The CSO welcomes Riccardo Muti with FESTA MUTI, a monthlong celebration of his first weeks as music director from September 19–October 17.
Kicking off with a free concert for Chicago in Millennium Park on September 19, FESTA MUTI will be an unforgettable part of the 2010/11 season and monumental moment in CSO history.
The founding members of the new Women’s Board of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association are honored to premiere the Symphony Ball (formerly known as the Opening Night Gala), a festive gala evening of music and celebration to welcome Music Director Riccardo Muti to Chicago.
Muti’s inaugural Symphony Ball concert features Rossini’s effervescent William Tell Overture, the most popular opera overture of all time, plus Liszt’s larger-than-life symphonic poem Les préludes. Muti has also invited violin virtuoso Anne-Sophie Mutter, who will shine in Beethoven’s soaring Violin Concerto.
All Symphony Ball concert attendees are invited to a preconcert Prosecco Reception held throughout Symphony Center. Guests with Symphony Ball packages will enjoy postconcert cocktails, dinner and dancing under a tent at Millennium Park. Non-package purchasers will receive a postconcert celebration in Symphony Center.
Call the Symphony Ball hotline at (312) 294-3185 or email symphonyball@cso.org for more information and to order your gala package.
Electronics and propelling rhythms fly high in a show that features exciting and mysterious music by Mexican composers Enrico Chapela and Ana Lara, genre-bending works by Anna Clyne and Mason Bates, and music by Chicago’s own Marcos Balter. The creation of Chapela’s energetic Li Po involved recording a poem by José Juan Tablada and translating the reading’s pitches and notes into a musical score. The first MusicNOW concert of the season ends with Digital Loom, which features the traditional sounds of the pipe organ against Bates’ edgy electronics.
MusicNOW is Chicago’s most exciting new music series, with performances by musicians from the CSO and MusicNOW Principal Conductor Cliff Colnot, and hosted by newly appointed Mead Composers-in-Residence Mason Bates and Anna Clyne. Meet the musicians and composers at postconcert receptions with FREE food and drink!
MusicNOW concerts take place at:
Harris Theater for Music and Dance 205 East Randolph Drive
Riccardo Muti is passionate about the music of Luigi Cherubini, an Italian composer revered by Beethoven and who mentored Berlioz. In celebration of the 250th anniversary of Cherubini’s birth, we present his grand Requiem in C Minor. Our tribute to “México 2010” includes the world premiere of Bernard Rands’ Danza Petrificada, inspired by the words of Mexican poet Octavio Paz.
This concert is part of the Classic Encounter series6:30 A pre-concert lecture with complimentary snacks and drinks.8:00 Chicago Symphony Orchestra concert.
Click here to view the brochure >Classic Encounter series A >Classic Encounter series B >Classic Encounter series E >Please call (312) 294-3000 to order your ClassicEncounter subscription.