By Hannah Edgar, Deputy Editor-in-Chief
/ May 20, 2018
The CSO’s MusicNOW series is celebrating the end of its 20th season, and its final season with Mead Composers-in-Residence Samuel Adams and Elizabeth Ogonek.
“I didn’t set out to make a personal record, but so much had happened in that four or five years that it would have been conspicuous to not write about it. I call the record Are You Serious because I surprised myself.”
“Beyoncé whitened herself in an attempt to be ‘palatable’ by a culture that needed her to be that [way], and she’s aware of that: she critiques that in ‘Pretty Hurts,’ she critiques that in Lemonade.”
". . . under the fingers of the CSO’s caramel strings, one wondered anew why Miranda and Ferdinand’s love theme isn’t heard as often as Romeo and Juliet’s."
"Gubbins’s three-person drama demonstrates how easily fear and prejudice can lead to violent escalation, inexorably building to a Hitchcockian, Rear Window-esque climax."
“The theory of change behind that program was that low-income children, largely children of color, would raise their grades and become better citizens through classical music.”
"Ma played the concerto with the extroverted passion that has become his near-trademark, though it proved to be something of a double-edged sword in his interpretation."
"Moser’s interpretation brought together everything one could hope for in a performance of this work: finessed melodic lines, adroit finger work, arresting yet unpretentious virtuosity, and a dash of cheeky wit."
“'There’s this [misconception] that different kinds of music need to live in different kinds of places—that classical music is white music and doesn’t have a place in black neighborhoods...'”
"We could not blithely listen to music and pretend that nothing had happened. Instead of the music acting as a diversion from the real world, the IPO brought those emotions into the concert—our sorrow, our fear, our anger, and, ultimately, our resilience.".
The South Asian Students Association (SASA) brings comedian Hari Kondabolu to Mandel Hall. Hailed by The New York Times as “one of the most exciting political comics in stand-up today,” Brooklyn-based Kondabolu has performed stand-up on The Late Show with David Letterman, Conan, and Jimmy Kimmel Live. The show starts at 7:30 p.m., but festivities...
"The buttoned-down, predominantly white mass that so often frequents Symphony Center refracted into a rainbow of faces—young, old, black, white, brown, sneakered, bow-tied, and everyone in between."
The 10th Annual Latino Music Festival continues throughout the month of November. The festivities include a Día de los Muertos concert presented by the Chicago Sinfonietta. True to the spirit of this Latin American holiday, the program transcends grief to end on a celebratory, life-affirming note, progressing from the solemnity of Samuel Barber’s Adagio for...
As with all musicians in the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (CSO), violinist Alison Dalton is no stranger to high-stakes solo performances. The daughter of graduates of the Eastman School of Music, she made her debut playing Camille Saint-Saëns’ Havanaise with the Utah Symphony at only 13 years old. Decades later, on July 30 of this year,...
The minds behind Beyond the Score seem to be getting into the swing of things. Ten years have passed since the premiere of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s educational multimedia series, which has since seen productions both good and, frankly, goofy. The driving concept is a brilliant one: Through dynamic projections and narration, Beyond the...
Counting nine Grammys, three Gramophone Awards, and an Avery Fisher prize among its achievements, the Emerson String Quartet is widely regarded as a giant among American string quartets. For the bulk of its illustrious career, the Quartet’s personnel remained remarkably unchanged, consisting of Eugene Drucker and Philip Setzer (violins), Lawrence Dutton (viola), and David Finckel...
This week marked the beginning of UChicago Queers & Associates’ (Q&A) Pride Week, kicking off a parade of events that began this past Thursday and will run through next Friday. The events are as diverse as they are many. According to Q&A board member and third-year Kris Rosentel, this year’s festivities are partly rooted in...
"He pounded out the timpani solo in the beginning of the fifth and final movement like his life depended on it. The result, though deafening, was deliciously frightful."
There was a story floating around Symphony Hall Saturday night. As it goes, French-Canadian pianist and program soloist Louis Lortie had been rehearsing Vincent d’Indy’s Symphony on a French Mountain Air with conductor Charles Dutoit and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra earlier in the week when Dutoit noticed that Lortie was playing the piece entirely from...
University Symphony Orchestra opens its season with popular Halloween show
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