Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Schedule
Wed, 25 Feb, 2026 at 08:00 pm
UTC-05:00Location
57th Street and Seventh Ave, New York, NY, United States, New York 10019 | New York, NY
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Klaus Mäkelä leads the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in a spirited program of hero’s tales. Through four tone poems, Sibelius regales listeners with the exploits of Finnish mythology’s heroic Lemminkäinen. Its haunting second chapter, The Swan of Tuonela, is a standalone concert favorite today, but it is a rare delight to hear Lemminkäinen performed in full. In Richard Strauss’s Ein Heldenleben, a different sort of hero is immortalized—namely, Richard Strauss. Though he denied its self-referential nature, it includes musical quotes from dozens of Strauss’s own compositions, and is almost universally considered an autobiographical tale—replete with musical battles against such mythical foes as 19th-century Viennese music critic Doktor Dehring.
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