Summary: Welcome to this digital edition of Phillip Huscher's Program Notes for upcoming concerts by the CSO Mar 2-7. The shock waves produced by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra's full-metal performance of The Rite of Spring proved that Stravinsky's epoch-making ballet can still pack a seismic wallop” (Chicago Classical Review). Esa-Pekka Salonen leads the CSO in Stravinsky's pioneering masterpiece in a program that also celebrates John Adams' 70th birthday with Scheherazade.2, performed by violinist Leila Josefowicz.
