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9th Kleiner Benefit - Billy Collins Suite

Click here to view the invitation card
Click here to view the Invitation Card

A Benefit for Music in the Loft

Sunday, May 4, 2008
at 4:00 pm.

Lyon & Healy Hall

Performance will be held in the beautiful concert hall at
Lyon & Healy Harps
168 N. Ogden Avenue (at Lake Street)
Chicago, IL 60607
Valet parking available

Champagne and hors d’oeuvres extraordinaire
will follow the concert

 

The Billy Collins Suite
Commissioned by Music in the Loft
and generously underwritten by Dr. Peter Austin

Composers

Composed by

Vivan Fung
Stacy Garrop
Lita Grier
Pierre Jalbert
Zhou Tian

to poetry by Billy Collins
with

The Lincoln Trio
Buffy Baggott
Susan Cook
Joel Link
John Goodwin
Tim Monroe
Jonathan Beyer
Nuiko Wadden
John Bruce Yeh
Yoko-Yamada-Selvaggio
with
Steve Robinson, Narrator
Ken Baker, MC and Director

 

This event is generously sponsored by
Jerry Kleiner, Chicago’s leading restauranteur
Marché, Red Light, Gioco, Opera, Carnivale, Room 121

 

Listen to the Podcast
Listen to the
Pod PoetryFoundation.org's

4/9/2007 Pod Cast featuring
Billy Collins and Music In The Loft

"The Joy of Sax" by Billy Collins.
The pod cast also included a recording of the Music In The Loft October 12, 2003 Concert with Saxophonist Ashu and pianist Winston Choi playing a composition by Pierre Jalbert, set to a poem by Billy Collins. During the concert, the Poem was read by Steve Robinson, senior vice president of 98.7 WFMT.

(an archived version)

 

 

Please call Music In The Loft at 312-243-9233 for more detailed information.

 
updated: December 28, 2007
 

 



 

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