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Chicago Tribune
29-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Chicago Tribune
Around the Southland: Andrew Wind Symphony hits right note at SuperState, more
Victor J. Andrew High School band students once again were chosen to play in the state's premiere band festival in the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts at the University of Illinois in Champaign. The high school's Wind Symphony played at the 2025 University of Illinois SuperState Concert Band Festival, which serves as the state championship for concert bands. About 80 ensembles submitted applications that included a recorded performance, and 24 high school bands were asked to perform at SuperState. Andrew students also marked a first this year – being chosen as the Class 2A Honor Band, which means they will return in 2026 for a feature performance. They performed 'Galop' by Dmitri Shostakovich, 'Over the Moon' by Frank Ticheli and 'Deep River' by Benjamin Horne. 'I'm just really proud of the kids,' Director Mark Iwinski shared in a news release. 'They play so musically and have a desire to play some of the best repertoire in the best places.' Reservations are being taken for the free event Hike the Freedom Trail, set for 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. June 7 at the boat launch at Beaubien Woods Forest Preserve, 134th and the Little Calumet River. Seating is limited for the program, which features expats providing a historically accurate story from experts of the Midwest Underground Railroad Network about the hundreds or even thousands of escaped slaves known as 'freedom seekers' who traveled on the Underground Railroad in the Chicago area's south region prior to the Civil War. One site is the farm owned by the Jan Ton family, which is near Beaubien Woods. The tour, sponsored by the Forest Preserves of Cook County and the Calumet Heritage Partnership, includes a bus ride and a moderate hike. Dress for the weather. Sign up online or call 773-370-3305 or email tonfarmugrr@ Southland College Prep Charter High School in Richton Park recognized all 145 graduating seniors during its 12th All In celebration, noting that once again all of them were accepted to college and earned $50 million in scholarships. For the first time, four seniors earned scholarships from the newly created Kwarteng Foundation, which honors Alex Kwarteng, of Matteson, who immigrated to the United States from Ghana in the 1980s. His daughters, Lisa, Amy, Sandra and Esther Kwarteng, established the foundation, which awarded $10,000 in scholarships to four 2025 graduates of Southland College Prep: Itohan Salami, Terri Mensah, Dhayra Gomez and Kehinde Sowemino, who was class valedictorian. Amy and Esther Kwarteng are Southland alums. In addition, 10 Southland seniors were admitted to California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo with full-ride scholarships worth $2 million, and as a result of the growing partnership with the two schools. Two graduating seniors, Rickaiya Bernard and Mofuluwake Arogundade, earned a cumulative total of more than $750,000 in scholarships to top universities from the QuestBridge National College Match Program. Celebrate local artistry and entrepreneurship during Rhythm & Roots: An Artisan and Entrepreneur Showcase from noon to 4 p.m. at the Up House – Building D, 13811 S. Western Ave., Blue Island. The event highlights live music from recording artist Gregory Echols and a lineup of wellness experiences, small businesses and tastemakers such as Spa in Your Space, Health Hair Institute, The Chi Concierge, Make Us One Productions and The Entrepreneur Expo. Participants can connect with Black-owned brands, enjoy wellness experiences and discover handcrafted goods, all while experiencing live music. Tickets cost $25 in advance at or $30 at the door. Adults 50 and older can socialize with friends and neighbors at 3:30 p.m. June 6 at the Green Hills Public Library, 10331 S. Interlochen Drive, Palos Hills. Puzzles, coloring sheets, board games and coffee will be available during the program. Information is at 708-598-8446. The annual Kickoff to Summer Celebration sets sail from 3 to 8 p.m. June 1 at Briedert Green in downtown Frankfort, featuring a theme of 'All things yacht rock.' A DJ splints turns starting at 3 p.m. with hulu hoop contests, limbo challenges, classic lawn games and a water balloon toss planned. Bubble Captain Jason Kollum will provide a sea of bubbles from 3 to 5 p.m., and a balloon artist and face painter will entertain kids 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. From 5 to 6 p.m., the first 500 guests will receive free homemade popsicles from La Michoacana de Frankfort. A mini car show from the Frankfort Car Club will highlight iconic vehicles from the 1970s and '80s. The Yacht Rock-ettes will play soft rock hits from 6 to 8 p.m. Details are at Sire Holloway, of Chicago, a senior at Marist High School in Chicago, has earned The Gates Scholarship, one of the country's most competitive scholarships for minority high school seniors who show exemplary leadership. Holloway plans to major in computer science at Howard University. While at Marist, he was a member of the National Honor Society, president of the Black Student Union and an active leader at the school. The Gates Scholarship, which fully covers college tuition and room and board, is presented each year to 'exceptional student leaders from low-income, minority backgrounds, helping them realize their maximum potential.
Boston Globe
16-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Boston Globe
Boston Ballet looks back and forward in ‘Spring Experience'
Advertisement Nissinen's solution condenses the first two acts into 30 minutes, during which time Raymonda celebrates her name day, her friends console her after Jean leaves, and she dances with Jean in a dream. The concluding Hungarian-themed wedding celebration expands to 40 minutes by borrowing some variations from the first two acts. The opening section still feels thin. Designer Robert Perdziola's color palette is austere to start, gold, silver, and white all edging into gray, and the costumes lack texture and dimension. The choreography is pleasing rather than exciting; music director Mischa Santora's adaptation seems to leach the sumptuousness out of Glazunov's score. The wedding celebration in "Raymonda" introduced a richer palette from designer Robert Perdziola. Theik Smith Kapitonova and Lee were a treat, however, her emotional effusiveness complementing his noble reserve. And the wedding celebration brought a richer palette from Perdziola and a more Glazunovian sound from the Boston Ballet Orchestra, especially in the Adagio of the Pas Classique Hongrois. A well-matched Lauren Herfindahl and Lasha Khozashvili led the Grand Csárdás with energy and precision; the expanded number of variations brought exquisite work from Seo Hye Han, Chenxin Liu, Courtney Nitting, Ji Young Chae, and, in two of the most demanding numbers, Lia Cirio. Lee added double cabrioles to his impressive double tours and tours à la seconde; Kapitonova teased out her variation (to a sympathetic piano solo from Alex Foaksman) and then, in the Coda, sustained her passé-relevé sequence at a daringly slow tempo. The closing Galop brought back the Csárdás contingent for a rousing finish. Related : Advertisement Kylián's '27′52″' debuted in 2002, the title referring to the piece's running time (closer to 31 minutes Thursday) and also to the birthdate — 20.07.1952 — of its dedicatee, former Nederlands Dans Theater member Gerald Tibbs. The curtain rises on the six dancers moving in silence, men bare-chested, women in different-colored sleeveless tops, a light bank dangling stage left. Either the piece has started or they're just warming up. Over the next half hour, descending panels of white fabric will encroach on the action. The flooring will come up in strips, and the dancers will take cover under it, or hold it at both ends and make it ripple. Dirk Haubrich's banging, booming score will be complemented by voice-overs reciting poetry by Baudelaire, Guillaume Depardieu, and Bruce Lee. Lia Cirio and Paul Craig are a focal point in Jiří Kylián's 27'52"," which is named for and dedicated to former Nederlands Dans Theater member Gerald Tibbs. Theik Smith The dancers form three couples, though at the outset, Lia Cirio has to extricate herself from Jeffrey Cirio (her real-life brother) to hook up with Paul Craig. He pushes her about; she responds with jittery gesticulation. Chyrstyn Mariah Fentroy and Ángel García Molinero follow, kickboxing at each other before declaring a unison truce. Chisako Oka enters and has a frenzied duet with Jeffrey Cirio. Advertisement But Craig and Lia Cirio are the focal point. She's lain down upstage; now she pulls off her red top and rises; now both bare-chested, they grow more intimate. Haubrich's score begins to obsess over a motif from the opening bars of Mahler's 10th Symphony. Craig and Cirio find accommodation, even equality, until her jittery gesticulation returns. She runs away; he overtakes her. He tries to wrap her in a strip of flooring; she escapes and runs to Jeffrey Cirio at the other end of the stage. She runs back to Craig, but he's now under that flooring. She returns to Jeffrey Cirio and lets him cover her. Three huge sheets crash down, as if the ceiling had fallen in. Perhaps the floor has provided protection. In Jiří Kylián's "Petite Mort," one set of dancers wield foils; the other, dresses. Theik Smith 'Petite Mort,' which Kylián created in 1991 for the bicentennial of Mozart's death, is simpler and more light-hearted. The title, 'Little Death,' is a French euphemism for 'orgasm'; the score pairs the Adagio from Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 23 and the 'Elvira Madigan' Andante from his Piano Concerto No. 21. Six men in gold corset briefs back toward us, each balancing a foil on his right index finger. Barely visible upstage are six women in gold tops and briefs, all hiding behind full-skirted black dresses hung on frameworks with rollers. The men roll the foils around on the floor, lift them with their toes, swish the air; the women embrace the dresses as if making love to them. Advertisement Couples eventually emerge. Liu gets temporary possession of Isaac Mueller's foil before the phallic symbols are put aside. Nitting and Sun Woo Lee follow, then Emily Aston and Yue Shi, Haley Schwan and Patrick Yocum, Herfindahl and Khozashvili, Sage Humphries and Sangmin Lee. A recurring pose has the women lying on their backs and supporting the men on their raised knees: simulated sex with an element of evasion. The foils never reappear; at the end of 'Petite Mort,' it's the dresses that are rolled from the wings to gather centerstage. Men may do the manipulating, but women have the power. SPRING EXPERIENCE Presented by Boston Ballet. At Citizens Opera House, through May 25. Tickets $32-$202. 617-695-6955, Jeffrey Gantz can be reached at Jeffrey Gantz can be reached at
