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Classical music, opera, ballet and dance in Chicago, IL, United States

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ChicagoNoseda Conducts Debussy & Prokofiev 4

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Chicago Symphony Center, Dec 11, 12 mat, 13
Debussy, Britten, Prokofiev
Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Gianandrea Noseda; James Ehnes
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ChicagoThe Nutcracker

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Lyric Opera House, Dec 11, 12, 13 mat, eve, 14 mat, eve, 17, 18, 19 mat, eve, 20 mat, eve, 21 mat, eve, 23 mat, eve, 24 mat, 26 mat, eve, 27 mat, eve, 28 mat
Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker
Marius Petipa; Lev Ivanov; Christopher Wheeldon; Joffrey Ballet; Julian Crouch; Natasha Katz
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ChicagoHome Alone in Concert

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Chicago Symphony Center, Dec 12, 13 mat, 14 mat
Williams: Film music from Home Alone
Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Nicholas Buc; The Deerfield Singers
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Matthew Aucoin’s Song of the Reappeared premieres in Chicago

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Graham Meyer, 04 Dec
A strong world premiere of Aucoin's evocative and immediate Song of the Reappeared, a concerto for voice written for soprano Julia Bullock which sets vivid imagery by a poet who suffered under authoritarianism.
*****
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Manfred Honeck brings his über-dramatic Mozart Requiem to Chicago

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Graham Meyer, 20 Nov
The Austrian conductor's loudest fortes and softest pianos pull together a dramatic arc from the Requiem, other Mozart works and chant. But it's not really a funeral. 
****1
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Daniela Candillari makes her Chicago Symphony Orchestra debut

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Graham Meyer, 03 Oct
Without a baton, the contemporary-music specialist showcases the Chicago Symphony strings in an intimate program ranging from music of the last decade all the way back to Pergolesi. 
****1
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Ravinia Festival to undergo sweeping $75m renovation

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Bachtrack, 14 Feb
The longest-running outdoor festival in the US and summer home of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra will undergo extensive redevelopment over the next four years.
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Samantha Ege on rediscovering the music of Florence Price

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Samantha Ege, 29 Feb
Pianist and musicologist Samantha Ege talks about her experiences hearing and playing the music of Florence Price – beginning in 2009, when many lost works of hers were rediscovered.
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