Chicago Symphony Orchestra News

As with most things in life, music is a matter of personal preference. Some listeners love their classics, others can talk about astonishing concertizing soloists for hours and even others, like me, enjoy a good dose of experimental music.

If you're looking for something festive to do this weekend--well as festive as listening to music from a pair of tragic love stories can be--I'd suggest the Tales from Tchaikovsky program the Chicago Symphony Orchestra is running through the weekend.

When Italian director Riccardo Muti comes to Chicago next September, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra wants to make sure he has the best team around him.

Chicago Symphony Orchestra music director designate Riccardo Muti took a giant step toward realizing his goals of connecting the CSO with wider audiences and young people of all backgrounds by tapping cellist Yo-Yo Ma, one of the world's best known musicians and most tireless classical music advocates, for a new position in the orchestra's artistic ...

No relationship between two countries in this century is more important than that of China and the United States, and people-to-people and cultural exchange can help enhance this relationship, said a distinguished musician in Chicago during a recent interview with Xinhua.

Occupying about one tenth of the more than one hundred prestigious seats in the Chicago Symphony Orchestra , eleven extraordinary Chinese musicians treasure their opportunity to be part of one of the greatest classical music ensembles in the world.

There are downsides to having things go as well as they have in recent seasons at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and when a concert doesn't fully come together, it shows.

Even the Chicago Symphony Orchestra catches its breath occasionally. This fall has been a heavy roll of European touring, Mutimania and four large-scale works these last two weeks under the painstaking care of principal conductor Bernard Haitink.

The dream times continue at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra with a blissful three-man minuet of some of the world's greatest conductors making delicious music week after week.

Included in last weeks program, Brahms's A German Requiem is music of consolation, written to comfort in times of loss.

Last season's sensational performances of Verdi's Requiem under the baton of Chicago Symphony Orchestra music-director designate Riccardo Muti - "the highlight of my 23 years with the CSO," declared cellist Gary Stucka - should have calmed those who feared that the orchestra was becoming a rudderless ensemble.

The Cincinnati-based American Classical Music Hall of Fame announces five inductees in 2009, including May Festival music director James Conlon.

For his two weeks this season as the Chicago Symphony Orchestra's music director-designate, Riccardo Muti is offering programs of works that were already on his plate before he agreed to take up full leadership of the CSO beginning in September 2010.

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The Riccardo Muti era won't begin at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra until September 2010.

When Chicago Symphony Orchestra violinist Edgar Muenzer established the Park Ridge Civic Orchestra in his hometown in 1994, he never dreamed it would become such a vital, thriving institution.

Syracuse, NY -- Already one of the most recognizable and comprehensible pieces in the classical cannon, Modest Mussorgsky's "Pictures From an Exhibition," becomes even more accessible through "Beyond The Score." This multimedia introduction is produced by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra to deepen understanding for classical music lovers and to ...

Conductor Riccardo Muti said today the Chicago Symphony Orchestra will reach out to at-risk youth, including incarcerated juvenile offenders, after he takes over as music director next September.

Despite hard economic times, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra ended its last fiscal year in the black, and even carried over a modest surplus of $20,000 into 2009-10. Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association president Deborah F. Rutter and chairman William A. Osborn told the association's annual meeting Wednesday it raised $20.9 million in donations ...

Midwest Young Artists presents a concert featuring I Solisti MYA at 7 p.m. Saturday, Oct.