With the concert at the Philharmonie de Paris just hours away, it was a day of music-making  all around. CSO musicians Jay Friedman, Robert Chen,  Alex Hanna, Stefán Ragnar Höskuldsson, and Cynthia Yeh squeezed in some master classes, while Kenneth Olsen and Yuan-Qing Yu offered impromptu serenades at a Paris hospital. Then it was off to the Philharmonie for the tour’s first concert, featuring works by Hindemith, Elgar and Mussorgsky.

For more details, go to the tour page on cso.org and be sure to check for frequent updates here on Sounds & Stories, the CSO’s Facebook page and other social media outlets, including Twitter and Instagram.

TOP: Riccardo Muti greets actor Gerard Depardieu, a longtime friend and collaborator. In February at Symphony Center, Depardieu will join the CSO and Muti for performances of Prokofiev’s Ivan the Terrible. | Todd Rosenberg Photography