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Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Canellakis Conducts Rachmaninov
Apr 3-5, 2025
Overview
Earth, in all its marvelous vitality and fragility, has inspired generations of composers. In The Oceanides, Sibelius conjures the water nymphs of Greek mythology and the broad majesty of the sea. Dvořák’s The Wild Dove is based on a dark folktale about a dove’s prophetic song. Childhood memories shape Rachmaninov’s Symphonic Dances, his sumptuous masterpiece.
Program
Sibelius
The Oceanides
Dvořák
The Wild Dove
Rachmaninov
Symphonic Dances
Performers
Extras
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Sponsors & Partners
The appearance of Karina Canellakis is sponsored by donors who have made generous commitments to the Women’s Board Guest Artist Endowment Fund.
Media Partner
The Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association acknowledges support from the Illinois Arts Council.
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Conducting runs in the family for Karina Canellakis. “I was always fascinated by conducting, always,” she said. “My dad’s a conductor, and he always thought it was just a normal thing for me to do."
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On August 12, 1893, 8,000 people packed into Festival Hall to hear the Exposition Orchestra — the Chicago Orchestra expanded to 114 players — under the baton of Antonín Dvořák.
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Two days after the tragic fire at the Iroquois Theatre on December 30, 1903, Theodore Thomas led the Chicago Orchestra in the U.S. premiere of Sibelius' Second Symphony, and "the result was a rendition technically complete and interpretatively powerful."
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