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Bay to Conduct Chicago Symphony

May 29, 2009
  • Who: Austin Symphony Conductor Peter Bay
  • What: Chicago Symphony Orchestra Dvořák Festival
  • When: June 13, 2009
  • Where: Symphony Center, Chicago, IL

Maestro Peter Bay, Music Director and Conductor of the Austin Symphony Orchestra has been invited to conduct a performance of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra for the CSO’s Dvořák Festival, “Echoes of a New World,” on June 13, 2009 in Chicago’s Symphony Center.

The Chicago Symphony’s 2008-2009 season culminates with the Dvořák Festival, from May 30 to June 20, saluting the life and work of Antonin Dvořák. His pioneering visit to America in the 1890s had a great influence on his music and the development of the American symphonic voice. Building on some of Dvořák’s most popular works conceived and performed during his stay in the U.S., the festival celebrates the composer’s native Czech culture through music, film, poetry and song.

Maestro Bay will share the podium with Sir Mark Elder, director of the Dvořák Festival. Bay has been invited to conduct Dvořák’s Serenade in D Minor, Op. 44. The concert also features performances by violist Paul Neubauer and the Emerson String Quartet. Also scheduled on the program is Dvořák’s The Midday Witch, “American” String Quintet, and the Symphony No. 3.