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Muti expected to open new CSO season

By Bill Gowen
Feb 15, 2011 11:35 AM - The Chicago Symphony Orchestra's 121st season announced Monday has something for everyone.
Lyric season to include 'Show Boat'

Bill Gowen
Feb 2, 2011 3:46 PM - In a typically balanced Lyric Opera season, one work stands apart from traditional operas. That work is the classic American musical drama "Show Boat," whose Lyric Opera premiere in February 2012 will be staged by Francesca Zambello, artistic and general director of The Glimmerglass Festival in Cooperstown, N.Y.
Conductors, orchestras made beautiful music in 2010

By Bill Gowen
Jan 10, 2011 10:50 AM - The classical recording industry is still very much alive despite its ever-shrinking presence in brick-and-mortar stores. Today, the place to shop is online, including such major Internet outlets as Amazon and Barnes & Noble, or the specialist site arkivmusic.com, which promotes "the widest selection of classical recordings available anywhere." The following recordings (in random order) may not necessarily be the very best among the wide number issued worldwide in 2010, but they provided this listener with special pleasure during the past year.
Muti to return to CSO in January

By Bill Gowen
Nov 1, 2010 3:36 PM - The Chicago Symphony Orchestra has a lot to be thankful for this month after learning music director Riccardo Muti is feeling better while recuperating at his Ravenna, Italy, home. In early October, Muti was forced to cancel the final half of his one-month fall residency, including the Oct. 2 annual gala concert.
Chicago Symphony plans to celebrate 75th year at Ravinia

By Bill Gowen
Jan 31, 2011 6:34 PM - The Chicago Symphony Orchestra will celebrate its 75th year of residency at its summer home, the Ravinia Festival, next year with a wide range of special programming.
Lyric starts season with new production of 'Macbeth'

By Bill Gowen
Jan 31, 2011 6:27 PM - The Civic Opera House's Ardis Krainik Theatre is polished and ready for tonight's gala opening of Lyric Opera of Chicago's 56th season.
ESO seeks to balance budget, increase donations

By Bill Gowen
Mar 3, 2011 5:32 PM - Like all performing arts organizations, the Elgin Symphony Orchestra has been affected by the economic downturn of the past three years. Still, recently elected board president Jerry B. Cain is confident the ESO has the means to remain one of the most admired regional orchestras in the country.

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