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Chicago Cultural Center - Classical Music |
Chicago Symphony Center/Orchestra Hall |
Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestra |
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Chicago Cultual Center - Classical Music
This landmark building known as the Chicago Cultural Center serves as the city's official reception venue where the Mayor has welcomed Presidents and royalty, diplomats and community leaders. This is the "People's Palace," where Chicago's diverse communities gather. This remarkable structure was completed in 1897 as the city's main library. Constructed to be "an enduring monument worthy of a great and public spirited city" in the words of the founding library board the "People's Palace" is a testament to the foresight of Chicago's turn of the 20th Century cultural leadership. |
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Chicago Cultural Center - Classical Music
This landmark building known as the Chicago Cultural Center serves as the city's official reception venue where the Mayor has welcomed Presidents and royalty, diplomats and community leaders. This is the "People's Palace," where Chicago's diverse communities gather. This remarkable structure was completed in 1897 as the city's main library. Constructed to be "an enduring monument worthy of a great and public spirited city" in the words of the founding library board the "People's Palace" is a testament to the foresight of Chicago's turn of the 20th Century cultural leadership. |
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Chicago Opera Theater
Founded in 1974 by Alan Stone, Chicago Opera Theater has carved a significant place for itself in the operatic life of Chicago and has reached an audience of hundreds of thousands through its main stage performances, outreach, education and young artist programs. |
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Chicago Sinfonietta
"The Chicago Sinfonietta is the most diverse symphonic ensemble in the Unites States"
Professor Earl L. Carter
Julliard School of Music
The Chicago Sinfonietta is the Official Orchestra of The Joffrey Ballet of Chicago. It holds several performances a year featuring composers and soloists of color. This is a diverse orchestra with some very interesting performances, at times featuring not only phenomenal Chicago talent but musical talent worldwide.
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Chicago Symphony Center/Orchestra Hall
Rich in tradition. Innovative in vision. The Chicago Symphony Orchestra (CSO) is a musical force in Chicago and around the world. Built in 1904, Symphony Center was designed by famed architect Daniel Burnham, then a trustee of the CSO.
The Grammy award winning ensemble holds more than 150 performances and events a year. The CSO is made up of 107 professional musicians, including two internationally renowned conductors and two award-winning composers-in-residence.
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Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestra
Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestras (CYSO) is internationally recognized as one of the premier youth orchestras in the United States.
For over sixty years the Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestras has provided superior orchestral training, of the highest quality to Chicago metropolitan area youth.
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Music of the Baroque
Derived from the Portuguese barroco, or “oddly shaped pearl,” the term “baroque” has been widely used since the nineteenth century to describe the period in Western European art music from about 1600 to 1750. Comparing some of music history’s greatest masterpieces to a misshapen pearl might seem strange to us today, but to the nineteenth century critics who applied the term, the music of Bach and Handel’s era sounded overly ornamented and exaggerated. Having long since shed its derogatory connotations, “baroque” is now simply a convenient catch-all for one of the richest and most diverse periods in music history. |
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