Where I'll be Tuesday night

Imaginary Coordinates:
A Concert and Conversation

Tuesday, May 6 at 7:30 pm

Tickets: $15 | $12 for Spertus members | $7 for students

Call 312.322.1773

Chicago critic Andrew Patner and Egyptian conductor and violinist Mina Zikri curate a program of music and conversation in response to the [superb] Spertus Museum exhibition Imaginary Coordinates.

Young Israeli, Palestinian, Egyptian, and other musicians from the Middle East, many of them present or former members of Daniel Barenboim's award-winning West-Eastern Divan, present musical selections that explore a musical landscape parallel to the visual representations of artists and mapmakers in the exhibition.

Performance and narration will be followed by a conversation with the audience, and a jam session on traditional and Western instruments.

In addition to Mina Zikri, performers include Israeli pianist and composer Matan Porat, Egyptian oboist Mohamed Saleh Ibrahim, Israeli horn player Itamar Leshem, and Israeli and Egyptian pianists Oksana Glouchko and Wael Farouk.

Music of Frank Martin, Matan Porat, Brahms, Schumann, Fairuz, Riyad al-Sunbati, and from the Coptic liturgy.

[Some of us are shown in these tiny pictures below.]