The @ChicagoSymphony Orchestra family joins the music world in mourning the loss of American soprano Benita Valente. @RaviniaFestival cso.org/experience/article/2…

Wishing a very happy birthday to the @ChicagoSymphony Orchestra's founder and first music director, Theodore Thomas! cso.org/experience/article/2…

Wishing a very happy seventieth birthday to the incomparable American cellist @YoYo_Ma! @ChicagoSymphony @RaviniaFestival @CarnegieHall cso.org/experience/article/2…

The @ChicagoSymphony Orchestra family joins the international music community in mourning celebrated German conductor Christoph von Dohnányi. @RaviniaFestival @LyricOpera cso.org/experience/article/2…

Wishing a very happy eightieth birthday to legendary Israeli-American violinist Itzhak Perlman! @PerlmanOfficial @ChicagoSymphony @RaviniaFestival @DGClassics @WarnerClassics cso.org/experience/article/2…

Wishing a very happy eighty-fifth birthday to the legendary Belgian bass-baritone José van Dam! @ChicagoSymphony @CarnegieHall @RoyalAlbertHall @RCARecords @DeccaClassics cso.org/experience/article/2…

The @ChicagoSymphony Orchestra family joins the music world in mourning the loss of English singer and actress Dame #CleoLaine. Along with her husband Sir John Dankworth, she appeared in Orchestra Hall on several occasions over three decades. cso.org/experience/article/2…

July 5, 1957: Virgil Thomson leads the @ChicagoSymphony Orchestra in a program of his compositions—including selections from his opera Four Saints in Three Acts—at the @RaviniaFestival. Robert McFerrin is baritone soloist. #OTD

The @ChicagoSymphony Orchestra family mourns the loss of Austrian pianist Alfred Brendel, a frequent and favorite performer over the course of four decades. @RaviniaFestival @CarnegieHall cso.org/experience/article/2…

Wishing a very happy eightieth birthday to the fabulous American mezzo-soprano Frederica von Stade! @ChicagoSymphony @RaviniaFestival @CarnegieHall @IMGArtistsUK cso.org/experience/article/2…

The @ChicagoSymphony's Rosenthal Archives holds the Theodore Thomas collection, which includes a set of orchestral parts in manuscript to Verdi's Requiem dating from 1874. cso.org/experience/article/2…

The Chicago Symphony Orchestra family joins the music world in mourning the loss of American conductor John Nelson. @DGclassics @NonesuchRecords @RaviniaFestival cso.org/experience/article/2…

The @ChicagoSymphony Orchestra family mourns the loss of Donald Moline, who served as a member of the cello section from 1967 until 2006. cso.org/experience/article/2…

Wishing a very happy birthday to legendary American soprano Leontyne Price! @ChicagoSymphony @RaviniaFestival @CarnegieHall @RCARecords cso.org/experience/article/8…

The @ChicagoSymphony Orchestra family joins the music world in mourning the loss of American bass Paul Plishka. @RaviniaFestival @MetOpera cso.org/experience/article/2…

Celebrating the eightieth birthday of the remarkable English cellist Jacqueline du Pré! @ChicagoSymphony cso.org/experience/article/2…

Wishing a very happy ninetieth birthday to legendary American baritone Sherrill Milnes! @ChicagoSymphony @RaviniaFestival cso.org/experience/article/2…

December 31, 1920: Frederick Stock leads the @ChicagoSymphony Orchestra in the US premiere of Gustav Holst's The Planets, along with Beethoven's Leonore Overture no. 3 and Rubinstein's Piano Concerto no. 4 with Fannie Bloomfield Zeisler. #OTD cso.org/experience/article/8…

December 30, 1965: Jean Martinon leads Bernstein's Candide Overture, his Fourth Symphony (commissioned for the @ChicagoSymphony's 75th season), Stock’s Symphonic Variations, and the finale from Wagner’s Götterdämmerung with Eileen Farrell. #OTD cso.org/experience/article/8…

December 29, 1949: William Kapell solos with the @ChicagoSymphony Orchestra in Rachmaninov's Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini with Eugene Ormandy conducting. The program also includes Beethoven's First Symphony and Hindemith's Mathis der Maler Symphony. #OTD