Tuesday, November 8, 2011

The CSO - Upcoming Programs and Our Collection

If you're going to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in November or December, you can use the link below to find recordings of some of the concert pieces.

CSO Upcoming Concerts (Nov/Dec 2011) - This list links to CD recordings of works to be performed. The list is in order by concert date, and the annotation for each item identifies the program dates and the specific program piece.

Another library source for finding some of the program works is Freegal.  We recommend that you use the advanced search feature and search by composer and title to find them.  Lake Forest Library cardholders can download three free music tracks per week from it.
 
You may want to read Maestro Muti's recent autobiography, Riccardo Muti : An Autobiography : First the Music, Then the Words.  The Chicago Tribune's John von Rhein says that this book is about "Muti's approach to musical interpretation, within an absorbing account of his formal training and the development of his career, from early music lessons in Naples and Milan, on to his formal arrival at the helm of the CSO last year."

The CSO has declared December as "Mahler Month," so the library has created this list of titles about Mahler and his works:  Gustav Mahler

Happy listening and reading.



















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