星期日（9月19日），秋凉乍起，阴云聚集，一个天气并不明媚的日子，看上去似乎难免横飘出几阵风雨。但芝加哥的人们兴致勃勃地传递着一个令人兴奋的消息，成千上万的人扶老携幼从正午就开始向密歇根大湖畔的千僖公园涌动。原来，芝加哥交响乐团迎来了新一季演出的新指挥——世界级指挥大师里卡尔多·穆蒂。作为本团新指挥的就职首演，此周日傍晚将在千僖公园规模宏伟的露天音乐厅举行一场免费交响乐音乐会。

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天公有眼，没让风雨扫众人的兴致，整个晚上没落一滴雨。

随着指挥大师里卡尔多·穆蒂优雅从容、抑扬顿挫的身姿和指挥棒的舞动，管弦乐音的交响时而低回时而激昂、时而如潺潺细流时而如浩瀚奔涌的大江，我们倾听着，心灵之门为之洞开，这种高尚浑厚的大美，无论历经多少岁月仍然充溢着荡气回肠的力量.......

国际指挥大师（意大利裔）里卡尔多·穆蒂

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当天的英文日程安排

FREE Concert for Chicago ——芝加哥免费交响音乐会

Sep19， 5:30 PM

9月19日，晚上五点半

Verdi/ Liszt/ Tchaikovsky/ Respighi 

September 19, 2010

Riccardo Muti launches his inaugural season as music director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra with a FREE concert for Chicago in Millennium Park.

里卡尔多·穆蒂在千僖公园为他就职本季芝加哥交响乐团的首席指挥家为芝城观众进行免费首场演出

Note location:（地址）
Jay Pritzker Pavilion
Millennium Park
Chicago, IL

Arrive early to picnic on the lawn and enjoy special preconcert performances by Chicago youth on stage and throughout the park, beginning at 2:00.

早到的观众们可以在公园的草坪享受野餐之趣，届时在公园多个场地还有芝加哥青少年表演团体演出的声乐节目。

Pre-Concert Performance Schedule for September 19
Come to Millennium Park early to enjoy free performances by Chicago’s youth!

Wrigley Square （以下是交响乐演出前其他团体的演出时间和内容）
2:00–2:30pm: Hyde Park Suzuki Institute: String Ensemble
2:30–3:00pm: Music Institute of Chicago: Academy Chamber Orchestra
3:00–3:30pm: Midwest Young Artists: Quintethero Woodwind Quintet
3:30–4:00pm: Merit School of Music: Alegre Strings

Cloud Gate
4:00–4:30pm: Merit School of Music: Merit Trombone Choir

Jay Pritzker Pavilion
4:30–5:00pm: Chicago Children’s Choir
Josephine Lee, Artistic Director
Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestra
Allen Tinkham, Music Director

Seating for this free event is first-come, first-served.

音乐厅座位全部免票，以先到者先坐为准。

Program ——交响乐音乐会节目单：

Verdi  Overture to La forza del destino  ——威尔第《命运之力》

Franz Liszt  Les préludes  ——匈牙利-李斯特《前奏曲、匈牙利狂想曲1 & 2、梅菲斯特圆舞曲》

Tchaikovsky  Romeo and Juliet  ——柴科夫斯基《罗密欧与朱丽叶》

Respighi  Pines of Rome  ——古典雷斯皮基罗马三部曲之一《罗马之松》

Pini di Roma 
09 I. I pini di Villa Borghese 第一乐章：波尔斯格别墅的松树 (2:37)
10 II. Pini presso una catacomba 第二乐章：墓地的松树 (7:39)
11 III. I pini del Gianicolo 第三乐章：雅尼古伦山的松树 (7:31)
12 IV. I pina della Via Appia 第四乐章：罗马大道上的松树 (5:22)

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著名指挥大师里卡尔多-穆蒂的英文介绍：

Riccardo Muti was born in Naples（那普勒斯）, Italy, where he studied piano at the Conservatory of San Pietro a Majella under Vincenzo Vitale, graduating with distinction. He was subsequently awarded a diploma in composition and conducting by the Conservatory "Giuseppe Verdi," Milan. He first came to the attention of critics and the public in 1967, when he was unanimously awarded first place in the Guido Cantelli Conductors Competition in Milan. The following year he was appointed principal conductor of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, a position he maintained until 1980. In 1971 he was invited by Herbert von Karajan to conduct at the Salzburg Festival, the first of many occasions that led, in 2001, to a celebration of 30 years of artistic collaboration.

During the 1970s Mr. Muti was the London Philharmonia's chief conductor (1972-82), succeeding Otto Klemperer. In 1980 he succeeded Eugene Ormandy as music director of The Philadelphia Orchestra, where he remained until 1992. From 1986 to 2005 he was music director of Milan's Teatro alla Scala, overseeing projects such as the Mozart-Da Ponte Trilogy and the Wagner Ring Cycle, in addition to bringing many less-performed and neglected works to light. His long tenure culminated on December 7, 2004, in the re- opening of the restored La Scala, with Salieri's Europa riconosciuta, originally commissioned for La Scala's inaugural opening night performance in 1778.

Over the course of his career, Riccardo Muti has conducted most of the world's important orchestras, including the Berlin Philharmonic, Bavarian(巴伐利亚 )Radio Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre National de France, and the Vienna Philharmonic, an orchestra with which he has particularly close ties, and with which he has appeared at the Salzburg Festival since 1971. In April 2003 the French national radio channel, France Musique, broadcast a "Journe Riccardo Muti," comprising 14 hours of his operatic and symphonic recordings. On December 14, 2003, he conducted the opening concert of the newly-renovated opera house "La Fenice" in Venice. In 2004 Mr. Muti founded the "Luigi Cherubini" Youth Orchestra comprising young musicians selected by an international committee from 600 instrumentalists throughout Italy. With the Cherubini Orchestra he is leading a five-year project dedicated to the Neapolitan School of the 18th century for the Salzburg Whitsun Festival.

On May 5, 2008, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association appointed Mr. Muti as its tenth music director; he will begin his five-year contract in September 2010. In the same season he will start as director of the Rome Opera House.