Muti Conducts Saint-Georges, Price & Beethoven 3

Sep 23-25, 2021
Riccardo Muti

Overview

Riccardo Muti and the CSO reunite! Their first performance together since February 2020 features Beethoven’s stirring Eroica Symphony. The program opens with music from the only surviving opera by Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges, the Guadeloupe-born composer, violinist and champion fencer who dazzled 18th-century Parisian society. Also featured is an enchanting, lyrical gem from the String Quartet in G Major by Florence Price, the first African American woman to have her music played by a major American orchestra — the CSO in 1933. (*)

Program
Saint-Georges

Overture to L’Amant anonyme

Price

Andante moderato

Beethoven

Symphony No. 3 (Eroica)

Performers
Music Director Emeritus for Life
Sponsors & Partners

These concerts are generously sponsored by the Zell Family Foundation.


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