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Cedille Chicago Presents

Wednesday, May 1    10 - 11pm

WFMT 98.7fm OR www.wfmt.com/cedille for archived podcast

Featuring selections from 10 of Patrice's 13 recordings on Cedille, with commentary by

host James Ginsburg.

INTERSECTION: Jazz Meets Classical Song

Monday, June 10, 8 - 10pm

WFMT 98.7fm or live streaming @ wfmt.com

Kerry Frumkin hosts the debut of this genre-bending project, featuring Patrice with violinist Zach Brock, cellist Nick Photinos and pianist Kuang-Hao Huang.  New music by Laurie Altman, Randy Bauer, Peter Labella and Patrice Michaels (!), and rarely heard works by Hoiby, Musto, Harsanyi, Chuck Israels, Nils Lindberg and more.

News

INTERSECTION: Jazz Meets Classical Song is knocking at your virtual door!  I'm so in love with this music, and hope everyone will help bring it to life.  You've probably noticed the big ochre-colored button on the header of the home page.  If you haven't clicked it yet, please click it, and pledge generously!  There are some wonderful thank-you gifts, from downloads to live concerts in your home.  We have our first rehearsal for the live broadcast on Monday.   I'd better go practice!!!

May 1 Radio Show:

Tune in or listen to the podcast from 98.7 WFMT/wrmt.org for a full hour feature

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Critical Acclaim

"extraordinary richness and beauty...she filled each note to the brim with nuance...{and} sang as if in a state of grace" (Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel)

Dramatic Concerts

video-divas

Unique dramatic concert with full orchestra or chamber ensemble gives musical glimpse of five sopranos in Mozart's Vienna

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video-intersections

Help bring this wonderful new music to life by contributing to the Kickstarter Campaign. INTERSECTION: is familiar and newly-commissioned blues, ragtime, ballads and art songs in a chamber music format linking jazz and classical music. 

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video-unaccompanied

45 minutes of stories in song and space showcasing the current state of composed and improv solo singing.

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video-songforharmonica

Children's introduction to opera features inspiration and creativity, a puppet heroine, audience participation and original music by Patrice.

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  • "A formidable interpretative talent” (The New Yorker) with “a voice that is light, rich and flexible” (Opera News), Ms. Michaels sings the concert and operatic repertoire, and presents four marvelously unique and entertaining dramatic concerts. She is recorded on over two dozen critically acclaimed discs for Cedille, Albany and other labels. Patrice is in demand as a master clinician, and serves as Director of Vocal Studies at The University of Chicago.

     
  • Patrice is in the first live concert phase of Intersection: Jazz Meets Classical Song planned for recording in 2014.

     
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