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Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Carmina burana
Mar 16-18, 2023
Overview
Carl Orff’s choral celebration of love, lust and youthful excess in medieval times is as iconic as ever — at once gloriously bawdy and touchingly beautiful. Rautavaara’s ethereal “concerto for birds and orchestra” features bird calls recorded in arctic Finland. Banner, by CSO Mead Composer-in-Residence Jessie Montgomery, is a vibrant rhapsody on The Star-Spangled Banner.
Program
Montgomery
Banner
Rautavaara
Cantus Arcticus
Orff
Carmina burana
Performers
Extras
Preconcert Conversation
Explore the music in the free preconcert conversation featuring Stephen Alltop in Orchestra Hall 75 minutes before the performance. The conversation will last approximately 30 minutes. No additional tickets are needed.
Sponsors & Partners
The appearance of the Chicago Symphony Chorus has been made possible by a generous gift from The Grainger Foundation.
The appearances of Joélle Harvey, Reginald Mobley and Hugh Russell are made possible by the Grainger Fund for Excellence.
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After stepping down from his music directorships, conductor Osmo Vänskä contemplates his future. “I feel like it is a new start,” he says. “I’m understanding more and more about the lifestyle of a guest conductor."
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Jessie Montgomery's "Hymn for Everyone," set for its world premiere in late April, started out as an orchestral suite but then she "switched mid-stream to reference this theme, this hymn, I had written during the pandemic."
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Reginald Mobley ranks among this country’s finest countertenors, with a top-level career to match. But he also is an activist who makes his voice heard about inclusion, especially when it comes to early music.
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Unlike other classical-music vocalists, Joélle Harvey has largely concentrated on serving as a soloist for orchestral and choral concerts. “I really enjoy doing opera, but it takes you away from home.”
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Chorus member, a teaching artist, insists music ‘is like my heartbeat’
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"Strum," declares composer Jessie Montgomery, salutes “American folk idioms and the spirit of dance and movement.”
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