Tell us where this photo was taken and win a free Rush Hour t-shirt!

Email Tara at tara@rushhour.org by Thursday, August 2 with the location (please be as specific as possible).
The winner will be randomly drawn from the correct answers submitted via email and at the Ensemble gift table. The winner will be announced on the [...]

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It is my pleasure again this year to curate another concert with Stephen Young of The Poetry Foundation around the music of Johann Sebastian Bach. As Bach followed his Two-Part Inventions with fifteen Three-Part Inventions, or Sinfonias, as they are often called, it seemed logical to follow our Rush Hour ‘06 collaboration in the same [...]

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For those of you who came to our concert last Tuesday dreading contemporary music and anticipating four and something minutes of silence at a piano (or anything else John Cage concocted, for that matter), we think it’s safe to proclaim that the Third Coast Percussion Quartet won over everyone with their great performances of [...]

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Rush Hour is thrilled to spotlight The Very Rev. Joy Rogers, who is the newest addition to the historic St. James Cathedral. From timpani player to critical care nurse, Joy is now the St. James’ provost and can be spotted every week at Rush Hour Concerts, donning her trademark sparkly hat.
Rush Hour: Welcome to Rush [...]

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Tell us where this picture was taken to win your own
Rush Hour t-shirt!

Email Hannah at hannah@rushhour.org by Thursday, July 26 with the location (please be as specific as possible).
The winner will be randomly drawn from the correct answers submitted via email and at the Ensemble gift table. The winner will be announced on the [...]

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We’re very excited to announce that WTTW (Channel 11 in Chicago) is going to re-run their 2006 “Artbeat” segment on Rush Hour on Chicago Tonight.
Filmed at our July 25, 2006 Rush Hour concert, this short (under five minute) segment features music from violinist Yuan-Qing Yu and pianist Deborah Sobol, as well as portions of an [...]

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Thanks to everyone who came to Rush Hour’s piano four hand concert, featuring the music of Schubert performed by pianists James Giles and Deborah Sobol! From a military march to miniature Viennese waltzes and dances, the concert concluded with a masterpiece of the piano four hand genre: Schubert’s Fantasia in F minor.

Pianists James Giles and [...]

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Time, admission, education, culture, age, pre-conceived notions, listening experience: as you’ll read below, these are just a few of the boundaries that we are working to break down at Rush Hour each week.
Common boundaries and barriers that people have shared with me about coming to Rush Hour appear below, paired with Rush Hour’s approach to [...]

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It is my great pleasure to welcome Third Coast Percussion and to introduce these talented individuals to the Rush Hour family. Below is my Q&A with three members of Third Coast - Peter Martin, Robert Dillon and Owen Clayton Condon. Please don’t hesitate to write or call us if you have any additional inquiries - [...]

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As promised in my last week’s post, I’ve compiled a list of recordings and a few books that I find treasurable.  These Schubert pieces for piano four hand are among the greats of the genre, and the books on Schubert and the piano provide terrific insight into piano music, Schubert’s final years during which he [...]

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