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The Chicago Symphony pays tribute to John Williams; January 2019

Times Square Chronicles

1/3       Conductor and Composer John Williams Returns  Williams: The Cowboys Overture; Suite from Jane Eyre; The Adventures of Mutt from Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull; A New Beginning from Minority Report; Adventures on Earth from E.T.; Flight to Neverland from Hook; A Child’s Tale from The BFG; Out to Sea and Shark Cage Fugue from Jaws; With Malice Toward None from Lincoln; The Rebellion is Born from Star Wars: The Last Jedi; Rey’s Theme from Star Wars: The Force Awakens; Throne Room and End Title from Star Wars: A New Hope; Marion’s Theme from Raiders of the Lost Ark;  March from Superman; Imperial March from Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back; Suite for Cello and Orchestra from Memoirs of a Geisha: Going to School, Sayuri’s Theme (Mark Ridenour, tr; Yo-Yo Ma, c; John Williams and Richard Kaufman, cond)

1/10        Haydn: Symphony No. 85, The Queen Szymanowski: Violin Concerto No. 1 J. Strauss, Jr: Emperor Waltz R. Strauss: Suite from Der Rosenkavalier Lutos?awski: Symphony No. 3 (Christian Tetzlaff, v; Esa-Pekka Salonen and Juraj Val?uha, cond)
1/17        Weber: Overture to Euryanthe  Beethoven: Symphony No. 4 Wagner: Overture and Venusberg Music from Tannhäuser Wagner: Prelude to Acts 1 and 3 of Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg Mozart: Bassoon Concerto (Marek Janowski and Claudio Abbado, cond)
1/24        Britten: Sinfonia da Requiem Strauss: Death and Transfiguration Elgar: Enigma Variations Dvo?ák: Violin Concerto (Donald Runnicles, cond)
1/31        Weber: Overture to Die Freischütz Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 2 Mendelssohn: Overture to A Midsummer Night's Dream Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 4, Italian Ravel: Daphnis and Chloe, Suite No. 2 (David Fray, p; Christoph Eschenbach, cond)