Dear Friends,
Marc Geelhoed, the Associate Music Editor and Classical Music Writer for Time Out Chicago wrote recently of Rush Hour: “Rush Hour Concerts is the only concert series I know of that puts the listener first.”
We think a lot about you, the listener, at Rush Hour — we created this now well-known format with you [...]

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Yet another successful concert and partnership with the Poetry Foundation! As many of you may recall, last year Rush Hour and the Poetry Foundation teamed up to present Bach’s Two-Part Inventions alongside poetry readings. It was only fitting that we followed last year’s innovative program this season with Bach’s Three-Part Inventions, each paired with [...]

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Last night Rush Hour held the second annual Inventions on Inventions, celebrating the multiple voices in both Bach’s counterpoint and in poetry: three pianists played Bach’s Three-Part Inventions and three poets read their work.
Tara Maguire, Rush Hour intern, spoke with three other members of the Rush Hour community about their involvement with poetry: Susan Lyons, [...]

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“Come and show me another city with lifted head singing/so proud to be alive…” challenged poet Carl Sandburg. Of the many musicians, artists, poets and writers who have portrayed Chicago through jazz, painting, poetry or prose, perhaps Sandburg did it best.
He called Chicago the “City of the Big Shoulders”, likening it to a corn-fed fighter, [...]

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