Bon Appétit!

Saturday, March 3, 2012

7:00 p.m.

City View at Illinois Terminal, Champaign

Special fundraising concert with food and wine tasting
with Dawn Harris as the “French Chef”

Opening Act: Songs About Food with local singers
Lee Hoiby: Bon Appétit!

The top floor of the Illinois Terminal in downtown Champaign will provide a dramatic nighttime setting for this intimate fundraising event. The highlight of the evening will be Hoiby’s 18-minute one-woman opera with small chamber ensemble, the text of which comes from a recipe for chocolate cake by Julia Child. The evening will conclude with the cake itself served up to those in the audience.

Also coming up this season . . .

Music for the Theater

Saturday, April 28, 2012

7:30 p.m.

Faith United Methodist Church, Champaign

with soprano Ollie Watts Davis; mezzosoprano Elizabeth Buckley;
actors Joi Hoffsommer and Henson Keys; and Amasong

W. A. Mozart: Overture to The Magic Flute
Paul Bowles: Music for a Farce
Erich Korngold: Suite from Much Ado About Nothing
Felix Mendelssohn: Incidental Music to A Midsummer Night’s Dream

At Half-time: Amasong

Two outstanding singers, two locally-renowned actors and a ground-breaking women’s chorus will be featured in Mendelssohn’s magnificent music for Shakespeare’s comic play. The first half of the concert contains one of Mozart’s great operatic overtures, chamber music from Paul Bowles for a production by Orson Welles that never happened, and a suite from another Shakespeare comedy by Erich Korngold, one of Hollywood’s great film composers.