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
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