This program opens with Mozart under the batons of former music directors Daniel Barenboim and Fritz Reiner. In October 1976, Sir Georg Solti led the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in the world premiere of David Del Tredici’s Final Alice—commissioned to commemorate the U.S. bicentennial—with twenty-seven-year-old Barbara Hendricks as soprano soloist. Three years later, the work was repeated and recorded for London.
David Del Tredici’s “Final Alice”

David Del Tredici, Sir Georg Solti, Barbara Hendricks
Playlist
Overture to The Abduction from the Seraglio, K. 384, by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Daniel Barenboim, conductor
Divertimento No. 17 in D Major, K. 334, by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Fritz Reiner, conductor
Final Alice, by David Del Tredici
Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Sir Georg Solti, conductor; Barbara Hendricks, soprano; Fred Hemke and Robert Black, soprano saxophones; Fred Spector, mandolin; Frederic Chrislip, tenor banjo; Herman Troppe, accordion