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Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestras’ Fall 2022 concert

January 14, 2023, 11:00 am

The CYSO Symphony Orchestra at Orchestra Hall, featuring music director Allen Tinkham and concertmaster Henry Auxenfans.

This week, we broadcast part of the most recent Symphony Center concert from Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestras’ flagship group. Short pieces by Jessie Montgomery and Anna Clyne precede Richard Strauss’s autobiographical tone poem, Ein Heldenleben. Allen Tinkham conducts.

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Jessie Montgomery: Overture

Anna Clyne: Abstractions:
I. Marble Moon

Richard Strauss: Ein Heldenleben
with Henry Auxenfans, solo violin

CYSO Symphony Orchestra; Allen Tinkham, conductor

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Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestras’ Fall 2022 concert

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