Chicago Symphony Orchestra News

Ravinia is many things these days: top-level chamber music and vocal recitals in the gemlike Martin Theatre, an ever-expanding array of pops concerts, highly regarded training programs for young musicians, dance and music theater events, a site for picnicking and home to a beautiful new restaurant building.

If you've ever been to hear the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at Ravinia, you know that the pre-concert show is the amazing picnics.

Alphabetical Listing Home : CD reviews : Classical : The Chicago Symphony Orchestra & Seiji Ozawa The Chicago Symphony Orchestra & Seiji Ozawa - Stravinski: The Rite of Spring - When Stravinsky's 'Rite of Spring' opened, the debate about it was so fierce that a riot ensued and the theatre suffered a fire.

West Park United Church of Christ, 3909 Rocky River Drive, will host a concert in celebration of its 150th anniversary at 7 p.m. on Saturday.

Pierre Boulez, conductor emeritus of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, is one of 25 people to win this year's prestigious Kyoto Prize.

Regarded by many as the pinnacle of American cooking, Charlie Trotter's enjoys as much international renown as the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and the Bulls basketball team.

The Women's Association of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra held its finals for the CSO Youth Auditions on March 21 at Symphony Center.

Ravinia music director James Conlon will continue his "Breaking the Silence" series by focusing on the music of German composer Kurt Weill.

The rise of dedicated early music groups and their leaders has widely expanded the audience for historically performed and forgotten or neglected repertoire from before the classical era.

The journey of a thousand miles begins with.... Heidi L. Lukas '92 Issue date: 5/29/09 Section: Features Much has been written on the concept of journey -- its metaphorical value in recounting one's life has probably surpassed clich status by now, but I still can't resist its pull as I reflect on my profession within the context of my years at ...

May 23--The challenge of bringing a jazz sensibility to a symphony orchestra can be nearly insurmountable, for strings do not easily swing.

Matias Tarnopolsky was named the new director of Cal Performances today by Robert Birgeneau, chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley, at a campus press conference in Zellerbach Hall.

The Brevard Community Band enters its ninth season with an exciting program highlighting two stellar instrumentalists and an acclaimed vocal group.

Opera great Jessye Norman will serve as the narrator for Copland's "Lincoln Portrait" with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra during the Ravinia Festival's annual Women's Board Gala on July 18.

It was as if one were sitting through two entirely different concerts Thursday night at Orchestra Hall.

The Chicago Symphony Orchestra's Skookumchuck Strings Quintet will perform the original genre-bending works of Chicago composer/guitarist, Jason Seed on Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009 at 6:30 pm at the Buntrock Hall Symphony Center located at 220 S. Michigan Avenue in Chicago, Illinois.

From Symphony of Southeast Texas Entering his sixth season as Resident Conductor of the Toledo Symphony Orchestra, American conductor Chelsea Tipton II has won over audience and critics alike with his vibrant musicality, accessibility, versatility, and extraordinary commitment to education outreach.

Bernard Haitink is winding down his spring residency with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra with the sort of intense programming and almost otherworldly levels of musicmaking that have been his stock in trade as principal conductor here for the last three seasons.

Through a fluke of scheduling, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and almost everyone involved in its direction have just been in New York or will be soon.

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