BACKFestival
Oct 28th
‘Songs About Buildings and Moods’ at Open House Chicago
We’ve spent the last year working on a new video series that explores the intersection of music and architecture by commissioning composers to write short pieces inspired by different landmark buildings.
Songs About Buildings and Moods avoids a scientific approach and instead focuses on the emotional impact architecture and music both have in our lives.
The First Church of Deliverance in Bronzeville was designed by Walter T. Bailey, Chicago’s first licensed Black architect. The church was built in a Streamline Moderne style, which is unusual for a house of worship. The result is an incredibly impactful space with a rich and important history.
Join composer Regina Harris Baiochhi, Reverend James Bryson Jr., design writer and critic Zach Mortice, Open House Chicago’s Hallie Rosen and ACM Executive Director Seth Boustead for an exciting conversation about this unique space that will culminate in a sneak peak at ACM’s video of the First Church of Deliverance.
Hours
Thursday, October 28th – 5:30 PM Central
Location
Virtual only
Event schedule
This is a virtual discussion that will last about an hour. The event is free but you must register to attend.
sponsors
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2022
Songs About Buildings and Moods Screening
2022
La Jetée
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.
Gnarly Buttons
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.
