CUBE's programming for the 1998-99 season will feature music by composers who have been active in the last third of the century. Opening the season will be a pair of workshops entitled "Making Art Sound," to be given at the Art Institute of Chicago on Saturday, September 26, 1998 at 10:30AM and 2:00PM. The workshops, for children ages 7-12 with an adult, will explore relationships between the languages of visual art and music. For registration, please call the Education Department of the Art Institute, (312) 857-7161 after September 1. Each workshop will conclude with a concert by CUBE performing the works created by the children. The concert will be free to museum members and open to the public for the price of admission to the museum.

Temporarily moving from its Chicago venues, CUBE will be performing at the Aaron Copland School of Music at Queens College, in New York City, on November 2, 1998 in a concert "Sounds of Chicago," on the school's chamber music series. The program will include works by Robert Lombardo, Janice Misurell-Mitchell, Patricia Morehead, and Bruce Saylor performed by Janice Misurell-Mitchell, Caroline Pittman and Dane Richeson.

On January 21, 22 and 24, 1999, CUBE will collaborate with MASS Ensemble (Movement and Sonic Sculpture) to present "Spirits and Shadows," as part of the Field Museum Project Millennium series at the new auditorium of the Columbia College Contemporary American Music Program at 1014 S. Michigan Avenue. The concert will feature works by composers who use as their sources the music of indigenous peoples: scenes from the chamber opera Black Hawk Speaks, derived from the autobiography of the famed Sauk Chief, for baritone and ensemble by Patricia Morehead, featuring David Holloway, baritone; and The Gift of Tongues, developed from female musical rituals from several cultures, for spoken voice, flute/voice and cello, by Janice Misurell-Mitchell and Catherine Slade, professor of theatre at Columbia College. Other composers on the program include Steve Reich, Luiz Anunciação and Iannis Xenakis.

CUBE's concert of theatrical music will be presented in conjunction with HotHouse and Ensemble Noamnesia, a Chicago-based improvisational group, on the "Face the Music" series, Sunday, April 11, 1999. It will be built around the performances of a politically-based music theatre work by William Osborne featuring trombonist Abbie Conant, Americans now living in Germany who will be touring the Midwest next spring. In addition there will be music by Cornelius Cardew, Jennifer Higdon, Herbert Brün, Morton Feldman and John Eaton.

The final concert of the season will be on Monday, June 7, 1999 at the Arts Club of Chicago, which is sponsoring the ensemble in "First Hearings," a concert of Chicago and world premieres of works written by Ralph Shapey, Janice Misurell-Mitchell, Timothy Bowlby and others. The concert will be preceded by a panel discussion of the music on the program.

CUBE's programs are supported in part by grants from the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency, the Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation, the WPWR-TV Channel 50 Foundation, and by a CityArts Program I Grant from the City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs.