The latest program by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra honors Robert Chen, the orchestra’s invaluable concertmaster and masterful violinist. It also features a glimpse of a rarely revived opera.
Thursday’s Chicago Symphony Orchestra concert began as guest conductor James Conlon turned to the audience and announced the news that Bernard Haitink, the world-renowned and much beloved conductor with strong ties to the CSO, had died earlier in the day at his home in London at the age of 92.
Thursday’s Chicago Symphony Orchestra concert conducted by Erina Yashima, assistant conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra and a former Solti conducting apprentice at the CSO quietly advanced a more expansive view. The evening’s roving program united under the not-so-radical observation that our favorite composers, like us, are nothing if not products of their environment.