A program in honor of Thomas, the founder and first music director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, who was born October 11, 1935.
Theodore Thomas’s 185th Birthday
Theodore Thomas and Chicago Orchestra - Auditorium Theatre, Nov 1897 (Lawrence & Dinius photo)
Playlist
Brahms: Academic Festival Overture, Op. 80
Daniel Barenboim, conductor
Wagner: Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan and Isolde
Artur Rodzinski, conductor
Elgar: Variations on an Original Theme, Op. 36, Enigma
Sir Georg Solti, conductor
Strauss: Ein Heldenleben, Op. 40
Fritz Reiner, conductor
Tchaikovsky: Final Waltz and Apotheosis from The Nutcracker, Op. 71
Morton Gould, conductor