The @ChicagoSymphony Orchestra family joins the music world in mourning the loss of English singer and actress Dame #CleoLaine. Along with her husband Sir John Dankworth, she appeared in Orchestra Hall on several occasions over three decades. cso.org/experience/article/2…
July 5, 1957: Virgil Thomson leads the @ChicagoSymphony Orchestra in a program of his compositions—including selections from his opera Four Saints in Three Acts—at the @RaviniaFestival. Robert McFerrin is baritone soloist. #OTD
The @ChicagoSymphony's Rosenthal Archives holds the Theodore Thomas collection, which includes a set of orchestral parts in manuscript to Verdi's Requiem dating from 1874. cso.org/experience/article/2…
December 31, 1920: Frederick Stock leads the @ChicagoSymphony Orchestra in the US premiere of Gustav Holst's The Planets, along with Beethoven's Leonore Overture no. 3 and Rubinstein's Piano Concerto no. 4 with Fannie Bloomfield Zeisler. #OTDcso.org/experience/article/8…
December 30, 1965: Jean Martinon leads Bernstein's Candide Overture, his Fourth Symphony (commissioned for the @ChicagoSymphony's 75th season), Stock’s Symphonic Variations, and the finale from Wagner’s Götterdämmerung with Eileen Farrell. #OTDcso.org/experience/article/8…
December 29, 1949: William Kapell solos with the @ChicagoSymphony Orchestra in Rachmaninov's Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini with Eugene Ormandy conducting. The program also includes Beethoven's First Symphony and Hindemith's Mathis der Maler Symphony. #OTD