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THE BEST OF 2014: Classical music and opera
BY ANDREW PATNER | FOR SUN-TIMES MEDIA 2014 was a year of much news in the local classical and opera worlds — the naming of a new president of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association, the announced...
View ArticleRiccardo Muti’s ‘Winter’ return celebrates Tchaikovsky, Brahms
BY ANDREW PATNER | FOR THE SUN-TIMES Riccardo Muti is back on the podium and back in the music director’s suite at a time of many changes at Orchestra Hall. Jeff Alexander, the Chicago Symphony...
View ArticleRiccardo Muti champions Scriabin works in rousing CSO program
BY ANDREW PATNER | FOR THE SUN-TIMES Conductors, even those with wide interests, can be particularly committed to early influences and experiences. Looking only at recent leaders of the Chicago...
View ArticleChicago Symphony Orchestra announces its 125th season
BY ANDREW PATNER | FOR THE SUN-TIMES The Chicago Symphony Orchestra will launch its 125th season in September with a flurry of activity by the orchestra and its charismatic music director Riccardo...
View ArticleCSO, Riccardo Muti deliver triumphant Mozart ‘Requiem’
By Kyle MacMillan | For the Sun-Times When Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart died Dec. 5, 1791, he famously left incomplete his Requiem, K. 626, but the valedictory work has nonetheless gone on to claim a place...
View ArticleBeethoven’s ‘Triple’ and Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No 2 a winning combination...
BY KYLE MACMILLAN | FOR THE SUN-TIMES During an especially fertile creative period in 1803-04, Ludwig van Beethoven composed the first-ever concerto for piano trio, and it remains the only work for...
View ArticleCSO contract talks getting down to wire
As the Chicago Symphony Orchestra heads towards the opening concert of its 125th anniversary season Thursday, and the gala Symphony Ball on Saturday evening, contract talks also are moving down to the...
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Upbeat financial news (and more) from the Chicago Symphony Orchestra
The Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association (CSOA) released the results of fiscal year 2015 (July 1, 2014–June 30, 2015) at its annual meeting Thursday at Symphony Center. And there was good news. The...
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Zubin Mehta’s relationship with the Israel Philharmonic endures
It was in 1961 that Zubin Mehta — then in Vienna, and without work at the moment — got a call from the Israel Philharmonic. Could he fill in for Maestro Eugene Ormandy, renowned conductor of the...
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Under Muti, the CSO’s musicians probe the human voice in their instruments
The Chicago Symphony Orchestra is in exceptionally glorious form at the moment. For proof you need look no further than the final concerts of 2015 being led by Maestro Riccardo Muti. Listening to this...
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