Archive for January, 2013

Vänskä to lead CSO Taiwan dates with Vengerov and Chen added as soloists

Osmo Vänskä will conduct the Chicago Symphony Orchestra on its first two […]

Jan 20, 2013
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With news of another Muti health crisis, de Waart and CSO deliver eloquent Brahms

Notwithstanding T.S. Eliot, for Riccardo Muti and the CSO, January is […]

Jan 18, 2013
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Muti requires surgery for hernia, will miss CSO’s Asian tour

[UPDATED]Riccardo Muti has canceled his appearances leading the Chicago Symphony Orchestra […]

Jan 17, 2013
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Critic’s Choice

Giacomo Puccini’s beloved tale of love and tuberculosis among the young […]

Jan 16, 2013
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Ars Viva’s Mahler movingly memorializes recent tragedy 

With the country still immersed in the shadow of twenty children […]

Jan 14, 2013
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Contempo program serves up a wealth of brainy stylistic variety

“Lustrous” isn’t a term we typically associate with contemporary music. But […]

Jan 13, 2013
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Mendelssohn provides the highlight in Winter Chamber Music Festival opener

Thanks to Chicago Symphony Orchestra violinist Blair Milton and Northwestern University’s […]

Jan 12, 2013
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Music minus Muti: de Waart fills in admirably for CSO’s Beethoven program

The sense of disappointment was palpable Thursday night at Symphony Center […]

Jan 11, 2013
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Critic’s Choice

Obviously, it’s not a happy start to the new year that […]

Jan 10, 2013
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Muti cancels all CSO January dates; will still conduct Asian tour

 If you want to experience Riccardo Muti conducting the Chicago Symphony […]

Jan 09, 2013
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