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2. Chicago Symphony Orchestra - Wikipedia

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   The Chicago Symphony Orchestra (CSO) is an American symphony orchestra based in Chicago, Illinois. Founded by Theodore Thomas in 1891, the ensemble has been based in the Symphony Center since 1904 and plays a summer season at the Ravinia Festival. Klaus Mäkelä was named music director-designate in 2024, with his first contractual season to ...

3. Krannert Center for the Performing Arts - Wikipedia

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   The Krannert Center for the Performing Arts is an educational and performing arts complex located at 500 South Goodwin Avenue in Urbana, Illinois and on the campus of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Herman C. Krannert, an industrialist who founded Inland Container Corporation and an alumnus of the university, and his wife, Ellnora ...

4. Chicago Philharmonic - Wikipedia

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   Chicago, Illinois. Principal conductor. Scott Speck. Website. Official website. The Chicago Philharmonic is an American orchestra based in Chicago, Illinois, governed by the Chicago Philharmonic Society. [1] Founded in 1988 by principals of the Lyric Opera Orchestra of Chicago, it is a musician-governed, non-profit organization consisting of ...

5. Auditorium Theatre - Wikipedia

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   Website. www.auditoriumtheatre.org. The Auditorium Theatre is a music and performance venue located in the Auditorium Building at 50 E. Ida B. Wells Drive in Chicago, Illinois. Inspired by the Richardsonian Romanesque Style of architect Henry Hobson Richardson, the building was designed by Dankmar Adler and Louis Sullivan and completed in 1889.

6. Music of the Baroque, Chicago - Wikipedia

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   Music of the Baroque is an American professional chorus and orchestra based in Chicago, Illinois . Most members of the orchestra also perform with other groups, including the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Lyric Opera of Chicago. Chorus members have active operatic, teaching and recital careers and several perform regularly as soloists with ...

7. Theodore Thomas (conductor) - Wikipedia

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   Theodore Thomas. Theodore Thomas (October 11, 1835 – January 4, 1905) was a German-American violinist, conductor, and orchestrator. [ 1 ] He is considered the first renowned American orchestral conductor and was the founder and first music director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (1891–1905).

8. John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts - Wikipedia

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   The annual American Residencies for the Kennedy Center is a program unique to the National Symphony Orchestra and the center. The center sends the Orchestra to a different state each year for an intensive period of performances and teaching encompassing full orchestral, chamber, and solo concerts, master classes and other teaching sessions.

9. World's Columbian Exposition - Wikipedia

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   The World's Columbian Exposition, also known as the Chicago World's Fair, was a world's fair held in Chicago from May 5 to October 31, 1893, to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus 's arrival in the New World in 1492. [ 1 ] The centerpiece of the Fair, held in Jackson Park, was a large water pool representing the voyage that ...