“The Chicago Symphony’s new music series will mark its 20th anniversary next season with four concerts that look to its past as well as the present,” writes John von Rhein in Wednesday’s (5/24) Chicago Tribune. “The 2017-18 season will begin Oct. 2 with a retrospective of works by former Mead composers in residence Augusta Read Thomas, Mark-Anthony Turnage, Osvaldo Golijov and Anna Clyne, under the direction of principal conductor Cliff Colnot. The series continues Nov. 13 with a program spotlighting the versatile pianist and composer Vijay Iyer, whose music cuts across several genres, from jazz to classical…. The central work on the MusicNOW concert April 2, 2018, will be the Chicago-born composer Amy Beth Kirsten’s ‘Savior,’ a MusicNOW commission receiving its world premiere. Scored for three women’s voices and four instruments, ‘Savior’ is a multimedia reflection on the life and death of Joan of Arc through music, movement, light and sound. The production will involve musicians from the CSO and the HOWL ensemble, an East Coast multigenre group the composer co-founded in 2012. Concluding the season on May 21 will be a special concert at Symphony Center under the direction of composer and longtime CSO guest conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen.”
Posted May 24, 2017
