WQXR to live-stream CSO’s Carnegie opener

The Chicago Symphony Orchestra, with Music Director Emeritus for Life Riccardo Muti, travels to New York City to open the 23-24 season of Carnegie Hall on Oct. 4-5. And if you can’t head to Manhattan for the sold-out engagement, the first of the two CSO concerts will be live-streamed by WQXR-FM, beginning at 6 p.m. (Chicago time).

Joining the CSO and Muti for the first concert is superstar violinist Leonidas Kavakos, in the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto, which he performed to great acclaim at the CSO’s Symphony Ball on Sept. 28. Also on the Carnegie Hall gala season-opening program is Mussorgsky’s Pictures from an Exhibition. The broadcast will be hosted by Jeff Spurgeon, WQXR-FM morning disc jockey, and John Schaefer, of WNYC-FM’s “New Sounds.”

For the second program on Oct. 5, the CSO and Muti will perform Philip Glass’ The Triumph of the Octagon (in its New York premiere, after its world premiere in Chicago the week before), Mendelssohn Symphony No. 4 (Italian) and Richard Strauss’ Aus Italien. A New York resident, Glass is expected to attend the Carnegie Hall performance.