Enter to Win Two Tickets to Open Heart
on Martin Luther King Day
Mon, Jan 19 / 4PM / The Auditorium
20 Winners Will Be Drawn on December 23
“Everybody can be great, because everybody can serve…You only need a heart full of grace.”
— Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
what you’ll experience
Maestra Mei-Ann Chen / Conductor
Jeffrey Zeigler / Guest Artist / Cello
This year’s Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. tribute concert honors Dr. Daniel Hale Williams, a Black Chicago surgeon who made history.
In 1893, Dr. Williams performed the first successful open-heart surgery — just months before Dvořák premiered his “From the New World” Symphony. A founder of the first Black-owned hospital in America, his legacy reminds us that opening hearts is both a medical miracle and a social mission.
You’ll also hear the joyous world premiere of Kathryn Bostic’s The Supremes at Earl’s All-You-Can-Eat, adapted from the Hulu film and novel by longtime Sinfonietta cellist Edward Kelsey Moore. Reflect during Joel Thompson’s elegy for Breonna Taylor, featuring cellist Jeffrey Zeigler, before Dvořák’s timeless symphonic finale.
Program
| Kathryn Bostic | Suite from The Supremes at Earl’s All-You-Can-Eat WORLD PREMIERE | ||
| Joel Thompson | breathe/burn: an elegy Featuring Jeffrey Zeigler, cello Chicago Sinfonietta 2020 COMMISSION | ||
| Antonín Dvořák | Symphony No. 9 “From the New World” |
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