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Homecoming
Nov 1, 2021 — 7:00 PM
Overview
The 2021/22 CSO MusicNOW series opens at Orchestra Hall with a program curated by Mead Composer-in-Residence Jessie Montgomery that celebrates composers with ties to Chicago. Featured are a work by daring, cutting-edge composer Ted Hearne and a world premiere by rising star Elijah Daniel Smith that reimagines the Baroque concerto grosso form. Haitian American flutist-composer Nathalie Joachim explores individual and cultural identity in her wind quintet Seen, alongside Montgomery’s set of enchanting vocal works based on texts by J. Mae Barizo and Bimbo Rivas.
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Part of 2021: Year of Chicago Music
Major support for CSO MusicNOW is generously provided by the Zell Family Foundation, Cindy Sargent, the Sally Mead Hands Foundation and the Julian Family Foundation.
Elijah Daniel Smith Scions of Atlas, World Premiere, commissioned by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra through the Helen Zell Commissioning Program.