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Civic Orchestra of Chicago
In Times of War
Feb 14, 2022 — 8:00 PM
Overview
Written at the height of World War II, Bartók’s late masterpiece brims with Hungarian dance rhythms and highlights every section of the orchestra to full effect. That same year, in Nazi-occupied Warsaw, Polish trailblazer Grażyna Bacewicz composed her vibrant Overture. Completed in 1918, Janáček’s symphonic rhapsody is a teeming, visceral score based on a Gogol story about a Cossack with his two sons fighting for Ukraine.
Program
Bacewicz
Overture
Janáček
Taras Bulba
Bartók
Concerto for Orchestra
Performers
Principal Conductor, Civic Orchestra of Chicago
The Robert Kohl and Clark Pellett Principal Conductor Chair
Sponsors & Partners
The 2021/22 Civic Orchestra of Chicago season is generously sponsored by The Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation.
This program is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.
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