Chicago Symphony Orchestra News

 
CSO's 'Keys to the City' fest gets a bumpy launch
Chicago Sun-Times
By Andrew Patner May 24, 2012 4:26PM The Chicago Symphony Orchestra launched its three-week “Keys to the City” piano festival with a program Wednesday filled with bonhomie and whimsy but with decidedly mixed results. Curators Emanuel Ax, one of ...
Keys to the City opener unlocks some doors – but not othersChicago Tribune

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Ildar Abdrazakov Joins Riccardo Muti With Chicago Symphony Orchestra, 6/14-19
Broadway World
Ildar Abdrazakov will join conductor Riccardo Muti – his friend and frequent collaborator– to sing Shostakovich's Suite on Verses of Michelangelo Buonarroti with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra from June 14-19. Abdrazakov (pronounced ahb-drah-ZAH-koff) ...


 
Festival keys in on piano music
Chicago Tribune
That is as good a capsule description as any of the intentions behind the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association's ambitious and far-reaching "Keys to the City" Piano Festival. During the three-week festival, which runs Wednesday to June 12 at Symphony ...

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Festival keys in on piano music
Chicago Tribune
That is as good a capsule description as any of the intentions behind the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association's ambitious and far-reaching "Keys to the City" Piano Festival. During the three-week festival, which runs Wednesday to June 12 at Symphony ...

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Chicago Symphony Orchestra to open Carnegie Hall season, tour in Mexico and Asia
Washington Post
CHICAGO — The Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Music Director Riccardo Muti (MOO'-tee) plan trips to New York, Asia and Mexico for the 2012-2013 season. The orchestra announced Tuesday that it will perform three concerts in October to open the season at ...
Yo-Yo Ma, CSO give fresh account of DvorakChicago Tribune
Muti to lead Chicago orchestra on tours of Asia, MexicoAFP

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Chicago Symphony Orchestra's Riccardo Muti gets high papal honor at Vatican
Chicago Tribune
CHICAGO (AP) — Riccardo Muti, music director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, has been awarded a high papal honor in a ceremony at the Vatican. He received the honor, known as the Great Cross of St. Gregory the Great, after leading a performance at ...
Muti receives highest papal honor at the VaticanChicago Classical Review
Stradivarius violin played for pope in Vatican concertYahoo!7 News

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Noteworthy news on Chicago's classical music scene
Examiner.com
The evening begins with an artists' reception at 5:15 pm, followed by a 5:45 pm concert featuring the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Brass Quintet. The reception and concert are always free and no tickets are required. For details, visit www.rushhour.org.