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1 HOUSE RESOLUTION
2 WHEREAS, Mostly Music announces its glorious 1997-1998
3 silver anniversary season, which features the master
4 musicians of Illinois who played in the very first programs,
5 as well as rising new talents, performing in spectacular
6 community settings, ideal for chamber music; and
7 WHEREAS, Such esteemed artists as the Vermeer Quartet
8 with Larry Combs, Samuel Magad and the Chicago Symphony
9 players with Donald Peck, Ray Still, Rachel Barton, the
10 Pacifica Quartet, and the Willie Pickens Jazz Group will
11 perform in four unique series in Hyde Park, the Near North,
12 the North Shore, and Northeastern Illinois University; and
13 WHEREAS, In addition, Mostly Music will sponsor a series
14 of concerts, workshops, and symposiums as part of the NEA's
15 Millennium Program in a collaboration with John Eaton and
16 CUBE; The Rise of the American Music Identity-Roots and
17 Flowerings will cover a hundred years of American music and
18 explore our unique cultural history; and
19 WHEREAS, Mostly Music provides outreach programs for
20 thousands of public school students who are underserved in
21 cultural arts by offering residencies with teacher-artists in
22 classrooms and at assemblies throughout the city of Chicago;
23 and
24 WHEREAS, Mostly Music will present live performances to
25 thousands of senior citizens in nursing homes and centers in
26 the Magic Carpet concert series; and
27 WHEREAS, Mostly Music will be featured in monthly
28 broadcasts over WNIB-FM showcasing outstanding chamber
29 ensembles in honor of its twenty-fifth anniversary; and
30 WHEREAS, Mostly Music launches celebrations for its
31 twenty-fifth anniversary Sunday, September 28 at the Cliff
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1 Dwellers Club in Chicago with a gala entitled "Always in
2 Tune", giving the MM award in achievement in the arts to
3 master musician Larry Combs and special recognition to
4 founding members of Mostly Music, Joyce Turner Hilkevitch and
5 posthumously, Zita Cogan; therefore, be it
6 RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE
7 NINETIETH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we
8 enthusiastically wave our batons as we salute Mostly Music
9 and commend the board of directors for their good work in
10 presenting more than 125 concerts and events in community
11 settings and at Northeastern Illinois University on the
12 occasion of their twenty-fifth anniversary; and be it further
13 RESOLVED, That suitable copies of this resolution be
14 presented to Mostly Music, to Larry Combs and to Joyce Turner
15 Hilkevitch.