Arts & Events

Riccardo Muti & Chicago Symphony Orchestra in Residency at UCB

Reviewed by James Roy MacBean
Saturday October 14, 2017 - 12:23:00 PM

Under the auspices of Cal Performances, the renowned Chicago Symphony Orchestra is in residency this week at UC Berkeley. On Friday evening, October 13, in the first of three concerts led by their Music Director Riccardo Muti, Chicago Symphony Orchestra presented a program comprised of Gioachino Rossini’s William Tell Overture, the West Coast premiere of All These Lighted Things by CSO Mead Composer-in-Residence Elizabeth Oganek, and Anton Bruckner’s Symphony No. 4 in E flat minor “Romantic.” Earlier in the week various events took place (a master class, a colloquium, etc.) in association with UCB’s Music Department. -more-