“Maestro Riccardo Muti and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra will kick off the 2020-2021 season with a free concert on Sept. 17 in Millennium Park,” writes Miriam Di Nunzio in Monday’s (1/27) Chicago Sun Times. “The season … boasts Bartók’s Miraculous Mandarin Suite, Bernstein’s Three Dance Episodes from On the Town … Janáček’s Taras Bulba, Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring … as well as Beethoven’s Missa solemnis.… Also on the schedule are two world premieres of CSO-commissioned works by American composer Gabriela Lena Frank and Finnish composer Magnus Lindberg, as well the first CSO performances of Julia Wolfe’s ‘Her Story,’ co-commissioned by the CSO and four other major U.S. orchestras. The new work commemorates the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment granting women the right to vote…. Mezzo-soprano Kara Dugan makes her CSO debut as a vocalist in the CSO premiere of Michael Tilson Thomas’s Four Preludes on Playthings of the Wind, set to Carl Sandburg’s poem…. Conductor Jane Glover makes her CSO debut in a program of 19th century music.… The CSO will perform 16 works for the first time [including] Qigang Chen’s L’Eloignement, Florence Price’s Ethiopia’s Shadow in America, [and] Thomas Adès’s Concerto for Piano and Orchestra.”
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