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Seiji Ozawa, conductor
Peter Serkin, piano

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Forbidden love is in the air as Andrés Orozco-Estrada takes listeners from the streets of Bernstein’s New York to Tchaikovsky’s fantasy on Shakespearean Verona. The Argentine Pampas region is the setting of Ginastera’s vibrant ballet about a city boy who wins the heart of a rancher’s daughter.

Barber’s lush and virtuosic Violin Concerto features Benjamin Beilman, whose “rich sound conveys both dreamy lyricism and heated intensity” (The New York Times).

Please note: Hilary Hahn must regrettably withdraw from her planned September 19 and 20 performances with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Earlier this summer, Hahn suffered from a double pinched nerve; as part of her treatment, her medical team advised her to abstain from performing. While Hahn is expected to recover in time for the majority of her fall engagements and is improving steadily, she is not yet cleared to perform.

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Learn more: cso.org/performances/24-25/cso-classical/orozco-estrada-conducts-romeo-juliet

CSO Program Notes: Orozco-Estrada Conducts Romeo and Juliet

Starting with a ferocious fanfare representing fate, Tchaikovsky pours his soul into his Fourth Symphony, a fearless musical autobiography packed with surging melodies and dazzling colors. Antoine Tamestit brings his “gorgeous smoky sound” (The Guardian) to Walton’s Viola Concerto, a work of wistful beauty and quicksilver energy.

Learn more: cso.org/performances/24-25/cso-classical/tchaikovsky-4

CSO Program Notes: Tchaikovsky 4

Lose yourself in the idyllic landscapes of Beethoven’s Pastoral Symphony. Inspired by the composer’s country hikes, the piece summons rippling streams, a raging thunderstorm and plenty of warmth. Mozart’s double piano concerto showcases the deft teamwork of Dutch brothers Lucas and Arthur Jussen, who make two pianos “sound for all the world like a single instrument” (Gramophone).

Learn more: cso.org/performances/24-25/cso-classical/eschenbach-jussen

CSO Program Notes: Eschenbach with Lucas & Arthur Jussen

Gustav Mahler : Symphony No. 5, I.Trauermarsch [12:54] 
Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestra | Allen Tinkham, Music Director
RECORDED LIVE : May 16, 2010 | Orchestra Hall at Symphony Center

Gustav Mahler : Symphony No. 5, I.Trauermarsch [12:54] (CYSO | RECORDED LIVE)

Allen Tinkham is increasingly recognized as one of the most inspiring and exciting conductors and teachers of his generation. He is hailed by John von Rhein of the Chicago Tribune as both a conductor and teacher, described as working “wonders” as one of the most important "educators, mentors and inspirational guides in the training of tomorrow's orchestral professionals” and defined by his “communicative” conducting bringing forth “an adrenalin rush of superior playing.”

Under his leadership as the longtime Music Director of the Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestras (CYSO), both the Chicago Tribune  and Chicago Sun Times  have described performances by the  CYSO Symphony Orchestra as "professional level,"   and under his baton, the Chicago Tribune  has noted his “impressive” conducting and “uncanny control” and has compared the  CYSO Symphony Orchestra's  "ferocity and theatricality"  to that of the Chicago  Symphony Orchestra.

For the 2015/2016 season, Tinkham celebrates his fifteenth season as Music Director of CYSO and begins his first season as Music Director of the Chicago Composers Orchestra (CCO), an ensemble devoted to performing contemporary works of living composers. He begins the season guest conducting the opening night of the Adrian Symphony Orchestra and ends the season  conducting CYSO Symphony Orchestra in performances  of Mahler's 6th Symphony.

As Music Director of the Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestras and the Chicago Composers Orchestra, 2015/2016 season highlights also include Beethoven's Symphony No. 4, Prokofiev’s Symphony No. 5, and Brahms’ Symphony No. 3 with contemporary highlights including Boulez’s Dérive 1, Zwilich's Symphony No. 1 and works by David Lang and Chicagoan Anthony Chueng. In guest engagements, Tinkham conducts Dvorák’s Symphony No. 6 and Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 11.

For more info, visit www.allentinkham.com.

Gustav Mahler : Symphony No. 5, I.Trauermarsch [12:54] (CYSO | RECORDED LIVE)

ALLEN TINKHAM, Conductor | www.allentinkham.com

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