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Premiere of Mantovani’s eclectic ‘Threnos’ accents CSO memorial fare with Marin Alsop

Oct 21, 2018 – 9:34 pm
10/18/18 8:20:39 PM Chicago Symphony Orchestra Marin Alsop conductor Daniil Trifonov piano Bruno Mantovani composer Mantovani Threnos [World Premiere, CSO Commission] Prokofiev Piano Concerto No. 3 Bridge Lament Copland Symphony No. 3 © Todd Rosenberg Photography 2018

Review: Years, anniversaries, and commemorations arguably form the backbone of contemporary classical concert programming, and this year’s centenary of the end of the First World War is exemplary. Conductor Marin Alsop’s program with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra on Oct. 19 at Orchestra Hall featured works by American, Russian, and British musicians written in response to the First and Second World Wars and their aftermath, plus a major world premiere from the French composer Bruno Mantovani, commissioned by the CSO and Jennifer Pritzker, founder of Chicago’s Pritzker Military Museum & Library.

Legacy of African American music lights up Grant Park fare accented by jazz, spirituals

Jul 23, 2016 – 4:58 pm
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Review: From the pages of African American history, lines of musical heritage intertwined in a concert as appealing as it was fresh and diverse when the Grant Park Festival Orchestra was joined by jazz violinist Regina Carter and the vocal trio TreDiva at the Pritzker Pavilion in Millennium Park.

In holiday spirit, CSO sets out musical bounty, and lovers of Gershwin, Dvořák gobble it up

Nov 28, 2015 – 2:20 pm
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Review: “Rhapsody in Blue” is on the docket, compliments of pianist Jon Kimura Parker. And if you’re lucky, a bit of Oscar Peterson, too. Composer Anna Clyne’s five-minute lollapalooza called “Masquerade” is the all-embracing upper in Thanksgiving weekend concerts featuring Dvořák’s 7th and led by Marin Alsop in an unmistakeable party mode.