CSO Family Matinee Series

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Symphony Center is the only place in town where your family can experience great family-friendly programs featuring members of the world-renowned Chicago Symphony Orchestra!

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Welcome to the 2011/12 CSO Family Matinee Series!

Music Comes Alive as the CSO and extraordinary guest artists ignite your child’s imagination with outstanding musical presentations that invite the audience into the world of the orchestra.

In the first program, music comes alive as the orchestra is built before the audience’s eyes in Britten’s The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra, accentuated by the energetic dancers of DanceWorks Chicago. Stravinsky’s delightful Suite from Pulcinella gets a family-friendly treatment through the lens of Chicago’s innovative Lookingglass Theatre Company. In the third program, there will be no doubt that The Composer is Dead, but the orchestra, conductor and audience are all very much alive in this fun and engaging musical mystery.

 
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Magical Movements
Nov
5, 11:00 AM & 12:45 AM
  • 11:00 AM & 12:45 AM
  • Chicago Symphony Orchestra, DanceWorks Chicago
  • Fry, Copland, Nielsen, Mozart, Britten

Program

Britten 
 The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra 


Performers

Members of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Duain Wolfe
 conductor
DanceWorks Chicago
 
guest artists
Julie Nakagawa
 
artistic director
Christan Spuck
 
choreographer


Musical Mayhem
Feb
4, 11:00 AM & 12:45 AM
  • 11:00 AM & 12:45 AM
  • Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Lookingglass Theatre Company
  • Stravinsky

Program

Stravinsky 
 Pulcinella Suite 


Performers

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Alistair Willis
 conductor
Lookingglass Theatre Company
 
guest artists


The Composer is Dead
May
12, 11:00 AM & 12:45 AM
  • 11:00 AM & 12:45 AM
  • Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Outwater, Stookey

Program

Stookey 
 The Composer is Dead


Performers

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
 
Edwin Outwater
 conductor
Nathaniel Stookey
 
narrator



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