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The New York Times on February 24, 1946, included in its regular column, "It Happens In Music" a piece about Dame Myra Hess and her return to the U.S. to resume performing? Classical Music Chicago proudly carries on her tradition but has taken her work one step further - all concerts are free.

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September 6, 2023

Dame Myra Hess Concerts

Chenxing Huang, piano

Her upcoming season will bring her to concert stages in Chicago, Santa Fe, Los Alamos, New York, Paris, Canada, Portugal, and China, but before that, Chenxing Huang will appear on CMC's Dame Myra Hess Series. Romanticism, via Debusssy, a personal journey with religion and suffering via Liszt, and a modern work that many consider to be a ideal combination of West and East - the qualities of the Western instrument - the piano, with characteristics of Chinese - East - Beijing opera.

Program

Claude DEBUSSY

Préludes, Book II

3. La puerta del Vino: Mouvement de Habanera (Wine Gate)

6. Général Lavine – eccentric: Dans le style et le mouvement d'un Cakewalk

7. La terrasse des audiences du clair de lune: Lent (The Terrace of Moonlight Audiences)

8. Ondine: Scherzando

12. Feux d'artifice: Modérément animé (Fireworks)

Franz LISZT

Variations on “Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen” S.180

Zhang ZHAO

Pi Huang – Moments of Beijing Opera

September 13, 2023

Dame Myra Hess Concerts

John-Henry Crawford, cello

Victor Asuncion, piano

Brooding melancholy and passionate sentimentalism abound in this concert performed by Louisiana-born cellist John-Henry Crawford, lauded for his “polished charisma” and “singing sound” (Philadelphia Inquirer) and Filipino-American pianist Victor Asuncion (praised for his "poised and imaginative playing,” (The Washington Post).

Program

Sergei RACHMANINOFF

Cello Sonata Op. 19

I. Lento – Allegro moderato (G minor)

II. Allegro scherzando (C minor)

III. Andante (E-flat major)

IV. Allegro mosso (G major)

Amy BEACH

4 Sketches, Op.15: III Dreaming

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