What distinguishes one top-rank orchestra from another? For the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, it’s long been the brass. The Chicago Symphony's Brass Is World-Famous. Hear It Blast. M Michael Cooper ...
At a Chicago Symphony rehearsal this week open to the press and orchestra donors, music director designate Klaus Mäkelä halted the orchestra while working on DvoÅ™ák’s Symphony No. 7. “We know it will ...
The symphonies of Mahler, if they're played well enough to sound like Mahler, are a kind of spectacle -- of grand natural spaces, human glory, that vague thing we like to think of as transcendence, or ...