CSO Principal Tuba Gene Pokorny takes center stage on June 15-17 to play a concerto written for him by Academy Award honoree Lalo Schifrin, best known for his theme from Mission: Impossible. Don’t miss this zestful program, led by Riccardo Muti and also featuring Schubert’s Ninth Symphony — a vast musical journey in four movements — and J. Strauss Jr.'s Overture to Indigo and the Forty Thieves. Get tickets at https://cso.org/performances/22-23/cso-classical/muti-pokorny-and-schubert-9/ | Chicago
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CSO Principal Tuba Gene Pokorny takes center stage on June 15-17 to play a concerto written for him by Academy Award honoree Lalo Schifrin, best known for his theme from Mission: Impossible. Don’t miss this zestful program, led by Riccardo Muti and also featuring Schubert’s Ninth Symphony — a vast musical journey in four movements — and J. Strauss Jr.'s Overture to Indigo and the Forty Thieves. Get tickets at https://cso.org/performances/22-23/cso-classical/muti-pokorny-and-schubert-9/ | Chicago
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Maestro Riccardo Muti conducts Stravinsky’s sensational The Firebird to launch the thrilling 2023/24 Chicago Symphony Orchestra Season in his first concerts as Music Director Emeritus for Life. Join him at Symphony Center on September 21-26 for this groundbreaking ballet suite, which will be accompanied by Liadov’s The Enchanted Lake and Brahms' cheerful Second Symphony. Get tickets → cso.org/ps/23950 | Chicago Symphony Orchestra
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Maestro Riccardo Muti conducts Stravinsky’s sensational The Firebird to launch the thrilling 2023/24 Chicago Symphony Orchestra Season in his first concerts as Music Director Emeritus for Life. Join him at Symphony Center on September 21-26 for this groundbreaking ballet suite, which will be accompanied by Liadov’s The Enchanted Lake and Brahms' cheerful Second Symphony. Get tickets → cso.org/ps/23950 | Chicago Symphony Orchestra
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Riccardo Muti shares his thoughts on Beethoven's music, voice and legacy: "He gave his voice to the hopes and to the sorrows of everybody." Hear Muti lead the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in Beethoven's stirring Symphony No. 3 (Eroica), September 23-27 at Orchestra Hall. Get tickets → order.cso.org/21851 | Chicago Symphony Orchestra
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Riccardo Muti shares his thoughts on Beethoven's music, voice and legacy: "He gave his voice to the hopes and to the sorrows of everybody." Hear Muti lead the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in Beethoven's stirring Symphony No. 3 (Eroica), September 23-27 at Orchestra Hall. Get tickets → order.cso.org/21851 | Chicago Symphony Orchestra
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"Rossini's Stabat mater is a longstanding specialty of Muti's. The music is unquestionably dramatic" (The New York Times). Don't miss this rousing season finale, June 21-24 ---> goo.gl/QBmho2 | Chicago Symphony Orchestra
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"Rossini's Stabat mater is a longstanding specialty of Muti's. The music is unquestionably dramatic" (The New York Times). Don't miss this rousing season finale, June 21-24 ---> goo.gl/QBmho2 | Chicago Symphony Orchestra
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The season-long celebration of Beethoven continues at Symphony Center on Feb 20-23 with Riccardo Muti conducting the composer's Second and Fifth Symphonies! The program also features the world premiere concerto of Ophelia's Tears, performed by CSO Bass Clarinet J. Lawrie Bloom. Secure your seats → order.cso.org/9951 | Chicago Symphony Orchestra
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The season-long celebration of Beethoven continues at Symphony Center on Feb 20-23 with Riccardo Muti conducting the composer's Second and Fifth Symphonies! The program also features the world premiere concerto of Ophelia's Tears, performed by CSO Bass Clarinet J. Lawrie Bloom. Secure your seats → order.cso.org/9951 | Chicago Symphony Orchestra
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Happy 80th birthday to CSO Music Director Riccardo Muti! In honor of this special milestone, musicians from the brass and percussion sections of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra perform Viva Muti! conducted by Michael Mulcahy. Perfect for this festive occasion, it features the familiar Happy Birthday theme arranged with Verdian flair by Timothy Higgins. Tanti Auguri Maestro! Let the celebration begin! | Chicago Symphony Orchestra
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Happy 80th birthday to CSO Music Director Riccardo Muti! In honor of this special milestone, musicians from the brass and percussion sections of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra perform Viva Muti! conducted by Michael Mulcahy. Perfect for this festive occasion, it features the familiar Happy Birthday theme arranged with Verdian flair by Timothy Higgins. Tanti Auguri Maestro! Let the celebration begin! | Chicago Symphony Orchestra
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Happy birthday, Florence Price! Celebrate the trailblazing Black composer with this performance of her heartfelt serenade, Andante moderato, by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Music Director Riccardo Muti. Price, born April 9, 1887, was the first Black woman composer to have her music performed by a major U.S. orchestra — the CSO. | Chicago Symphony Orchestra
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Happy birthday, Florence Price! Celebrate the trailblazing Black composer with this performance of her heartfelt serenade, Andante moderato, by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Music Director Riccardo Muti. Price, born April 9, 1887, was the first Black woman composer to have her music performed by a major U.S. orchestra — the CSO. | Chicago Symphony Orchestra
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The Chicago Symphony Orchestra family is thankful for all of the friends, family members, patrons and members of our extended community who support us in our mission to enrich, inspire and transform lives through music. We hope you enjoy that gift of music today in this performance clip of the CSO led by Riccardo Muti in Mussorgsky’s radiant Pictures from an Exhibition, recorded in Orchestra Hall this October. For additional videos of Riccardo Muti, visit riccardomutimusic.com. (Riccardo Muti Mu
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On February 24, 2022, the day the world learned of Russia's attack upon Ukraine, Music Director Riccardo Muti took the stage at Orchestra Hall to lead the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus in Beethoven's Symphony No. 9. To open the evening, Muti dedicated the performance of the work, and its explicit message of universal kinship, to the people of Ukraine and other victims of needless violence around the world: "We make music that means joy and peace. But ... we will think in this moment that
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Wishing a very happy 81st birthday to Chicago Symphony Orchestra Music Director Riccardo Muti! In February 2022, Muti led the CSO in critically acclaimed performances of American composer Philip Glass’ Symphony No. 11. On July 28, we celebrate his boundless energy and commitment to new music with a concert clip of this work, originally written by Glass for his own 80th birthday. | Chicago Symphony Orchestra
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The Chicago Symphony Orchestra family is endlessly thankful for the support of our community in our mission to enrich, inspire and transform lives through music, both in Chicago and worldwide. On this Thanksgiving Day, we hope you enjoy a new recording of the Orchestra — led by Riccardo Muti and featuring CSO Principal Tuba Gene Pokorny — of Lalo Schifrin’s iconic Theme from Mission: Impossible, performed in Orchestra Hall on June 17, 2023. For additional videos of Riccardo Muti, visit riccardom
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Rossini decided to retire at the age of 37, but just as he was settling into his new life he accepted a commission for the Stabat mater. Muti leads the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus in the work, June 21-24 ---> goo.gl/W5rfHL | Chicago Symphony Orchestra
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The CSO's season-long Beethoven celebration continues on November 1-5 with Riccardo Muti leading the orchestra in the composer’s Violin Concerto featuring Leonidas Kavakos, “the most deeply satisfying violinist performing today.” Riccardo Muti conducts this towering work along with a world premiere by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Bernard Rands. Get tickets → order.cso.org/10013 | Chicago Symphony Orchestra
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Experience the pull of an orchestra that plays as one with a performance clip of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Riccardo Muti in Beethoven’s visceral Seventh Symphony. Discover more at cso.org | Chicago Symphony Orchestra
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Wishing a very happy 82nd birthday to 10th CSO music director Riccardo Muti, born on July 28 in Naples, Italy! Today we honor his spirited leadership and commitment to musical excellence with a new performance clip from the Allegro giocoso movement of Prokofiev’s Fifth Symphony, performed by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra under his baton in October 2022. For additional videos of Riccardo Muti, visit riccardomutimusic.com | Chicago Symphony Orchestra
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The Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Riccardo Muti and a thrilling array of musical artists make a soul-stirring return to the Symphony Center stage for the Fall 2021 Season. Come celebrate the sound of our city and feel the exhilaration of live music again! Explore the season → cso.org/fall | Chicago Symphony Orchestra
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Happy 250th birthday to Ludwig van Beethoven! Riccardo Muti and musicians of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra discuss the meaning and significance of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, described by Maestro Muti as "the work of a divine architect." | Chicago Symphony Orchestra
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On Thursday, September 23, Music Director Riccardo Muti joined the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and a capacity audience at Symphony Center in a heartfelt reunion after more than nineteen months apart. To mark the momentous occasion, Muti opened the evening by addressing the vitality of culture: “You are here tonight because you need music … That is the reason why we are here. We are here to give you emotions, to give you the sound of beauty, of harmony.” | Chicago Symphony Orchestra
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The Chicago Symphony Orchestra has officially left for its 2023 North American Tour! Led by Music Director Riccardo Muti, the tour programming ranges from Mussorgsky’s Pictures from an Exhibition to several Beethoven masterpieces, including the composer’s brilliant Seventh Symphony. Look forward to performances in your city with an excerpt from the exuberant Fourth Movement, performed in Orchestra Hall in 2021 as part of Muti’s survey of the complete cycle of Beethoven symphonies in recent seaso
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The first movement of Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony bursts with celebratory energy, underscoring Music Director Riccardo Muti’s joyful reunion with the CSO during his fall 2021 residency. Hear Muti and the CSO for free in an all-Beethoven program at Morton East High School on January 14! Get tickets → cso.org/mortoneast | Chicago Symphony Orchestra
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Following the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus’ Sunday afternoon performance of Beethoven’s Missa solemnis – Maestro Riccardo Muti’s final concerts in Orchestra Hall as the ensemble’s 10th music director – members of the brass and percussion sections honored their leader with a tusch. The tradition of musicians playing a tusch – a musical flourish or brass fanfare, sometimes spontaneous and usually improvised – dates to the 17th century, and it is a rare honor bestowed upon a fellow musicia
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Riccardo Muti becomes Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s music director emeritus for life
Jun 24, 2023
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Join us and share the joy with a piece Maestro Muti calls “the work of a divine architect” in a special Facebook premiere of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony on Sunday, April 12. | Chicago Symphony Orchestra
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The CSO invites you to explore the newly announced 2019/20 season, which marks Riccardo Muti’s 10th season as music director and the 250th anniversary of Ludwig van Beethoven’s birth. Select the perfect subscription package for you → bit.ly/2Sdj9S5 | Chicago Symphony Orchestra
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The Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Music Director Emeritus for Life Riccardo Muti Music take on New York City for two Carnegie Hall performances - including Carnegie Hall's opening night concert. Thanks to the stagehands, the stage is set for reherasal and performances. | Chicago Symphony Orchestra
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Don’t miss the extraordinary culmination of “12 years of beautiful musical life” in the 2022/23 Season, the final chapter of Riccardo Muti’s legendary tenure as CSO music director. Subscriptions on sale now! Explore the calendar → cso.org/newseason | Chicago Symphony Orchestra
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As Maestro Riccardo Muti’s tenure as Music Director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra nears its conclusion later this month, we are reminded that more than 13 years ago he anticipated great things to come of this partnership. Learn more → cso.org/muti | Chicago Symphony Orchestra
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