10 Concerts 10 Concerts A B C A B 5 Concerts 5 Concerts 6 Conc. D E F G H I 8 Concerts 5 Concerts E F G H 5 Concerts SUN 5 Concerts THU 8:00 FRI 1:30 FRI 8:00 SAT 8:00 SAT 8:00 3:00 TUE 7:30

A B C A B C D CURATED SERIES GUIDE 2019/20 SEASON A B C D A A B

MENDELSSOHN Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage Overture 9/19 9/20 conductor GRIEG C|E A piano SCRIABIN Rêverie SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No. 6

9/26 9/27 BEETHOVEN Consecration of the House Overture 9/28 Riccardo Muti conductor BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 1 A|F B BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 3 (Eroica) D

10/3 10/4 James Gaffigan conductor DORMAN Eternal Rhythm united states premiere 10/5 C|D C Cynthia Yeh percussion SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No. 8 B|H

PROKOFIEV Overture on Hebrew Themes 10/10 10/11 Kirill Karabits conductor MENDELSSOHN No. 1 10/12 A|G A Sunwook Kim piano MENDELSSOHN Capriccio brillant A|E LUTOSŁAWSKI Concerto for

10/17 10/18 VIVALDI The Four Seasons 10/19 10/20 conductor and MOZART Divertimento in D Major, K. 136 B|H B PIAZZOLLA, ARR. DESYATNIKOV The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires C A

10/24 10/25 HAYDN Symphony No. 44 (Mourning) 10/29 David Afkham conductor R. STRAUSS Death and Transfiguration C|D D BRAHMS Symphony No. 3 A

BEETHOVEN 11/1 Riccardo Muti conductor 11/2 11/5 RANDS DREAM for Orchestra world premiere, cso commission Leonidas Kavakos violin B STRAVINSKY Divertimento from The Fairy’s Kiss A|F B

11/7 Riccardo Muti conductor WAGNER Overture to The Flying Dutchman 11/9 11/12 Stephanie Jeong violin BRAHMS Double Concerto B|I Kenneth Olsen cello SCHUMANN Symphony No. 3 (Rhenish) B|G A

Juanjo Mena conductor LEE III Sukkot Through Orion’s Nebula 11/21 Sally Matthews soprano 11/23 11/24 BARBER Two Scenes from Antony and Cleopatra Women of the Chicago Symphony Chorus B|I HOLST The Planets C A Duain Wolfe chorus director

HIGDON 12/5 12/6 John Storgårds conductor 12/7 12/10 WIENIAWSKI Violin Concerto No. 1 Ray Chen violin C|E A TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 4 A|E B

BATES Resurrexit 12/12 12/13 conductor 12/14 MOZART Piano Concerto No. 21 Jan Lisiecki piano B|H B Works by JOHANN STRAUSS, JR. and JOSEF STRAUSS B|G

JOHN ADAMS The Chairman Dances 12/19 12/20 Edo de Waart conductor STRAVINSKY Violin Concerto 12/21 12/22 A|F A Leila Josefowicz violin DVOŘÁK Carnival Overture D A DVOŘÁK Symphony No. 8

TIPPETT Little Music for String Orchestra 1/30 1/31 Sir Andrew Davis conductor BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No. 1 2/1 2/4 C|D A piano TIPPETT Praeludium for Brass, Bells and Percussion A|F A BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No. 4

Riccardo Muti conductor Anita Rachvelishvili mezzo-soprano 2/6 2/7 Piero Pretti tenor 2/8 MASCAGNI Cavalleria rusticana A|F C Luca Salsi baritone C Chicago Symphony Chorus Duain Wolfe chorus director

BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 2 2/20 2/21 Riccardo Muti conductor 2/22 *2/23 BACRI Ophelia’s Tears world premiere, cso commission J. Lawrie Bloom bass B|H D BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 5 A|E A

SIBELIUS Finlandia 2/27 Hannu Lintu conductor NIELSEN Violin Concerto 2/29 A|G Pekka Kuusisto violin NIELSEN Helios Overture D SIBELIUS Symphony No. 5

3/5 3/6 Herbert Blomstedt conductor MOZART Piano Concerto No. 23 3/7 B|H B Bertrand Chamayou piano BRAHMS Symphony No. 2 A|F

GERSHWIN, ARR. BENNETT Porgy and Bess, A Symphonic Picture 3/12 André de Ridder conductor GERSHWIN Rhapsody in Blue *3/14 3/17 C|E Inon Barnatan piano RAVEL Piano Concerto in G Major B|G A RAVEL Boléro 3/22 3/20 Valery Gergiev conductor SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No. 7 (Leningrad) C D (SUN)

BACH Orchestral Suite No. 3 Nicholas Kraemer HANDEL Selected Arias 3/26 3/27 conductor and harpsichord 3/28 PURCELL Chacony in G Minor Amanda Forsythe soprano C|D C PURCELL Dido’s Lament from Dido and Aeneas B|H Iestyn Davies countertenor HANDEL Suite No. 2 from Water Music

ADÈS Dances from 4/2 4/3 Jakub Hrůša conductor 4/4 DVOŘÁK Piano Concerto Martin Helmchen piano A|G B BRAHMS Symphony No. 4 A|F

4/9 4/10 4/11 conductor MAHLER Symphony No. 6 B|I A D

R. STRAUSS Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks 4/16 4/17 conductor 4/18 4/21 R. STRAUSS Burlesque Joseph Moog piano A|F B BERLIOZ Symphonie fantastique B|H B

BRAHMS Violin Concerto 4/23 4/24 Riccardo Muti conductor 4/25 4/28 STILL Mother and Child violin C|E D PRICE Symphony No. 3 A|E A

4/30 MAZZOLI Orpheus Undone world premiere, cso commission 5/2 5/3 Riccardo Muti conductor BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 4 A|G BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 7 B|G A

Alain Altinoglu conductor Elena Sancho-Pereg soprano Benjamin Bliss tenor SAINT-SAËNS Danse macabre 5/7 5/8 Elliot Madore baritone *5/9 ROUSSEL Suite No. 2 from Bacchus et Ariane Chicago Symphony Chorus B|I D ORFF Carmina burana A|F Duain Wolfe chorus director Chicago Children’s Choir Josephine Lee artistic director

TCHAIKOVSKY Capriccio italien 5/14 Jonathan Stockhammer conductor TCHAIKOVSKY Violin Concerto 5/16 A|F Robert Chen violin TCHAIKOVSKY Marche slave B|H TCHAIKOVSKY Selections from The Nutcracker

HAYDN Overture to L’isola disabitata 5/21 5/22 Bernard Labadie conductor BACH Keyboard Concerto No. 1 in D Minor, BWV 1052 5/23 5/26 B|H A Beatrice Rana piano BACH Keyboard Concerto No. 5 in F Minor, BWV 1056 D B MOZART Symphony No. 41 (Jupiter)

BEETHOVEN Namensfeier Overture 5/28 5/29 Susanna Mälkki conductor 5/30 BEETHOVEN Ah! perfido Camilla Tilling soprano C|E C MAHLER Symphony No. 4 B|G

MENDELSSOHN The Hebrides Overture 6/4 6/5 Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider conductor 6/6 6/9 MOZART Piano Concerto No. 17 Piotr Anderszewski piano A|G B R. STRAUSS Ein Heldenleben A|E B

6/11 6/12 BEETHOVEN Overture to The Ruins of Athens 6/13 Riccardo Muti conductor BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 8 B|I A BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 6 (Pastoral) C

Riccardo Muti conductor Elena Stikhina soprano 6/18 6/19 Jennifer Johnson Cano mezzo-soprano *6/20 *6/21 Daniel Johansson tenor BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 9 C|D C Franz-Josef Selig bass B|H A Chicago Symphony Chorus Duain Wolfe chorus director

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