The College of DuPage McAninch Arts Center (MAC) held its Music Fridays at Noon series March 6 in MAC 140. Each week, the series features a one-hour performance by COD students, faculty, alumni and special guests.
This week’s special guest program featured “Emily Sings: Chamber Music from the Words of Emily Dickinson,” performed by the Dickinson Ensemble. The Dickinson Ensemble is a chamber group that performs musical works inspired by the writings of Emily Dickinson.
The performance was composed by Don Skoog and featured cellist Herine Coetzee Koschak, flutist Kim Fleuchaus, soprano Jennifer Haworth and pianist Jeremy Vigil.
The program composed by Skoog featured an 11-movement chamber suite incorporating spoken word, soprano, piano, flute and cello from the ensemble’s vinyl LP, “Emily Sings.” The the program included “There May Be Phrases,” “I Sing to Use the Waiting,” “A Thought Went Up My Mind Today,” “Touch Lightly Nature’s Sweet Guitar,” “Musicians Wrestle Everywhere,” “The Crickets Sang to Set the Sun,” “The Fascinating Chill,” “Wild Nights!,” “Me Quieres Estás Segura,” “Why Do I Love You?” and “I Heard as if I Had No Ear.”
For more information on The Dickinson Ensemble you can visit their website.
The next Music Friday at Noon performance will feature the Elmhurst University Jazz Faculty Ensemble on March 13 in MAC 140 at 12 p.m.
