Work by Ezra Clayton Daniels

Distinctive multimedia production will be held at 7:30 p.m. Saturday in A. F. Siebert Chapel

Fifth House Ensemble, a Chicago-based chamber music group, will present a distinctive multimedia production, "Black Violet," in Carthage's A.F. Siebert Chapel on Saturday, April 17. The show will be held at 7:30 p.m. Fifth House Ensemble is a Chamber Ensemble in Residence at Carthage.

"Black Violet" combines music with drawings by Chicago illustrator-writer Ezra Clayton Daniels to tell a story of London's Black Plague of 1665.

Violet is a cat wandering London's streets during the plague, which was blamed on cats. Critics have compared the production, which includes music from Brahms and Villa-Lobos, to a graphic novel or silent film, with music.

Chicago Sun-Times critic Wynne Delacoma calls it "spellbinding" and "an engaging, thoroughly modern encounter with classical music."

The performance is free.