10 episodes
The Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concerts | WFMT WFMT
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4.7 • 6 Ratings
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Each week WFMT goes live to the Chicago Cultural Center for concerts with emerging artists from around the world, produced by the International Music Foundation. Some shows offer solo recitals while others feature ensembles. The concerts take place beneath the world’s largest Tiffany-domed ceiling, part of a landmark building that originally housed the Chicago Public Library. The Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concerts are named for British pianist Myra Hess who organized some 1,700 free lunchtime concerts for Londoners during World War II, in the years of nightly air raids.
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Anita Graef and Louise Chan
Cellist Anita Graef and pianist Louise Chan play music by Nikolai Kapustin, Arvo Pärt, Claude Debussy, Amy Beach, Felix Mendelssohn, and L.V. Beethoven, live from the Seventeenth Church of Christ, Scientist, Chicago.
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Chris Reynolds, piano
Pianist Chris Reynolds plays music by K-Pop sensations Aespa and Red Velvet, arrangements for piano by himself, and Mussorgsky, live from the Seventeenth Church of Christ, Scientist, Chicago.
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Claire Huangci, piano
Pianist Claire Huangci plays music by Schubert, Chopin and Gershwin, live from the Seventeenth Church of Christ, Scientist, Chicago.
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Susan Kang, flute, and Beilin Han, piano
Susan Kang, flute, and Beilin Han, piano, play music by William Grant Still, Clara Schumann, and Guillaume Connesson, live from the Seventeenth Church of Christ, Scientist, Chicago.
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Reed Tetzloff, piano
Pianist Reed Tetzloff plays music by Clara Schumann and Johannes Brahms, live from the Seventeenth Church of Christ, Scientist, Chicago.
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Ilya Poletaev, piano
Pianist Ilya Poletaev plays music by Louis Couperin and Robert Schumann, live from the Seventeenth Church of Christ, Scientist, Chicago.