Yulia Lipmanovich Plays Beethoven's "Nocturne" above Millennium Park

Yulia Lipmanovich Plays Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata above Millennium Park

Editor’s Note: Yulia Lipmanovich is a Russian-born concert pianist and piano teacher. Her musical education came in part from Van Cliburn’s teacher, who later brought her from Israel to study at the Julliard School of Music in New York. She began the “Concert for George,” a tribute to Cliff Dweller George Manning, with Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata in C Sharp Minor, No. 2, Op. 27. As her music filled The Cliff Dwellers room, my mind began to drift away from other thoughts and cares of the day. The evening tide pictures of Millennium Park that accompany her performance here seem fitting for the location of the Club high above the Park below.

Remembering George E. Manning, II

George E. Manning, II was an exceptional person. A psychiatric administrator in his working life, in his private life he was a person of faith, the arts, a friend to many, and a restorer of his own little piece of Chicago’s grand architecture heritage. With all of that, he still had time to be a culturally inquisitive traveler to distant places far from home. The piano concert memorializing his time on this earth featured the exceptional personal remembrances and a performance by Yulia Lipmanovich. Her concert program was preceded by remarks from past Presidents of The Cliff Dwellers Eve Moran, Leslie Recht, and Anne Sullivan, the Club’s current President. Other memories of George Manning came from the Rev. Dr. Pastor Anne McCall of the First Immanuel Evangelical Lutheran Church in Chicago, and Adrian Navarre.