Hello Chicago!

Posted on Tuesday, June 28

Hello Chicago!

Introducing The Chicago Sinfonietta’s new Music Director Maestro Chen

Maestro Mei-Ann Chen will lead the musicians of the nation’s most diverse orchestra in a program inspired by Chicago’s neighborhoods.  The city’s African-American heritage is honored by works composed by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor and Coleridge-TaylorPerkinson, while Chicago’s famed Sones de México Ensemble Chicago joins the orchestra in paying tribute to the city’s Latino roots.  Excerpts from Zhan-Hao He and Gang Chen’s The Butterfly Lovers Violin Concerto, with erhu (Chinese violin) soloist Betty Xiang, pays homage to the Asian community and Chicago’s European roots are celebrated in Antonin Dvorák’s Symphony No. 9, “From the New World.”  Capping off the celebration is Leonard Bernstein’s splendid overture to the comic operetta Candide.

Sunday, August 14
6:30 p.m.
FREE

Jay Pritzker Pavilion
Millennium Park