The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center: American Panorama
October 3 @ 7:30 pm
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CMS opens the 2023-24 season with a program celebrating beautiful and uplifting music, including Aaron Copland’s Appalachian Spring Suite for 13 players and featuring CMS Co-Artistic Directors David Finckel and Wu Han.
The United States of America maintains its identity as the world’s quintessential melting pot, just about everyone and everything we know having roots elsewhere. CMS’s American Panorama program illustrates this phenomenon in music unmistakably American in spirit yet diverse in dialect, each composer having drawn from distinct sources: Harry T. Burleigh from his African-American heritage; Antonín Dvořák from his exposure to Native-American and African-American music combined with his innate Czech sensibility; Arthur Foote, a leading 19th-century composer who, as a member of the Boston Six, forged a uniquely American sound clothed in European traditions; and Aaron Copland, whose intensive studies in Paris afforded him the technique to express the flavor of America as no other.
Your Visit
As of August 25, 2022, the Harris Theater no longer requires audience members to wear masks but strongly recommends proper wearing of masks at all times for audiences in the theater including while in line to enter, when in close proximity to others, and throughout the performance.
To learn more about accessibility at the Harris Theater and services that are offered, please visit the Accessibility page on their website. In order to ensure that your experience needs are thoroughly met prior to your arrival, or if any questions, please call their box office at 312.334.7777 or email access@harristheaterchicago.org.
Location Details:
TAP members should purchase tickets at the Level 5 Box Office. Walk-up service will be available on performance days, only for tickets to that day’s event, beginning one hour prior to the start of the performance.
Getting there:
The Harris Theater for Music and Dance is located at 205 E. Randolph Drive at the north end of Millennium Park in downtown Chicago. When driving, the Millennium Park Garage, located at 5 S. Columbus Dr., offers direct indoor access to the Harris Theater lobbies. Discounted parking validation for Millennium Park Garage is available at the Harris Theater Orchestra level box office. For further details about parking validation, please contact the box office at 312.334.7777.
The Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) train stations close to the Harris Theater include the Red Line Lake Street station, and the Brown/Green/Orange/Purple/Pink Line trains’ Washington/Wabash station. Visit transitchicago.com for additional CTA routes and details.
If arriving downtown via Metra trains: taxi cabs and CTA buses are all immediately available from Union, Ogilvie, and LaSalle Street stations. The Harris Theater is just a block from the Randolph Street and South Shore Line stations. For additional Metra information and schedules please visit metrarail.com.
