OCTOBER 2012 CALENDAR OF EVENTS

The following listings are current as of September 5, 2012. For the most updated and complete program information, please click the links below or visit cso.org. All concerts take place in Orchestra Hall at Symphony Center unless otherwise noted. Artists, programs and prices are subject to change.

Symphony Center Presents Sunday, October 7, 2012, 3 p.m. Special Concert Mariachi Vargas de Tecalitlán

Tickets: $32–$92 An annual favorite at Symphony Center, Mariachi Vargas de Tecalitlán returns once again for a spectacular afternoon of joyful Mexican music. Based in Mexico City and now in its fifth generation, Mariachi Vargas is considered the leading authority in the genre, with more than 50 recordings to its credit and appearances in more than 200 films.

Civic Orchestra of Chicago Monday, October 8, 2012, 8 p.m. Civic Orchestra of Chicago Cliff Colnot, conductor RESPIGHI Fountains of Rome BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 7 Tickets: Performance is free, but tickets are required Principal Conductor Cliff Colnot leads the first concert of the Civic Orchestra’s 94th season. The Civic Orchestra is a program of The Institute for Learning, Access and Training at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, which offers a comprehensive sequence of programs intended to transform the lives of young people through active participation in music.

Symphony Center Presents Friday, October 12, 2012, 8 p.m. Jazz Series The Great Flood Rivers: Nature, Power, Culture Film by Bill Morrison Music composed and performed by Bill Frisell Bill Frisell, guitar Ron Miles, trumpet Tony Scherr, bass Kenny Wollesen, drums Tickets: $23–$74 Opening the 2012/13 Symphony Center Presents Jazz series and a season-long exploration of Rivers: Nature, Power, Culture is the specially commissioned performance of Bill Frisell’s score to The Great Flood, a film that explores the tragic 1927 Mississippi flood, which destroyed homes and lives, contributing to The Great Migration of thousands of African-Americans—including many Delta blues musicians—northwards to cities such as Chicago. The Great Flood was commissioned by Symphony Center Presents, along with the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, which hosted the world premiere; Wexner Center for the Arts at the Ohio State University; Carnegie Hall; and Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College.

Symphony Center Presents Saturday, October 13, 2012, 8 p.m. Special Concert The Silk Road Ensemble with Yo-Yo Ma Jonathan Gandelsman, violin Colin Jacobsen, violin Nicholas Cords, viola Mike Block, cello Yo-Yo Ma, cello Jeffrey Beecher, contrabass Kayhan Kalhor, kemancheh Wu Man, pipa Sandeep Das, table Cristina Pato, gaita and piano Kojiro Umezaki, shakuhachi Wu Tong, sheng and bawu Joseph Gramley, percussion Shane Shanahan, percussion Mark Suter, percussion ZORN, Arr. BLUMENKRANZ/GANDELSMAN/PATO/SHANAHAN Suite from Book of Angels JACOBSEN Atashgah IYER Playlist for an Extreme Occasion YANOV-YANOVSKY Sacred Signs: Concerto for 13 Musicians Tickets: $55–$170 Judson and Joyce Green Creative Consultant Yo-Yo Ma brings his celebrated Silk Road Ensemble back to Chicago for a Symphony Center Presents Special Concert that includes traditional and new works that unite western and eastern-influenced music. The second half of the program features a new work by composer and conductor Dmitri Yanov-Yanovsky entitled Sacred Signs: Concerto for 13 Musicians, which is in honor of the centennial premiere of Stravinsky’s great ballet The Rite of Spring.

Symphony Center Presents Sunday, October 14, 2012, 3 p.m. Piano Series Murray Perahia, piano Solti Centennial HAYDN Sonata in D Major, Hob. XVI:24 SCHUBERT Six Moments Musicaux, D. 780 BEETHOVEN Sonata in C-sharp Minor (Moonlight) SCHUMANN Faschingsschwank aus Wien CHOPIN Impromptu No. 2 in F-sharp Major, Op. 36 CHOPIN Scherzo No. 1 in B Minor Tickets: $33–$98 Murray Perahia appears on the Symphony Center Presents Piano series as part of the season-long Sir Georg Solti Centennial celebration. Perahia was a frequent soloist with Solti and the CSO, making his debut with Solti in 1974 and appearing under Solti’s baton a total of six times throughout his tenure as music director. Perahia appears with a program of classical masterpieces by Haydn, Schubert, Beethoven, Schumann and Chopin. This is his first recital appearance at Symphony Center since 2007.

Chicago Symphony Orchestra Thursday, October 18, 2012, 8 p.m. The Wagner Effect Friday, October 19, 2012, 8 p.m. Saturday, October 20, 2012, 8 p.m. Chicago Symphony Orchestra

Bernard Haitink, conductor Renaud Capuçon, violin Gautier Capuçon, cello BRAHMS Concerto for Violin and Cello in A Minor, Op. 102 (Double)

BRAHMS Symphony No. 1 in C Minor, Op. 68 Tickets: $34–$260 Conductor Bernard Haitink returns to lead the CSO in an all-Brahms program featuring two of the composers’ great symphonic works: his Double concerto for Violin and Cello showcasing brothers violinist Renaud and cellist Gautier Capuçon as soloists, and the composer’s rousing Symphony No. 1.

Chicago Symphony Orchestra Saturday, October 20, 2012, 2 p.m. All-Access Chamber Music Series So Young Bae, violin Grainer Ballroom, Orchestra Hall Stephanie Jeong, violin Yukiko Ogura, viola Weijng Wang, viola Katinka Kleijn, cello Spencer Myer, piano Andrew Patner, host BRAHMS Piano Quartet No. 2 in A Major, Op. 26 BRUCKNER String Quintet in F Major Tickets: This performance is free, but tickets are required. The Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s All-Access Chamber series features intimate performances in a casual format and the opportunity to hear observations and ideas about the music from the CSO

musicians themselves. These free concerts are designed to introduce classical music to new audiences by offering insight on composers whose works will be presented on CSO subscription concerts. This performance takes place in Orchestra Hall’s Grainger Ballroom and includes works by Brahms and Bruckner.

Symphony Center Presents Sunday, October 21, 2012, 1:15 p.m.

Orchestra Series Sir Georg Solti 100th Birthday Concert

Solti Centennial World Orchestra for Peace

Valery Gergiev, conductor

Angela Gheorghiu, soprano

René Pape, bass

Lady Solti, host

Alumni of the Solti Accademia and Solti Foundation US

Tereza Gevorgyan, soprano

Matilda Paulsson, mezzo-soprano

Roberto Gòmez-Ortiz, tenor

Ross Ramgobin, baritone

Cristian Macelaru, conductor

Past And Present Members of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra

MOZART Overture to The Marriage of Figaro STRAUSS Don Juan MOZART In diesen heil'gen Hallen from The Magic Flute MOZART Là ci darem la mano from Don Giovanni VERDI Addio del passato from La traviata VERDI Bella figlia dell’amore from Rigoletto MAHLER Adagietto from Symphony No. 5 BARTÓK Concerto for Orchestra

Tickets: $51–$199

The 2012/13 Symphony Center Presents Orchestra series opens with a very special concert in honor of former CSO Music Director Sir Georg Solti. The World Orchestra for Peace, founded by Solti in 1995, is an ensemble of the finest musicians selected from the world’s greatest orchestras (most are concertmasters or section principals in their own orchestras), including past and present members of the CSO. The ensemble was founded to affirm, in Solti’s words, ―the unique strength of music as an ambassador for peace.‖ The orchestra makes its Symphony Center debut under the baton of Valery Gergiev and hosted by Lady Solti on what would have been Solti’s 100th birthday.

Chicago Symphony Orchestra Thursday, October 25, 2012, 8 p.m. Friday, October 26, 2012, 8 p.m.

Saturday, October 27, 2012, 8 p.m. Chicago Symphony Orchestra Bernard Haitink, conductor Erin Wall, soprano Bernarda Fink, mezzo-soprano Anthony Dean Griffey, tenor Hanno Müller-Brachmann, bass-baritone Chicago Symphony Chorus Duain Wolfe, chorus director BEETHOVEN Missa solemnis in D Major, Op. 123 Tickets: $34-$260 In his second week at the podium, Bernard Haitink leads the CSO in a performance of Beethoven’s epic choral work Missa solemnis, with the Chicago Symphony Chorus joined by soloists soprano Christine Brewer, mezzo-soprano Bernarda Fink, tenor Anthony Dean Griffey and bass-baritone Hanno Müller-Brachmann.

Hallowed Haunts Saturday, October 27, 2012, 3 p.m. Dr. Metronome and the Orchestra of Doom

Civic Orchestra of Chicago Alastair Willis, conductor

Sara Mountjoy-Pepka, mime

GRIEG Suite No. 1 from Peer Gynt, Op. 46

SAINT-SAËNS Danse macabre, Op. 40

BERLIOZ Symphonie fantastique, Op. 14

MUSSORGSKY, Orch. Ravel Pictures from an Exhibition

PROKOFIEV Suite No. 1 from Cinderella, Op. 107

Tickets: $10–$60

Since 2002, Hallowed Haunts has thrilled music lovers of all ages with scary music, creepy costumes and tasty treats in a frightfully festooned Orchestra Hall. Doors open an hour and a half before the concert for young ghosts, goblins and ghouls to partake in fun Halloween games and arts-and-crafts activities. Hallowed Haunts is recommended for children ages 5 and up.

CSO Chamber Music Series Sunday, October 28, 2012, 2 p.m. Art Institute of Chicago Stephanie Jeong, violin Catherine Brubaker, viola Kenneth Olsen, cello Kuang-Hao Huang, piano RAVEL Piano Trio in A Minor

FAURÉ Piano Quartet No. 1 in C Minor, Op. 15 Tickets: $26

The popular CSO Chamber Music series at The Art Institute of Chicago offers a wonderful opportunity for arts lovers to explore connections between visual art and classical music. The musical portion of the program is introduced with a discussion and slide presentation given by Art Institute curators, and following the performance, patrons receive a guided gallery tour featuring artworks relating to the concert’s theme. This season’s offerings focus on great artistic ideas that have been inspired by Eastern cultures. This performance features a trio and quartet of music by Maurice Ravel and Gabriel Fauré.

Symphony Center Presents Sunday, October 28, 2012, 3 p.m. Chamber Music Series Alisa Weilerstein, cello Inon Barnatan, piano BEETHOVEN Cello Sonata No. 2 in G Minor, Op. 5 BRITTEN Sonata in C Major for Cello and Piano, Op. 65 STRAVINSKY Suite italienne CHOPIN Cello Sonata in G Minor, Op. 65 Tickets: $28–$104 Cellist Alisa Weilerstein, named a MacArthur Foundation fellow in September 2011, makes her first recital appearance at Symphony Center with pianist Inon Barnatan. The duo performs a diverse program including Beethoven’s Sonata in G Minor, Op. 5, No. 2 and Britten’s Sonata in C Major. The program also includes Stravinsky’s Suite italienne, the composer’s arrangement of several movements from his Pulcinella ballet and Chopin’s Cello Sonata in G Minor, the composer’s last major work and one of the few pieces he wrote for an instrument other than piano. Weilerstein made her CSO debut in June 2009 as part of the Dvořák Festival and performed with the St. Petersburg Philharmonic at Symphony Center in March 2011.

Symphony Center Presents Monday, October 29, 2012, 7 p.m. MusicNOW: Souvenir Musicians from the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Harris Theater for Music and Dance Edwin Outwater, conductor 205 E. Randolph Dr. Mason Bates, Mead Composer-in-Residence

Anna Clyne, Mead Composer-in-Residence CLYNE Roulette FINNIS Unfolds LINDBERG Souvenir Tickets: $25 The MusicNOW series, hosted by CSO Mead Composers-in-Residence Mason Bates and Anna Clyne, continues to offer some of the most groundbreaking new compositions to Chicago audiences. The 2012/13 season opens at the Harris Theater for Music and Dance with a piece by Clyne for electronica and string quartet entitled Roulette, followed by Unfolds, a work for quintet by Chicago composer Edmund Finnis. The program concludes with a newly composed work in three movements by Magnus Lindberg, the 2011/12 composer-in-residence at the New York Philharmonic, entitled Souvenir.

Bank of America is the Global Sponsor of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. The Civic Orchestra of Chicago is supported in part by awards from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency. MusicNOW receives funding through a leadership grant from IRVING HARRIS FOUNDATION, Joan W. Harris. Major sponsorship is provided by Cindy Sargent with additional support provided by a generous grant from the Sally Mead Hands Foundation. Mariachi Vargas media sponsor: Hoy, Chicago Latino Network The Symphony Center Presents Jazz Series is sponsored by BMO Harris Bank. The Symphony Presents Chamber Music Series is sponsored by an anonymous donor. Hallowed Haunts media sponsor: TimeOut Kids The Chicago Symphony Orchestra is partially supported by grants from the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency, and the National Endowment for the Arts.

TICKETS for all 2012/13 Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Symphony Center Presents and Civic Orchestra of Chicago concerts can be purchased by calling CSO ticketing services at 312-294-3000 or 800-223-7114, online at cso.org, or

by visiting the Symphony Center box office at 220 S. Michigan Ave., Chicago, IL 60604. Discounted student tickets can be purchased, subject to availability, online in advance or at the box office on the day of the concert. For group rates, please call 312-294-3040. Artists, programs and ticket prices are subject to change.

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