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  Muti's legacy: respect composers, reject revisionists

  In the twilight of his music directorship of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Riccardo Muti candidly outlined his legacy and implored musicians to remember his instruction on Giuseppe Verdi’s operas: use the 19th century scores without altered notes. “In 20 to 30 years, when everything will collapse, you will say maybe Muti was right,” the 80-year-old Italian conductor told the orchestra before Wednesday's rehearsal. Muti is leading three concert performances of “Un Ballo in Maschera (A Masked

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  Sarasota Concert Association marks prominent farewells in 78th season

  Emerson String Quartet and Ricardo Muti leading Chicago Symphony are on farewell tours that include Sarasota stops for Great Performers Series

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  Chicago Tribune

  CSO concert on April 5 is canceled, Muti has COVID

  The Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association (CSOA) announced late Monday that the Chicago Symphony Orchestra performance with music director Riccardo Muti scheduled for 7:30 p.m. Tuesday has been canceled. This was to be the third and final performance of the program featuring works by Mazzoli, Mahler and Bruckner. According to the CSOA, the decision to cancel the performance comes after a ...

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  Kansas City Star

  Heavy-hitters of classical music coming to Kansas City for Harriman-Jewell Series

  Broadway star Renée Elise Goldsberry, cellist Yo-Yo Ma, conductor Riccardo Muti and more will be heading to KC concert halls next season. Here are the details.

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  Fondazione Prada Hosts ‘Nabucco’ Performance Conducted by Riccardo Muti

  Fondazione Prada in 2021 for the first time hosted the "Riccardo Muti Italian Opera Academy” from Dec. 4 to 15, a project that aims to train five young conductors and five répétiteurs, or tutors of ballet dancers and musicians.

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  What to give your favorite classical music fan? Put a bow on these masterful box sets

  Even in this age of downloads and streaming, an abundance of wonderful CDs has been released this year. Many would make wonderful gifts.

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  Chicago Tribune

  ‘I was thinking about my musicians here.’ Riccardo Muti reflects on his time away from Chicago as CSO announces next season

  Symphony orchestra seasons can be slow-moving vessels. Artist lineups and programming are often arranged years in advance, with the season itself announced months before the previous has even ended. But unprecedented times call for unprecedented measures. The Chicago Symphony Orchestra opened its season last month with concerts filled out only through the end of the year. Based on plans ...

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  Chicago Tribune

  CSO review: A soloist celebrates Brahms, then Muti strays off the beaten path with ‘Pathétique.’ And Mazzoli gets her turn at last.

  Now that queues throng weekly outside Symphony Center, one risks becoming inured to milestones. But Riccardo Muti’s return residency at the Chicago Symphony brought with it two big ones worth keeping in sight: the first time the orchestra played with a soloist since the pandemic and, owing to a pile-on of unlucky factors, the first time ever that former composer-in-residence Missy Mazzoli had ...

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  Muti extends to 2022-23 as Chicago Symphony music director

  Absent from Chicago since February 2020 due to the pandemic, Riccardo Muti walked into Orchestra Hall and started to rehease Beethoven's Symphony No. 3, “Eroica.” “It was a very, very emotional moment when I walked on stage and I went to the podium because the orchestra was united for the first time with their music director in the concert hall,” Muti said during a telephone interview Thursday, two days after the first rehearsal and before the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s opening night of the s

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  AP PHOTOS: Playing on at Italy's oldest music conservatory

  Before the pandemic, students at Italy's oldest and largest music conservatory were always told to move “closer, closer, closer” when they played together. In its 213 years, the conservatory has turned out talents including composer Giacomo Puccini, and conductors Claudio Abbado, Riccardo Muti, Riccardo Chailly and Cecilia Bartoli.

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