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FRi 30 7:30 pm The Fifth Sun: Performance for the End of the World
Sat 31 7:30 pm The Fifth Sun: Performance for the End of the World
SUN 1 11 am Sunday at Rockefeller: Music for Palm Sunday
3 pm Quire & Place: Bach St. Matthew Passion
tHUR 5 7:30 pm Maundy Thursday: Victoria Tenebrae
FRi 6 12 noon Good Friday noon vigil
SUN 8 11 am Easter Sunday Festival Eucharist: Vaughan Williams
Mass in G
SUN 15 11 am
5 pm
Sunday at Rockefeller: Lutheran A Cappella Choir
Cameron Carpenter in recital
FRi 20 8 pm Schola Antiqua: Music of the Hours
SUN 22 11 am Sunday at Rockefeller: Music for Earth Day
SUN 29 11 am Sunday at Rockefeller: Medieval Gems
FRi 4 5 pm Holi: the Festival of Colors
Sat 5 8 pm Lung-Ta: Tibetan Ritual Music, Iconography & Dance
SUN 6 11 am Sunday at Rockefeller: Music inspired by Africa
SUN 13 11 am Sunday at Rockefeller: Brahms and Jongen
3 pm Chicago Chorale: Vierne Messe Solennelle
9 pm Le Vorris & Vox / Student Circus
MON 14 9 pm Le Vorris & Vox / Student Circus
SUN 20 11 am Sunday at Rockefeller: Finzi and Handl
5 pm Student Carillon Recital
SUN 27 11 am Sunday at Rockefeller: Music for Pentecost
Sat 2 10 am Alumni Convocation
4:30 pm Rockefeller Gala Concert: Art of the Bon Mot
SUN 3 11 am Sunday at Rockefeller: Martin Mass for Double Chorus
tHUR 7 7 pm Tsoknyi Rinpoche: Open Heart, Open Mind
Sat 9 10 am Spring Convocation on the Quads
SUN 17 5 pm The Bells of Summer: Toni Raats
SUN 24 5 pm The Bells of Summer: Tim Sleep
SUN 1 5 pm The Bells of Summer: Joey Brink
FRi 6 7:30 pm The Vierne Project I, Christopher Houlihan
Sat 7 7:30 pm The Vierne Project II, Christopher Houlihan
SUN 8 5 pm The Bells of Summer: Stephan Burton
MON 9 7 pm Organ Historical Society: Nathan Laube in recital
SUN 15 5 pm The Bells of Summer: Anna Kasprzycka
SUN 22 5 pm The Bells of Summer: Robert Grogan
SUN 29 5 pm The Bells of Summer: Gordon Slater
SUN 5 5 pm The Bells of Summer: Chelsea Vaught
SUN 12 5 pm The Bells of Summer: Sue Bergren
SUN 19 5 pm The Bells of Summer: James Fackenthal
every week during the academic year
Carillon recitals 12 noon and 5 pm Monday to Friday,
and 12:15 pm Sundays (tower tours leave at 11:30 am and
4:30 pm Monday to Friday, and after the service on Sundays)
through August 19
Meditation every weekday at 8 am (Twenty Minutes Still);
Mondays and Wednesdays at 4 pm (mindfulness);
Wednesdays at 5 pm (Zen); Wednesdays at 6 pm (Samatha)
Tea & Pipes Tuesdays at 4:30 pm through June 5
Yoga Tuesdays at 5:30 pm and 6:45 pm (restorative),
Thursdays at 4 pm (gentle), through June 7
Sundays communion with choir or soloists, organ, & carillon
11 am through August 19
At Bond Chapel during the spring quarter: Orthodox
Sunday services at 9 am, and Matins on Wednesdays at 7:30 am;
Episcopal Eucharist on Thursdays at 12 noon; Muslim Friday
prayers at 12:45 pm. See Rockefeller/Bond websites for details
for the summer, when Bond Chapel will be closed for installation
of the Reneker Memorial Organ.
contents
Page 1 Cameron Carpenter
2 L’été de Vierne
4 Lung-Ta
6 Voices and Bells
8 Theatre and Circus!
Rockefeller Memorial Chapel is the spiritual and ceremonial
center of the University of Chicago and a major performing
arts producer, offering music, theatre, and visual arts events to
citywide audiences. A leading venue for the choral arts, it is a
prized event location for major speakers and international artists.
The performing arts program (and event calendar) at the beautiful
Bond Chapel is also under Rockefeller Chapel management.
Rockefeller Chapel is part of Campus and Student Life.
On the cover: Cinquefoil and The Chapel by Flickr members “ninniane” and
Todd vanGoethem, used under a Creative Commons license.
Back cover: Chapel Daisies by Darren Leow.

cameron
carpenter
lOvE and DEatH
SUNDAy APRIL 15, 5 PM
Tickets $10 general / free to students with ID
The incomparable Cameron Carpenter brings his prodigious virtuosity to
Rockefeller’s E.M. Skinner organ, with a program including selections
from his own Visions of the Organ from Space (Science Fiction Series)
and dazzling and unconventional arrangements of classics.
“A technique the likes
of which I don’t think
has existed on this
planet… because if
it had, we would all
know about it.”
John Weaver,
Juilliard School of Music
Cameron Carpenter by Michael Hart.
Additional photography by Maeri Hedstrom,
Jimmy Jeong, Robert Leslie, Chris Owyoung,
Marine Penvern, Peter Ross, and Suzanne Schaffer.
Cameron Carpenter’s organ concerts have generated a level of acclaim,
exposure, and controversy unprecedented for an organist. Born in 1981,
he was a keyboard prodigy, performing Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier at age
11 before joining the American Boychoir School in 1992 as a boy soprano.
Trained at the Juilliard School of Music under Gerre Hancock, John Weaver,
and Paul Jacobs, he studied simultaneously with New york-based piano
coach Miles Fusco, with whom he continues to work. His first album for
Telarc, Revolutionary, made him the first organist ever nominated for a
Grammy Award for a solo album.
This is the third annual recital in the Brian Gerrish Organ Performance Series.
The Brian Gerrish Organ Performance Series is made possible by a generous
endowment given to honor Divinity School professor emeritus Brian Gerrish
and to promote the joy of listening to world class organ performance!
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l’été de vierne
On the 75 th anniversary of the death of French organist and composer Louis Vierne (1870–
1937), Rockefeller Chapel presents a joyful summer of celebration of Vierne’s music, with the
Messe Solennelle performed by the Chicago Chorale, directed by Bruce Tammen; selections
including the Carillon de Westminster at the annual Alumni Weekend gala concert; and a
two-night performance of the complete Organ Symphonies by visiting organist Christopher
Houlihan on his six-city Vierne 2012 tour.
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Organic by Justin Kern. The Chicago Chorale by Jasmine Kwong.

chicago chorale: voices aloft
SUNDAy MAy 13, 3 PM
Pre-concert lecture by Dean Elizabeth Davenport, 2 pm in Ida Noyes Hall
The Chicago Chorale, conducted by Bruce Tammen with university organist
Thomas Weisflog at the organ, sings Louis Vierne’s Messe Solennelle, in a
program also featuring two ethereal a cappella works, J.S. Bach’s double
choir motet, Komm, Jesu, komm, and Arnold Schoenberg’s Friede auf
Erden. The Messe Solennelle of 1899, one of the grandest works of the
golden age of French organ composition, draws upon the full romantic glory
of Rockefeller Chapel’s recently restored E.M. Skinner organ. A heartfelt
and sincere work, it utilizes all the sonic fireworks of which both organ and
choir are capable, filling the Chapel with sound!
Tickets at chicagochorale.org, $35 reserved seating, $25 general,
$20 students; or $40 reserved and $30 for general admission at the door.
rockefeller gala concert:
The art of the Bon mot
SATURDAy JUNE 2, 4:30 PM (CARILLON BEGINS 4:20 PM)
Free, no tickets or reservations required
The fifth annual Rockefeller gala concert, an hour-long
concert of classics, takes on a Parisian theme this year.
The University of Chicago Motet Choir’s Art of the Bon
Mot is complemented by French wine and delicious
pâtisserie snacks! Motet Choir offers selections from the
chanson repertoire, from Debussy to the present day, including works of
Maurice Ravel, Francis Poulenc, and Paul Hindemith, and contemporary
American composer Morton Lauridsen’s fêted Les Chansons des Roses.
These masterful short-form choral works utilize the poetry of, among others,
Paul Éluard, Guillaume Apollinaire, and Rainer Maria Rilke.
And on the very anniversary of the death of Louis Vierne (June 2, 1937,
at the organ console of the Cathédrale de Notre Dame, where he was just
completing his 1,750 th recital), university organist Thomas Weisflog plays
Vierne’s famous Carillon de Westminster (mirrored on the carillon with
Robert Byrnes’ Westminster) and the beautiful Adagio from Symphonie III.
University carillonneur Wylie Crawford and assistant carillonneur
James Fackenthal complete the festivities with arrangements for carillon
of works by Jean-Joseph Mouret, Erik Satie, Francis Poulenc, and Gabriel
Fauré, concluding with Robert Lannoy’s charming Ballet des Petits Canards
(Ballet of the Ducklings).
vierne 2012: six symphonies, six cities
FRIDAy JULy 6 and SATURDAy JULy 7, 7:30 PM
Free
Celebrated young organist Christopher Houlihan performs Louis Vierne’s six
symphonies in six major North American cities (New york, Denver, Chicago,
Los Angeles, Montreal, and Dallas) to commemorate the composer, a
marathon of travel and performance beginning on June 2, the anniversary of
Vierne’s death at the console of his beloved organ at Notre Dame de Paris.
Here at Rockefeller Chapel, Part I, Friday July 6, will comprise Symphonies
I, III, and V; and Part II, Saturday July 7, Symphonies II, IV, and VI.
We are delighted that Rockefeller Chapel is on the Vierne 2012 itinerary,
not least because Vierne dedicated his Symphonie VI to Lynnwood Farnam,
noted master of the organ who played the inaugural recital of Rockefeller’s
E.M. Skinner organ in 1928, just days after the Chapel itself was
dedicated.
nathan lauBe in recital
MONDAy JULy 9, 7 PM
Tickets $20 at the door
The Organ Historical Society proudly presents Nathan Laube in recital
at Rockefeller Chapel, as part of its Chicago 2012 convention. For more
details, see organsociety.org.
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tiBetan ritual music,
iconography & dance — Midwest Première
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SatURDay May 5, 8 pM
Pre-concert discussion with composer Andrea Clearfield and artist
Maureen Drdak at 7:15 pm
Free
The University of Chicago New Music Ensemble, directed by Barbara
Schubert, presents the midwest première of Andrea Clearfield’s multimedia
work Lung-Ta (The Wind Horse). Presented as a gift to His Holiness the
Dalai Lama in 2009, Lung-Ta is an initiative for world peace, performed
by chamber ensemble and dancers against the backdrop of art by
Maureen Drdak.
In 2008, Clearfield and Drdak
trekked to Lo Monthang, a remote
region of northern Nepal that is
one of the world’s last remaining
enclaves of pure Tibetan culture, to
research indigenous music and art.
Working with Manfred Fischbeck,
artistic director of the Group Motion
Dance Company of Philadelphia,
they subsequently created the
multi-media fusion of music, art, and
dance that is Lung-Ta, inspired by
the Tibetan Buddhist ritual music, iconography, and cham dance that they
experienced on their journey. Clearfield’s music is scored for flute, oboe,
clarinet, bassoon, violin, viola, cello, and percussion, and incorporates both
digital field recordings of Tibetan chant and authentic Tibetan percussion
instruments into its fabric. Drdak’s accompanying artwork consists of a
triptych of large-scale oil paintings, integrating the text of Amchi Tenzin
Sangbo Bista’s Path of Aspiration: A Prayer for Planetary Peace. The
choreography by the Group Motion Dance Company (whose members will
be performing at Rockefeller) is a distinctive fusion of American modern

dance and Tibetan idioms,
embodying the company’s
mission of “expressing the
human experience through
movement.”
Lung-Ta forms the second half
of this special concert. The
first half features five shorter
works, including Dream Catcher
for solo violin by University
Professor Augusta Read Thomas
and four new works by advanced
graduate student composers, specifically crafted for the magnificent
acoustics of Rockefeller Chapel: Falling Out of Time by Iddo Aharony;
Watercolors for woodwind quintet by Philip Taylor; Where Are You...?
for solo oboe by Jae-Goo Lee; and Aeolus for woodwind quintet by
Andres Carrizo.
This concert is presented on Vesak, the celebration of Buddha’s
birthday, which falls this year on May 5.
Generously supported by
The Lung-Ta Triptych by Maureen Drdak. Tsoknyi Rinpoche by Ani Konchok.
tsoknyi rinpoche: open heart, open mind
THURSDAy JUNE 7, 7 PM
Free
holi: the festival of colors
FRIDAy MAy 4, 5 PM ON THE CHAPEL LAWN
Free
The Venerable Tsoknyi Rinpoche,
prominent Tibetan lama from
Kathmandu, offers an evening of
teaching at Rockefeller Chapel.
Copies of his new book Open Heart,
Open Mind will be available for sale
and signing at this event.
Presented by the Pundarika
Foundation, which supports the
spiritual and humanitarian work of
Tsoknyi Rinpoche, in association with
Rockefeller Chapel.
As part of Spirit Week presented by the Spiritual Life Office at Rockefeller
Chapel, join students from India and beyond in celebrating the riotously
joyous Holi, the Indian spring festival of colors, noted for the throwing of
colored powders and scents. Attire: informal — you can expect to go home
wearing colored powder! If it rains on May 4, this event may be moved to
Sunday May 6, 5 pm. Check with the Chapel front desk at 773.702.2100.
Spirit Week lasts from April 26 to May 6, and full details can be found
at spirit.uchicago.edu. The keynote event of the week is Lung-Ta: Tibetan
ritual music, iconography, and dance.
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voices and Bells
SUNDayS at ROCkEFEllER
Communion with choir, organ, and carillon — where all are welcome at the table. 11 am every
Sunday. Listed below are those giving the address or sermon, and highlights of the music.
During the summer quarter (Sundays June 10 through August 19), Rockefeller Chapel Choir
soloists offer musical selections. Sunday worship recommences for the new academic year on
Sunday September 20.
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HOly WEEk and EaStER
at ROCkEFEllER
APRIL 1
palM SUNDay
Dean Elizabeth Davenport
Sung Passion plus special guests Blue Earth
High School Choir; Paul Johnson, director
APRIL 5
MaUNDy tHURSDay, 7:30 PM
The University of Chicago Camerata sings the
Tenebrae responses of Renaissance composer
Victoria
APRIL 6
GOOD FRiDay, NOON VIGIL
Music for Good Friday sung by Hyun Suk Jang,
soprano
APRIL 8
EaStER SUNDay
Dean Elizabeth Davenport
Ralph Vaughan Williams Mass in G for double
chorus, and Easter hymns with brass and
timpani; festival organ music by Jean Langlais;
followed by the annual Easter egg hunt!
APRIL 15
Professor Kevin Hector, Assistant Professor of
Theology and the Philosophy of Religions at the
Divinity School
Guest choir Lutheran A Cappella Choir of
Milwaukee sing Easter music; Jean-Francois
Dandrieu O filii et filiae on the organ
APRIL 22, EARTH DAy
Jonathan Soyars, Interim Assistant for
Congregational Life
Greg Jasperse Oh How Beautiful This Finely
Woven Earth, and Charles Villiers Stanford
Ye Choirs of New Jerusalem
APRIL 29
Professor Rachel Fulton Brown, Associate
Professor of History
The University of Chicago Motet Choir sings
medieval gems and Josquin des Pres Ave maria
gratia plena
MAy 6
Kimberly M. Goff-Crews, Vice President for
Campus Life and Dean of Students in the
University
Music inspired by Africa: excerpts from
Missa Luba and Missa Kenya
MAy 13, MOTHERS’ DAy
Gian Luigi Gugliermetto, Visiting Scholar at the
Divinity School
A Mother’s Comfort: Johannes Brahms I Will
Comfort as a Mother Comforts from Ein
Deutsches Requiem and other favorite solos for
Mothers’ Day; Joseph Jongen Chant de Mai on
the organ
MAy 20, ASCENSION
Dean Elizabeth Davenport
Upward bound classics, including Gerald Finzi
God Is Gone Up and Jacob Handl Ascendit Deus
MAy 27, PENTECOST
Jonathan Soyars, Interim Assistant for
Congregational Life
The Charles Montgomery Gray choral scholars
sing music for Pentecost; organ works by Johann
Sebastian Bach
JUNE 3, LAST CHORAL SUNDAy of the
ACADEMIC yEAR
Professor Daniel Sulmasy, Kilbride-Clinton
Professor of Medicine and Ethics in the
Department of Medicine and the Divinity School
Frank Martin Mass for Double Chorus

QUiRE & plaCE
Johann seBastian Bach
St. Matthew Passion
SUNDAy APRIL 1, 3 PM
In the third and last Quire & place concert of this season, the
Rockefeller Chapel Choir and Orchestra and Motet Choir, directed by
James Kallembach, perform Johann Sebastian Bach’s beloved masterpiece,
with Matthew Anderson, Evangelist at last year’s St. John Passion,
returning by popular acclaim to sing the same role in the St. Matthew.
With Hyun Suk Jang, soprano, Lon Ellenberger, alto, Matthew Dean, tenor,
Andrew Schultze, bass, and Mark Winston, bass.
Tickets $25 general, $5 student (available via Rockefeller Chapel website).
A limited number of free student tickets will be available at the Rockefeller
Chapel front desk in advance.
Rockefeller Chapel by Sandra Cohen-Rose & Colin Rose, and The Swinging Peal of the Laura
Spelman Rockefeller Memorial Carillon by Justin Kern, both used under a Creative Commons
license. Motet Choir by Heather Eidson.
schola antiqua: music of the hours
FRIDAy APRIL 20, 8 PM
Schola Antiqua of Chicago, with Michael Alan Anderson, artistic director,
presents a program inspired by the late-medieval devotional guides known
as books of hours. Narrated by the world’s leading authority on books of
hours, curator of medieval and renaissance manuscripts at the Morgan
Library and Museum, Roger S. Wieck, the evening combines magnificent
art with musical settings of the same, ranging from plainchant to late
sixteenth-century polyphony.
$25 general / $10 student and senior, at the door. Free for University of
Chicago students with ID.
The Bells of summer:
The 47 th Annual Rockefeller Carillon Festival
SUNDAyS JUNE 17 THROUGH AUGUST 19, 5 PM (Tower tour at 4:30 pm)
Free
The annual festival of the bells returns! Bring a picnic to enjoy on the
east lawn or, in the event of inclement weather, indoors where the recital
is broadcast through closed-circuit television. The recitalists, who come
from throughout North America and Europe, play classics of the carillon
repertoire. The full program is posted in advance at rockefeller.uchicago.edu.
For more information, call the Chapel front desk at 773.702.2100.
June 17 Toni Raats, Roosendaal, the Netherlands
June 24 Tim Sleep, University of Chicago
July 1 Joey Brink, Yale University
July 8 Stephan Burton, Brigham Young University
July 15 Anna Kasprzycka, Gdańsk, Poland
July 22 Robert Grogan, Washington, DC
July 29 Gordon Slater, Toronto, Canada
August 5 Chelsea Vaught, University of Kansas
August 12 Sue Bergren, University of Chicago
August 19 James Fackenthal, Assistant Carillonneur,
University of Chicago
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theatre
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and circus!
The FIFTH SUN: 2012
performance for the end of the world
TWO PERFORMANCES, FRIDAy MARCH 30 and
SATURDAy MARCH 31, 7:30 PM
Free
A unique experience of experimental theatre shaped in a
public master class led by playwright Nicholas Patricca
and director Cecilie Keenan, The Fifth Sun: 2012
recreates Patricca’s 1984 play in the context of the “end
of the Mayan calendar.” In each performance, selected
scenes are offered in a staged playreading, with engaging
commentary by Patricca and Keenan. The original artwork and masks from
the première of the play are used, with ritual music and movement, using
the great possibilities for staging
offered by Rockefeller Chapel’s
architecture. The gods and
guardians oversee the action, as
in Meso-American tradition, and
Archbishop Oscar Romero takes
his place among those declared
“¡Presente!”
With Whayne Braswell and Ray
Coyle, music, Rick Paul, design,
Caitlin Langlin, masks and ritual
movement, and Wilfredo Rivera,
dance.
le vorris & vox
SUNDAy MAy 13 and MONDAy MAy 14, 9 PM
Tickets $10 general at the door, free to students
Le Vorris & Vox, the University of Chicago’s own 20-person circus
network and troupe, returns to Rockefeller Chapel for its spring show, two
performances in collaboration with University Theatre: a magical blending
of theatre, acrobatic feats, aerials, dance, hooping, hand manipulation,
steam-punk marvels, and dreamscapes, all in the splendid setting of
the Chapel, to music composed by students for the show. This is sure
to be an epic spectacle of student talent and collaboration. Come for an
entertaining, thought-provoking, and beautiful event for the whole campus
community!

Left: Circus art window by Antonia Clifford. Original costume
designs by Patricia Hart, used by kind permission. The Fifth Sun
used by special arrangement with Dramatic Publishing Company.
This page: Le Vorris & Vox at Rockefeller, 2010, by Darren Leow.
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