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CSO SOUNDS & STORIES » CSO RADIO: FRITZ REINER CONDUCTS Tuesday, June 9, 2020, at 8:00 p.m. CDT. This program opens with Fritz Reiner—during his first season as the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s sixth music director—leading music from his native Hungary, Kodály’s Dances of Galánta. The world premiere of Copland’s suite from his opera The Tender Land follows, along with Hindemith’sCello
CSO SOUNDS & STORIES » FASCINATIN’ RHYTHM: WHEN RAVEL MET Fascinatin’ rhythm: When Ravel met Gershwin in Jazz Age New York. At first glance, George Gershwin and Maurice Ravel might seem to occupy two different musical worlds, yet they both shared a passion for jazz. In the ’20s, jazz was still a relatively new genre but much as aviator Charles Lindbergh had in 1927, it crossed the Atlantic and CSO SOUNDS & STORIES » MATTHIAS PINTSCHER BALANCES THE Like Leonard Bernstein, Pierre Boulez and Gustav Mahler in the past and Esa-Pekka Salonen today, Matthias Pintscher faces the joy and challenge of juggling careers as both an internationally known composer and conductor. “It’s a wonderful thing,” he said. “It’s a huge advantage or privilege to be working in several capacities, because they are so clearly informing each other mutually. CSO SOUNDS & STORIES » TWO NOTES THAT CHANGED THE FILM CSO at the Movies. John Williams’ score for “Jaws” (1975), considered one of the best soundtracks of all time, centers on a simple two-note motif. The main “shark” theme, which signals impending danger, consists of a pair of alternating notes, identified as either E and F or F and F sharp. Describing this theme as“grinding away at
CSO SOUNDS & STORIES » BERNARD HAITINK ANNOUNCES HIS PLANS Published June 12, 2019. Bernard Haitink, principal conductor of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra from 2006 to 2010, will retire from the podium later this year, after farewell engagements this summer. In an interview with the Dutch publication De Volksrant, the esteemed maestro announced that he will conduct his last concert this weekendin
CSO SOUNDS & STORIES » CPS MUSIC EDUCATOR REFLECTS ON HIS CPS music educator reflects on his path to teaching, building a community. Published May 15, 2018. MIOSM, Negaunee Music Institute. On Wednesday, May 30, at 7pm, musicians from the Civic Orchestra of Chicago, Amundsen High School Orchestra, and Chappell Elementary School beginner strings will perform along with a visual artexhibition created
CSO SOUNDS & STORIES » JEFF ALEXANDER OF VANCOUVER The Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association has appointed Jeff Alexander as its president, effective Jan. 12, 2015. The appointment, announced Sept. 3 by Jay Henderson, chairman of the CSOA board of trustees, ends a nine-month, international search for a successor to Deborah F. Rutter, who announced in December that she had accepted the top post at the Kennedy Center in Washington, CSO SOUNDS & STORIES Introducing Experience CSO. Immerse yourself in the sounds and stories behind the music and musicians of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra through the online. Published January 9, 2021. CSO SOUNDS & STORIES » BEETHOVEN 250: HIS ADVICE TO ROSSINI Beethoven 250: His advice to Rossini. Published March 24, 2020. Beethoven 250. Beethoven: Impressions by His Contemporaries compiles remembrances of the great composer by his friends, teachers and fellow artists. The collection, now in public domain, presents “a remarkably full and convincing picture of Beethoven and his time.”. CSO SOUNDS & STORIES » HOW THE AFTERMATH OF WORLD WAR I How the aftermath of World War I influenced the music of a generation. Like every facet of society, the classical-music world was profoundly marked by World War I. English composer George Butterworth, who was shot at the Battle of Somme in 1916, was perhaps the best known of the composers who died in the devastating 1914-18 conflict. CSO SOUNDS & STORIES » PROGRAM BOOKS Program Books include the notes as well as articles about the music and about Riccardo Muti, the CSO’s pre-eminent music director, the CSO’s world-renowned musicians and esteemed guest artists and ensembles. Program notes from the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s extensive archive are available for reprint. CSO SOUNDS & STORIES » THE ORIGINS OF BRITTEN’S WAR REQUIEM And 1961, the year Britten devoted to the War Requiem, was marred by the building of the Berlin Wall, an ominous escalation of U.S. action in Vietnam, and the incident of the Bay of Pigs. Owen’s poems, “full of the hate of destruction,” and Britten’s new CSO SOUNDS & STORIES » FASCINATIN’ RHYTHM: WHEN RAVEL MET Fascinatin’ rhythm: When Ravel met Gershwin in Jazz Age New York. At first glance, George Gershwin and Maurice Ravel might seem to occupy two different musical worlds, yet they both shared a passion for jazz. In the ’20s, jazz was still a relatively new genre but much as aviator Charles Lindbergh had in 1927, it crossed the Atlantic and CSO SOUNDS & STORIES » LIBRETTO FOR ‘BLUEBEARD’S CASTLE’ That my lips may dry them, and my. Ugye szabad, ugye szabad, Body warm them: Let me, Bluebeard! Kékszakállú! Let me, husband! Nem lesz sötét a te várad, Let the joyous light completely. Megnyitjuk a falat ketten. Flood the darkness from your castle, Szél bejárjon, nap besüssön, Let the breeze in! Let the sun in! CSO SOUNDS & STORIES » CSO PRINCIPAL TRUMPET SINGS PRAISES Adding even more variety, Martin will perform on a piccolo trumpet — a smaller instrument pitched an octave above a normal trumpet — for a Nov. 20-25 series of concerts featuring J.S. Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos. Martin’s piccolo trumpet was produced by Schilke Music Products, which has a fabrication plant in Melrose Park. CSO SOUNDS & STORIES » PIANIST ALICE SARA OTT ‘STILL IN Pianist Alice Sara Ott ‘still in the process of discovering’. Less than two weeks after sensation Yuja Wang performs in Orchestra Hall with China’s NCPA Orchestra, another fast-rising pianist will take the spotlight in the venerable concert venue – Alice Sara Ott. In 2010, replacing Lang Lang on short notice with the London Symphony PONDERING THE ENIGMA OF MAHLER’S SYMPHONY NO. 7 Pondering the enigma of Mahler’s Symphony No. 7. Just a cursory look at the commentaries on Mahler’s Symphony No. 7 in E Minor, and one has the immediate impression that its critics resemble the six blind men examining an elephant: Everyone is very confident, and no one agrees with anyone else. Granted, Mahler is one of the most polarizing CSO SOUNDS & STORIES Introducing Experience CSO. Immerse yourself in the sounds and stories behind the music and musicians of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra through the online. Published January 9, 2021. CSO SOUNDS & STORIES » BEETHOVEN 250: HIS ADVICE TO ROSSINI Beethoven 250: His advice to Rossini. Published March 24, 2020. Beethoven 250. Beethoven: Impressions by His Contemporaries compiles remembrances of the great composer by his friends, teachers and fellow artists. The collection, now in public domain, presents “a remarkably full and convincing picture of Beethoven and his time.”. CSO SOUNDS & STORIES » HOW THE AFTERMATH OF WORLD WAR I How the aftermath of World War I influenced the music of a generation. Like every facet of society, the classical-music world was profoundly marked by World War I. English composer George Butterworth, who was shot at the Battle of Somme in 1916, was perhaps the best known of the composers who died in the devastating 1914-18 conflict. CSO SOUNDS & STORIES » PROGRAM BOOKS Program Books include the notes as well as articles about the music and about Riccardo Muti, the CSO’s pre-eminent music director, the CSO’s world-renowned musicians and esteemed guest artists and ensembles. Program notes from the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s extensive archive are available for reprint. CSO SOUNDS & STORIES » THE ORIGINS OF BRITTEN’S WAR REQUIEM And 1961, the year Britten devoted to the War Requiem, was marred by the building of the Berlin Wall, an ominous escalation of U.S. action in Vietnam, and the incident of the Bay of Pigs. Owen’s poems, “full of the hate of destruction,” and Britten’s new CSO SOUNDS & STORIES » FASCINATIN’ RHYTHM: WHEN RAVEL MET Fascinatin’ rhythm: When Ravel met Gershwin in Jazz Age New York. At first glance, George Gershwin and Maurice Ravel might seem to occupy two different musical worlds, yet they both shared a passion for jazz. In the ’20s, jazz was still a relatively new genre but much as aviator Charles Lindbergh had in 1927, it crossed the Atlantic and CSO SOUNDS & STORIES » LIBRETTO FOR ‘BLUEBEARD’S CASTLE’ That my lips may dry them, and my. Ugye szabad, ugye szabad, Body warm them: Let me, Bluebeard! Kékszakállú! Let me, husband! Nem lesz sötét a te várad, Let the joyous light completely. Megnyitjuk a falat ketten. Flood the darkness from your castle, Szél bejárjon, nap besüssön, Let the breeze in! Let the sun in! CSO SOUNDS & STORIES » CSO PRINCIPAL TRUMPET SINGS PRAISES Adding even more variety, Martin will perform on a piccolo trumpet — a smaller instrument pitched an octave above a normal trumpet — for a Nov. 20-25 series of concerts featuring J.S. Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos. Martin’s piccolo trumpet was produced by Schilke Music Products, which has a fabrication plant in Melrose Park. CSO SOUNDS & STORIES » PIANIST ALICE SARA OTT ‘STILL IN Pianist Alice Sara Ott ‘still in the process of discovering’. Less than two weeks after sensation Yuja Wang performs in Orchestra Hall with China’s NCPA Orchestra, another fast-rising pianist will take the spotlight in the venerable concert venue – Alice Sara Ott. In 2010, replacing Lang Lang on short notice with the London Symphony PONDERING THE ENIGMA OF MAHLER’S SYMPHONY NO. 7 Pondering the enigma of Mahler’s Symphony No. 7. Just a cursory look at the commentaries on Mahler’s Symphony No. 7 in E Minor, and one has the immediate impression that its critics resemble the six blind men examining an elephant: Everyone is very confident, and no one agrees with anyone else. Granted, Mahler is one of the most polarizing CSO SOUNDS & STORIES » CSO SESSIONS CSO Sessions, a premium streaming series starting Oct. 1, provides a front-row seat to the exceptional artistry of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in works of composers of the past and of present. With CSO musicians as guides, discover programs that connect listeners to the transformative power of music, filmed in Orchestra Hall at Symphony CSO SOUNDS & STORIES » PROGRAM BOOKS Program Books include the notes as well as articles about the music and about Riccardo Muti, the CSO’s pre-eminent music director, the CSO’s world-renowned musicians and esteemed guest artists and ensembles. Program notes from the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s extensive archive are available for reprint. CSO SOUNDS & STORIES » CSO AT THE MOVIES CSO at the Movies. Now in its 15th season under the auspices of Symphony Center Presents, this popular series fuses two great art forms: cinema and classical music. While full-length films unspool above the stage, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra performs scores by cinematic masters such as Bernard Herrmann, Nino Rota and JohnWilliams.
CSO SOUNDS & STORIES » CSO RADIO: FRITZ REINER CONDUCTS Tuesday, June 9, 2020, at 8:00 p.m. CDT. This program opens with Fritz Reiner—during his first season as the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s sixth music director—leading music from his native Hungary, Kodály’s Dances of Galánta. The world premiere of Copland’s suite from his opera The Tender Land follows, along with Hindemith’sCello
CSO SOUNDS & STORIES » FASCINATIN’ RHYTHM: WHEN RAVEL MET Fascinatin’ rhythm: When Ravel met Gershwin in Jazz Age New York. At first glance, George Gershwin and Maurice Ravel might seem to occupy two different musical worlds, yet they both shared a passion for jazz. In the ’20s, jazz was still a relatively new genre but much as aviator Charles Lindbergh had in 1927, it crossed the Atlantic and CSO SOUNDS & STORIES » MATTHIAS PINTSCHER BALANCES THE Like Leonard Bernstein, Pierre Boulez and Gustav Mahler in the past and Esa-Pekka Salonen today, Matthias Pintscher faces the joy and challenge of juggling careers as both an internationally known composer and conductor. “It’s a wonderful thing,” he said. “It’s a huge advantage or privilege to be working in several capacities, because they are so clearly informing each other mutually. CSO SOUNDS & STORIES » TWO NOTES THAT CHANGED THE FILM CSO at the Movies. John Williams’ score for “Jaws” (1975), considered one of the best soundtracks of all time, centers on a simple two-note motif. The main “shark” theme, which signals impending danger, consists of a pair of alternating notes, identified as either E and F or F and F sharp. Describing this theme as“grinding away at
CSO SOUNDS & STORIES » BERNARD HAITINK ANNOUNCES HIS PLANS Published June 12, 2019. Bernard Haitink, principal conductor of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra from 2006 to 2010, will retire from the podium later this year, after farewell engagements this summer. In an interview with the Dutch publication De Volksrant, the esteemed maestro announced that he will conduct his last concert this weekendin
CSO SOUNDS & STORIES » CPS MUSIC EDUCATOR REFLECTS ON HIS CPS music educator reflects on his path to teaching, building a community. Published May 15, 2018. MIOSM, Negaunee Music Institute. On Wednesday, May 30, at 7pm, musicians from the Civic Orchestra of Chicago, Amundsen High School Orchestra, and Chappell Elementary School beginner strings will perform along with a visual artexhibition created
CSO SOUNDS & STORIES » JEFF ALEXANDER OF VANCOUVER The Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association has appointed Jeff Alexander as its president, effective Jan. 12, 2015. The appointment, announced Sept. 3 by Jay Henderson, chairman of the CSOA board of trustees, ends a nine-month, international search for a successor to Deborah F. Rutter, who announced in December that she had accepted the top post at the Kennedy Center in Washington, CSO SOUNDS & STORIES Introducing Experience CSO. Immerse yourself in the sounds and stories behind the music and musicians of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra through the online. Published January 9, 2021. CSO SOUNDS & STORIES » BEETHOVEN 250: HIS ADVICE TO ROSSINI Beethoven 250: His advice to Rossini. Published March 24, 2020. Beethoven 250. Beethoven: Impressions by His Contemporaries compiles remembrances of the great composer by his friends, teachers and fellow artists. The collection, now in public domain, presents “a remarkably full and convincing picture of Beethoven and his time.”. CSO SOUNDS & STORIES » HOW THE AFTERMATH OF WORLD WAR I How the aftermath of World War I influenced the music of a generation. Like every facet of society, the classical-music world was profoundly marked by World War I. English composer George Butterworth, who was shot at the Battle of Somme in 1916, was perhaps the best known of the composers who died in the devastating 1914-18 conflict. CSO SOUNDS & STORIES » CSO PRINCIPAL TRUMPET SINGS PRAISES Adding even more variety, Martin will perform on a piccolo trumpet — a smaller instrument pitched an octave above a normal trumpet — for a Nov. 20-25 series of concerts featuring J.S. Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos. Martin’s piccolo trumpet was produced by Schilke Music Products, which has a fabrication plant in Melrose Park. CSO SOUNDS & STORIES » A SOCIALLY CONSCIOUS TERENCE A socially conscious Terence Blanchard makes music his megaphone. Just recently, a man walked up to trumpeter and composer Terence Blanchard after one of his performances. He told Blanchard he was expecting to hear the lush melodies of “A Tale of God’s Will (A Requiem for Katrina),” Blanchard’s Grammy-winning work from 2007. But instead CSO SOUNDS & STORIES » BERNARD HAITINK ANNOUNCES HIS PLANS Published June 12, 2019. Bernard Haitink, principal conductor of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra from 2006 to 2010, will retire from the podium later this year, after farewell engagements this summer. In an interview with the Dutch publication De Volksrant, the esteemed maestro announced that he will conduct his last concert this weekendin
CSO SOUNDS & STORIES » PIANIST ALICE SARA OTT ‘STILL IN Pianist Alice Sara Ott ‘still in the process of discovering’. Less than two weeks after sensation Yuja Wang performs in Orchestra Hall with China’s NCPA Orchestra, another fast-rising pianist will take the spotlight in the venerable concert venue – Alice Sara Ott. In 2010, replacing Lang Lang on short notice with the London Symphony PONDERING THE ENIGMA OF MAHLER’S SYMPHONY NO. 7 Pondering the enigma of Mahler’s Symphony No. 7. Just a cursory look at the commentaries on Mahler’s Symphony No. 7 in E Minor, and one has the immediate impression that its critics resemble the six blind men examining an elephant: Everyone is very confident, and no one agrees with anyone else. Granted, Mahler is one of the most polarizing CSO SOUNDS & STORIES » JEFF ALEXANDER OF VANCOUVER The Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association has appointed Jeff Alexander as its president, effective Jan. 12, 2015. The appointment, announced Sept. 3 by Jay Henderson, chairman of the CSOA board of trustees, ends a nine-month, international search for a successor to Deborah F. Rutter, who announced in December that she had accepted the top post at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DAVID MCGILL BASSOON 37 David McGill Bassoon Appointed principal bassoon in 1996 by then-music director Daniel Barenboim, bassoonist-author David McGill began his tenure with the Chicago CSO SOUNDS & STORIES Introducing Experience CSO. Immerse yourself in the sounds and stories behind the music and musicians of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra through the online. Published January 9, 2021. CSO SOUNDS & STORIES » BEETHOVEN 250: HIS ADVICE TO ROSSINI Beethoven 250: His advice to Rossini. Published March 24, 2020. Beethoven 250. Beethoven: Impressions by His Contemporaries compiles remembrances of the great composer by his friends, teachers and fellow artists. The collection, now in public domain, presents “a remarkably full and convincing picture of Beethoven and his time.”. CSO SOUNDS & STORIES » HOW THE AFTERMATH OF WORLD WAR I How the aftermath of World War I influenced the music of a generation. Like every facet of society, the classical-music world was profoundly marked by World War I. English composer George Butterworth, who was shot at the Battle of Somme in 1916, was perhaps the best known of the composers who died in the devastating 1914-18 conflict. CSO SOUNDS & STORIES » CSO PRINCIPAL TRUMPET SINGS PRAISES Adding even more variety, Martin will perform on a piccolo trumpet — a smaller instrument pitched an octave above a normal trumpet — for a Nov. 20-25 series of concerts featuring J.S. Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos. Martin’s piccolo trumpet was produced by Schilke Music Products, which has a fabrication plant in Melrose Park. CSO SOUNDS & STORIES » A SOCIALLY CONSCIOUS TERENCE A socially conscious Terence Blanchard makes music his megaphone. Just recently, a man walked up to trumpeter and composer Terence Blanchard after one of his performances. He told Blanchard he was expecting to hear the lush melodies of “A Tale of God’s Will (A Requiem for Katrina),” Blanchard’s Grammy-winning work from 2007. But instead CSO SOUNDS & STORIES » BERNARD HAITINK ANNOUNCES HIS PLANS Published June 12, 2019. Bernard Haitink, principal conductor of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra from 2006 to 2010, will retire from the podium later this year, after farewell engagements this summer. In an interview with the Dutch publication De Volksrant, the esteemed maestro announced that he will conduct his last concert this weekendin
CSO SOUNDS & STORIES » PIANIST ALICE SARA OTT ‘STILL IN Pianist Alice Sara Ott ‘still in the process of discovering’. Less than two weeks after sensation Yuja Wang performs in Orchestra Hall with China’s NCPA Orchestra, another fast-rising pianist will take the spotlight in the venerable concert venue – Alice Sara Ott. In 2010, replacing Lang Lang on short notice with the London Symphony PONDERING THE ENIGMA OF MAHLER’S SYMPHONY NO. 7 Pondering the enigma of Mahler’s Symphony No. 7. Just a cursory look at the commentaries on Mahler’s Symphony No. 7 in E Minor, and one has the immediate impression that its critics resemble the six blind men examining an elephant: Everyone is very confident, and no one agrees with anyone else. Granted, Mahler is one of the most polarizing CSO SOUNDS & STORIES » JEFF ALEXANDER OF VANCOUVER The Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association has appointed Jeff Alexander as its president, effective Jan. 12, 2015. The appointment, announced Sept. 3 by Jay Henderson, chairman of the CSOA board of trustees, ends a nine-month, international search for a successor to Deborah F. Rutter, who announced in December that she had accepted the top post at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DAVID MCGILL BASSOON 37 David McGill Bassoon Appointed principal bassoon in 1996 by then-music director Daniel Barenboim, bassoonist-author David McGill began his tenure with the Chicago CSO SOUNDS & STORIES » CSORADIO Every program is designed to illustrate fascinating stories inside the music, as well as offering insights from the performers themselves. Listen to complete shows here and tune in weekly to WFMT-FM (98.7) at 8 p.m. (Central) each Sunday evening for the broadcast. As a supplement to the Sunday-night series, “From the CSO’s Archives:The
CSO SOUNDS & STORIES » CSO RADIO: FRITZ REINER CONDUCTS Tuesday, June 9, 2020, at 8:00 p.m. CDT. This program opens with Fritz Reiner—during his first season as the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s sixth music director—leading music from his native Hungary, Kodály’s Dances of Galánta. The world premiere of Copland’s suite from his opera The Tender Land follows, along with Hindemith’sCello
CSO SOUNDS & STORIES » THE ORIGINS OF BRITTEN’S WAR REQUIEM And 1961, the year Britten devoted to the War Requiem, was marred by the building of the Berlin Wall, an ominous escalation of U.S. action in Vietnam, and the incident of the Bay of Pigs. Owen’s poems, “full of the hate of destruction,” and Britten’s new CSO SOUNDS & STORIES » A SOCIALLY CONSCIOUS TERENCE A socially conscious Terence Blanchard makes music his megaphone. Just recently, a man walked up to trumpeter and composer Terence Blanchard after one of his performances. He told Blanchard he was expecting to hear the lush melodies of “A Tale of God’s Will (A Requiem for Katrina),” Blanchard’s Grammy-winning work from 2007. But instead CSO SOUNDS & STORIES » CSO RADIO: SIR GEORG SOLTI CONDUCTS From the CSO’s Archives: Maestro’s Choice—For All Music Lovers in These Difficult Times. Listen now on-demand! Sir Georg Solti, eighth music director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra from 1969 until 1991, begins this program with the overture to Mendelssohn’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Mozart’s C minor mass with the Chicago Symphony Chorus (and Anne Sofie von Otter in her U.S CSO SOUNDS & STORIES » MY FAVORITE CSO: KEITH BUNCKE The Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s commercial recording legacy began on May 1, 1916, when second music director Frederick Stock led the Wedding March from Mendelssohn’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream for the Columbia Graphophone Company.The Orchestra has since amassed an extraordinary, award-winning discography on a number of labels—including Angel, CBS, Deutsche Grammophon, Erato, CSO SOUNDS & STORIES » MATTHIAS PINTSCHER BALANCES THE Like Leonard Bernstein, Pierre Boulez and Gustav Mahler in the past and Esa-Pekka Salonen today, Matthias Pintscher faces the joy and challenge of juggling careers as both an internationally known composer and conductor. “It’s a wonderful thing,” he said. “It’s a huge advantage or privilege to be working in several capacities, because they are so clearly informing each other mutually. CSO SOUNDS & STORIES » RICCARDO MUTI TO REMAIN CSO MUSIC The 2018-19 Season. Riccardo Muti will remain Zell Music Director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra through the 2021-22 season, extending his contract for two years. The contract extension was announced Jan. 30 by Helen Zell, chair of the Board of Trustees of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association, and Jeff Alexander, president of theCSOA.
CSO SOUNDS & STORIES » DANIEL GINGRICH, HORN CSO Musicians. A native of west suburban Stickney, Daniel Gingrich was a member of the Chicago Youth Orchestra and the Civic Orchestra of Chicago (1969–72) while studying with the Chicago Symphony’s Richard Oldberg. After attending Roosevelt University’s Chicago Musical College (now Chicago College of Performing Arts), he joinedthe
CSO SOUNDS & STORIES » MY FAVORITE CSO: DANNY LAI For My Favorite CSO, we asked members of the Chicago Symphony for their favorite recordings (and a few honorable mentions) from the Orchestra’s discography. Viola Danny Lai began his musical studies on the piano at age six and picked up the viola in public school when he was ten. He later studied at Northwestern University and was amember of
CSO SOUNDS & STORIES Introducing Experience CSO. Immerse yourself in the sounds and stories behind the music and musicians of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra through the online. Published January 9, 2021. CSO SOUNDS & STORIES » BEETHOVEN 250: HIS ADVICE TO ROSSINI Beethoven 250: His advice to Rossini. Published March 24, 2020. Beethoven 250. Beethoven: Impressions by His Contemporaries compiles remembrances of the great composer by his friends, teachers and fellow artists. The collection, now in public domain, presents “a remarkably full and convincing picture of Beethoven and his time.”. CSO SOUNDS & STORIES » DANIEL GINGRICH, HORN CSO Musicians. A native of west suburban Stickney, Daniel Gingrich was a member of the Chicago Youth Orchestra and the Civic Orchestra of Chicago (1969–72) while studying with the Chicago Symphony’s Richard Oldberg. After attending Roosevelt University’s Chicago Musical College (now Chicago College of Performing Arts), he joinedthe
CSO SOUNDS & STORIES » CSO PRINCIPAL TRUMPET SINGS PRAISES Adding even more variety, Martin will perform on a piccolo trumpet — a smaller instrument pitched an octave above a normal trumpet — for a Nov. 20-25 series of concerts featuring J.S. Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos. Martin’s piccolo trumpet was produced by Schilke Music Products, which has a fabrication plant in Melrose Park. CSO SOUNDS & STORIES » A SOCIALLY CONSCIOUS TERENCE A socially conscious Terence Blanchard makes music his megaphone. Just recently, a man walked up to trumpeter and composer Terence Blanchard after one of his performances. He told Blanchard he was expecting to hear the lush melodies of “A Tale of God’s Will (A Requiem for Katrina),” Blanchard’s Grammy-winning work from 2007. But instead CSO SOUNDS & STORIES » PIANIST ALICE SARA OTT ‘STILL IN Pianist Alice Sara Ott ‘still in the process of discovering’. Less than two weeks after sensation Yuja Wang performs in Orchestra Hall with China’s NCPA Orchestra, another fast-rising pianist will take the spotlight in the venerable concert venue – Alice Sara Ott. In 2010, replacing Lang Lang on short notice with the London Symphony CSO SOUNDS & STORIES » BERNARD HAITINK ANNOUNCES HIS PLANS Published June 12, 2019. Bernard Haitink, principal conductor of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra from 2006 to 2010, will retire from the podium later this year, after farewell engagements this summer. In an interview with the Dutch publication De Volksrant, the esteemed maestro announced that he will conduct his last concert this weekendin
PONDERING THE ENIGMA OF MAHLER’S SYMPHONY NO. 7 Pondering the enigma of Mahler’s Symphony No. 7. Just a cursory look at the commentaries on Mahler’s Symphony No. 7 in E Minor, and one has the immediate impression that its critics resemble the six blind men examining an elephant: Everyone is very confident, and no one agrees with anyone else. Granted, Mahler is one of the most polarizing CSO SOUNDS & STORIES » JEFF ALEXANDER OF VANCOUVER The Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association has appointed Jeff Alexander as its president, effective Jan. 12, 2015. The appointment, announced Sept. 3 by Jay Henderson, chairman of the CSOA board of trustees, ends a nine-month, international search for a successor to Deborah F. Rutter, who announced in December that she had accepted the top post at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DAVID MCGILL BASSOON 37 David McGill Bassoon Appointed principal bassoon in 1996 by then-music director Daniel Barenboim, bassoonist-author David McGill began his tenure with the Chicago CSO SOUNDS & STORIES Introducing Experience CSO. Immerse yourself in the sounds and stories behind the music and musicians of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra through the online. Published January 9, 2021. CSO SOUNDS & STORIES » BEETHOVEN 250: HIS ADVICE TO ROSSINI Beethoven 250: His advice to Rossini. Published March 24, 2020. Beethoven 250. Beethoven: Impressions by His Contemporaries compiles remembrances of the great composer by his friends, teachers and fellow artists. The collection, now in public domain, presents “a remarkably full and convincing picture of Beethoven and his time.”. CSO SOUNDS & STORIES » DANIEL GINGRICH, HORN CSO Musicians. A native of west suburban Stickney, Daniel Gingrich was a member of the Chicago Youth Orchestra and the Civic Orchestra of Chicago (1969–72) while studying with the Chicago Symphony’s Richard Oldberg. After attending Roosevelt University’s Chicago Musical College (now Chicago College of Performing Arts), he joinedthe
CSO SOUNDS & STORIES » CSO PRINCIPAL TRUMPET SINGS PRAISES Adding even more variety, Martin will perform on a piccolo trumpet — a smaller instrument pitched an octave above a normal trumpet — for a Nov. 20-25 series of concerts featuring J.S. Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos. Martin’s piccolo trumpet was produced by Schilke Music Products, which has a fabrication plant in Melrose Park. CSO SOUNDS & STORIES » A SOCIALLY CONSCIOUS TERENCE A socially conscious Terence Blanchard makes music his megaphone. Just recently, a man walked up to trumpeter and composer Terence Blanchard after one of his performances. He told Blanchard he was expecting to hear the lush melodies of “A Tale of God’s Will (A Requiem for Katrina),” Blanchard’s Grammy-winning work from 2007. But instead CSO SOUNDS & STORIES » BERNARD HAITINK ANNOUNCES HIS PLANS Published June 12, 2019. Bernard Haitink, principal conductor of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra from 2006 to 2010, will retire from the podium later this year, after farewell engagements this summer. In an interview with the Dutch publication De Volksrant, the esteemed maestro announced that he will conduct his last concert this weekendin
CSO SOUNDS & STORIES » PIANIST ALICE SARA OTT ‘STILL IN Pianist Alice Sara Ott ‘still in the process of discovering’. Less than two weeks after sensation Yuja Wang performs in Orchestra Hall with China’s NCPA Orchestra, another fast-rising pianist will take the spotlight in the venerable concert venue – Alice Sara Ott. In 2010, replacing Lang Lang on short notice with the London Symphony PONDERING THE ENIGMA OF MAHLER’S SYMPHONY NO. 7 Pondering the enigma of Mahler’s Symphony No. 7. Just a cursory look at the commentaries on Mahler’s Symphony No. 7 in E Minor, and one has the immediate impression that its critics resemble the six blind men examining an elephant: Everyone is very confident, and no one agrees with anyone else. Granted, Mahler is one of the most polarizing CSO SOUNDS & STORIES » JEFF ALEXANDER OF VANCOUVER The Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association has appointed Jeff Alexander as its president, effective Jan. 12, 2015. The appointment, announced Sept. 3 by Jay Henderson, chairman of the CSOA board of trustees, ends a nine-month, international search for a successor to Deborah F. Rutter, who announced in December that she had accepted the top post at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DAVID MCGILL BASSOON 37 David McGill Bassoon Appointed principal bassoon in 1996 by then-music director Daniel Barenboim, bassoonist-author David McGill began his tenure with the Chicago CSO SOUNDS & STORIES » THE ORIGINS OF BRITTEN’S WAR REQUIEM And 1961, the year Britten devoted to the War Requiem, was marred by the building of the Berlin Wall, an ominous escalation of U.S. action in Vietnam, and the incident of the Bay of Pigs. Owen’s poems, “full of the hate of destruction,” and Britten’s new CSO SOUNDS & STORIES » CSO RADIO: FRITZ REINER CONDUCTS Tuesday, June 9, 2020, at 8:00 p.m. CDT. This program opens with Fritz Reiner—during his first season as the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s sixth music director—leading music from his native Hungary, Kodály’s Dances of Galánta. The world premiere of Copland’s suite from his opera The Tender Land follows, along with Hindemith’sCello
CSO SOUNDS & STORIES » CSO RADIO: SIR GEORG SOLTI CONDUCTS From the CSO’s Archives: Maestro’s Choice—For All Music Lovers in These Difficult Times. Listen now on-demand! Sir Georg Solti, eighth music director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra from 1969 until 1991, begins this program with the overture to Mendelssohn’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Mozart’s C minor mass with the Chicago Symphony Chorus (and Anne Sofie von Otter in her U.S CSO SOUNDS & STORIES » A SOCIALLY CONSCIOUS TERENCE A socially conscious Terence Blanchard makes music his megaphone. Just recently, a man walked up to trumpeter and composer Terence Blanchard after one of his performances. He told Blanchard he was expecting to hear the lush melodies of “A Tale of God’s Will (A Requiem for Katrina),” Blanchard’s Grammy-winning work from 2007. But instead CSO SOUNDS & STORIES » RICCARDO MUTI TO REMAIN CSO MUSIC The 2018-19 Season. Riccardo Muti will remain Zell Music Director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra through the 2021-22 season, extending his contract for two years. The contract extension was announced Jan. 30 by Helen Zell, chair of the Board of Trustees of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association, and Jeff Alexander, president of theCSOA.
CSO SOUNDS & STORIES » MY FAVORITE CSO: KEITH BUNCKE The Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s commercial recording legacy began on May 1, 1916, when second music director Frederick Stock led the Wedding March from Mendelssohn’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream for the Columbia Graphophone Company.The Orchestra has since amassed an extraordinary, award-winning discography on a number of labels—including Angel, CBS, Deutsche CSO SOUNDS & STORIES » MATTHIAS PINTSCHER BALANCES THE Matthias Pintscher balances the roles of composer and conductor. Like Leonard Bernstein, Pierre Boulez and Gustav Mahler in the past and Esa-Pekka Salonen today, Matthias Pintscher faces the joy and challenge of juggling careers as both an internationally known composer and conductor. “It’s a wonderful thing,” he said. CSO SOUNDS & STORIES » FOR DANIEL GINGRICH, PLAYING IN THE For Daniel Gingrich, playing in the CSO has been ‘a dream come true’. Published May 27, 2016 Authored by Kyle MacMillan. CSO Musicians. The inherent danger of wavering intonation and off-color sounds can make the French horn a particularly difficult instrument to play. “Even when things are going as well as they can go, you’rejust a
CSO SOUNDS & STORIES » MY FAVORITE CSO: DANNY LAI For My Favorite CSO, we asked members of the Chicago Symphony for their favorite recordings (and a few honorable mentions) from the Orchestra’s discography. Viola Danny Lai began his musical studies on the piano at age six and picked up the viola in public school when he was ten. He later studied at Northwestern University and was amember of
DAVID MCGILL BASSOON 37 David McGill Bassoon Appointed principal bassoon in 1996 by then-music director Daniel Barenboim, bassoonist-author David McGill began his tenure with the Chicago CSO SOUNDS & STORIES Introducing Experience CSO. Immerse yourself in the sounds and stories behind the music and musicians of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra through the online. Published January 9, 2021. CSO SOUNDS & STORIES » BEETHOVEN 250: HIS ADVICE TO ROSSINI Beethoven 250: His advice to Rossini. Published March 24, 2020. Beethoven 250. Beethoven: Impressions by His Contemporaries compiles remembrances of the great composer by his friends, teachers and fellow artists. The collection, now in public domain, presents “a remarkably full and convincing picture of Beethoven and his time.”. CSO SOUNDS & STORIES » HOW THE AFTERMATH OF WORLD WAR I How the aftermath of World War I influenced the music of a generation. Like every facet of society, the classical-music world was profoundly marked by World War I. English composer George Butterworth, who was shot at the Battle of Somme in 1916, was perhaps the best known of the composers who died in the devastating 1914-18 conflict. CSO SOUNDS & STORIES » DANIEL GINGRICH, HORN CSO Musicians. A native of west suburban Stickney, Daniel Gingrich was a member of the Chicago Youth Orchestra and the Civic Orchestra of Chicago (1969–72) while studying with the Chicago Symphony’s Richard Oldberg. After attending Roosevelt University’s Chicago Musical College (now Chicago College of Performing Arts), he joinedthe
CSO SOUNDS & STORIES » CSO PRINCIPAL TRUMPET SINGS PRAISES Adding even more variety, Martin will perform on a piccolo trumpet — a smaller instrument pitched an octave above a normal trumpet — for a Nov. 20-25 series of concerts featuring J.S. Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos. Martin’s piccolo trumpet was produced by Schilke Music Products, which has a fabrication plant in Melrose Park. CSO SOUNDS & STORIES » PIANIST ALICE SARA OTT ‘STILL IN Pianist Alice Sara Ott ‘still in the process of discovering’. Less than two weeks after sensation Yuja Wang performs in Orchestra Hall with China’s NCPA Orchestra, another fast-rising pianist will take the spotlight in the venerable concert venue – Alice Sara Ott. In 2010, replacing Lang Lang on short notice with the London Symphony PONDERING THE ENIGMA OF MAHLER’S SYMPHONY NO. 7 Pondering the enigma of Mahler’s Symphony No. 7. Just a cursory look at the commentaries on Mahler’s Symphony No. 7 in E Minor, and one has the immediate impression that its critics resemble the six blind men examining an elephant: Everyone is very confident, and no one agrees with anyone else. Granted, Mahler is one of the most polarizing CSO SOUNDS & STORIES » BERNARD HAITINK ANNOUNCES HIS PLANS Published June 12, 2019. Bernard Haitink, principal conductor of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra from 2006 to 2010, will retire from the podium later this year, after farewell engagements this summer. In an interview with the Dutch publication De Volksrant, the esteemed maestro announced that he will conduct his last concert this weekendin
CSO SOUNDS & STORIES » JEFF ALEXANDER OF VANCOUVER The Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association has appointed Jeff Alexander as its president, effective Jan. 12, 2015. The appointment, announced Sept. 3 by Jay Henderson, chairman of the CSOA board of trustees, ends a nine-month, international search for a successor to Deborah F. Rutter, who announced in December that she had accepted the top post at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DAVID MCGILL BASSOON 37 David McGill Bassoon Appointed principal bassoon in 1996 by then-music director Daniel Barenboim, bassoonist-author David McGill began his tenure with the Chicago CSO SOUNDS & STORIES Introducing Experience CSO. Immerse yourself in the sounds and stories behind the music and musicians of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra through the online. Published January 9, 2021. CSO SOUNDS & STORIES » BEETHOVEN 250: HIS ADVICE TO ROSSINI Beethoven 250: His advice to Rossini. Published March 24, 2020. Beethoven 250. Beethoven: Impressions by His Contemporaries compiles remembrances of the great composer by his friends, teachers and fellow artists. The collection, now in public domain, presents “a remarkably full and convincing picture of Beethoven and his time.”. CSO SOUNDS & STORIES » HOW THE AFTERMATH OF WORLD WAR I How the aftermath of World War I influenced the music of a generation. Like every facet of society, the classical-music world was profoundly marked by World War I. English composer George Butterworth, who was shot at the Battle of Somme in 1916, was perhaps the best known of the composers who died in the devastating 1914-18 conflict. CSO SOUNDS & STORIES » DANIEL GINGRICH, HORN CSO Musicians. A native of west suburban Stickney, Daniel Gingrich was a member of the Chicago Youth Orchestra and the Civic Orchestra of Chicago (1969–72) while studying with the Chicago Symphony’s Richard Oldberg. After attending Roosevelt University’s Chicago Musical College (now Chicago College of Performing Arts), he joinedthe
CSO SOUNDS & STORIES » CSO PRINCIPAL TRUMPET SINGS PRAISES Adding even more variety, Martin will perform on a piccolo trumpet — a smaller instrument pitched an octave above a normal trumpet — for a Nov. 20-25 series of concerts featuring J.S. Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos. Martin’s piccolo trumpet was produced by Schilke Music Products, which has a fabrication plant in Melrose Park. CSO SOUNDS & STORIES » PIANIST ALICE SARA OTT ‘STILL IN Pianist Alice Sara Ott ‘still in the process of discovering’. Less than two weeks after sensation Yuja Wang performs in Orchestra Hall with China’s NCPA Orchestra, another fast-rising pianist will take the spotlight in the venerable concert venue – Alice Sara Ott. In 2010, replacing Lang Lang on short notice with the London Symphony PONDERING THE ENIGMA OF MAHLER’S SYMPHONY NO. 7 Pondering the enigma of Mahler’s Symphony No. 7. Just a cursory look at the commentaries on Mahler’s Symphony No. 7 in E Minor, and one has the immediate impression that its critics resemble the six blind men examining an elephant: Everyone is very confident, and no one agrees with anyone else. Granted, Mahler is one of the most polarizing CSO SOUNDS & STORIES » BERNARD HAITINK ANNOUNCES HIS PLANS Published June 12, 2019. Bernard Haitink, principal conductor of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra from 2006 to 2010, will retire from the podium later this year, after farewell engagements this summer. In an interview with the Dutch publication De Volksrant, the esteemed maestro announced that he will conduct his last concert this weekendin
CSO SOUNDS & STORIES » JEFF ALEXANDER OF VANCOUVER The Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association has appointed Jeff Alexander as its president, effective Jan. 12, 2015. The appointment, announced Sept. 3 by Jay Henderson, chairman of the CSOA board of trustees, ends a nine-month, international search for a successor to Deborah F. Rutter, who announced in December that she had accepted the top post at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DAVID MCGILL BASSOON 37 David McGill Bassoon Appointed principal bassoon in 1996 by then-music director Daniel Barenboim, bassoonist-author David McGill began his tenure with the Chicago CSO SOUNDS & STORIES » CSO RADIO: FRITZ REINER CONDUCTS Tuesday, June 9, 2020, at 8:00 p.m. CDT. This program opens with Fritz Reiner—during his first season as the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s sixth music director—leading music from his native Hungary, Kodály’s Dances of Galánta. The world premiere of Copland’s suite from his opera The Tender Land follows, along with Hindemith’sCello
CSO SOUNDS & STORIES » CSO RADIO: SIR GEORG SOLTI CONDUCTS From the CSO’s Archives: Maestro’s Choice—For All Music Lovers in These Difficult Times. Listen now on-demand! Sir Georg Solti, eighth music director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra from 1969 until 1991, begins this program with the overture to Mendelssohn’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Mozart’s C minor mass with the Chicago Symphony Chorus (and Anne Sofie von Otter in her U.S CSO SOUNDS & STORIES » THE ORIGINS OF BRITTEN’S WAR REQUIEM And 1961, the year Britten devoted to the War Requiem, was marred by the building of the Berlin Wall, an ominous escalation of U.S. action in Vietnam, and the incident of the Bay of Pigs. Owen’s poems, “full of the hate of destruction,” and Britten’s new CSO SOUNDS & STORIES » A SOCIALLY CONSCIOUS TERENCE A socially conscious Terence Blanchard makes music his megaphone. Just recently, a man walked up to trumpeter and composer Terence Blanchard after one of his performances. He told Blanchard he was expecting to hear the lush melodies of “A Tale of God’s Will (A Requiem for Katrina),” Blanchard’s Grammy-winning work from 2007. But instead CSO SOUNDS & STORIES » MY FAVORITE CSO: KEITH BUNCKE The Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s commercial recording legacy began on May 1, 1916, when second music director Frederick Stock led the Wedding March from Mendelssohn’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream for the Columbia Graphophone Company.The Orchestra has since amassed an extraordinary, award-winning discography on a number of labels—including Angel, CBS, Deutsche CSO SOUNDS & STORIES » RICCARDO MUTI TO REMAIN CSO MUSIC The 2018-19 Season. Riccardo Muti will remain Zell Music Director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra through the 2021-22 season, extending his contract for two years. The contract extension was announced Jan. 30 by Helen Zell, chair of the Board of Trustees of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association, and Jeff Alexander, president of theCSOA.
CSO SOUNDS & STORIES » FOR DANIEL GINGRICH, PLAYING IN THE For Daniel Gingrich, playing in the CSO has been ‘a dream come true’. Published May 27, 2016 Authored by Kyle MacMillan. CSO Musicians. The inherent danger of wavering intonation and off-color sounds can make the French horn a particularly difficult instrument to play. “Even when things are going as well as they can go, you’rejust a
CSO SOUNDS & STORIES » MY FAVORITE CSO: DANNY LAI For My Favorite CSO, we asked members of the Chicago Symphony for their favorite recordings (and a few honorable mentions) from the Orchestra’s discography. Viola Danny Lai began his musical studies on the piano at age six and picked up the viola in public school when he was ten. He later studied at Northwestern University and was amember of
CSO SOUNDS & STORIES » AT 60, RCA VICTOR’S LIVING STEREO At 60, RCA Victor’s Living Stereo imprint still going strong. In 1958, when the first stereo recordings were hitting the market, RCA Victor signed the Chicago Symphony Orchestra to its newest, most prestigious imprint, Living Stereo. The series was to be a showcase for the era’s classical stars: Van Cliburn and Arthur Rubinstein,Jascha
CSO SOUNDS & STORIES » HAPPY BIRTHDAY, DONALD PECK! During Sir Georg Solti's tenure as eighth music director (1969–1991) and music director laureate (1991–1997), he and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus amassed an CSO SOUNDS & STORIES Introducing Experience CSO. Immerse yourself in the sounds and stories behind the music and musicians of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra through the online. Published January 9, 2021. CSO SOUNDS & STORIES » BEETHOVEN 250: HIS ADVICE TO ROSSINI Beethoven 250: His advice to Rossini. Published March 24, 2020. Beethoven 250. Beethoven: Impressions by His Contemporaries compiles remembrances of the great composer by his friends, teachers and fellow artists. The collection, now in public domain, presents “a remarkably full and convincing picture of Beethoven and his time.”. CSO SOUNDS & STORIES » CSO RADIO: FRITZ REINER CONDUCTS Tuesday, June 9, 2020, at 8:00 p.m. CDT. This program opens with Fritz Reiner—during his first season as the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s sixth music director—leading music from his native Hungary, Kodály’s Dances of Galánta. The world premiere of Copland’s suite from his opera The Tender Land follows, along with Hindemith’sCello
CSO SOUNDS & STORIES » DANIEL GINGRICH, HORN CSO Musicians. A native of west suburban Stickney, Daniel Gingrich was a member of the Chicago Youth Orchestra and the Civic Orchestra of Chicago (1969–72) while studying with the Chicago Symphony’s Richard Oldberg. After attending Roosevelt University’s Chicago Musical College (now Chicago College of Performing Arts), he joinedthe
CSO SOUNDS & STORIES » THE ORIGINS OF BRITTEN’S WAR REQUIEM And 1961, the year Britten devoted to the War Requiem, was marred by the building of the Berlin Wall, an ominous escalation of U.S. action in Vietnam, and the incident of the Bay of Pigs. Owen’s poems, “full of the hate of destruction,” and Britten’s new CSO SOUNDS & STORIES » MATTHIAS PINTSCHER BALANCES THE Matthias Pintscher balances the roles of composer and conductor. Like Leonard Bernstein, Pierre Boulez and Gustav Mahler in the past and Esa-Pekka Salonen today, Matthias Pintscher faces the joy and challenge of juggling careers as both an internationally known composer and conductor. “It’s a wonderful thing,” he said. CSO SOUNDS & STORIES » FOR DANIEL GINGRICH, PLAYING IN THE For Daniel Gingrich, playing in the CSO has been ‘a dream come true’. Published May 27, 2016 Authored by Kyle MacMillan. CSO Musicians. The inherent danger of wavering intonation and off-color sounds can make the French horn a particularly difficult instrument to play. “Even when things are going as well as they can go, you’rejust a
CSO SOUNDS & STORIES » CSO PRINCIPAL TRUMPET SINGS PRAISES Adding even more variety, Martin will perform on a piccolo trumpet — a smaller instrument pitched an octave above a normal trumpet — for a Nov. 20-25 series of concerts featuring J.S. Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos. Martin’s piccolo trumpet was produced by Schilke Music Products, which has a fabrication plant in Melrose Park. PONDERING THE ENIGMA OF MAHLER’S SYMPHONY NO. 7 Pondering the enigma of Mahler’s Symphony No. 7. Just a cursory look at the commentaries on Mahler’s Symphony No. 7 in E Minor, and one has the immediate impression that its critics resemble the six blind men examining an elephant: Everyone is very confident, and no one agrees with anyone else. Granted, Mahler is one of the most polarizing CSO SOUNDS & STORIES » JEFF ALEXANDER OF VANCOUVER The Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association has appointed Jeff Alexander as its president, effective Jan. 12, 2015. The appointment, announced Sept. 3 by Jay Henderson, chairman of the CSOA board of trustees, ends a nine-month, international search for a successor to Deborah F. Rutter, who announced in December that she had accepted the top post at the Kennedy Center in Washington, CSO SOUNDS & STORIES Introducing Experience CSO. Immerse yourself in the sounds and stories behind the music and musicians of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra through the online. Published January 9, 2021. CSO SOUNDS & STORIES » BEETHOVEN 250: HIS ADVICE TO ROSSINI Beethoven 250: His advice to Rossini. Published March 24, 2020. Beethoven 250. Beethoven: Impressions by His Contemporaries compiles remembrances of the great composer by his friends, teachers and fellow artists. The collection, now in public domain, presents “a remarkably full and convincing picture of Beethoven and his time.”. CSO SOUNDS & STORIES » CSO RADIO: FRITZ REINER CONDUCTS Tuesday, June 9, 2020, at 8:00 p.m. CDT. This program opens with Fritz Reiner—during his first season as the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s sixth music director—leading music from his native Hungary, Kodály’s Dances of Galánta. The world premiere of Copland’s suite from his opera The Tender Land follows, along with Hindemith’sCello
CSO SOUNDS & STORIES » DANIEL GINGRICH, HORN CSO Musicians. A native of west suburban Stickney, Daniel Gingrich was a member of the Chicago Youth Orchestra and the Civic Orchestra of Chicago (1969–72) while studying with the Chicago Symphony’s Richard Oldberg. After attending Roosevelt University’s Chicago Musical College (now Chicago College of Performing Arts), he joinedthe
CSO SOUNDS & STORIES » THE ORIGINS OF BRITTEN’S WAR REQUIEM And 1961, the year Britten devoted to the War Requiem, was marred by the building of the Berlin Wall, an ominous escalation of U.S. action in Vietnam, and the incident of the Bay of Pigs. Owen’s poems, “full of the hate of destruction,” and Britten’s new CSO SOUNDS & STORIES » MATTHIAS PINTSCHER BALANCES THE Matthias Pintscher balances the roles of composer and conductor. Like Leonard Bernstein, Pierre Boulez and Gustav Mahler in the past and Esa-Pekka Salonen today, Matthias Pintscher faces the joy and challenge of juggling careers as both an internationally known composer and conductor. “It’s a wonderful thing,” he said. CSO SOUNDS & STORIES » FOR DANIEL GINGRICH, PLAYING IN THE For Daniel Gingrich, playing in the CSO has been ‘a dream come true’. Published May 27, 2016 Authored by Kyle MacMillan. CSO Musicians. The inherent danger of wavering intonation and off-color sounds can make the French horn a particularly difficult instrument to play. “Even when things are going as well as they can go, you’rejust a
CSO SOUNDS & STORIES » CSO PRINCIPAL TRUMPET SINGS PRAISES Adding even more variety, Martin will perform on a piccolo trumpet — a smaller instrument pitched an octave above a normal trumpet — for a Nov. 20-25 series of concerts featuring J.S. Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos. Martin’s piccolo trumpet was produced by Schilke Music Products, which has a fabrication plant in Melrose Park. PONDERING THE ENIGMA OF MAHLER’S SYMPHONY NO. 7 Pondering the enigma of Mahler’s Symphony No. 7. Just a cursory look at the commentaries on Mahler’s Symphony No. 7 in E Minor, and one has the immediate impression that its critics resemble the six blind men examining an elephant: Everyone is very confident, and no one agrees with anyone else. Granted, Mahler is one of the most polarizing CSO SOUNDS & STORIES » JEFF ALEXANDER OF VANCOUVER The Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association has appointed Jeff Alexander as its president, effective Jan. 12, 2015. The appointment, announced Sept. 3 by Jay Henderson, chairman of the CSOA board of trustees, ends a nine-month, international search for a successor to Deborah F. Rutter, who announced in December that she had accepted the top post at the Kennedy Center in Washington, CSO SOUNDS & STORIES » CSO AT THE MOVIES CSO at the Movies. Now in its 15th season under the auspices of Symphony Center Presents, this popular series fuses two great art forms: cinema and classical music. While full-length films unspool above the stage, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra performs scores by cinematic masters such as Bernard Herrmann, Nino Rota and JohnWilliams.
CSO SOUNDS & STORIES » THE ‘TROUT’ QUINTET: SCHUBERT AT The Trout Quintet, which the Chicago Symphony Orchestra will perform March 13-18 with guest conductor and soloist Mitsuko Uchida, represents Schubert at his most natural, unaffected and carefree. It represents music of Schubert’s innocence, before he contracted his fatal illness and began to see life, and therefore music, in a darker and more complex light. CSO SOUNDS & STORIES » PROKOFIEV’S FIFTH, POINTING ‘THE Prokofiev’s Fifth, pointing ‘the way to a radiant future’. Sergei Prokofiev spent the summer of 1944 at a large country estate provided by the Union of Soviet Composers as a refuge from the war and as a kind of think-tank. Prokofiev arrived early in the summer and found that his colleagues included Glière, Shostakovich, Kabalevsky CSO SOUNDS & STORIES » AT 60, RCA VICTOR’S LIVING STEREO At 60, RCA Victor’s Living Stereo imprint still going strong. In 1958, when the first stereo recordings were hitting the market, RCA Victor signed the Chicago Symphony Orchestra to its newest, most prestigious imprint, Living Stereo. The series was to be a showcase for the era’s classical stars: Van Cliburn and Arthur Rubinstein,Jascha
CSO SOUNDS & STORIES » RICCARDO MUTI LEADS THE ULTIMATE RAVENNA, Italy — It is Day 2 at the fourth Riccardo Muti Italian Opera Academy, and four young conductors are about to take the podium for the first time in front of the Luigi Cherubini Youth Orchestra and a cast of internationally celebrated singers, not to mention Maestro Riccardo Muti himself. The anticipation of this moment is palpable. Over their two weeks at the Academy, they will CSO SOUNDS & STORIES » CSO RADIO: DANIEL BARENBOIM This week, Daniel Barenboim—the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s ninth music director from 1991 until 2006—makes his highly anticipated return to conduct Smetana’s Má vlast. The broadcast also includes recordings of Wagner’s Siegfried Idyll and Prelude to Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg from Teldec. This program will beavailable until
CSO SOUNDS & STORIES » WITH HAYDN’S CONCERTO, THE TRUMPET Joseph Haydn’s trumpet concerto distinguishes itself not only as one of Haydn’s most beloved works (in a lengthy catalog full of beloved works) but as the most popular concerto of its kind. The Baroque era left us with dozens of ebullient and regal trumpet concerti (Telemann, Vivaldi, Torelli) and the modern era — leaving alone the staggeringly inventive work of jazz artists like Miles CSO SOUNDS & STORIES » WILLIAMS’ SCORE FOR ‘RAIDERS OF THE We knew John Williams’ scores for “Jaws,” which captured the sound of a killer shark, and “Star Wars,” which took us to galaxies far, far away. But this music was taking us somewhere else. Turning back the clock nearly 50 years, “Raiders of the Lost Ark” played homage to the old Hollywood serials with Allan Quatermain andTarzan.
CSO SOUNDS & STORIES » PIANIST ALICE SARA OTT ‘STILL IN Pianist Alice Sara Ott ‘still in the process of discovering’. Less than two weeks after sensation Yuja Wang performs in Orchestra Hall with China’s NCPA Orchestra, another fast-rising pianist will take the spotlight in the venerable concert venue – Alice Sara Ott. In 2010, replacing Lang Lang on short notice with the London Symphony CSO SOUNDS & STORIES » CPS MUSIC EDUCATOR REFLECTS ON HIS CPS music educator reflects on his path to teaching, building a community. Published May 15, 2018. MIOSM, Negaunee Music Institute. On Wednesday, May 30, at 7pm, musicians from the Civic Orchestra of Chicago, Amundsen High School Orchestra, and Chappell Elementary School beginner strings will perform along with a visual artexhibition created
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