Certainly not in Orchestra Hall where he has played countless recitals, and where Thursday night he celebrated his 20th season with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, playing the Brahms Concerto with his own slashing, demon-ridden cadenza melting into the high, pale, pure and lovely song with which a violinist unlocks the heart of the music, or forever finds it closed.

Classical music offerings include the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, recognized as one of the best orchestras in the world, which performs at Symphony Center.

Also performing regularly at Symphony Center is the Chicago Sinfonietta, a more diverse and multicultural counterpart to the CSO.

In addition, the double bass sections of some orchestras perform as an ensemble, such as the Chicago Symphony Orchestra's Wacker Consort.

He was the son of Swiss immigrant and Chicago Symphony Orchestra violinist Ernst Gygax.

* 1941 – Riccardo Muti, Italian conductor ( Chicago Symphony Orchestra )

Chicago Symphony Orchestra music director Riccardo Muti, a longtime resident of the city, regularly participates in the festival, which invites orchestras and other performers from around the world.

During his later years in Paris, Stravinsky had developed professional relationships with key people in the United States: he was already working on his Symphony in C for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and he had agreed to deliver lectures at Harvard during 1939.

Roy E. Disney, the nephew of Walt, co-produced Fantasia 2000 which entered production in 1990 and features seven new segments performed by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra with conductor James Levine.

He also appeared on television as a guest conductor of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra's nationally syndicated " Music from Chicago " series ; the performances have been released by VAI on home video.

He left in 1891 to found the Chicago Symphony, taking thirteen Philharmonic musicians with him.

* Complete variation performed by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra conducted by Daniel Barenboim.

* Hugo Fox ( born February 2, 1897 in South Whitley ; died December 29, 1969 in South Whitley ) was the principal bassoonist of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra from 1922 to 1949.

* Mozart's Notturno in D, K. 286: Chicago Symphony Orchestra program notes

The William Mason High School Wind Symphony was invited in 2004 to perform at the Midwest Clinic in Chicago, recognized as the most prestigious high school concert band performance in the world.

Commissioned by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and first performed by them in 1977 under Georg Solti, its one-movement form encompasses the traditional four-movements of the classical symphony.

After leaving his home country Silvestri made Paris his domicile in 1959, also travelling to Australia that year, and appearing with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Philadelphia Orchestra in 1960-61, and making a number of recordings in Paris, London and Vienna for EMI.

During his years in the United States, Walter worked with many famous American orchestras, including the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the NBC Symphony Orchestra, the New York Philharmonic ( where he was musical adviser from 1947 to 1949, but declined an offer to be music director ), and the Philadelphia Orchestra.

Though earlier organizations bearing the same name date back as far as 1923, the Orchestra was officially founded in 1945 and played its first concert as the Atlanta Youth Symphony under the direction of Henry Sopkin, a Chicago music educator who remained its conductor until 1966.

** Helmut Burk & Karl-August Naegler ( producers ), Jobst Eberhardt, Stephan Flock ( engineers ), Pierre Boulez ( conductor ) & the Chicago Symphony Orchestra for Boulez Conducts Edgard Varèse ( Amériques ; Arcana ; Déserts ; Ionisation )

** Martin Fouqué ( producer ), Eberhard Sengpiel ( engineer ), Daniel Barenboim, Dale Clevenger, Larry Combs, Alex Klein, David McGill & the Chicago Symphony Orchestra for Richard Strauss Wind Concertos ( Horn Concerto ; Oboe Concerto, etc.

A new and interesting addition to the Chicago classical music scene is also the Renovo String Orchestra of Chicago.

Active double bass ensembles include L ' Orchestre de Contrebasses ( 6 members ), Bass Instinct ( 6 members ), Bassiona Amorosa ( 6 members ), the Chicago Bass Ensemble ( 4 + members ), The Bass Gang ( 4 members ), the London Double Bass Ensemble ( 6 members ) founded by members of the Philharmonia Orchestra of London who produced the LP Music Interludes by London Double Bass Ensemble on Bruton Music records, Brno Double Bass Orchestra ( 14 members ) founded by the double bass professor at Janáček Academy of Music and Performing Arts and principal double bass player at Brno Philharmonic Orchestra-Miloslav Jelinek, and the ensembles of Ball State University ( 12 members ), Shenandoah Conservatory, and the Hartt School of Music.

After winning the general election, Daley was inaugurated as Mayor of Chicago on April 24, 1989, his 47th birthday, at a ceremony in Orchestra Hall.

The B side featured " Railroad Blues " by the Benson Orchestra of Chicago under pianist and composer Roy Bargy

A very short listing of notable jazz bands includes King Oliver and his Creole Jazz Band, Jelly Roll Morton and his Red Hot Peppers, Louis Armstrong and his Hot Five, the Fletcher Henderson Orchestra, the Duke Ellington Orchestra, the Count Basie Orchestra, the Benny Goodman Orchestra, the Dizzy Gillespie-Charlie Parker Quintet, the Gerry Mulligan Quartet, the Modern Jazz Quartet, the Miles Davis Quintet, the Jazz Messengers, the Clifford Brown-Max Roach Quintet, the Sun Ra Arkestra, the John Coltrane Quartet, the Bill Evans Trio, Weather Report, the Mahavishnu Orchestra, Herbie Hancock's Headhunters, the Art Ensemble of Chicago, Oregon, Return to Forever, the Pat Metheny Group, and the World Saxophone Quartet.

* William Russo, Composing for the Jazz Orchestra University of Chicago Press, Library of Congress no.

Miriam had not yet goaded him into mentioning her directly, but one can feel the generalized anger in Wright's remarks to reporters when he was asked, one morning on arrival in Chicago, what he thought of the city as a whole.

Mrs. Sandburg received a Phi Beta Kappa key from the University of Chicago and she was busy writing and teaching when she met Sandburg.

`` And besides, Thorstein Veblen was one of the Chicago professors ''.

Even after the incident between Bang-Jensen and Shann in the Delegates' Lounge and this was not the way the Chicago Tribune presented it ''.

The other was by Chesly Manley in the Chicago Daily Tribune.

The check had been mailed from Chicago, the envelope bore no return address, and the check was not signed.

In his fight for the Illinois and Indiana delegations, Hearst made several trips to Chicago to confer with Andrew Lawrence, the former San Francisco Examiner man who was now his Chicago kingpin, and once to meet with Bryan.

Chicago was also a welcome host: there, in 1921, Prokofieff conducted the world premiere of the Love For Three Oranges, and played the first performance of his Third Piano Concerto.

In Chicago, some time ago, Mr. H., age 27, a diabetic since he was six, stopped using insulin because he had bought a `` magic spike '' -- a glass tube about the size of a pencil filled with barium chloride worth a small fraction of a cent -- sold by the Vrilium Company of Chicago for $306 as a cure-all.

He was also at this time, although not so interwoven in high politics and the rackets as Torrio and Capone, the most powerful and most dangerous mob leader in the Chicago underworld, the roughneck king.

Though there was an occasional good-natured chuckle about Marvin Goulding, the Jewish officer from Chicago, singing tearfully about the ould sod, no one really thought it was strange.

But because it was a suspense gangster story of the Capone era, many of us felt that it might catch on for a run in Chicago, continue as a road company, and eventually become a movie.

The charge that the federal indictment of three Chicago narcotics detail detectives `` is the product of rumor, combined with malice, and individual enmity '' on the part of the federal narcotics unit here was made yesterday in their conspiracy trial before Judge Joseph Sam Perry in federal District court.

But though Kimpton put Chicago in what he felt was working order, some old grads feel that it still needs the kind of lively teachers who filled it in the heady Hutchins era.

Several of the sights on her trip inspired her, and they found their way into her poem, including the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, the " White City " with its promise of the future contained within its alabaster buildings ; the wheat fields of America's heartland Kansas, through which her train was riding on July 16 ; and the majestic view of the Great Plains from high atop Zebulon's Pikes Peak.

The element was chemically identified at the Metallurgical Laboratory ( now Argonne National Laboratory ) of the University of Chicago.

It was used as entrance music by various American sports teams, most notably by the Chicago Bulls during their 1990s NBA dynasty.

Improv was created by Viola Spolin when working with Neva Boyd at a Hull House in Chicago, Illinois.

The team was established in Chicago in 1898 and was a charter member of the NFL in.

The franchise has two NFL championships, both while it was based in Chicago.

Colangelo's bid received strong support from one of his friends, Chicago White Sox and Chicago Bulls owner Jerry Reinsdorf, and media reports say that then-acting Commissioner of Baseball and Milwaukee Brewers founder Bud Selig was also a strong supporter of Colangelo's bid.