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Civic Opera House

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11/10/1941
Duke Ellington
CommentEllington Orchestra w. Django Reinhardt.
Released on Prima DC.01/02 - 'Duke Ellington & His Orchestra with Django Reinhardt: Chicago Civic Opera House, November 10, 1941'.
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11/10/1946
Duke Ellington
Set 1Ring Dem Bells
Jumpin Pumkins
Beale Street Blues
Memphis Blues
The Golden Feather
The Air Conditioned Jungle
A Very Unbooted Character
Sultry Sunset
Magnolias Just Dripping With Molasses
Hearsay
There Was Nobody Looking
Happy Go Lucky Local
Things Ain't What They Used to Be
Hawatha
Ride, Red Ride
A Blues Riff
Improvisation No. 2
Honeysuckle Rose
Blue Skies
Set 2Star Spangled Banner
In A Mellow Tone
Solid Old Man
Come Sunday, Work Song
Rugged Romeo
Circle
Dancers In Love
Coloatura
Frankie & Johnnie
Caravan
Take The 'A' Train
Mello Ditty
Pugue
Jam A Ditty
Magenta Haze
Pitter Panther Patter
Suburbanite
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02/25/1968
Jimi Hendrix Experience
Set 1Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Fire
The Wind Cries Mary
Foxy Lady
I Don't Live Today
Hey Joe
Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window?
Manic Depression
Like a Rolling Stone
Purple Haze
Set 2
Set 3
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10/07/1968
Cream
Set 1Early Show:

White Room
Politician
I'm So Glad
Sitting On Top Of The World
Sunshine Of Your Love
Crossroads
Traintime >
Toad
Set 2Late Show:

White Room
Politician
I'm So Glad
Sunshine Of Your Love
Crossroads
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08/15/1970
Frank Sinatra
Set 1
Set 2
Set 3
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04/02/1971
Jethro Tull
Set 1Nothing is Easy
Aqualung
Hymn 43
My God
Cross Eyed Mary
With You There To Help Me
Wind Up
Locomotive Breath
Wind Up Reprise
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03/03/1973
Freddie Hubbard
Set 1Gibraltar
CommentFreddie Hubbard - Trumpet
Stanley Turrentine - Tenor Saxophone
Herbie Hancock - Keyboards
Eric Gale - Electric Guitar
Ron Carter - Double Bass
Jack DeJohnette - Drums
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03/10/1987
Crowded House
Set 1This Is Massive
Something So Strong
World Where You Live
Mansion In The Slums/Mean To Me
One Step Ahead
That?s What I Call Love
Hole In The River
Don?t Dream Its Over
Now We?re Getting Somewhere
Sister Madly
Better Be Home Soon
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04/21/1993
Van Morrison
Set 1I'm Not Feeling It Anymore, See Me Through/Soldier of Fortune, Domino, Haunts of Ancient Peace /*Help Me, Tore Down a la Rimbaud, So Quiet In Here/That's Where It's At, Cleaning Windows/Vanlose Stairway / Trans-Euro Train, Northern Muse (Solid Ground)/No Prima Donna, A Town Called Paradise/Did Ye Get Healed?/It's All In The Game / Make It Real One More Time, Moondance/My Funny Valentine, Brown Eyed Girl, In The Garden/Daring Night, **Lonely Avenue, *Good Morning Little Schoolgirl, Gloria,
Set 2
Set 3
Comment* w/ Junior Wells, ** w/ Jimmy Witherspoon
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04/22/1993
Van Morrison
Set 1I'm Not Feeling It Anymore, Why Must I Always Explain?, See Me Through/Soldier of Fortune, All Saints Day, Cleaning Windows/Vanlose Stairway/Trans-Euro Train, It Fills You Up, Sweet Thing/My Lagan Love, Star of the County Down, A Town Called Paradise/Did Ye Get Healed?/It's All In The Game/Make It Real One More Time, Enlightenment, Brown Eyed Girl, In The Garden/Daring Night, Moondance/My Funny Valentine, *Lonely Avenue, Gloria,
Set 2
Set 3
Comment* w/ Junior Wells
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04/23/1993
Van Morrison
Set 1I'm Not Feeling It Anymore, Why Must I Always Explain?, See Me Through/Soldier of Fortune, All Saints Day, Domino, Whenever God Shines His Light, Tupelo Honey, It Fills You Up, *Help Me, A Town Called Paradise, Sweet Thing/My Lagan Love, Star of the County Down, Northern Muse (Solid Ground)/No Prima Donna, Did Ye Get Healed?/It's All In The Game / Make It Real One More Time, **Lonely Avenue, *Good Morning Little Schoolgirl, Gloria,
Set 2
Set 3
Comment* w/ Junior Wells, ** w/ Jimmy Witherspoon
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05/14/1993
Frank Sinatra
Set 1
Set 2
Set 3
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05/15/1993
Frank Sinatra
Set 1My Kind Of Town
I’ve Got The World On A String
All Or Nothing At All
For Once In My Life
Come Rain Or Come Shine
I’ve Got You Under My Skin
Witchcraft
Luck Be A Lady
Street Of Dreams
What Now, My Love?
My Funny Valentine
New York, New York
I Guess I’ll Hang My Tears Out To Dry
Summer Wind
Mack The Knife
My Way
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05/16/1993
Frank Sinatra
Set 1
Set 2
Set 3
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11/??/1999
Renée Fleming
Comment"Alcina" by G.F. Handel

Alcina - Renee Fleming
Ruggerio - Jennifer Larmore
Morgana - Natalie Dessay
Bradamante - Kathleen Kuhlmann
Melisso - Stephen Morscheck
Oberto - Robin Blitch Wiper
Oronto - Rockwell Blake

Chicago Lyric Opera, Chicago, Illinois
Conductor - John Nelson
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10/14/2001
Björk
Set 1Frosti
Overture
All Is Full Of Love
Harm Of Will
Unravel
It's Not Up To You
Cocoon
J?ga
Unison
You've Been Flirting Again
Isobel
I've Seen It All
Generous Palmstroke
Pagan Poetry
Army Of Me
Hyperballad

Encore 1:
Anchor Song
Human Behaviour

Encore 2:
In Our Hands
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11/20/2005
Jethro Tull
Set 1Life Is A Long Song
Skating Away on the Thin Ice of a New Day
Jack-in-the-Green
Beggar's Farm
Up to Me
Weathercock
Griminelli's Lament
Aurora
Wond'ring Aloud
Cheap Day Return/Mother Goose
She is Like the Swallow
Bour
Set 2Nocturne/Bohemian Rhapsody
Kashmir
Cross-Eyed Mary
Hymn 43
Morris Minus
My God
Budapest
Aqualung
Wind-Up
Locomotove Breath
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05/09/2006
Sigur Rós
75530
Set 1Takk..., Glósóli, Sæglópur, Njósnavélin, E-bow, Gong > Andvari, Hoppípolla > Með Blóðnasir, Olsen Olsen, Viðrar vel til Loftárása, Svo Hljótt, Heysátan,
Enc:
Dauðalagið, Popplagið
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05/09/2006
Amiina
75582
Set 1Litli Blár / Bláskjár
Fjarskanistan
Skranjólína
Djambó (the interlude)
Hemipode
Ammælis
CommentOpening For Sigur Ros
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05/01/2007
Loreena McKennitt
Set 1She Moved Through The Fair
The Gates Of Istanbul
The Mummer's Dance
Bonny Portmore
Marco Polo
The Highwayman
Dante's Prayer
The Bonny Swans
Caravanserai
Set 2Raglan Road
The Mystic's Dream
Santiago
The Lady Of Shalott
Beneath A Phrygian Sky
The Old-Ways
Never-Ending Road (Amhràn Duit)
Huron Beltane (The Fire Dance)
Penelope's Song
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05/14/2007
Damien Rice
Set 1(extended piano intro) ->
9 Crimes*
Me, My Yoke and I %
Volcano
Delicate
Elephant
Rat Within The Grain^
The Professor
Amie/sex change
Rootless Tree
Coconut Skins ->
Woman Like A Man
Cross Eyed Bear
I Remember
Cannonball (unplugged)

Set 2ENCORE:
The Blower's Daughter
Cheers Darlin'
Comment* Damien solo
% 1/2 the song played on vox
^ Damien & Vyvienne
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07/20/2007
Zappa Plays Zappa
Set 1Echidna's Arf (Of You)
My Guitar Wants to Kill Your Mama
Dirty Love
Zoot Allures
Son of Suzy Creamcheese >
Brown Shoes Don't make It >
America Drinks and Goes Home
City of Tiny Lites
Pygmy Twylyte >
Montana >
Cheepnis
// Advance Romance >
Carolina Hardcore Ecstasy
Dumb All Over >
What's New In Baltimore?
Dupree's Paradise >
Uncle Remus >
Willie the Pimp
Joe's Garage
Wind Up Working In A Gas Station >
San Ber'dino
The Illinois Enema Bandit
Wild Love >
Yo' Mama
band intros
encores:
Cosmic Debris
Muffin Man >
G-Spot Tornado
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12/12/2011
Wilco
Set 1One Sunday Morning (Song For Jane Smiley's Boyfriend)
Poor Places
Art of Almost
I Might
Misunderstood
I Am Trying To Break Your Heart
One Wing
Rising Red Lung
Impossible Germany
Far, Far Away
What Light
Born Alone
Jesus, Etc.
Capitol City
War On War
Box Full Of Letters
Pot Kettle Black
Dawned On Me
A Shot In The Arm

E1:
Whole Love
Heavy Metal Drummer
Candyfloss
I'm The Man Who Loves You
Outta Mind (Outta Sight)


E2:
Cruel To Be Kind
You Are Not Alone
The Weight
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11/21/2025
Billy Corgan
Set 1Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness *
Tonight, Tonight > ~, &
Jellybelly !
Galapogos @, #
Thirty-Three $
Tonight, Tonight Reprise &
Beautiful %, #
Muzzle !, @
Lily (My One and Only) !, @
Stumbleine &
Thru the Eyes of Ruby
Set 2In the Arms of Sleep #
1979 $
By Starlight %
X.Y.U. *
Bullet with Butterfly Wings !, %, @, #
To Forgive $
Cupid de Locke %
Porcelina of the Vast Oceans > #, %, !, @
Tonight, Tonight ^, $, @, %, #, !
Set 3
Comment* Lyric Orchestra only
~ first verse and chorus only
& Lyric Chorus and Orchestra only
! Dominick Valdés Chenes sings
@ Sydney Mancasola sings
# Zoie Reams sings
$ Billy Corgan sings
% Edward Parks sings
^ whole song
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11/22/2025
Billy Corgan
Set 1Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness *
Tonight, Tonight > ~, &
Jellybelly !
Galapogos @, #
Thirty-Three $
Tonight, Tonight Reprise &
Beautiful %, #
Muzzle !, @
Lily (My One and Only) !, @
Stumbleine &
Thru the Eyes of Ruby @, %, !, #
Set 2In the Arms of Sleep #
1979 $
By Starlight %
X.Y.U. *
Bullet with Butterfly Wings !, %, @, #
To Forgive $
Cupid de Locke %
Porcelina of the Vast Oceans > #, %, !, @
Tonight, Tonight ^, $, @, %, #, !
Set 3
Comment* Lyric Orchestra only
~ first verse and chorus only
& Lyric Chorus and Orchestra only
! Dominick Valdés Chenes sings
@ Sydney Mancasola sings
# Zoie Reams sings
$ Billy Corgan sings
% Edward Parks sings
^ whole song
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11/26/2025
Billy Corgan
Set 1Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness *
Tonight, Tonight > ~, &
Jellybelly !
Galapogos @, #
Thirty-Three $
Tonight, Tonight Reprise &
Beautiful %, #
Muzzle !, @
Lily (My One and Only) !, @
Stumbleine &
Thru the Eyes of Ruby @, %, !, #
Set 2In the Arms of Sleep #
1979 $
By Starlight %
X.Y.U. *
Bullet with Butterfly Wings !, %, @, #
To Forgive $
Cupid de Locke %
Porcelina of the Vast Oceans > #, %, !, @
Tonight, Tonight ^, $, @, %, #, !
Set 3
Comment* Lyric Orchestra only
~ first verse and chorus only
& Lyric Chorus and Orchestra only
! Dominick Valdés Chenes sings
@ Sydney Mancasola sings
# Zoie Reams sings
$ Billy Corgan sings
% Edward Parks sings
^ whole song
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