http://www.cso.org/main.taf?p=17 Copyright 2008 Chicago Symphony Orchestra CSO Press Releases en-us Tue, 29 April 2008 10:06:01 EDT http://www.cso.org/img/lgbac_symphony_center.jpg http://www.cso.org/main.taf?p=17 http://www.cso.org/main.taf?p=7,1,2,5,75 Today, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association—with the unanimous approval from its Board of Trustees and overwhelming support from the musicians of the CSO—appointed world-renowned conductor Riccardo Muti as its 10th music director. CSO Mon, 5 May 2008 10:06:01 EDT http://www.cso.org/main.taf?p=7,1,2,5,74 The 2007-2008 Jazz at Symphony Center series concludes this spring with two performances: a Latin-flavored double-bill program featuring the Danilo Perez Trio and the David Sanchez Quartet on Friday, May 16; and an evening with the Wayne Shorter Quartet, led by legendary saxophonist Wayne Shorter, on Friday, June 6. CSO Tue, 29 April 2008 10:06:01 EDT http://www.cso.org/main.taf?p=7,1,2,5,73 The Chicago Symphony Orchestra today announced programming for its 2008-2009 MusicNOW series, featuring the best new music by the outstanding composers of our time, performed by musicians from the CSO. CSO Tue, 29 April 2008 10:06:01 EDT http://www.cso.org/main.taf?p=7,1,2,5,72 Stage, film and television star Kristin Chenoweth joins the Chicago Symphony Orchestra for its annual Corporate Night celebration on Tuesday, May 6, at 7:30 p.m. CSO Tue, 29 April 2008 10:06:01 EDT http://www.cso.org/main.taf?p=7,1,2,5,71 Chicago Symphony Orchestra Principal Conductor Bernard Haitink returns in May for a spring residency that includes two weeks of subscription programming at Orchestra Hall and two concerts at New York City's venerable Carnegie Hall. CSO Tue, 29 April 2008 10:06:01 EDT http://www.cso.org/main.taf?p=7,1,2,5,70 The Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association has issued a new volume of compact discs entitled "Chicago Symphony Chorus: A 50th Anniversary Celebration." CSO Tue, 29 April 2008 10:06:01 EDT http://www.cso.org/main.taf?p=7,1,2,5,69 San Francisco Symphony Music Director Michael Tilson Thomas will recreate the lives and times of Boris and Bessie Thomashefsky, two giants of the American Yiddish theater, during special concert performances on Sunday, June 1, at 3 p.m. and Tuesday, June 3, at 7:30 p.m. CSO Tue, 29 April 2008 10:06:01 EDT http://www.cso.org/main.taf?p=7,1,2,5,68 The Chicago Symphony Orchestra will close its 2007-2008 Kraft Family Matinee Series—themed A Musical Menagerie —on Saturday, May 3, with Peter and the Wolf, a specially designed program to introduce children to orchestral music in an entertaining and educational way. CSO Tue, 29 April 2008 10:06:01 EDT http://www.cso.org/main.taf?p=7,1,2,5,67 Kent Nagano, music director of the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, will lead the Civic Orchestra of Chicago in a free performance at Orchestra Hall on Monday, April 28, at 7:30 p.m. CSO Tue, 29 April 2008 10:06:01 EDT http://www.cso.org/main.taf?p=7,1,2,5,66 Symphony Center presents renowned French pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard in recital on the LaSalle Bank Piano Series on Sunday afternoon, April 20, at 3 p.m. CSO Tue, 29 April 2008 10:06:01 EDT http://www.cso.org/main.taf?p=7,1,2,5,65 The Chicago Symphony Orchestra will preside over the WFMT-FM (98.7) airwaves on Sunday, April 13, as it broadcasts the 33rd annual Symphonython, the CSO's radio fundraiser. CSO Tue, 29 April 2008 10:06:01 EDT http://www.cso.org/main.taf?p=7,1,2,5,64 Symphony Center announced that Gabriel Cabezas, 15, of Winnetka, Ill., has won the 2008 Chicago Symphony Orchestra Youth Auditions for Strings with his performance of the first movement of Dvorák's Cello Concerto in B Minor, Op. 104. CSO Tue, 29 April 2008 10:06:01 EDT http://www.cso.org/main.taf?p=7,1,2,5,63 The Chicago Symphony Orchestra today announced the fifth release on its new CSO Resound label: Mahler's Symphony No. 6 in A Minor under the direction of Principal Conductor Bernard Haitink, recorded live during concerts at Orchestra Hall in October 2007. The new release is available beginning Tuesday, April 8, in stores worldwide, as well as on iTunes. CSO Tue, 29 April 2008 10:06:01 EDT http://www.cso.org/main.taf?p=7,1,2,5,62 Symphony Center presents Zakir Hussain and the Masters of Percussion on Saturday, April 19, at 8 p.m., in a program that features traditional North Indian classical repertoire combined with contemporary and folk music, as performed on solo tabla and in ensemble collaborations—accompanied by the dancing drummers of Manipur. CSO Tue, 29 April 2008 10:06:01 EDT http://www.cso.org/main.taf?p=7,1,2,5,61 The Chicago Symphony Orchestra's popular Infiniti Friday Night at the Movies series closes its fourth smash season with "Nightmare Romance: Bernard Herrmann and Alfred Hitchcock" on Friday, April 4, at 8 p.m. CSO Tue, 29 April 2008 10:06:01 EDT http://www.cso.org/main.taf?p=17,10 Here you can download our 2008-2009 season announcement press release and fact sheets as well as commentary from Miguel Harth-Bedoya, Mark Elder, Osvaldo Golijov, Mark-Anthony Turnage and the CSO's Gerard McBurney. 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