Spreading Joy and Community Through Music

With your support, the International Music Foundation continues to fulfill our mission, even in the face of a pandemic. This summer, we reinvented our Rush Hour Concerts as virtual weekly performances that were streamed each Tuesday, July through September. We are together again (virtually) on Wednesdays at the Chicago Cultural Center, enjoying the Dame Myra Hess Concerts. While the pandemic has changed the daily routines for most of us, it has not changed our collective experience of enjoying extraordinary classical music. Without you, our audience, and our artists, there would not be any concerts. During this time, more than ever, we yearn for a connection to each other and to the world beyond our individual homes. Classical performances are a way to spread joy, as well as provide a united, communal experience.