June 5

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By Lawrence A. Johnson

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Mark Elder, conductor
Randall Goosby, violinist
Prokofiev: Symphony No. 7
Price: Violin Concerto No. 2
Wagner: Suite from Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
7:30 p.m. Symphony Center

Opera Festival of Chicago
“Delicatessen Recital”
OFC Young Artists
7:30 p.m. Artifacts Events

June 6

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Mark Elder, conductor
Randall Goosby, violinist
Prokofiev: Symphony No. 7
Price: Violin Concerto No. 2
Wagner: Suite from Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
1:30 p.m. Symphony Center

North Shore Chamber Music Festival
Schumann: Fairy Tales
Mendelssohn: String Quartet No. 6 in A Minor
Arad: Avivim
Brahms: String Sexet No. 1
7:30 p.m. Village Church, Northbrook
nscmf.org

June 7

Apollo Chorus
Grace Chorale of Brooklyn
Emily Birsan, soprano
Evan Bravos, baritone
Brahms: A German Requiem
7 p.m. Glenview Community Church
apollochorus.org

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Mark Elder, conductor
Randall Goosby, violinist
Prokofiev: Symphony No. 7
Price: Violin Concerto No. 2
Wagner: Suite from Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
7:30 p.m. Symphony Center

North Shore Chamber Music Festival
Vivaldi: Concerto for Violin and Cello
Vivaldi: The Four Seasons
Rota: Trio
Wiancko: La Folia Variations
Heidrich: “Happy Birthday” Variations
7:30 p.m. Village Church, Northbrook
nscmf.org

June 8

Lakeview Orchestra
Gregory Hughes, conductor
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 7 “Leningrad”
2 p.m. Athenaeum Center

Víkingur Ólafsson, pianist
Bach: Prelude in E major from The Well-Tempered Clavier
Bach: Partita No. 6
Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 27
Schubert: Piano Sonata in E minor
Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 30
3 p.m. Symphony Center

Chicago Chorale
Brahms: Four Quartets
Brahms: Neue Liebeslieder: “Nun, ihr Musen, genug!”
Motets by Bruckner, J.S. Bach, and Johann Michael Bach
3 p.m. Hyde Park Union Church
chicagochorale.org

June 10

Rush Hour Concerts
Kontras Quartet
Riley: G Song
Ives: String Quartet 1
Roumain: “Klap Ur Handz” from String Quartet No. 5
Vartapet: Armenian Folk Songs (selections)
5:45 p.m. St. James Cathedral
Free admission

June 11

Grant Park Orchestra
Andrew Litton, conductor and pianist
Frank: Three Latin-American Sketches
Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue
Falla: Suite from The Three -Cornered Hat
6:30 p.m. Millennium Park

Angela Hewitt, pianist
Bach: Goldberg Variations
7:30 p.m. Ravinia/Martin Theatre, Highland Park

June 12

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Riccardo Muti conductor
Esteban Batallán, trumpet
Haydn: Symphony No. 48 (“Marie Theresa”)
Telemann: Trumpet Concerto
M. Haydn: Trumpet Concerto
Schubert: Symphony No. 4
7:30 p.m. Symphony Center

June 13

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Riccardo Muti conductor
Esteban Batallán, trumpet
Haydn: Symphony No. 48 (“Marie Theresa”)
Telemann: Trumpet Concerto
M. Haydn: Trumpet Concerto
Schubert: Symphony No. 4
1:30 p.m. Symphony Center

Grant Park Orchestra & Chorus
Christopher Bell, conductor
Boulanger: Psalm 24
Runestad: Earth Symphony
Holst: The Planets
6:30 p.m. Millennium Park

June 14

Grant Park Orchestra & Chorus
Christopher Bell, conductor
Boulanger: Psalm 24
Runestad: Earth Symphony
Holst: The Planets
6:30 p.m. Millennium Park

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Riccardo Muti conductor
Esteban Batallán, trumpet
Haydn: Symphony No. 48 (“Marie Theresa”)
Telemann: Trumpet Concerto
M. Haydn: Trumpet Concerto
Schubert: Symphony No. 4
7:30 p.m. Symphony Center

Opera Festival of Chicago
“Love is a Triangle” recital
Music of Verdi, Puccini, Leoncavallo, and Mascagni
Angela DeVenuto, Jerek Fernandez, David Greene, Maria Kanyova,
Joseph Lodato, Leo Radosavljevich, and Franco Pomponi
7:30 p.m. DePaul University/Jarvis Opera Hall

June 17

Rush Hour Concerts
Matthew Lipman, violist
Victor Santiago Asunción, pianist
Brahms: Viola Sonata in F minor
C. Schumann: Three Romances
Brahms: Viola Sonata in E-flat major
5:45 p.m. St. James Cathedral
Free admission

June 18

Grant Park Orchestra
Giancarlo Guerrero, conductor
Jeremy Black, violinist
Hailstork: An American Port of Call
Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto
Bernstein: Symphonic Suite from On the Waterfront
6:30 p.m. Millennium Park

June 19

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Chicago Symphony Chorus
Riccardo Muti conductor
Elena Guseva, soprano
Marianne Crebassa, mezzo-soprano
John Osborn, tenor
Ildebrando D’Arcangelo, bass-baritone
Verdi: Requiem
7:30 p.m. Symphony Center

June 20

Grant Park Orchestra
Giancarlo Guerrero, conductor
Pacho Flores, trumpet
C. Assad: Baião N’ Blues
Márquez: Concierto de Otoño
Mahler: Symphony No. 1 (with Blumine)
6:30 p.m. Millennium Park

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Chicago Symphony Chorus
Riccardo Muti conductor
Elena Guseva, soprano
Marianne Crebassa, mezzo-soprano
John Osborn, tenor
Ildebrando D’Arcangelo, bass-baritone
Verdi: Requiem
7:30 p.m. Symphony Center

June 21

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Chicago Symphony Chorus
Riccardo Muti conductor
Elena Guseva, soprano
Marianne Crebassa, mezzo-soprano
John Osborn, tenor
Ildebrando D’Arcangelo, bass-baritone
Verdi: Requiem
7:30 p.m. Symphony Center

Grant Park Orchestra
Giancarlo Guerrero, conductor
Pacho Flores, trumpet
C. Assad: Baião N’ Blues
Márquez: Concierto de Otoño
Mahler: Symphony No. 1 (with Blumine)
8 p.m. Millennium Park

June 22

Isidore Quartet
Mozart: String Quartet No. 19 “Dissonance”
Dutilleux: Ainsi la Nuit
Ravel: String Quartet
1:30 p.m. Ravinia/Bennett-Gordon Hall, Highland Park

June 24

Rush Hour Concerts
Tim Hagen, flutist
Wilfred Farquharson, violist
Christopher Guzman, pianist
Duruflé: Prélude, Récitatif, et Variations
Angulo: Sonata for Flute, Viola, and Piano
Sowerby: Trio for Flute, Viola, and Piano
5:45 p.m. St. James Cathedral
Free admission

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Chicago Symphony Chorus
Riccardo Muti conductor
Elena Guseva, soprano
Marianne Crebassa, mezzo-soprano
John Osborn, tenor
Ildebrando D’Arcangelo, bass-baritone
Verdi: Requiem
7:30 p.m. Symphony Center

June 25

Juilliard Quartet
Isidore Quartet
Beethoven: String Quartet No. 13
Widmann: Quartet No. 8
Mendelssohn: String Octet
1:30 p.m. Ravinia/Bennett-Gordon Hall, Highland Park

Grant Park Orchestra
Giancarlo Guerrero, conductor
Imani Winds
Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
Coleman: Phenomenal Women
Mozart: Symphony No. 31 (“Paris”)
6:30 p.m. Millennium Park

June 27

Haymarket Opera
Vinci: Artaserse
Kangmin Justin Kim, Key’mon Murrah, Emily Fons, Elijah McCormack, Ryan Belongie, Eric Ferring
2 p.m. DePaul University/Jarvis Opera Hall

Grant Park Orchestra
Giancarlo Guerrero, conductor
Thomas: Brio
Wagner: Prelude & Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 10
6:30 p.m. Millennium Park

Opera Festival of Chicago
Leoncavallo: Pagliacci
Jonathan Burton, Michelle Allie Drever, Franco Pomponi, Jerek Fernandez, and Jonathan Wilson; Emanuele Andrizzi, conductor
7:30 p.m. North Shore Center for the Performing Arts

June 28

Grant Park Orchestra
Giancarlo Guerrero, conductor
Thomas: Brio
Wagner: Prelude & Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 10
6:30 p.m. Millennium Park

June 29

Opera Festival of Chicago
Leoncavallo: Pagliacci
Jonathan Burton, Michelle Allie Drever, Franco Pomponi, Jerek Fernandez, and Jonathan Wilson; Emanuele Andrizzi, conductor
2 p.m. North Shore Center for the Performing Arts

Haymarket Opera
Vinci: Artaserse
Kangmin Justin Kim, Key’mon Murrah, Emily Fons, Elijah McCormack, Ryan Belongie, Eric Ferring
2 p.m. DePaul University/Jarvis Opera Hall

July 1

Rush Hour Concerts
Emma Gerstein, flutust
Kevin Pearl, oboist
Jay Shankar, clarinetist
William Buchman, bassoonist
Alexander Love, horn
Marta Aznavoorian, pianist
Higdon: Summer Shimmers
Thuille: Sextet for piano and woodwind quintet
5:45 p.m. St, James Cathedral
Free admission

Haymarket Opera
Vinci: Artaserse
Kangmin Justin Kim, Key’mon Murrah, Emily Fons, Elijah McCormack, Ryan Belongie, Eric Ferring
6 p.m. DePaul University/Jarvis Opera Hall

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