Free concerts Fourth Presbyterian Church Chicago.
When: Each Friday of the year at 12:10 p.m., free Noonday concerts. September through June in the Sanctuary or Buchanan Chapel (except when otherwise noted). July and August in the courtyard off Michigan Avenue, by the fountain.
Where: Fourth Presbyterian Church, 126 E Chestnut St, 312.787.4570
Weekday evening and Sunday afternoon concerts are also offered periodically throughout the year.
Tickets are not required for concerts unless otherwise indicated.
March 2018
Friday, March 9
Tracy Watson, mezzo soprano
12:10 p.m. in Buchanan Chapel
Friday, March 16
Theodore Davis, organist
12:10 p.m. in the Sanctuary
Friday, March 23
Grant Wareham, organist
12:10 p.m. in the Sanctuary
Thursday, March 29
Fourth Church Chancel Choir
7:30 p.m. in the Sanctuary
Good Friday, March 30
Good Friday Choral Service with the Fourth Church Morning Choir
7:30 p.m. in the Sanctuary
April 2018
Friday, April 6
Sara Su Jones, violin
12:10 p.m. in Buchanan Chapel
Friday, April 13
Artful Song Trio (voice and piano)
12:10 p.m. in Buchanan Chapel
Friday, April 20
Ian Maskin, cello
12:10 p.m. in Buchanan Chapel
Friday, April 27
John W. W. Sherer, organist
12:10 p.m. in the Sanctuary
May 2018
Friday, May 4
Joann Turska, flute
12:10 p.m. in Buchanan Chapel
Friday, May 11
Thomas E. Gouwens, organist
12:10 p.m. in the Sanctuary
Friday, May 18
Michelle Wynton, piano
Keiko Alexander, violin
Bill Cernota, cello
12:10 p.m. in Buchanan Chapel
Friday, May 18
Fourth Church Choral Society
7:30 p.m. in the Sanctuary
Friday, May 25
John W. W. Sherer, organist
12:10 p.m. in the Sanctuary
June 2018
Friday, June 1
Black Tulip (voice, recorder, viola da gamba)
12:10 p.m. in Buchanan Chapel
Friday, June 8
Mio Nakamura, piano
12:10 p.m. in the Sanctuary
Friday, June 15
Thomas E. Gouwens, organist
12:10 p.m. in the Sanctuary
Friday, June 22
Therese Pircon, soprano
7:30 p.m. in the Sanctuary
Friday, June 29
John W. W. Sherer, organist
12:10 p.m. in the Sanctuary
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The Fourth Presbyterian Church of Chicago was organized on February 12, 1871, through the merger of two older congregations, founded in 1848 and 1855.
The new congregation spent six months refurbishing North Presbyterian’s existing church building on the southeast corner of Wabash and Grand and rededicated the renovated structure on Sunday, October 8, 1871. A few hours later the church burned to the ground in the Chicago Fire.
In February 1874 they dedicated a stone church on the northwest corner of Rush and Superior Streets that they would use for just over forty years.
In 1911 Fourth Church had outgrown its property at Rush and Superior. They purchased a plot of land three blocks north, on what would later become Michigan Avenue, and the cornerstone for a new edifice was laid on September 17, 1912.
The Sanctuary was designed by architect Ralph Adams Cram, the parish buildings around the courtyard by architect Howard Van Doren Shaw, and the stained glass windows by Charles J. Connick. The interior painting and decoration of the Sanctuary was overseen by Frederick Clay Bartlett. The new church was dedicated in 1914.Except for the Water Tower complex which survived the Chicago Fire of 1871, Fourth Church is now the oldest surviving structure on Michigan Avenue north of the river.
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