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Guerrero Conducts Piazzolla & Beethoven

Nov 18-21, 2021
Guerrero Conducts Piazzolla & Beethoven
Overview Program Performers

Overview

Astor Piazzolla, born a century ago, revolutionized the Argentine tango with urbane sophistication. His Aconcagua — named for an Andean mountain — is alternately pensive and streetwise in spirit. Giancarlo Guerrero leads a program bookended by Buxtehude’s Chaconne, vibrantly orchestrated by Mexican composer Carlos Chávez, and Beethoven’s witty and confident First Symphony.

Program
Buxtehude, arr. and orch. Chávez

Chaconne in E Minor

Piazzolla

Bandoneón Concerto (Aconcagua)

Beethoven

Symphony No. 1

Sponsors & Partners

Support for this performance has been provided in memory of Jan Jentes, an enthusiastic supporter of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and the music of Piazzolla, by her husband William Jentes.

 

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