Screening
Oct 27th
Songs About Buildings and Moods Screening
Songs About Buildings and Moods is a video series exploring the intersection of music and architecture.
The series avoids a scientific approach and instead focuses on the emotional impact architecture and music have in our lives.
The series is headed to PBS in early 2023 but we’ll give an exclusive sneak peek at the historic Music Box Theater on October 27th.
“It’s a moment of celebration of a kind of mythology that we’ve lost because buildings used to be infused with music” – Architect Daniel Libeskind (World Trade Center)
Don’t miss this one-night-only event!
Tickets are $20 per person
Watch the trailer!
Hours
Thursday, October 27th
7:00 sharp
Location
Music Box Theatre
3733 N. Southport Ave.
Chicago, IL

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‘Songs About Buildings and Moods’ at Open House Chicago 2021
We'll talk about our collaboration with First Church of Deliverance with Pastor Bryson, OHC and composer Regina Harris Baiocchi and give a sneak peek of the video.
Songs About Buildings and Moods Live
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‘Songs About Buildings and Moods’ at Open House Chicago
The First Church of Deliverance in Bronzeville was designed by Walter T. Bailey, Chicago’s first licensed Black architect. Join us for an exciting conversation about this unique space that will culminate in a sneak peak at ACM’s video series Songs About Buildings and Moods.

Songs About Buildings and Moods Live
Songs About Buildings and Moods features music we’ve commissioned over the last several years to be performed in various and sundry historical, offbeat, interesting and generally awesome spaces in Chicago as part of the Chicago Architecture Foundation’s Open House Chicago project.

Best of Weekly Readings
We’re very excited about this concert! And not surprisingly considering that ACM was formed around the Weekly Readings project. For the last eight years we’ve recorded a different piece by a living composer every week and posted it to our website! Before music streaming was popular, well before podcasting, there was Weekly Readings. Now Palomar will perform some of the very best pieces out of the more than 300 that have been submitted over the years.

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Hailed by the New Yorker as “the most vital and eloquent composer in America,” Pulitzer prize winner John Adams is a towering figure in modern music. Rooted in minimalism and the American vernacular, with a generous helping of his own off-beat sensibility, Adams has forged a unique and deeply influential musical identity. ACM celebrates the 65th birthday of this landmark composer with a concert of his large-scale chamber works.