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Monthly Archives: December 2009

Ma to Chicago

Tuesday, December 15, 2009

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 to imagine.

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No worldly turmoil…

Wednesday, December 2, 2009

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 [...]

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