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Rose Ensemble
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Media Contact: Dana Navarro
December 2, 2008 (773) 442-4227
d-navarro@neiu.edu
Celebrate the holidays Renaissance style
with the Rose Ensemble at NEIU
WHAT: In what has become a holiday favorite at Northeastern Illinois University (NEIU), the Rose Ensemble returns to the Jewel Box Series to perform a program titled “Slavic Wonders - Feasts and Saints in Early Russia, Poland & Bohemia.” The music will include 12-part Baroque motets from the Russian Orthodox tradition, Medieval Latin chants for Slavic saints and double-choir works from the Polish Renaissance.
Tickets are general admission $25; senior citizens $15; students $10. For tickets and more information, please call the NEIU Box Office at (773) 442-4636 or visit www.ticketweb.com.
WHERE: NEIU Fine Arts Center Recital Hall
5500 N. St. Louis Ave. in Chicago
(Use the campus entrance located at 3701 W. Bryn Mawr Ave.)
Free parking is available in Lot F and in the Parking Structure.
WHEN: Friday, December 19 at 8 p.m.
DETAILS: Founded in 1996 by Artistic Director Jordan Sramek, the Rose Ensemble has built a diverse and enthusiastic audience with scrupulously researched and imaginative presentations of Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque music. Additionally, the Ensemble commissions contemporary composers to write new works that complement and illuminate ancient texts and themes. By combining captivating musical performance with poems, stories and legends, the Rose Ensemble creates a beautiful and entertaining style of programming. Audience members comment again and again that they have never heard voices blend so incredibly, seen a group move on stage so elegantly, or so enjoyed watching performers make music together.
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