Digital Program Book: Strum

Learn more about the artists and works featured in this concert by reading the virtual program book. Franz Schubert’s bright Fifth Symphony anchors a program led by former CSO Solti Conducting Apprentice Erina Yashima. The concert also includes two of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s Noveletten, each with expansive melodies propelled by rhythmic energy, and Zoltán Kodály’s homage to the folk music of his native Hungary in Dances of Galánta. Strum, by incoming Mead Composer-in-Residence Jessie Montgomery, draws folkish timbres from the familiar classical string orchestra.

In this issue:

• A special welcome from CSOA President Jeff Alexander and Board of Trustees Chair Helen Zell
• A message of hope from the CSO’s Zell Music Director Riccardo Muti
• Details on the works to be performed, including notes by the CSOA’s Scholar-in-Residence and Program Annotator Phillip Huscher
• Special embedded videos related to the performance
• A biography of conductor Erina Yashima
• Chicago Symphony Orchestra roster
• Acknowledgments and thanks for our generous sponsors
• Information on more ways to engage with the CSOA programs and artists online