Chicago Symphony Orchestra Featured Events - Tickets and more information http://cso.org/TicketsAndEvents/http://www.cso.orghttp://www.cso.org/img/lgbac_cso.jpgSun, 26 May 2013 02:32:30 EDT30en-usCopyright 2008, Chicago Symphony Orchestra<p class="paragraph">French piano icon Jean-Yves Thibaudet draws out the subtleties and expressive colors of Saint-Saëns' exotic Fifth Piano Concerto, written while the composer was visiting Cairo. Carlos Miguel Prieto imbues the program with Latin flavor: the richly orchestrated <em>Panambí</em> Suite tells a pre-Colombian saga of the North Argentinean Indians, and the film score <em>La Noche de los Mayas</em> is regarded as Revueltas' masterpiece.</p><p class="paragraph">Composed when Ginastera was just turning 20, the exuberant ballet <em>Panambí </em>exhibits a fiery percussiveness recalling Stravinsky’s <em>The Rite of Spring</em> and a deep lusciousness reminiscent of Ravel’s <em>Daphnis and Chloé</em>. Its exotic score is based on a romantic and supernatural legend of love and magic from the Guaraní Indians, a tribe from the headwaters of the Rio Paraná in northern Argentina.</p><p class="paragraph">Equally colorful is<em> La noche de los mayas</em>, an orchestral piece based on a film score by Mexican composer Silvestre Revueltas. A one-time student of Chicago’s College of Music, Revueltas died in 1940, shortly after the completion of this work, widely regarded as his greatest achievement.</p><p class="paragraph">French composer Camille Saint-Saëns completed his Fifth Piano Concerto during a trip to Cairo in 1896. The second movement evokes a Nubian love song heard while sailing down the Nile in a <em>dahabeah</em>—the traditional Egyptian vessel used on the river since the time of the Pharoahs.</p><p class="paragraph"><strong>Pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet will sign copies of his recordings in Grainger Ballroom after the concert on Saturday, May 25.</strong></p> http://cso.org/TicketsAndEvents/EventDetails.aspx?eid=4851 http://cso.org/TicketsAndEvents/EventDetails.aspx?eid=4851 26 EDT <p class="paragraph">French piano icon Jean-Yves Thibaudet draws out the subtleties and expressive colors of Saint-Saëns' exotic Fifth Piano Concerto, written while the composer was visiting Cairo. Carlos Miguel Prieto imbues the program with Latin flavor: the richly orchestrated <em>Panambí</em> Suite tells a pre-Colombian saga of the North Argentinean Indians, and the film score <em>La Noche de los Mayas</em> is regarded as Revueltas' masterpiece.</p><p class="paragraph">Composed when Ginastera was just turning 20, the exuberant ballet <em>Panambí </em>exhibits a fiery percussiveness recalling Stravinsky’s <em>The Rite of Spring</em> and a deep lusciousness reminiscent of Ravel’s <em>Daphnis and Chloé</em>. Its exotic score is based on a romantic and supernatural legend of love and magic from the Guaraní Indians, a tribe from the headwaters of the Rio Paraná in northern Argentina.</p><p class="paragraph">Equally colorful is<em> La noche de los mayas</em>, an orchestral piece based on a film score by Mexican composer Silvestre Revueltas. A one-time student of Chicago’s College of Music, Revueltas died in 1940, shortly after the completion of this work, widely regarded as his greatest achievement.</p><p class="paragraph">French composer Camille Saint-Saëns completed his Fifth Piano Concerto during a trip to Cairo in 1896. The second movement evokes a Nubian love song heard while sailing down the Nile in a <em>dahabeah</em>—the traditional Egyptian vessel used on the river since the time of the Pharoahs.</p><p class="paragraph"><strong>Pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet will sign copies of his recordings in Grainger Ballroom after the concert on Saturday, May 25.</strong></p> http://cso.org/TicketsAndEvents/EventDetails.aspx?eid=4895 http://cso.org/TicketsAndEvents/EventDetails.aspx?eid=4895 26 EDT <p class="paragraph">French piano icon Jean-Yves Thibaudet draws out the subtleties and expressive colors of Saint-Saëns' exotic Fifth Piano Concerto, written while the composer was visiting Cairo. Carlos Miguel Prieto imbues the program with Latin flavor: the richly orchestrated <em>Panambí</em> Suite tells a pre-Colombian saga of the North Argentinean Indians, and the film score <em>La Noche de los Mayas</em> is regarded as Revueltas' masterpiece.</p><p class="paragraph">Composed when Ginastera was just turning 20, the exuberant ballet <em>Panambí </em>exhibits a fiery percussiveness recalling Stravinsky’s <em>The Rite of Spring</em> and a deep lusciousness reminiscent of Ravel’s <em>Daphnis and Chloé</em>. Its exotic score is based on a romantic and supernatural legend of love and magic from the Guaraní Indians, a tribe from the headwaters of the Rio Paraná in northern Argentina.</p><p class="paragraph">Equally colorful is<em> La noche de los mayas</em>, an orchestral piece based on a film score by Mexican composer Silvestre Revueltas. A one-time student of Chicago’s College of Music, Revueltas died in 1940, shortly after the completion of this work, widely regarded as his greatest achievement.</p><p class="paragraph">French composer Camille Saint-Saëns completed his Fifth Piano Concerto during a trip to Cairo in 1896. The second movement evokes a Nubian love song heard while sailing down the Nile in a <em>dahabeah</em>—the traditional Egyptian vessel used on the river since the time of the Pharoahs.</p><p class="paragraph"><strong>Pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet will sign copies of his recordings in Grainger Ballroom after the concert on Saturday, May 25.</strong></p> http://cso.org/TicketsAndEvents/EventDetails.aspx?eid=4924 http://cso.org/TicketsAndEvents/EventDetails.aspx?eid=4924 26 EDT <p class="paragraph">Manhattan Concert Productions presents the National Children’s Festival Chorus and the National Festival Chorus this summer at the renowned Orchestra Hall, Chicago.</p><p class="paragraph">Join Guest Conductor Henry Leck at the helm of the National Children’s Festival Chorus performing Mozart’s <em>Alleluia</em>, Bach’s Der <em>Herr Segne Euch</em> and many more select treats in this wonderful program. One of the most active choral conductors and composers on the international circuit today, Z. Randall Stroope will present the National Festival Choruses invigorating, multi-lingual program. Works include Rachmaninoff’s <em>Come Let Us Worship</em>, Telemann’s <em>Laudate Jehovam Omnes Gentes</em> and Stroope’s very own <em>Amor de mi alma</em> which will be sung in Spanish.</p><p class="paragraph">Yorkville High School Wind Ensemble will make their debut performance at Orchestra Hall as part of this concert. Their program includes classic favorites including Gustav Holst's <em>Jupiter</em>, Steven Bryant's <em>Dusk</em>, and Charles Rochester Young's <em>Tempered Steel</em>.</p><p class="paragraph">Don’t miss this wonderful Memorial Day celebration at Orchestra Hall.</p> http://cso.org/TicketsAndEvents/EventDetails.aspx?eid=6016 http://cso.org/TicketsAndEvents/EventDetails.aspx?eid=6016 26 EDT <p class="paragraph">French piano icon Jean-Yves Thibaudet draws out the subtleties and expressive colors of Saint-Saëns' exotic Fifth Piano Concerto, written while the composer was visiting Cairo. Carlos Miguel Prieto imbues the program with Latin flavor: the richly orchestrated <em>Panambí</em> Suite tells a pre-Colombian saga of the North Argentinean Indians, and the film score <em>La Noche de los Mayas</em> is regarded as Revueltas' masterpiece.</p><p class="paragraph">Composed when Ginastera was just turning 20, the exuberant ballet <em>Panambí </em>exhibits a fiery percussiveness recalling Stravinsky’s <em>The Rite of Spring</em> and a deep lusciousness reminiscent of Ravel’s <em>Daphnis and Chloé</em>. Its exotic score is based on a romantic and supernatural legend of love and magic from the Guaraní Indians, a tribe from the headwaters of the Rio Paraná in northern Argentina.</p><p class="paragraph">Equally colorful is<em> La noche de los mayas</em>, an orchestral piece based on a film score by Mexican composer Silvestre Revueltas. A one-time student of Chicago’s College of Music, Revueltas died in 1940, shortly after the completion of this work, widely regarded as his greatest achievement.</p><p class="paragraph">French composer Camille Saint-Saëns completed his Fifth Piano Concerto during a trip to Cairo in 1896. The second movement evokes a Nubian love song heard while sailing down the Nile in a <em>dahabeah</em>—the traditional Egyptian vessel used on the river since the time of the Pharoahs.</p><p class="paragraph"><strong>Pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet will sign copies of his recordings in Grainger Ballroom after the concert on Saturday, May 25.</strong></p> http://cso.org/TicketsAndEvents/EventDetails.aspx?eid=4870 http://cso.org/TicketsAndEvents/EventDetails.aspx?eid=4870 26 EDT <p class="paragraph">The School of Music will celebrate its 100 year history at the 2013 Annual Spring Concert. Join us as the DePaul Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, under the direction of Cliff Colnot, performs Beethoven’s majestic Ninth Symphony with faculty soloists Michael Sylvester, Elizabeth Byrne, Jane Bunnell, and Marc Embree. Prior to the Beethoven, audiences will be witness to the world premiere of a specially-commissioned work by award-winning Chicago composer, Augusta Read Thomas.</p> http://cso.org/TicketsAndEvents/EventDetails.aspx?eid=5933 http://cso.org/TicketsAndEvents/EventDetails.aspx?eid=5933 26 EDT <p class="paragraph">The magisterial opening movement of Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 25 is one of the most unforgettable in the composer's orchestral canon. Phenomenal French pianist David Fray joins lauded conductor Jaap Van Zweden for this work, which Beethoven chose for one of his first Viennese appearances as soloist. CSO Mead Composer-in-Residence Mason Bates created <em>Liquid Interface</em> in 2006, inspired by the various states of water, from frozen to evaporated.</p><p class="paragraph"><strong>More About Liquid Interface: </strong>Composed after the time Mason Bates spent living on Berlin’s Lake Wannsee, <em>Liquid Interface</em> explores water in various climates. Movement by movement, Bates’ music explores increasingly warmer regions, one of which is New Orleans, dubbed the Crescent City because of its geographical location along a bend in the Mississippi River.</p><p class="paragraph"><a title="Post" href="/TicketsAndEvents/EventDetails.aspx?eid=4882">The Friday May 31 concert</a> is a part of our <a title="POST" href="/Page.aspx?id=18995">POST</a> series—$35 tickets include a 21+ after-concert lounge. Use promo code POST at checkout!</p><p class="paragraph"><strong>David Fray will sign copies of his recordings in Grainger Ballroom after the performance Saturday, June 1.</strong></p> http://cso.org/TicketsAndEvents/EventDetails.aspx?eid=4852 http://cso.org/TicketsAndEvents/EventDetails.aspx?eid=4852 26 EDT <p class="paragraph">The magisterial opening movement of Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 25 is one of the most unforgettable in the composer's orchestral canon. Phenomenal French pianist David Fray joins lauded conductor Jaap Van Zweden for this work, which Beethoven chose for one of his first Viennese appearances as soloist. CSO Mead Composer-in-Residence Mason Bates created <em>Liquid Interface</em> in 2006, inspired by the various states of water, from frozen to evaporated.</p><p class="paragraph"><strong>More About Liquid Interface: </strong>Composed after the time Mason Bates spent living on Berlin’s Lake Wannsee, <em>Liquid Interface</em> explores water in various climates. Movement by movement, Bates’ music explores increasingly warmer regions, one of which is New Orleans, dubbed the Crescent City because of its geographical location along a bend in the Mississippi River.</p><p class="paragraph"><a title="Post" href="/TicketsAndEvents/EventDetails.aspx?eid=4882">The Friday May 31 concert</a> is a part of our <a title="POST" href="/Page.aspx?id=18995">POST</a> series—$35 tickets include a 21+ after-concert lounge. Use promo code POST at checkout!</p><p class="paragraph"><strong>David Fray will sign copies of his recordings in Grainger Ballroom after the performance Saturday, June 1.</strong></p> http://cso.org/TicketsAndEvents/EventDetails.aspx?eid=4882 http://cso.org/TicketsAndEvents/EventDetails.aspx?eid=4882 26 EDT <p class="paragraph">The magisterial opening movement of Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 25 is one of the most unforgettable in the composer's orchestral canon. Phenomenal French pianist David Fray joins lauded conductor Jaap Van Zweden for this work, which Beethoven chose for one of his first Viennese appearances as soloist. CSO Mead Composer-in-Residence Mason Bates created <em>Liquid Interface</em> in 2006, inspired by the various states of water, from frozen to evaporated.</p><p class="paragraph"><strong>More About Liquid Interface: </strong>Composed after the time Mason Bates spent living on Berlin’s Lake Wannsee, <em>Liquid Interface</em> explores water in various climates. Movement by movement, Bates’ music explores increasingly warmer regions, one of which is New Orleans, dubbed the Crescent City because of its geographical location along a bend in the Mississippi River.</p><p class="paragraph"><a title="Post" href="/TicketsAndEvents/EventDetails.aspx?eid=4882">The Friday May 31 concert</a> is a part of our <a title="POST" href="/Page.aspx?id=18995">POST</a> series—$35 tickets include a 21+ after-concert lounge. Use promo code POST at checkout!</p><p class="paragraph"><strong>David Fray will sign copies of his recordings in Grainger Ballroom after the performance Saturday, June 1.</strong></p> http://cso.org/TicketsAndEvents/EventDetails.aspx?eid=4925 http://cso.org/TicketsAndEvents/EventDetails.aspx?eid=4925 26 EDT <p class="paragraph">Alice Sara Ott "gave the kind of gawp-inducing bravura performance of which legends are made," raved <em>The Guardian</em> (London). Hear the 23-year-old German-Japanese pianist in her Symphony Center debut.</p><p class="paragraph">Tesori is now serving lunch on the weekends! <a href="http://www.tesorichicago.com/" target="_blank">Make your reservation now</a> or call 312-786-9911.</p><p class="paragraph"><strong>Pianist Alice Sara Ott will sign copies of her latest recordings in Grainger Ballroom following her recital on Sunday June 2nd.</strong></p> http://cso.org/TicketsAndEvents/EventDetails.aspx?eid=4970 http://cso.org/TicketsAndEvents/EventDetails.aspx?eid=4970 26 EDT