The Evening Concert for Tuesday, April 29, 2014: Britten’s “Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra”
Tonight at 7:00 on WILL-FM’s, “Evening Concert” Charles Dutoit guest conducts the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in works by Benjamin Britten. 2013 was the 100th anniversary of the composer’s birth, thus this program of the family-friendly “Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra” and the fiercely anti-war “War Requiem”.
Tuesday April 29: Chicago Symphony Orchestra (#14-17)
Dutoit conducts Britten
Charles Dutoit, conductor; *Tatiana Pavlovskaya, soprano; John Mark Ainsley, Tenor; Matthias Goerne, Baritone; Chicago Symphony Chorus, Duain Wolfe, Chorus Director; Chicago Children's Choir, Josephine Lee, Artistic Director
BRITTEN: Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra
*BRITTEN: War Requiem, Op. 66