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Date: Jan 25-26 - 7:30 pm

Venue: National Center for the Performing Arts

Price: 280-1,680 yuan

Now celebrating its 125th season, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra is consistently hailed as one of the world's leading orchestras. In September 2010, renowned Italian conductor Riccardo Muti became its 10th music director. His vision for the Orchestra - to deepen its engagement with the Chicago community, to nurture its legacy while supporting a new generation of musicians, and to collaborate with visionary artists-signals a new era for the institution. The program includes Symphony No 5 by Beethoven and Symphony No 1 by Mahler on Jan 25, and Classical Symphony by Prokofiev, Concert Music for Strings and Brass by Hindemith, and Symphony No 4 by Tchaikovsky.

(China Daily 01/09/2016 page20)