Classical Music Chicago Summer 2023
Rush Hour Concerts
Tuesdays from 5:45 - 6:30 pm
St. James Cathedral – 65 E Huron Street, Chicago
DAME MYRA HESS MEMORIAL CONCERTS
Wednesdays 12:15 - 1:00 pm
Seventeenth Church of Christ, Scientist, Chicago - 55 E. Wacker Drive
TICKETS Free
August 1, 2023
Deborah Sobol Memorial
Rush Hour Concert - 5:45 pm
Reena ESMAIL
Piano Quintet (RHC Premiere)
Robert SCHUMANN
Piano Quintet in E-flat Major, Op. 44
Avalon String Quartet
Blaise Magnière and Marie Wang, violins;
Anthony Devroye, viola; Cheng-Hou Lee, cello;
and Oksana Ezhokina, piano
August 2, 2023
DAME MYRA HESS CONCERT - 12:15pm
Amy BEACH
Romance for violin and piano, Op. 23
Marie JAËLL
Ballade
Ingeborg von BRONSART
Phantasie, op. 21
Cécile CHAMINADE
Sérénade Espagnole for Violin and Piano, Op. 150,
arr. F. Kreisler
Clara SCHUMANN
Three Romances for Violin and Piano Op. 22
Shelby Yamin, violin and Lillia Woolschlager, piano
August 8, 2023
Ceremonies and Celebrations
Rush Hour Concert - 5:45 pm
(All works on the program are RHC Premieres)
Adolphus HAILSTORK
Fanfare on Amazing Grace
Maddalena CASULANA
Suite of Madrigals for Brass Quintet
Jennifer HIGDON
Selections from Ceremonies
Jeanne DEMESSIEUX
Te Deum for solo organ
Leo SOWERBY
Festival Musick
Axiom Brass
Dorival Puccini, Jr. and Christopher Scanlon, trumpet;
Abby Black, French horn; Corey Sansolo, trombone;
Kevin Harrison, tuba;
and Stephen Buzard, organ
August 9, 2023
DAME MYRA HESS CONCERT - 12:15pm
All - Franz LISZT Program
Soirée de Vienne No. 6, S. 427/6ii
Nuages gris (Trübe Wolken), S. 199
En rêve (Nocturne), S. 207
Anneès de pèlerinage III, S. 163: Les jeux d’eau à la villa d’Este
Anneès de pèlerinage II, S. 161: Après une lecture du Dante: Fantasia quasi sonata
Kyle Orth, piano
August 15, 2023
Violins of Hope and FilAm Foundation
Rush Hour Concert - 5:45 pm
(All works on this program are RHC Premieres)
Arnold SCHOENBERG
String Quartet in D Major
Florence PRICE
Quintet for Piano and Strings, No. 2
Ottorino RESPIGHI
Piano Quintet in F minor
Marian Mayuga and Brent Taghap, violins;
Larissa Mapua, viola; Ezra Escobar, cello;
Magnus Villanueva, piano
August 16, 2023
DAME MYRA HESS CONCERT - 12:15pm
Alfred SCHNITTKE
Suite in the Old Style for cello and piano
Igor STRAVINSKY
Suite Italienne (from Pulcinella)
Sulkhan TSINTSADZE
Five Pieces on Georgian Folk Themes
Mon-Puo Lee, cello and Anna Han, piano
August 22, 2023
Season Finale: Song and Dance
Rush Hour Concert - 5:45 pm
Bongani NDODANA-BREEN
Two Nguni Dances (RHC Premiere)
Felix MENDELSSOHN
Piano Trio No. 1 in D minor
Trio Diorama
MingHuan Xu, violin; Nick Photinos, cello; Winston Choi, piano
August 23, 2023
Dame Myra Hess Concert - 12:15 pm
Nadia BOULANGER
Three Pieces for Cello and Piano
Manuel de FALLA; arr. Maurice Maréchal
Suite populaire espagnole
Claude DEBUSSY
Sonata
Maurice RAVEL; trans. Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
Alborada del Gracioso from Miroirs, M. 43
Mario CASTELNUOVO-TEDESCO; arr. Jascha Heifetz
Sea-Murmurs
Rainer Crosett, cello and Kuang-Hao Huang, violin
August 30, 2023
Dame Myra Hess Concert - 12:15 pm
Samuel BARBER
Canzone
Charles T. GRIFFES
Poem for flute and piano, A. 93
William Grant STILL
Songs for Flute and Piano
1. Bayou Home
2. If You Should Go
3. Song for the Lonely
Lowell LIEBERMANN
Sonata for flute and piano, Op. 23
Amir Hoshang Farsi, flute and Yun Janice Lu, piano
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