Wishing a very happy eighty-fifth birthday to the Pulitzer Prize–winning British-American composer Bernard Rands!

The Chicago Symphony Orchestra has commissioned and premiered multiple works by Rands, and in 2019-20, the ensemble will give the world premiere of his DREAM for Orchestra under the baton of Riccardo Muti.

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