Rush Hour Encores
Extend your Rush Hour Concerts experience with Rush Hour Encores at Mayne Stage in Chicago’s Rogers Park neighborhood. Enjoy encores of past Rush Hour summer season performances - plus additional chamber music favorites – from 11 a.m. to noon on selected Sundays.
Sip free coffee and enjoy brunch at Act One Café before or after the performance, or listen in from afar via live broadcast on WFMT 98.7 FM and streaming online.
December 18, 2011
Dmitri Shostakovich: Sonata for Viola and Piano, Op. 147
Dmitri Shostakovich: Piano Preludes Op. 34
Poetry of Boris Pasternak, Anna Akhmatova, and Osip Mandelstam
Kuang-Hao Huang, piano
Anthony Devroye, viola
Clare Cavanagh, reader
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Past Encores
October 23, 2011
Kevin Puts: Arches
Mario Davidovsky: Synchronisms No. 6
Jacob TV: The Body of Your Dreams
Heitor Villa-Lobos: Reed Trio
Andrew Williams, violin
Crystal Hall, oboe
Jennifer Woodrum, clarinet
Karl Rzasa, bassoon
Adam Marks, piano
July 24, 2011
Paul Hindemith: Kleine Kammermusik für fünf Bläser, Op. 24, No. 2
Carl Nielsen: Quintet, Op. 43
April 17, 2011
Songs of Great Britain: Music of Henry Purcell, Gerald Finzi, and Benjamin Britten
Levi Hernandez, baritone
Christopher Allen, piano
March 6, 2011
Haydn: String Quartet No. 2, Op. 76 (“Quinten”)
Bartok: String Quartet No. 3
Gardel: Por Una Cabeza
January 23, 2011
Robert Schumann: Kinderszenen, Op. 15 (“Scenes from Childhood”)
with poetry of Children’s Poet Laureate Mary Ann Hoberman
Claude Debussy: Children’s Corner, L. 113
Kuang-Hao Huang, piano
Deborah Sobol, reader
December 19, 2010
Kevin Puts, Quintet for Piano and Strings (“The Red Snapper”)
Ralph Vaughan Williams, Piano Quintet in C minor
November 28, 2010
Frédéric Chopin, Sonata for Cello and Piano in G minor, Op. 65
Claude Debussy, Sonata for Cello and Piano in D minor
Manuel de Falla, “Nana” – Siete Canciones Populares Españolas
(Seven Popular Spanish Songs)
Brant Taylor, cello
Kuang-Hao Huang, piano
October 24, 2010
François Couperin, “Concert” for two celli
Bela Bartok, Selections from “Duos for Two Cellos”
David Popper, Suite for Two Cellos
Tanya Anisimova, “Caravan”
Jean-Baptiste Barrière, Sonata for two celli
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