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by John von Rhein   Chicago Symphony Orchestra Music Director Riccardo Muti has withdrawn from his Feb. 11-20 residency here so he can recover from a hip operation following a minor accident, an orchestra spokeswoman announced Tuesday night.   The accident occurred soon after the joint tour of Taiwan, Japan, China and South Korea he a...

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Time heals all wounds, even the deepest and most painful. Conductor Riccardo Muti returns to Milan's Teatro alla Scala with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, which he has led since 2010 for two concerts on January 20 and 21, 2017.   For the Maestro, who will present two different programs, it will be the first official return to Milan after he...

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September 28 - October 6, 2013Chicago Symphony Center ScheduleSaturday, September 28, 7:00pmTuesday, October 1, 7:00pmFriday, October 4, 7:00pmSunday, October 6, 3:00pm   Revering Shakespeare above all other playwrights, Giuseppe Verdi based three operas on the Bard's works. His electrifying psychodrama Macbeth was the first, a blood-s...

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Chicago Symphony Orchestra Music Director Riccardo Muti was honored by the Juvenile Justice Initiative on Sept. 16 at the Union League Club of Chicago for his dedication to sharing music with children in the juvenile justice system. The event celebrates JJI's 15th year anniversary and the organization's many accomplishments, including raising the...

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A monthlong celebration of rivers by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra culminates this weekend when Italian conductor Riccardo Muti travels by boat from downtown Chicago to Chinatown. The CSO's "Rivers" festival has sought to highlight the importance of rivers on culture.Muti will board a boat Sunday afternoon on the Chicago River with members of CSO...

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Chicago's Italian American Chamber of Commerce (IACC) presented Chicago Symphony Orchestra Music Director Riccardo Muti with a Lifetime Achievement award during a gala event at the Art Institute of Chicago's Chicago Stock Exchange Trading Room on Wednesday night. The IACC was founded in 1907 to support the Italian business community and American bu...

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La CSO e il Maestro Riccardo Muti rendono omaggio a Verdi, nell'anno del bicentenario, con un evento: portare la musica del meraviglioso compositore italiano in diretta nel mondo. E' questa una manifestazione unica nel suo genere, sì un omaggio all'autore più eseguito nel mondo, ma anche un grande atto d'amore.   Infatti, nel bicentenario di...

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Silvio Marchetti, who has silver hair and a dry sense of humor most atypical for an attache, tells a story about meeting the late Harold Washington, Mayor of Chicago, in the mid-1980s. Marchetti, who now heads up the Italian Cultural Institute in Chicago, had come from Italy and requested a mayoral audience to talk up the cultural riches of his nat...

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by Dennis Polkow It is Sunday in Chicago, a day off for Riccardo Muti. Nonetheless, there is a busy day ahead.   Muti will have a piano rehearsal with four singers from Lyric Opera of Chicago who will accompany him and a brass quintet of Chicago Symphony Orchestra players to a juvenile detention center later in the day to give a concert, "b...

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Lately there have been grumblings among some, though not all, of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association board members, wondering why the orchestra should be taking on expensive projects like lavishly cast concert operas in a city that already has a world-class opera company.   Performances as glorious as the all-star concert version of V...

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