 2020—7:30pm at SYMPHONY CENTER. You can listen to sound bites of the music, a world-premiere commission from composer Courtney Bryan created for “fearless violinist” Jennifer Koh. This work, Syzygy, celebrates artists Frida Kahlo; Maya Lin, designer of Vietnam War Memorial, and Alma Thomas, <font class=""><span style="font-family:Roboto,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px" class="">an </span><span style="font-family:Roboto,arial,sans-serif" class="">African-American Expressionist painter and art educator best known for her colorful abstract paintings</span></font><span style="color:rgb(60,64,67);font-family:Roboto,arial,sans-serif" class=""> . </span><span style="font-family:Roboto,arial,sans-serif" class=""><font class="">This concert celebrates </font></span>their cultural contributions to society. Also they will be performing a piece you've surely heard at one time or another, Mussorgsky/orch. Ravel Pictures at an Exhibition. More clearly, the suite is Mussorgsky's most famous piano composition. It has become more famously known through various orchestrations and arrangements with Maurice Ravel's 1922 version for full symphony orchestra being by far the most recorded and performed.</div><div class=""> <br class="">Here is a quote about the performance, "Other star violinists play concerts largely devoted to music by dead, white European composers. Jennifer Koh tackles ambitious contemporary projects designed to connect performers, audiences and living composers in mutually beneficial ways." - Chicago Tribune<br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Please get back to me by Wednesday 5 pm if you want tickets and state how many.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Regards,</div><div class="">Lorraine</div></div>
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