Artists

"The Hypnotic Brass Ensemble seems to live up to its name. This eight-piece band of street performers, seven of whom are the sons of the Sun Ra Arkestra trumpeter Kelan Phil Cohran, recently relocated from the South Side of Chicago to Queens. The young players perform daily outdoors and underground, most often in Union Square, Times Square and Columbus Circle."

By LILY KOPPEL

Elizabeth Norman has gained a reputation as an accomplished interpreter of contemporary composers. A winner of the Metropolitan Opera National Finals, The American Opera Society Competition and the Union League Civic and Arts Foundation Award, she appears annually with the Grant Park Symphony in Chicago, as well as with members of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.

By Howard Reich | Tribune arts critic
December 30, 2007

She was everywhere in 2007:

Attracting throngs to Millennium Park; swinging joyously outside the South Shore Cultural Center; pushing into experimental music at the Velvet Lounge; improvising buoyantly at the first Hyde Park Jazz Festival.

The Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program, a two year MFA program in the art and craft of musical theatre collaboration is looking for 30 talented composers, lyricists, and bookwriters to become part of a dynamic collaborative community at the celebrated Tisch School of the Arts at New York University. Applications are now being accepted for our September 2008 class.

February 18th 2004: Kayne West's "College Dropout" CD debutes at No. 2 on Billboard chart- second only to, as he joked a few nights earlier during his House of Blues performance.

May 1965: The State of Illinois charters the Association of Creative Musicians (AACM), redefining jazz not only for Chicago but for the free-jazz-world.