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Monthly Archives: December 2009

Ma to Chicago

The Chicago Symphony Orchestra announced yesterday that Yo-Yo Ma will assume the Judson and Joyce Green creative consultant starting next season. Here’s a list of stories on the story: NYT Trib Sun-Times That makes Bernard Haitink principal conductor, Pierre Boulez conductor emeritus, Riccardo Muti music director designate and Yo-Yo Ma creative consultant designate. A more illustrious leadership team is hard [...]

No worldly turmoil…

The Chicago Symphony is playing Mahler’s Fourth Symphony this week, a work I always manage to both anticipate and dread. Maybe not “dread,” especially, so much as back away from. It’s a smaller symphony than those it’s bracketed by, the Third with its women’s and children’s choirs and eight French horns, the Fifth with its [...]