Chicago Philharmonic Announces 2016-17 Season

The Chicago Philharmonic announces its 2016-17 season: Love. Throughout five concerts, the season explores orchestral favorites and lesser known offerings representing varying expressions of love. Guest performers include conductor Gerhardt Zimmermann, Visceral Dance Chicago, and a range of renowned vocalists and instrumental soloists. Scott Speck leads the orchestra in his fourth season as artistic director.

"The Chicago Philharmonic continues to astonish me with its spirit, virtuosity, and emotional range," said Speck. "What comes across in every performance is a warmhearted, affectionate love of making music. We've decided to make that theme explicit in this year's programming. It's a season about love in its many forms."

Executive director Donna Milanovich said, "We are delighted to present our 2016-17 season, guided by our philosophy of mixing well-loved works with exciting newer compositions, programming thematically, and enhancing the music with collaborations that tie it all together."

For the first time in its 26-year history, the Chicago Philharmonic will include concerts in Chicago (Harris Theater) and Skokie (North Shore Center for the Performing Arts) in its symphonic season in addition to offerings at Evanston's Pick-Staiger Hall, one of its longstanding venues.

The 2016-17 season also includes the launch of community membership to The Chicago Philharmonic Society. Built on the Society's concept of musician leadership and governance, community membership will engage patrons with musician members and enrich the concertgoing experience. Membership is available at three levels, of which the lowest level is included in subscriptions of three concerts or more.

CONCERTS

Legendary Lovers
Sunday, September 18, 2016, 3:00 P.M. Pick-Staiger Concert Hall (Evanston)

Scott Speck, Conductor Emily Birsan, Soprano John Irvin, Tenor

Richard Wagner: Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan and Isolde Charles Gounod: Love Duet from Romeo and Juliet
Mikhail Glinka: Overture to Ruslan and Ludmila
Giuseppe Verdi: "Signor ne? principe" from Rigoletto

David Diamond: Music for Romeo and Juliet
Leonard Bernstein: Balcony Scene from West Side Story Maurice Ravel: Daphnis and Chloe?, Suite 2

Haunted Hearts
Sunday, October 30, 2016, 3:00 P.M.
Harris Theater for Music and Dance (Chicago)

Scott Speck, Conductor Jory Vinikour, Harpsichord

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: Symphony No. 5
Astor Piazzolla: Oblivion
Michael Nyman: Concerto for Amplified Harpsichord and Strings Bernard Herrmann: Car Ride and Shower Scene from Psycho Randall Woolf: My Insect Bride
Johann Sebastian Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 5

Daring Duos
Sunday, February 12, 2017, 3:00 P.M.
North Shore Center for the Performing Arts (Skokie)

Scott Speck, Conductor Bill Denton, Trumpet Robert Sullivan, Trumpet

Ludwig van Beethoven: Leonore Overture No. 3
Christoph Willibald Gluck: "Dance of the Blessed Spirits" from Orfeo and Euridice Antonio Vivaldi: Two Trumpet Concerto
Anthony Plog: Two Trumpet Concerto
Felix Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 4 (Italian)

The Dream
Chicago Philharmonic + Visceral Dance Chicago Sunday, March 5, 2017, 3:00 P.M.
Harris Theater for Music and Dance

Scott Speck, Conductor Nick Pupillo, Choreographer

The Chicago Philharmonic and Visceral Dance Chicago collaborate for a unique project based on Fyodor Dostoyevsky's "The Dream of a Ridiculous Man." Works by Russian composers including Sergei Prokofiev, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Dmitri Shostakovich, and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky accompany the world premiere of choreography by Visceral Dance Chicago artistic director Nick Pupillo. The story depicts a disillusioned everyman whose fantastical dreams of an alternate Earth rekindle his love for humankind.

Paths of Passion
Sunday, April 9, 2017, 3:00 P.M. Pick-Staiger Concert Hall

Gerhardt Zimmermann, Conductor Robert Hanford, Violin

Dmitri Shostakovich / Gerhardt Zimmermann: Chamber Symphony in F# minor (after String Quartet No. 7)
Antonin Dvor?a?k: Romance in F minor
Franz Waxman: Carmen Fantasy

Dvor?a?k: Symphony No. 9 in E minor (New World)
SUBSCRIPTIONS, TICKETS, AND COMMUNITY MEMBERSHIP

Subscriptions are available at three price tiers, depending on seating. Flexible options range from two- to five-concert subscriptions, from $42 up to $262 (early bird pricing through June 30). Single tickets are also available and range from $25 to $75. Subscriptions and single tickets, along with newly announced community membership packages, can be purchased at chicagophilharmonic.org or by calling (312) 957-0000 beginning Friday, April 8.

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