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Arts & Culture

ONE OF ROLLING STONES’

“10 NEW COUNTRY ARTISTS YOU

NEED TO KNOW”, RISING STAR

CHRISTIAN LOPEZ PLAYED THE

INAUGURAL POP UP CONCERT

THIS JULY IN BARRINGTON

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Rick Vines performed at

the Pop Up. He is a life-

long singer-songwriter

and Barrington Hills resi-

dent. His debut full-length

CD (co-produced with

Anne Heaton) “So Happy”

is due in Summer 2018. He hosts Windrush Concerts

and many emerging touring artists, as well as

young local artists. Visit www.rickvinesmusic.com

to subscribe.

GREAT MUSIC can and should occur any-where and at any time and not necessar-ily in the place you would expect. Pop up

shows are meant to be opportunistic for music lovers with a sense of adventure and curiosity who embrace emerging artists in an intimate setting. Shows are booked on short notice (usually less than a month), capacity is limited, and a reservation is required. Ticket/cover charges are by donation only and al-though a minimum of $20 is suggested, there is trust the audience will pay what they can and reward the artist based on the value of the experience.

Curt and Mary Behrens and Quintessential Bar-rington teamed up with NEAR Restaurant for the inaugural Pop Up concert. “My wife Mary and I are passionate about live music, and we attend hundreds of shows every year including the seven-day �oating music festival called “Cayamo,” Curt Behrens said.

“For the last 10 years, we have sailed on the Cayamo “Journey �rough Song” Cruise with the many of our favorite artists. Our roots are in the Americana genre, a blend of rock, folk, country, and bluegrass, with skilled musicianship and exceptional songwrit-ing. With four stages programmed for 12 hours of music, every day we get a yearly immersion in Ameri-cana music which energizes and inspires. It is aboard Cayamo that we made the connections to allow us to access the many emerging artists who are hiding in plain sight. We take inspiration from places like the Blue Bird Café in Nashville and SPACE in Evanston—great acoustics, comfortable seating—a real “listening room” atmosphere. Most of the artists who perform at our series are touring nationally and are passing through Chicago on their way to a festival or another venue, and are thrilled to �ll in a gap night with an appreciative audience of music fans.”

Announcements of upcoming shows are made by email to Northwest Chicago POP UP Shows sub-scribers and on the Northwest Chicago pop up con-certs Facebook page. To subscribe, go to the Face-book page or send an email to [email protected].

MAKING AMERICANA HOMEChristian Lopez made a tour stop in Barrington on July 31. Known as a �nalist on a popular network tal-ent show, and noted by “Rolling Stone” as one of 10 new country artists to know, Lopez played guitar and keyboard, belting out his unique sound with hints of John Denver, Billy Joel, and Jackson Browne.

“I think it’s been hard for me to categorize myself and I’m kind of proud of that, but at the same time I’m happy that Americana is becoming a home for the genre mis�ts out there,” Lopez said. “I don’t think I would �t into what today’s country is, but there was no mindset going into this record of what to be. It just sort of happens and you go with it, and that’s what’s gonna be most true to myself.”

Christian Lopez has only made two albums (his second, Red Arrow, comes out September 22), but the West Virginia tunesmith has already worked with two of the most respected roots producers in the business—�rst Dave Cobb (Jason Isbell, Chris Stapleton) and now Marshall Altman (Will Hoge, Frankie Ballard’s El Rio). Only 21, he’s crossed the one million Spotify streams threshold with “Will I See You Again,” and by mixing joyful country and folk-rock with an upbeat pop sensibility on Red Ar-row, he’s poised for his breakout moment.

Visit www.ChristianLopezMusic.com to pre-or-der his new Red Arrow album, due out Sept. 22, and to learn about the other albums he’s produced.

BY LISA STAMOS • PHOTOGRAPHY BY LINDA M. BARRETT

Barrington Hosts Christian Lopez at New Pop Up Concert

Show producers Curt and Mary Behrens greet

Christian Lopez at NEAR Restaurant.

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ON SUNDAY, SEP-

TEMBER 17 at 3 p.m., television journal-ist Phil Ponce will present “What Just Happened?”—a time-ly look at hot topics in the news. He’ll cover politics, social trends, and the arts, and give

his take on Chicago area in�uencers. Be in the know, and ask your own burning questions in a brief Q & A session following Ponce’s talk.

Enjoy a New Season of Cultural Events at

Barrington’s White House

Arts & Culture BY TAMARA TABEL

We are proud to introduce our second cultural season at Barrington’s White House, full of enthralling performers and informative speakers, up close and personal. Our fall season is now online at www.Barrington-sWhiteHouse.com. Be sure to mark your calendar and purchase your tick-ets, as events sell out quickly.

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PREPARE TO BE AMAZED by this Queen Elisabeth Prize Winner! William Hagen will perform at Barrington’s White House on Sunday, October 15 at 3 p.m. Debut-ing professionally at age nine, this talented violinist is already a renowned international performer. Hagen’s mentors include Itzhak Perlman, Robert Lipsett, and Christian Tet-zla�. Called a “brilliant virtuoso,” his ener-getic presence and powerful sound brings audiences leaping to their feet in applause. Tickets: VIP $40, Adults $30, Students $10.

Recital by Award-Winning Violinist William Hagen

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William Hagen will perform at Barrington’s White House on Sunday, Oct. 15.

Phil Ponce Talk, Sept. 17William Hagen Violinist, Oct. 15Ron Keaton as Churchill, Oct. 22Eboo Patel Lecture, Nov. 83rd Thursdays: Sept. 21 & Oct. 19Tickets at: BarringtonsWhiteHouse.com

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THIS NEW THURSDAY EVENING SERIES features area art-ists and performers in a casual yet intimate setting. Explore an artist reception featuring a local artist with work for sale, complimentary hors d’oeuvres from Wild Asparagus and a cash bar. �en head upstairs for a musical performance. Grab dinner before at one of our restaurants, or a drink a�er. It’s a perfect night out with friends or your special someone.

On September 21, 3rd �ursdays will feature artist Mar-garita Bauer for a reception from 6:30-8:30 p.m. �is talented artist is a master in almost every 2D medium—pen and ink, watercolor, acrylic and pastels. You’ll be amazed by her ex-tensive body of work.

WITNESS THIS FAMOUS WWII icon come to life! On Sunday, October 22 at 3 p.m., Ron Keaton brings his authentic portrayal of the former British Prime Minister in a re�ective mood, giving an intimate view of the �erce states-man, as well as Churchill’s humorous and human side. Written by Keaton, “Churchill” comes to the White House a�er a sold-out, O�-Broadway run with Keaton’s Je�-Award performance as the “British Bulldog.” Tickets: VIP $40, Adults $30, Students $10.

Tamara Tabel is a writer,

marketer and founder of

Napping Cat Communica-

tions. She may be reached at

[email protected],

or her author website and

blog at tamara.tabel.com.

Introducing “3rd Thursdays”, Your Art Night Out!

�en, enjoy music in the beautiful third-�oor ballroom. Acoustic singers and songwriters from the James Pedicone Band begin at 7:30 p.m. �ey’ll perform a diverse song list, bringing an honest and fresh take on classic songs from James Taylor to Michael Bublé to Peter Gabriel.

On October 19, 3rd �ursdays welcomes artist Veronica Potter, a talented artist in watercolor, collage, woodcut, and dance. Her works demonstrate her one-of-a-kind energy and style. And the musical per-formance will be by Jazz Pizzazz, featuring soprano Kimberly Albrecht, as the trio play jazz standards, Swing Era favorites, and pop hits.

Ron Keaton as Churchill: One-Man Play

BE INSPIRED BY the words and workings of Eboo Patel as he speaks on the topic of Interfaith Leadership: Engaging Faith and Philosophical Di-versity in the 21st Century on Wednesday, November 8 at 1 p.m. Named by US News & World Report as one of American’s Best Leaders of 2009, Eboo Patel founded Interfaith Youth Core to encourage religion as a bridge, not a barrier. He’s worked with governments, social sector or-ganizations, and college and university campuses, and is a contributor to the Washington Post, USA Today, NPR, and CNN. Patel will sign his newest book, Interfaith Leadership: A Primer. Admission is $20.

Lecture By

Eboo Patel, Inter-

faith Youth Core

Founder

The Barrington White House team gratefully acknowledges its cultural events season sponsors, without whose generosity this series would not be possible: Kim Duchossois, Mary B. Galvin, Barrington Bank & Trust, Barrington 220, Northern Trust, Barrington Cultural Commission, and Mr. & Mrs. Michael Sullivan.

Barrington’s White House is a unique, historic venue located in the heart of downtown Barrington at 145 West Main Street. This meticulously restored 1898 mansion hosts cultural and community events, and is also available for rental for weddings, corporate meetings, non-pro�t fundraisers, and family celebrations. Visit the website at www.BarringtonsWhiteHouse.com, or call 224-512-4292.


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ARTIST SANDRA FINK MAY was inspired to draw greater value from the head-to-shoulders mesh medical masks she encoun-tered while being treated at Advocate Good Shepherd Hospital

for breast cancer. �ese masks enable medical sta� to target radiation using markings on the mask, rather than on the patient’s body, and they also immobilize patients for the treatment of cancers of the head and neck. A recent cancer survivor, May has taken masks donated to her by the hospital and created a series of 3-D canvasses in a solo exhibit. She hopes they will generate helpful dialogues for patients. Proceeds from the sale of the sculpted portraits will bene�t cancer research.

�e exhibit was unveiled with the hospital’s Oncology team who also showcased the new Varian TrueBeam Linear Accelator that o�ers the lat-est all-digital platform including faster radiation treatments, improved image quality, and an optical surface monitoring system capable of de-livering the newest advanced respiratory and tumor tracking treatments.

For more information on the artist or this exhibit, contact Sandra at

[email protected].

The Healing Nature of Art Sandra Fink MayRed Rose Stargazer

Advocate Good Shepherd Hospital staff celebrate at the exhibit.

SHU, the Ancient Egyptian God of

Wind, is depicted here. The 3-D por-

trait designs were inspired by images

of Egyptian goddesses.


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CYT in Barrington

CHRISTIAN YOUTH THEATER (CYT), is an organization founded in 1981 in San Diego by Sheryl and Paul Russel,

who opened a�liate locations beyond California. Families started coming from all over the Chica-goland area to participate in a local CYT show, eventually asking the question, “How do I bring this CYT program to my community?” And one by one, new areas were planted and CYT Chica-go grew. Today, CYT Chicago has grown into 10 counties around the Chicago Suburbs and South-east Wisconsin. �e CYT group surrounding the Barrington area is called Spotlight Youth �eater, an a�liate of CYT.

BARRINGTON STUDENTS ATTEND CYTCYT hosts 45 summer day camps including sev-eral in Barrington at �e Chapel. Several over-night camps are hosted at Benedictine Univer-sity for middle school, high school, Improv team, Project Dance and Pre-College. Master classes are held several times a year with professionals from Broadway in Chicago. �is past year, cast mem-bers from “Hamilton” taught voice and dance in CYT workshops. Each year, more than 6,000 stu-dents are in the CYT program and 30 fully-staged

Broadway style musicals are performed each year. In the Barrington area, students participate in

either the NW Cook (meets in Rolling Meadows) or McHenry (meets in Cary) County groups. Bar-rington High School’s female lead from “Anything Goes” is a longtime CYT student Sierra Fermin, the lead in CYT’s production of “A Little Mer-maid” as well as Barrington resident Kelly Postle-thwait, who was cast as Lucy in the production of “You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown”.

CYT is more than an activity, it is a ministry involved in community outreach. Examples of CYT’s outreach programs include scholarships to students in need, and the commitment that no child who wants to participate in our program be le� out due to �nancial hardship. CYT visits hos-pitals with its touring ensemble, o�ers deeply dis-counted tickets to under-resourced schools, and helps kids in foster care participate in its theater community.

Beyond the training for acting, voice, dance, and theater performances o�ered at CYT, what their students love most is the outpouring of en-couragement, the positive environment, and mak-ing new friends that become like a family to them. Learn more at www.spotlight.org.

A scene from the CYT DuPage County production of “Mary Poppins” performed at the McAninch Arts Center in Glen Ellyn.

Arts & Culture

TOP RIGHT: Barrington resident Marie Tako, performing a solo in the CYT NW Cook County production of “Williy Wonka

and the Chocolate Factory”. MIDDLE: Sierra Fermin, from Barrington, in the lead of CYT’s production of “A Little Mermaid”.

BOTTOM RIGHT: Barrington’s Kelly Postlethwait as Lucy in CYT’s Northwest Cook County production of “You’re a Good

Man Charlie Brown”, performed at Prairie Lakes Community Center, Des Plaines.


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Transforming the Symphony Experience

ESO MAESTRO ANDREW GRAMS’ “INSIDE THE MUSIC”

Arts & Culture BY ANDREW GRAMS

SPENDING A COUPLE OF HOURS at an Elgin Symphony Orchestra (ESO) con-cert is not the bow-tied, snooty, stuck-

up a�air many think it might be. If you imagine a man dressed in a tux with his nose up in the air, saying in a certain tone of voice that all music written a�er Wagner is “derivative,” let me assure you—that man is not at one of our concerts!

�e ESO is an award-winning, fully profes-sional orchestra close to your home that presents the best symphonic music in an atmosphere that invites relaxation and enjoyment. It starts when you park your car for free, or leave it with our va-let service, followed by a welcome from one of our ushers as you enter the concert hall. �en enjoy a

beverage, mingle with friends, watch performanc-es in the lobby, or attend my pre-concert talk, during which I chat about the upcoming concert program and answer your questions.

�e music we play will sometimes be recogniz-able from television, movies, commercials, video games, etc. Sometimes, you won’t recognize a mel-ody, but it will sound like something you’ve heard before. If you love music generally, I personally guarantee that we will play something you’ll enjoy immensely.

One thing that concert-goers worry about is “When do I clap?” Back in the days of Mozart, Beethoven, and Brahms, audiences would ap-plaud when they heard something that delighted

them—even in the middle of a movement of a symphony! Applause in-between movements was the norm and most times, the audience would call for a particular movement to be repeated if they really liked it! If there was little-to-no applause af-ter a movement, the composer got worried.

Later, in the 19th century, some composers wanted their symphonies to be experienced as a whole—so they wrote the four movements in such a way that there were no breaks for applause. Wagner actually spoke to the audience during the premiere of one of his operas to chide them for applauding and breaking ‘the mood.’ �is seri-ousness became fashionable to the point that au-dience members would loudly hiss at those who clapped ‘at the wrong time’—something I would imagine probably broke ‘the mood’ in any case.

Today’s audiences demand a relaxed atmo-sphere, and at the ESO, that’s the environment we try to create.

Coming to the ESO is like traveling through the world of music to places familiar and unfamil-iar. �e most important thing for all who come is that they relax and enjoy what they experience

Maestro Grams of the Elgin Symphony Orchestra

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son as we pl ay electrifying concerts that exemplify the p ower of live performance.

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THE ELGIN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA and Advocate Good Shepherd

Hospital have teamed up for the Musicians Care Program at Advocate

Good Shepherd Hospital through a grant from the Barrington Area

Community Foundation. �e music program, �rst started by the ESO

and Advocate Sherman Hospital, brings the healing power of music to

a hospital or health care facility. An ESO ensemble will play for two

hours. �e �rst hour they will play as an ensemble in the lobby, then

they will split up and travel to the parts of the hospital where they

are needed the most to support patients, families, and medical sta�. A

reception to open the program was held on �ursday, August 24 in the

main entrance lobby of Advocate Good Shepherd Hospital.

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free from worry, free from judgement, free from fear. Music is for ev-eryone and the ESO provides the exciting, visceral, live-concert experi-ence without the stigma.

I do hope that you will join me and the ESO this season as we play electrifying concerts that exemplify the power of live performance. Use the code 17-GRAMS for half-o� tickets to our “Inside the Music” with Andrew Grams: Beethoven 7 on November 3.

“Inside the Music” is a new program perfect for both classical music beginners and connoisseurs that dives deep into a particular master-work, giving you a richer interaction with the piece. It’s all part of our desire to create programs that enrich, upli�, and entertain. �e ESO-Transforming the Symphony Experience.

To learn more or for tickets, visit www.elginsymphony.org.

ESO Music Director Andrew Grams is one of America’s most promising and talented young conductors, having already appeared with many of the great orchestras of the world. Maestro Grams was named the 2015 Conductor of the Year by the Illinois Council of Orchestras.


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Finding the Light

I’VE ALWAYS HAD A BENT for architectural design. I applied to the Art Institute of Chi-cago when they had a college. Turned down, I

ended up at Southern Illinois University, majoring in sociology, a degree that was as useful in the ‘70s as it is today. So of course, I opened a men’s store. A few decades later, I decided to pursue some of my earlier interests.

In 2010, I volunteered for Open House Chi-cago, a program of the Chicago Architecture Foundation (CAF) during which they open many historical skyscrapers and building lobbies not ac-cessible to the public for one weekend in October.

My �rst assignment with CAF was to take tickets at the door at the Carson Pirie Scott build-ing in the Loop, designed by Louis Sullivan, my second favorite architect. On that �rst day I found myself answering the questions of those waiting for the next docent leader. So I decided to apply for a docent’s role as soon as I could.

�is position gave me a chance to view, review, and interpret many of Chicago’s great architectur-al structures, including the Rookery, a Burnham and Root design-build project, completed in 1888. It was once the tallest building in the city at 12 sto-ries, and also served as o�ces for many Chicago School architects.

I poured over design theory and the many

engineering details of this iconic LaSalle Street building. Knowing that my favorite architect, Frank Lloyd Wright, the youngest and most gi�ed of the Chicago School, o�ced on the 11th �oor heightened my interest. In 1905, Wright was commissioned to remodel the building’s majestic lobby. He would go on to be the most in�uential and proli�c architect of the 20th century, and is credited with being the father of the �rst authentic American architectural form—the Prairie Style.

When the opportunity presented itself to train within the Frank Lloyd Wright Trust as a docent “interpreter” of Wright’s style and in�uence, I jumped in. �e docent certi�cation process, which I completed in 2016, was like heading back to college for that architectural degree.

Today, I lead the Foundation’s new Sky Guide Tour in the John Hancock building, another iconic Chicago building. Of the tours I lead, there’s none I enjoy more than the one at Robie House in Chi-cago’s Hyde Park. �ere is something about this unique masterpiece of Wright’s—the uni�cation of client, architect, site, design, and purpose that make this tour my favorite. Robie is the quintes-sential Prairie Style project of the Master: elongat-ed, welded to the ground, and celebrating nature and the horizon. It contains a staggering 175 art glass windows and doors. �e natural inclusion

of light in Robie House exempli�es Wright’s belief that, “Light is the beauti�er of all spaces.”

Getting turned down by the Art Institute was a huge disappointment at the time, but in retro-spect, not such a bad thing. I’ve owned a success-ful menswear business for over 40 years and my passion for architecture never waned. It was never subjected to the demands of a formal education process or the practicalities of depending on it for an income. I’m back to where I started, with a pas-sion that was deferred, but �nally ful�lled.

Peter Yankala owns Phillips Men’s Wear at 100 East Station Street in Barrington. He may be reached at 847-381-1282. Search �e Chicagoan, or Why I Like Chicago; visit www.

facebook.com/Whyilikechicago and www.why-ilikechicago.com to follow Peter’s architectural and photography adventures.

Arts & Culture BY PETER YANKALA • PHOTOGRAPHY BY WADE BALSAMO

Peter Yankala at the Rookery in Chicago, a Burnham and Root building.

Peter Yankala leads a group at the Robie House.


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