Celebrating one of our region's and the world’s most precious natural resources, Black Moon Trio collaborates with author Barb Rosenstock; illustrator, Jamey Christoph; and the DuPage Children's Museum to tell the story of the Great Lakes.
Framing and accompanying Rosenstock’s and Christoph’s 2024 book, The Great Lakes: Our Freshwater Treasure, this program features music by living composers that delves into the science behind the formation of the Great Lakes and the crucial importance of freshwater for life and culture. Along the way, audiences will take a dramatic journey of a single drop of water as it travels in this enormous water system. Audiences of all ages are invited to reflect on the profound importance of this vital resource and the ongoing responsibility to protect the six-quadrillion gallons of water they hold. This special program brings to life the complex relationship between nature, human civilization, and the ecosystems that depend on these precious waters, offering a deeper appreciation of the role these five blue jewels play in sustaining life and culture.
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Peter Winkler: Trio for Horn, Violin, and Piano (2015)
Yeeun Sim: Orbit of Breeze (2023)
Commissioned by Black Moon Trio
Indigo Knecht: submerged mirror (2023)
Commissioned by Black Moon Trio
Adam Scott Neal: Rivermist (2015)
Harry T. Bulow: Indiana Dunes (2011)
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Barb Rosenstock is the author of the Caldecott Honor Book The Noisy Paint Box, Vincent Can’t Sleep, Through the Window, and Mornings with Monet, as well as many other books. Her most recent book, Mystery of the Monarchs, is a 2023 NCTE Orbis Pictus Recommended Title, included on the 2024- 2025 Texas Bluebonnet Award (TBA) Master List, and a Junior Library Guild Selection. She lives outside Chicago with her family. Barb has always lived near the Great Lakes and wrote this book to satisfy her lifelong curiosity about their formation.
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Jamey Christoph is the illustrator of several picture books, including Stonewall: A Building. An Uprising. A Revolution., Bones in the White House: Thomas Jefferson’s Mammoth, and Gordon Parks: How the Photographer Captured Black and White America.
He has also created illustrations that have appeared in the New York Times and the San Francisco Chronicle and has received distinguished recognition from the Society of Illustrators. Jamey lived for many years in Ohio with his partner and their dog.
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Brushwood Center at Ryerson Woods works collaboratively with community partners, artists, health care providers, and scientists to improve health equity and access to nature in Lake County, Illinois, and the Chicago region. We engage people with the outdoors through the arts, environmental education, and community action. Brushwood Center’s programs focus on youth, families, Military Veterans, and those facing racial and economic injustices.