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About Beyond the Score®



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Vivaldi:
The Four Seasons
Natural Beauties?

Beyond the Score Video
Dvořák:
Symphony No. 9
Whose World?

Beyond the Score Video
Holst:
The Planets
Other Worlds?

Beyond the Score Video
Tchaikovsky:
Symphony No. 4
Pure Melodrama?

Beyond the Score Video
Mozart:
Piano Concerto No. 27
Elusive Simplicity?




Beyond the Score
Beyond the Score® stage at Symphony Center, Chicago


Learn More. Hear More.
Experience more.

Designed not only for classical music aficionados, but also for newcomers looking to delve deeper into the world of classical music, the first half of each Beyond the Score® program offers a multimedia examination of the selected score-its context in history, how it fits into the composer's output of works, the details of a composer's life that influenced its creation-sharing the illuminating stories found "inside" the music.

"Seldom has enlightenment proved so entertaining."
Chicago Tribune





Written and created by the CSO's creative director, Gerard McBurney, live musical examples are called upon to illustrate the structure of each composition. After an intermission, concertgoers return to the hall with newly discovered knowledge to hear a performance of the work played in its entirety.

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Beyond the Score
Gerard McBurney
Creative Director,
Beyond the Score®

Critical Acclaim for Beyond the Score®

"The Chicago Symphony Orchestra has a winner in Beyond the Score®, its newest attempt to rethink the way audiences experience live classical music."
Chicago Sun-Times


"Of all the various attempts by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in recent years to lure new listeners to Symphony Center and stimulate a deeper understanding of its music, none has proved more of a runaway hit, deservedly so, than the Beyond the Score® series."
Chicago Tribune


"I couldn't help notice however that what made the presentation work as an experience that really changed my perception of the work was the high degree of artistry applied to the presentation. It wasn't the information that got to me, it was the art."
Jesse Rosen, ASOL


"With Beyond the Score®, the CSO has created common ground on which newbies and seasoned concertgoers can meet, learn and be entertained."
Chicago Tribune




 

Major support for Beyond the Score® is provided by a grant from The Davee Foundation.

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