Jaap van Zweden and Neeme Jarvi will replace Riccardo Chailly for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra subscription concerts Oct. 9 through Oct. 21 at Symphony Center. According to Chailly's manager, the Italian conductor is to undergo tests for an ongoing heart condition following a tour with his Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra and will be unable to travel to the U.S.
Van Zweden, the Dutch-born music director of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra and chief conductor of the Royal Flemish Philharmonic Orchestra, will make his CSO debut in the first week of concerts. His program for Oct. 9-14 holds Bruckner's Symphony No. 5, which Chailly was to have conducted the following week...MORE
