Media Alert

I guess we're going to make this a bit of a Chicago Symphony Day.  This evening, Saturday, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra will be hosting a free, streaming event, “Sounds of Celebration: An Evening at Home with the CSO.”  This is the orchestra’s largest annual fundraising event of the year, proceeds which will benefit the CSO's community programs and other projects that go to the heart of the Orchestra’s mission.

The streaming festivities begin at 7 PM Central time.  That's 5 PM out here in Los Angeles -- or 8 PM on the East Coast.

The broadcast is hosted by the CSO's own musicians, and will include appearances from Maestro Ricardo Muti, Yo-Yo Ma, Eric Owens, Missy Mazzoli, Wynton Marsalis, Herbie Hancock, Mitsuko Uchida, Anne-Sophie Mutter, Hilary Hahn, Anita Rachvelishvili and Rainn Wilson (Dwight Schrute from The Office – and a fellow-alum from my New Trier High School).