CSOradio: Riccardo Muti conducts Cavalleria rusticana
Listen now on-demand! This week, Riccardo Muti leads the CSO and an all-star cast of singers to conjure the Sicilian…
CSOradio: Boulez & Bartók
From the CSO’s Archives: The First 130 Years Listen now on-demand! The Chicago Symphony Orchestra has long been associated with…
For Josh Jones, Percussion Scholarship Program was life-changing
The Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s Percussion Scholarship Program, now in its 25th season, offers weekly percussion instruction on full scholarship to…
John Hagstrom trumpets bonds between military and orchestral music
Before veteran trumpet player John Hagstrom joined the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in 1996, he spent six years honing his craft…
CSO horns agree: local craftsman Lewis has no equal
Amateur and student French horn players typically purchase instruments from internationally known manufacturers like Conn-Selmer or Yamaha, but top professionals…
Chicago actor moves into a new realm for ‘The Soldier’s Tale’
When the Chicago Symphony Orchestra artistic staff asked James Earl Jones II about performing in Igor Stravinksy’s L’Histoire du Soldat…
Composer Paola Prestini believes in ‘connecting through music’
Some composers hold full-time teaching posts. Others, like Thomas Adès or Esa-Pekka Salonen, maintain major conducting careers. But Paola Prestini…
The works of Ingolf Dahl, 50 years after his death, see a revival
Composers Aaron Copland and Igor Stravinsky. Ventriloquist Edgar Bergen and comedian Gracie Fields. Bandleader Tommy Dorsey and humorist Victor Borge….
Caroline Shaw turns a musical line into ‘a kind of a traffic pattern’
When Caroline Shaw — then a 30-year-old virtual unknown — became the youngest winner ever of the Pulitzer Prize for…
A composer whose life seemed torn from an adventure novel
Long before composers spent their non-composing hours in university classrooms or chasing down commissions and grants, many carried on lives…