May 16

Thu Apr 20, 2023 at 11:48 am

By Lawrence A. Johnson

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Riccardo Muti, conductor
Wagner: Overture to Tannhäuser
Montgomery: Transfigure to Grace (world premiere) 
Rachmaninoff: Symphony No. 2
7:30 p.m. Symphony Center

May 18

Chicago Composers’ Consortium
Black Oak Ensemble
Mary Stolper, flutist
7 p.m. Epiphany Center for the Arts
epiphanychi.com

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Riccardo Muti, conductor
Robert Chen, violinist
Cimarosa: Overture to Il matrimonio segreto
Mozart: Violin Concerto No. 4
Mozart: Serenade No. 10 “Gran Partita”
7:30 p.m. Symphony Center

May 19

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Riccardo Muti, conductor
Robert Chen, violinist
Cimarosa: Overture to Il matrimonio segreto
Mozart: Violin Concerto No. 4
Mozart: Serenade No. 10 “Gran Partita”
1:30 p.m. Symphony Center

Grossman Ensemble
World premieres by Jason Eckardt, Sarah Gibson, Kurt Rohde, and Augusta Read Thomas
7:30 p.m. Logan Center

May 20

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Riccardo Muti, conductor
Robert Chen, violinist
Cimarosa: Overture to Il matrimonio segreto
Mozart: Violin Concerto No. 4
Mozart: Serenade No. 10 “Gran Partita”
8 p.m. Symphony Center

May 21

Seong-Jin Cho, pianist
Music of Handel, Gubaidulina, Brahms and Schumann
3 p.m. Symphony Center

Symphony of Oak Park and River Forest
Jay Friedman, conductor
Bea Sjostrom, violinist
Wagner: Prelude to Act 1 of Parsifal
Saint-Saëns: Violin Concerto No. 3
Schumann: Symphony No. 1 “Spring”
4 p.m. Concordia University, River Forest

May 23

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Riccardo Muti, conductor
Robert Chen, violinist
Cimarosa: Overture to Il matrimonio segreto
Mozart: Violin Concerto No. 4
Mozart: Serenade No. 10 “Gran Partita”
7:30 p.m. Symphony Center

May 25

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Riccardo Muti, conductor
David Herbert, timpanist
Mozart: Divertimento in F major, K.138
Kraft: Timpani Concerto No. 1
Respighi: Ancient Airs and Dances: Suite No. 1
Respighi: The Pines of Rome 
7:30 p.m. Symphony Center

Northwestern Opera Theater
Handel: Alcina
7:30 p.m. Cahn Auditorium, Evanston
music.northwestern.edu

May 26

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Riccardo Muti, conductor
David Herbert, timpanist
Mozart: Divertimento in F major, K.138
Kraft: Timpani Concerto No. 1
Respighi: Ancient Airs and Dances: Suite No. 1
Respighi: The Pines of Rome 
1:30 p.m. Symphony Center

Northwestern Opera Theater
Handel: Alcina
7:30 p.m. Cahn Auditorium, Evanston
music.northwestern.edu

May 27

Northwestern Opera Theater
Handel: Alcina
7:30 p.m. Cahn Auditorium, Evanston
music.northwestern.edu

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Riccardo Muti, conductor
David Herbert, timpanist
Mozart: Divertimento in F major, K.138
Kraft: Timpani Concerto No. 1
Respighi: Ancient Airs and Dances: Suite No. 1
Respighi: The Pines of Rome 
8 p.m. Symphony Center

May 28

Northwestern Opera Theater
Handel: Alcina
3 p.m. Cahn Auditorium, Evanston
music.northwestern.edu

Maria João Pires, pianist
Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 8 “Pathetique”
Schumann: Kinderszenen
Schumann: Arabeske
Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 32
3 p.m. Symphony Center

June 7

American Music Project
Kontras Quartet
Amy Beach: Quartet in One Movement
Walter Piston: String Quartet No. 3
Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson: String Quartet No. 1 “Calvary”
John Harbison: String Quartet No. 3
Gabriella Smith: Carrot Revolution
7 p.m. Ganz Concert Hall
BOGO for advance ticket purchase
americanmusicproject.net

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