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Contrasts elevate Chicago Symphony Orchestra's Mahler 9

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Reviewed at Chicago Symphony Center, Chicago on 23 November 2013
Stravinsky, Elegy for JFK, for baritone and 3 clarinets
Mahler, Symphony no. 9 in D major
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Michael Tilson Thomas, Conductor
Klaus Mäkelä is speaking... Chicago is listening
****1
Matthew Aucoin’s Song of the Reappeared premieres in Chicago
*****
Manfred Honeck brings his über-dramatic Mozart Requiem to Chicago
****1
Daniela Candillari makes her Chicago Symphony Orchestra debut
****1
Polished Ravel x 2 from Alice Sara Ott with the Chicago Symphony
****1
Ravinia Festival opens with bombastic Gershwin, emotional Tchaikovsky
***11
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