Riccardo Muti’s formal tenure as music director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra ended as it began: with a free concert in Millennium Park.
Riccardo Muti, center, prepares to conduct the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in his “Concert for Chicago" at Pritzker Pavilion in Millennium Park in Chicago on June 27, 2023.
he can’t be missed if he’ll be back in September and beyond, leading the orchestra as its music director emeritus.However ambivalent Muti may be about his long goodbye, Tuesday’s concert was a historic occasion met with the requisite onstage pomp. Millennium Park’s jumbo-est jumbotron was used to show a short tribute film to Muti’s CSO tenure, then was retired for the rest of the performance. After the concert, Ald.
Muti’s tenure-long attention to Tchaikovsky symphonies was likewise represented by that composer’s Symphony No. 5. The performance began with a moment of wordless connection between Muti and Stephen Williamson, whose stark, semi-intoned opening lines set the tone for other spectacular clarinet solos to follow in the movement.Conductor Riccardo Muti leads the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in Brahms' Symphony No. 1 at Symphony Center on May 4, 2017.
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