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Do you hear what we hear? The strains of the top 10 holiday songs
Be of good cheer: The sounds of the season will ring out at Symphony Center over the next few weeks….
A Time for Reflection—A Message of Peace: Americanizing the Orchestra
Bassoon Walter Guetter (1895–1937) was hired by Frederick Stock in 1915, after auditioning at Willow Grove Park, where the Chicago…
Barenboim returns to a former home with ‘Má vlast’ (‘My Homeland’)
For more than 30 years, Daniel Barenboim was a major presence at the Chicago Symphony, first as a superstar pianist…
Close encounters of the creative kind: Richard Kaufman and John Williams
The first time Richard Kaufman met film composer John Williams, the former was playing violin as the latter conducted during…
Bride of Frankenstein, October 2018 (CSO Special)
Tickets and More Information Options for Program Books and Program Notes Our ushers will present you with a printed program…
Ebert on the sense of wonder evoked by ‘The Empire Strikes Back’
In the late ’90s, Lucasfilm began rolling out “Special Editions” of the first “Star Wars” trilogy: “Star Wars” (1977), “The…
Why should you love Tchaikovsky? A music scholar counts the ways
Even though many of Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s beloved masterpieces like Swan Lake, Romeo and Juliet and the 1812 Overture are…
Pierre-Laurent Aimard & Tamara Stefanovich, October 2018 (SCP Piano)
Tickets and More Information Options for Program Books and Program Notes Our ushers will present you with a printed program…