CSO Maestro Riccardo Muti's First Radio Interview Post Strike
Music writer Dennis Polkow talks to Chicago Symphony Orchestra Music Director Riccardo Muti.
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"It's important that the quality of the musicians and the orchestra is sill there, actually even more. When they came back, the desire to play, to show what they are was very clear, very evident. And I think it's important that Chicago and the people must remember, that this is a musical treasure that belongs not only to Chicago, but to the world". - Maestro Riccardo Muti talking about the aftermath of the CSO strike.
Dennis Polkow & Riccardo Muti standing outside Orchestra Hall during CSO strike
Maestro Riccardo Muti will close out the Chicago Symphony Orchestra season with two weeks of special concerts including concert performances of Verdi’s “Aida”. Chicago music writer and Arts Section contributor Dennis Polkow sits down with the Maestro for his first interview since the end of the seven-week CSO strike.
Italian opera composer, Giuseppe Verdi
