The Chicago Sinfonietta will conclude its 2020-21 season with a virtual concert on June 5 celebrating the centenary of Astor Piazzolla’s birth. Mei-Ann Chen will conduct the concert, featuring Piazzolla’s Suite from Maria de Buenos Aires, arranged for brass and percussion, plus the commissioned world premiere of Victor Wooten’s La Lección Tres and Valerie Coleman’s Portraits of Josephine Suite, based on the life Josephine Baker, the performer, civil-rights activist, and French Resistance worker. In addition, on September 8 at the Ravinia Festival, the Sinfonietta will perform a concert entitled “Sounds of Dance,” described as featuring Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s “Danse Négre” from African Suite, Op. 35, No. 4; Florence’s Price’s Dances in the Canebrakes (arr. William Grant Still); Arturo Márquez’s Conga del Fuego Nuevo; and music by Chopin, Dvořák, Smetana, and Johann Strauss II. In the Ravinia concert announcement, Chicago Sinfonietta Chief Executive Officer Blake-Anthony Johnson said, “We are thrilled to open our 34th season with a return to Ravinia… As we re-engage our CS family and invite them back to live performances, we also welcome new audiences to Chicago Sinfonietta. This program offers the community a taste of our 2021-22 season.”
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