Coleman, Montgomery & Rachmaninov 2

Jan 20, 2025
Tickets become available January 3
Remind me

Overview

After a deep crisis of confidence, Sergei Rachmaninov delivered one of classical music’s most triumphant returns, his Second Symphony, a masterpiece of crackling rhythms and gloriously romantic melodies. A bracing call to attention, Valerie Coleman’s fanfare is “at once reflective and restless, uplifting and ominous” (The New York Times). Former Mead Composer-in-Residence Jessie Montgomery’s Transfigure to Grace is a stirring meditation on humanity’s continuing journey towards equality.

Schedule
Program
Coleman

Fanfare for Uncommon Times

Montgomery

Transfigure to Grace

Rachmaninov

Symphony No. 2

Performers
Principal Conductor, Civic Orchestra of Chicago
The Robert Kohl and Clark Pellett Principal Conductor Chair
Sponsors

The 2024/25 Civic Orchestra season is generously sponsored by Lori Julian for the Julian Family Foundation, which also provides major funding for the Civic Fellowship program.

Major support for the Civic Orchestra of Chicago also provided by Robert and Joanne Crown Income Charitable Fund; Leslie Fund, Inc.; Judy and Scott McCue; Leo and Catherine Miserendino; Barbara and Barre Seid Foundation; The George L. Shields Foundation, Inc.; the Maval Foundation, and an anonymous donor.