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The Arts Intel Report

Concert for Chicago

Riccardo Muti at the Concert for Chicago, 2022.

June 27, 2023
220 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60604, USA

Riccardo Muti closes the season with a free concert in Millennium Park. These occasions invariably draw crowds in the tens of thousands, and for good reason. This year, the maestro opens on a delicate note with the songful Andante Moderato of Florence Price, a long-neglected composer of the Black Chicago Renaissance who is enjoying a personal renaissance of her own. Then it’s on to Tchaikovsky’s mighty Symphony No. 5. Many of the composer’s contemporaries judged it harshly. Today it’s a fixture. The struggle for recognition knows no color barrier. —Matthew Gurewitsch