Hearing in Color began as volunteer coffee shop recitals by friends that Rafael recruited. My question was, why is no one performing this?” Researching on his own, “I was finding all this music. “For the sake of learning about Mozart and Beethoven and Schubert, I missed out on the opportunity to study intensively the work of William Grant Still, or Margaret Bonds, or Florence Price,” Rafael says. He launched Hearing in Color in 2017, after realizing “there was so much music I just wasn’t taught in school.” Rafael, a former Lyric Opera arts administrator, is now a host on WFMT. Initially working mostly in hip-hop and R&B, but unable to shake the opera bug (“I’d catch myself singing Rodolfo in the shower”), he returned to Chicago long enough to pick up a master’s in voice at the DePaul University School of Music, where, in 2011, he met Rafael, then an undergrad. Wallace grew up in south-side and south-suburban Chicago (his early training included the Merit School of Music), but he’s been based in New York since, where he’s had a prolific, multifaceted career. WFMT is a partner in the production.įri 11/12, 7 PM, Kehrein Center for the Arts, 5628 W. Rafael, with a mission to present music that’s historically been excluded from the classical repertoire. It’s a project of Hearing in Color, a Chicago organization founded and led by another classically trained singer, bass-baritone LaRob K. This week, Wallace’s opera, also titled Undying Love, will premiere in a single, semi-staged performance at the Austin neighborhood’s Kehrein Center for the Arts. Verismo meant the realistic (if melodramatic) portrayal of life as the audience knew it. Best of Chicago 2022: Music & Nightlife.Best of Chicago 2022: Sports & Recreation.
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