Schedule Of Events

10:00am - 12:30pm : Open Rehearsal: Bloch & Tchaikovsky

Enjoy a behind-the-scenes look as the conductor and orchestra rehearse for the weekend Festival Orchestra concerts

Meaghan on Deck

During the break, join Stoner Family Education Curator Meaghan Heinrich and special guests on the Pavilion for a casual opportunity for attendees to ask questions about the music.

Cost : $20, children/students $5

7:00pm - 9:00pm : Festival Orchestra: Bloch & Tchaikovsky

Enrique Mazzola, conductor

Nicolas Altstaedt, cello

Program

Verdi: Overture to La forza del destino

Bloch: Schelomo

Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6

Witness the GTMF debut of Chicago Lyric Opera Music Director Enrique Mazzola. After Verdi’s dramatic statement on the power of fate and Bloch’s poetic invocation of King Solomon performed by German-French cellist Nicolas Alstaedt, we traverse the turbulent emotional landscape of Tchaikovsky’s final symphony. Did he foresee his own abrupt demise with this score?

Join us for a pre-concert talk at 6 PM with Stoner Family Education Curator Meaghan Heinrich in the Barbara Furrer Goodman Memorial Garden near Walk Festival Hall’s north entrance. Talks are sponsored by the Goodman Family Foundation, in memory of Roy and Barbara Goodman.

Cost : Free