by Matt Fey | Feb 18, 2021 | Uncategorized
As dean of Rockefeller Chapel, the Reverend Maurice Charles sees himself as a spiritual leader first and foremost. When people are hurting, celebrating, or asking questions about life, Charles is the first person they call. But he’s also used the position to raise...
by Matt Fey | Dec 7, 2020 | Uncategorized
Excerpts from the Chicago Tribune piece (11/24 digital, 11/29 print) by Howard Reich …Most of these performances have been canceled, with a few migrating online for truncated, prerecorded, scaled-down versions of Handel’s most famous oratorio. Which raises two...
by Matt Fey | Oct 2, 2020 | Uncategorized
Beginning October 4, 2020, Dean Maurice Charles and the musicians of Rockefeller Chapel offer music and meditations through the Virtual Chapel. Please visit our SoundCloud page for access to these offerings, recorded onsite in this distanced autumn, that we all might...
by Matt Fey | Jun 11, 2020 | Uncategorized
To the University of Chicago Community, The Rockefeller Memorial Chapel and Spiritual Life team mourn the deaths of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, George Floyd and the many others who were killed as a result of racist violence. We mourn in solidarity with their...
by Matt Fey | May 16, 2020 | Uncategorized
The world looks so different now. It hardly seems possible that in one month, almost to the day, the 2019-2020 academic year will come to a close. My warmest congratulations to all who will be graduating. While you have been cheated out of your customary celebrations,...
by Matt Fey | Apr 11, 2020 | Uncategorized
“Why is this night different from all other nights?” My Jewish friends taught me that this is the first of four questions intoned at the Passover Seder, generally by the youngest member of the gathering. They are an invocation of a people’s collective memory,...
by Matt Fey | Apr 4, 2020 | Uncategorized
April is the cruellest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and desire, stirring Dull roots with spring rain. from The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot April is upon us and this year Jews, Christians, and Muslims enter important seasons of communal...
by Matt Fey | Mar 10, 2020 | Uncategorized
Dean Maurice Charles offers the following update on the temporary suspension of gatherings at Rockefeller and Bond Chapels and the Spiritual Life spaces at Ida Noyes Hall: As a research university of international renown, the University of Chicago gathers a worldwide...
by Matt Fey | Mar 2, 2020 | Uncategorized
Ripple Effects: New Music for Carillon at the University of Chicago features a new composition by Read Thomas and several live recordings of pieces premiered at the Rockefeller Carillon New Music Festival (2018). The album is available immediately for sale at the...
by Matt Fey | Feb 6, 2020 | Uncategorized
Prior University Organist Wolfgang Rübsam’s monumental endeavor to record the Widor Organ Symphonies completed its first milestone with recording sessions at Rockefeller Chapel in 2019. The Volume I disc has garnered a warm initial reception.
