
Nicholas Phan, artistic director and co-founder of the Collaborative Arts Institute of Chicago, was doing research for a previous installment of the organization’s annual art-song festival and discovered the extensive breadth of compositions in the form by Chicago composers past and present.
So, he and his collaborators decided to make Chicago’s fertile music history the focus of the 2022 installment of the event, known as the Collaborative Works Festival. Performances of “The Song of Chicago” are set for Sept. 7 and 8 in Roosevelt University’s Ganz Hall, 430 S. Michigan, and Sept. 11 at the Epiphany Center for the Arts, 201 S. Ashland Ave.