An oboe player and a trombone player perform in the foreground with other musicians in the background.

Tyrannosaurus Sue: A Cretaceous Concerto

The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center

Travel back in time to before smart phones, before zippers, before umbrellas, before spoons…even before humans! Let’s travel back to the Cretaceous period, when dinosaurs roamed the earth. Tyrannosaurus Sue is a musical tribute to the largest set of complete dinosaur bones ever found, with a trombone playing the lead role!

PROGRAM
Bruce Adolphe (26')
Tyrannosaurus Sue — A Cretaceous Concerto
Birth of Sue
Youth — Sue Explores Her World
Competing for Food with the Troodon
Chasing the Parasaurolophus
Battle with the Triceratops
Old Age and Death of Sue
Dawning of the New World (After the Dinosaurs)

Our friends at the Field Museum invite you to step into the world of SUE the T. rex and uncover the mysteries about the life of this fearsome fossil.

Experience the Field Museum's unique multi-media experience featuring the largest and most complete Tyrannosaurus rex specimen ever discovered. Learn how the fossil was unearthed, and how scientists continue to make discoveries about SUE today. See the fossils of animals, plants, and dinosaurs that lived during the Late Cretaceous period. Click here for more information about this immersive experience for visitors of all ages.

If you prefer to get to know SUE in a virtual setting, the Field Museum also offers SUE Science Saturdays. Be a scientist for the day with SUE the T. rex and Field Museum experts, as you explore the Field and its collections from your own home. Join in this online event series to chat with scientists, take an interactive brain break, and engage with activities that help you learn something new about science. Click here for information about upcoming SUE Science Saturday events.

Pictured: S. Lee, Um, Holloway, Marica, Foley, Smith, de Guise-Langlois, Goldberg, Hanzlik, Pilant, Sprott, Kataoka

The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center (CMS) is known for the extraordinary quality of its performances, its inspired programming, and for setting the benchmark for chamber music worldwide: no other chamber music organization does more to promote, to educate, and to foster a love of and appreciation for the art form. Whether at its home in Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center in New York, on leading stages throughout North America, or at prestigious venues in Europe and Asia, CMS brings together the very best international artists from an ever-expanding roster of more than 120 artists per season to provide audiences with the kind of exhilarating concert experiences that have led to critics calling CMS “an exploding star in the musical firmament” (Wall Street Journal). Many of these extraordinary performances are live-streamed on the CMS website, broadcast on radio and television, or made available on CD and DVD, reaching thousands of listeners around the globe each season.

Education remains at the heart of CMS’s mission. Demonstrating the belief that the future of chamber music lies in engaging and expanding the audience, CMS has created multi-faceted education and audience development programs to bring chamber music to people from a wide range of backgrounds, ages, and levels of musical knowledge. CMS also believes in fostering and supporting the careers of young artists through The Bowers Program, which provides ongoing performance opportunities to a select number of highly gifted young instrumentalists and ensembles.

PERFORMERS
Bruce Adolphe, Host
Bella Hristova, Violin
Danbi Um, Violin
Mark Holloway, Viola
Mihai Marica, Cello
Xavier Foley, Double Bass
James Austin Smith, Oboe
Romie De Guise-Langlois, Clarinet
Marc Goldberg, Bassoon
Louis Hanzlik, Trumpet
Weston Sprott, Trombone
Julia Pilant, Horn
Ayano Kataoka, Percussion

The Field Museum
The Field Museum is a forward-thinking scientific leader on a mission to explore, protect, and celebrate nature and culture. From exhibitions that inspire journeys of discovery in visitors young and old, to the groundbreaking research and conservation efforts driven by the museum's 40 million artifacts and specimens, the Field Museum is on a mission to spark public engagement with science and uncover solutions for a brighter world.

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