A preview for the upcoming CD release of 1,001 Afternoons in Chicago, a Radio Play.  This is a collaboration between Access Contemporary Music and Strawdog Theatre Company to adapt six stories by legendary journalist and screenwriter Ben Hecht into a play for voices and live music.

Stories by: Ben Hecht
Music by: Seth Boustead and Amos Gillespie
Directed by: Anderson Lawfer
Script by: Michael Dailey
Musical Direction by Francesco Milioto


Story adaptations by:
Aly Greaves Amidei
Michael Dailey
Anita Deely
Anderson Lawfer
Sean Mallary

Voiced by:
Brian Amidei
Christy Arington
Conor Burke
BF Helman
Steve Herson
Rebecca Prescott
Caleb Probst
James Anthony Zoccoli

Music performed by Palomar
Francesco Milioto - Conductor

Alyson Berger - cello
Doug Johnson - bass
Christie Miller - clarinet & bass clarinet
Trevor Patrick Watkin - flute
Jeff Yang - violin & viola

Recorded at Strobe Recording and 98.7 WFMT
Mixed and mastered at Shape Shoppe
Recording and audio engineer - Nick Broste

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Up The Wooden Giant

Audio from our Composer Alive: Mexico collaboration with Gabriela Ortiz who wrote a new piece, De Animos y Quebrantos, for us. 

The piece was composed in four installments which were performed in front of a live audience and the final version of the piece was then premiered in Chicago in 2009. 

De Animos y Quebrantos - Performance

Our collaboration with Irish composer Jane O'Leary in which she wrote a new piece in three installments sending each installment to us as she wrote it.

We performed each installment in front of a live audience in Chicago and posted it to our website giving Jane a chance to hear it.  In this way she can take risks, revise for the next installment and get to know the ensemble. 

It's also a great chance for the audience to hear a piece from its first draft, through rewrites to the finished product and read composer comments along the way. 

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