Community Meeting Room, Main Library

Only When I Dance (2010, 78 min. Brazil)

This feel-good documentary follows Irlan and Isabela, two teenagers from the violent favelas of Rio de Janeiro, as they pursue their dreams of becoming professional ballet dancers. This inspiring story takes us from Rio - where their communities must raise the funds to support their ambitions - to exhilarating ballet competitions in New York and Switzerland. It's a film about their determination to dance, and the price one must pay for talent, ambition and success.
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Community Meeting Room, Main Library

Only When I Dance (2010, 78 min. Brazil)

This feel-good documentary follows ... more

Community Meeting Room, Main Library

In honor of Veterans Day, AAL book club discusses, I'm Still Standing: from captive U.S. soldier to free citizen-my journey home by Shoshana Johnson. The first African American woman POW in U.S. history, Shoshana Johnson, shares her story.

Copies of the book are available for checkout at the second floor Reader's Services desk. Register online or by calling (847) 448-8620.

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Community Meeting Room, Main Library

In honor of Veterans Day, AAL book club discusses, I'm Still ... more

Gail Williams, conductor

Featuring Koetsier’s Symphony for Brass plus music by Bach, Gabrieli, and others.

Gail Williams, conductor

Featuring Koetsier’s Symphony for Brass plus music by Bach, Gabrieli, and others.

Elizabeth Buccheri, piano

Johannes Brahms, Sonata No. 1 in F Minor

Louis Cahuzac, Pastorale Cévenole and Cantilène

Benjamin Britten, Six Metamorphoses after Ovid

Béla Kovács, Sholem-Alekhem, Rov Feidman!

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Elizabeth Buccheri, piano

Johannes Brahms, Sonata No. 1 in F Minor

Louis Cahuzac, Pastorale Cévenole and Cantilène

Benjamin Britten, Six Metamorphoses after Ovid

Béla Kovács, Shole... more

Student and community performers of early-17th-century Italian music (Monteverdi and his contemporaries) are invited to receive feedback from a distinguished panel of experts. Those interested in performing should contact Stephen Alltop at 847/491-2299.

Admission is free.

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Student and community performers of early-17th-century Italian music (Monteverdi and his contemporaries) are invited to receive feedback from a distinguished panel of experts. Those interested in performing should contact Stephen Alltop at 847/491... more

Jeffrey Siegel, piano

Experience Robert Schumann’s love-inspired, fantastic Opus 12, the beloved compositions Dreaming and Soaring, and the stunning, virtuosic Symphonic Etudes, Opus 13 – or Variations on a Melody of a False Father-in-Law.

Single tickets on sale June 21. Call 847-467-4000 for subscription information.

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Jeffrey Siegel, piano

Experience Robert Schumann’s love-inspired, fantastic Opus 12, the beloved compositions Dreaming and Soaring, and the stunning, virtuosic Symphonic Etudes, Opus 13 – or Variations... more

Internationally acclaimed singer/songwriter/pianist Patricia Barber shares the stage with legendary jazz pianist Kenny Werner for a unique and unforgettable evening of great music and song from two of the most creative and talented performers in jazz. A favorite on the Chicago jazz scene, Barber won a Guggenheim grant in March of 2003 to create a song cycle based on Ovid's Metamorphoses. After that came two more albums and an anthology release before Barber took a break from her original material in 2008 to deliver the jazz standards studio album The Cole Porter Mix. In over a quarter century of performing, Werner has played with such jazz greats as Bob Brookmeyer, Joe Williams, Chico Freeman, Sonny Fortune, Peter Erskine, John Abercrombie, Jackie Paris, Bobby McFerrin, Lee Konitz, Billy Hart, Marian McPartland, Gunther Schuller, Ed Blackwell, John Scofield, Jack DeJohnette, Eddie Gomez, Dave Holland, Charlie Haden, and Toots Thielemans.
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Internationally acclaimed singer/songwriter/pianist Patricia Barber shares the stage with legendary jazz pianist Kenny Werner for a unique and unforgettable evening of great music and song from two of the most creative and talented performers in jazz... more

Ellis Paul is one of the leading voices in American songwriting. He was a principle leader in the wave of singer/songwriters that emerged from the Boston folk scene, creating a movement that revitalized the national acoustic circuit with an urban, literate, folk pop style that helped renew interest in the genre in the 1990's.

His charismatic, personally authentic performance style has influenced a generation of artists away from the artifice of pop, and closer towards the realness of folk. Though he remains among the most pop-friendly of today's singer-songwriters - his songs regularly appear in hit movie and TV soundtracks - he has bridged the gulf between the modern folk sound and the populist traditions of Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger more successfully than perhaps any of his songwriting peers.

Genre: Folk/Kids

Ellis' site
Order Tickets Here

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Ellis Paul is one of the leading voices in American songwriting. He was a principle leader in the wave of singer/songwriters that emerged from the Boston folk scene, creating a movement that revitalized the national acoustic circuit with an urban,... more

A musical about marriage

Music by Harvey Schmidt
Book and Lyrics by Tom Jones
(Based on "The Fourposter" by Jan de Hartog)
Originally Produced on Broadway by David Merrick
Originally Directed by Gower Champion

In this charming and nostalgic musical we meet Michael and Agnes on their wedding day and follow their lives for 50 eventful years.

We watch them go through wedding night jitters, raise a family, negotiate mid-life crises, quarrel, separate, reconcile and grow old together, all to the strains of a tuneful, charming score by the creators of The Fantasticks and 110 in the Shade.

Ages 12 and older
Ages 21 and under: 1/2 price

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A musical about marriage

Music by Harvey Schmidt
Book and Lyrics by Tom Jones
(Based on "The Fourposter" by Jan de Hartog)
Originally Produced on Broadway by David Merrick
Originally Directed by Gower Champion ... more

Hailed by Strad Magazine as “sensational, bewitching,” the Lincoln Trio is one of Chicago’s most outstanding and versatile ensembles. This concert features celebrated women composers, with works by Jennifer Higdon, Lera Auerbach, Augusta Read Thomas, Laura Schwendinger, and Stacy Garrop.

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Hailed by Strad Magazine as “sensational, bewitching,” the Lincoln Trio is one of Chicago’s most outstanding and versatile ensembles. This concert features celebrated women composers, with works by Jennifer Higdon, Lera Auerbach, Augusta Rea... more

Stephen Alltop, conductor; Baroque Music Ensemble, Dunbar Festival Orchestra, and Alice Millar Chapel Choir

One of the greatest choral-instrumental works of all time, Claudio Monteverdi’s Vespers is the largest-scale religious composition of the pre-Bach era. From solos and duets to 10-part choruses of outstanding complexity — accompanied by the vibrant orchestral colors of cornetti, sackbuts, and theorbos — Monteverdi demonstrates unparalleled mastery of forms and genres.

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Stephen Alltop, conductor; Baroque Music Ensemble, Dunbar Festival Orchestra, and Alice Millar Chapel Choir

One of the greatest choral-instrumental works of all time, Claudio Monteverdi’s Vespers is the largest-scale re... more

Awaken your creative instincts and collaborate with a group of kindred spirits while working through your hands.  Learn to access your uncensored voice and free yourself from limiting opinions of what is considered acceptable artmaking.  In this class, students elevate drawing and painting skills by practicing gesture, contour drawing and color theory and more...  Students explore paint application methods and mediums while working from still life set-ups and personal imagery.  Instructor compassionately guides budding or experienced artists toward unblocking self imposed barriers to creativity and gives you the tools to discover a renewed sense of strength and purpose toward living a vital, authentic creative life. Bring charcoal, acrylics or oils. *Multi-level

Instructor: Jill King (224)392-4172 (www.JillKingStudio.com)
Fee: $170 Length: 10 weeks
Days: Mondays Times: 10 am - noon
Dates: September 13 - November 15, 2010

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Awaken your creative instincts and collaborate with a group of kindred spirits while working through your hands.  Learn to access your uncensored voice and free yourself from limiting opinions of what is considered acceptable artmaking. ... more

Victor Goines, conductor

Victor Goines, conductor

South Branch

This month the South Branch Book Club will be discussing The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald.

"One of the great pieces of American literature, The Great Gatsby is picture into the lives of individuals living in the Northeast during the 1920s. The story mixes romance with intrigue, but the primary theme of the story is the meaningless and empty lives of everyone involved. Great writing by Fitzgerald - great character development and very interesting plot twists along the way." - Amazon.com

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South Branch

This month the South Branch Book Club will be discussing The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald.

"One of the... more

North Branch

The North Branch Book Group will meet a week early due to the Thanksgiving holiday.  We will discuss Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese.  ( Staff review.)

Marion and Shiva Stone are twin brothers born of a secret union between a beautiful Indian nun and a brash British surgeon at a mission hospital in Addis Addaba.  Orphaned and coming of age in politically torn Ethiopia, the brothers follow their adoptive parents into medicine but are torn apart by their love for one woman.

All are welcome.  Register or stop in to pick up a copy of the book.

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North Branch

The North Branch Book Group will meet a week early due to the Thanksgiving holiday.  We will discuss Cutting for Stone... more