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MI Alma Latina

Soprano Kristina Bachrach and pianist Winston Choi perform music by Armando Bayolo about love, identity and what it means to be Hispanic. The program includes two recent largescale works: the song cycle Neruda Enamorado, setting Pablo Neruda's Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair, and the autobiographical piano cycle, Memorias Vagabundas, which Nico Muhly has called “a gift to pianists” and Vicky Chow declares as “a masterpiece.”

Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight

Fourteen years ago, a stack of music was found amongst the papers of the black Chicagoan composer Florence Price: it was her long-lost cantata "Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight," set to the poem by Springfield native Vachel Lindsay. And now this lost & found masterpiece will be heard for the first time in Springfield, the city of both Lincoln and Lindsay. The UIS Orchestra will join forces with the Springfield Choral Society and baritone soloist Justin Johnson, under the baton of Jacobsen Woollen. Admission is free. No reservations required. Program: Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: The Bamboula Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 8, Allegro Aperto (featuring UIS Solo Competition winner Ruoshui Cai) Florence Price: Abraham Lincoln Walks At Midnight This concert is the culminating event of Abraham Lincoln Walks At Midnight: A Springfield Festival. For more information about the festival, including a full line-up of events, please visit the festival webpage: https://www.springfieldchoralsociety.org/post/abraham-lincoln-walks-at-midnight-a-springfield-festival-february-22-24-2024

Make a Noise Ensemble

The Make A Noise Ensemble is available to students, faculty/staff, and community members of any level of musical experience and any instrument or voice. The ensemble focuses on the study and practice of experimental and contemporary music. The course culminates in a group collaborative composition and performance.

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