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Civic Orchestra of Chicago
Resilience and Defiance at South Shore Cultural Center
Jan 16, 2022 — 3:00 PM
Overview
Premiered in 1953 after the death of Joseph Stalin, Shostakovich’s Tenth Symphony bursts with menacing march rhythms, chilling whispers and triumphal defiance. The music is often heard as a reckoning with the brutalities of Stalinism but also as the composer’s sigh of relief. Rossen Milanov conducts this thrilling program, which also features Sarah Kirkland Snider’s Something for the Dark, a bold and colorful meditation on resilience.
Program
Snider
Something for the Dark
Shostakovich
Symphony No. 10
Performers
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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Variety suits conductor Rossen Milanov.: “I recharge and refine my process by collaborating with different artists, looking for inspiration in other art forms.”
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Sarah Kirkland Snider arrived at composition a little belatedly. “I think this is true for at least a lot of women of my generation and older,” she said. “You put it off because you don’t know if it’s viable."
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The Civic Orchestra’s 2021-22 season, which begins Nov. 8, puts an emphasis on diversity, with an array of works by women and people of color — what Principal Conductor Ken-David Masur describes as giving “voice to musicians and composers who perhaps had been neglected.”
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