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The Chicago Symphony Orchestra maintains a summer home at the Ravinia Festival in Ravinia Park, Highland Park, Illinois.The CSO first performed there on November 20, 1905, during Ravinia Park's second year since its opening in 1904, and continued to appear there on and off through August 1931, after which Ravinia Park closed for four years due to the Great Depression. [16]
Players of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (1 C, 43 P) Pages in category "Chicago Symphony Orchestra" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total.
While this label was still being used in the late 1950s (e.g. Newsweek, February 17, 1958), the growing prestige of the Cleveland Orchestra under George Szell and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra under Fritz Reiner at this time saw the "Big Three" become the "Big Five". [4]
The Chicago Symphony Orchestra moved to Orchestra Hall in 1904, [12] and the Grand Opera relocated to the Civic Opera House in 1929. [13] In the early 1930s, estimates were taken to demolish the building, but the cost of the demolition was more than the land was worth.
On July 16, 2004, [32] the Festival moved to the state of the art Pritzker Pavilion, where it shares space with a regular world music series ("Music Without Borders"), a jazz series ("Made in Chicago") and a variety of annual performances by Steppenwolf Theatre, Lyric Opera of Chicago and Chicago Symphony Orchestra. [33]
Some noteworthy orchestras like the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and the Sydney Symphony have used the hall for recordings. The School of Music at the University of Illinois hosts many performances in this venue by students, faculty, the Sinfonia da Camera and the University of Illinois Wind Symphony.
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