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Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Symphony Ball: Muti & Kavakos
Sep 23, 2023 — 6:30 PM
Overview
Celebrate the start of a new season with Riccardo Muti and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at Symphony Ball, an unforgettable red-carpet evening complete with a champagne toast. The “astoundingly virtuosic and blazingly insightful” (The Guardian) Leonidas Kavakos joins the CSO in Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto. Instrumental selections from Italian operas conclude the concert, underscoring the Chicago Tribune’s assertion that “no living conductor knows more about these scores” than Riccardo Muti.
Symphony Ball raises funds for the CSO’s Negaunee Music Institute, which supports children across the Chicago area through programs such as CSO for Kids concerts, training opportunities for young musicians and free community performances.
Please consider making a financial gift to support the CSO’s artistic and educational mission:
Program
Tchaikovsky
Violin Concerto
Giordano
Intermezzo from Fedora
Puccini
Intermezzo from Manon Lescaut
Leoncavallo
Intermezzo from Pagliacci
Verdi
Overture to Giovanna d’Arco
Performers
Extras
Preconcert Activities
Before the concert, walk the red carpet and have your photo taken by a professional photographer on Michigan Avenue, where a Civic Orchestra brass quintet will be performing. A preconcert champagne toast will take place in Grainger Ballroom, the first and second floors of the Rotunda and Orchestra Hall levels 5 & 6.
Preconcert activities begin approximately one hour before the concert.
Sponsors & Partners
Symphony Ball Presenting Sponsor
Maestro Residency Presenter
Media Partners
This program is partially supported by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council Agency
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Of the great musicality of Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto, Leonidas Kavakos says, “The listener will go away singing several tunes. After hearing the first theme, a smile comes onto your face, and you want to take this home with you."
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Always a Chicago favorite, violinist Leonidas Kavakos will appear three times at Symphony Center this season. "To be able to be able to come so many times again and again to this incredible orchestra, it’s just a privilege.”
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Overtures, choruses and intermezzos drawn from masterworks by Verdi, Puccini, Mascagni and Boito are brilliantly performed by Riccardo Muti and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus.
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