Archive for September, 2010

Muti takes the CSO for a Classical canter with Mozart and Haydn

Last week Riccardo Muti began his tenure as the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s tenth music director with a blazing double-helping of…

Sep 30, 2010
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Anne-Sophie Mutter returns to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Saturday after a 21-year absence

Anne-Sophie Mutter carries with her such international renown and, through her glamorous press photos, a persona of such cool reserved…

Sep 30, 2010
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Zimmerman’s “Candide” offers the most of all possible words

Clocking in at over three hours, Mary Zimmerman’s epic new adaptation of Leonard Bernstein’s Candide, which premiered at…

Sep 28, 2010
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Lyric Opera’s season-opening “Macbeth” to be pure Gaines

Call it an operatic Crosstown Classic.

Lyric Opera of Chicago opens its 56th season Friday night with a new production…

Sep 28, 2010
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With Glover sidelined, Music of the Baroque still delivers worthy Purcell

Only one element was missing Sunday night at Music of the Baroque’s opening performance of its 40th anniversary season.

As…

Sep 27, 2010
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Muti sparks exhilarating CSO opener with brilliant and bizarre Berlioz

Without taking anything away from Sunday’s Chicago Symphony Orchestra performance in Millennium Park, the event was as much a grandly…

Sep 24, 2010
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Fulcrum Point marks 12 years with a bravura program of new music

The Fulcrum Point New Music Project celebrated its 12th anniversary Wednesday with a Tapas of a benefit concert…

Sep 23, 2010
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Jane Glover, felled by appendicitis, withdraws from Music of the Baroque opener

Jane Glover, music director of Music of the Baroque, underwent emergency surgery Wednesday after an attack of appendicitis yesterday morning,…

Sep 23, 2010
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From Beethoven to Buenos Aires, Orion Ensemble brings out the dance element

It was one of those nights for the Orion Ensemble Wednesday at Roosevelt University’s Ganz Hall.

Violist Jennifer Marlas was…

Sep 23, 2010
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Muti’s influence already evident in Civic Orchestra season opener

As the first Symphony Center concert of the Riccardo Muti era, there was a palpable change perceptible in…

Sep 23, 2010
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