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Mozart and Tchaikovsky

  • Classical Music
  • Linda Ronstadt Music Hall
$14 – $95 Buy Tickets

The 2024–2025 season opens with Tchaikovsky’s powerful and tragically final musical utterance, most likely a declaration of forbidden love—the sixth symphony, “Pathétique.” The rising French star David Fray makes his TSO debut with Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 21, and the TSO introduces the highly engaging music of the recent Chicago Symphony composer-in residence, Anna Clyne’s This Midnight Hour.

Plan Your Visit

  • This concert is available as part of a Classic Series or Create Your Own Subscription.

  • This concert is expected to last approximately 2 hours, including intermission.

  • This concert will be preceded by Concert Comments, a pre-concert talk, beginning one hour before each performance.

  • Linda Ronstadt Music Hall has a clear bag policy. Read more about this venue

  • Friday Traffic Alert: A hockey game at TCC Arena begins at 7:30 p.m. on Friday. This event may cause parking congestion. A parade will close the block bounded by 6th Avenue, 12th Street, 4th Avenue, and 16th Street from about 4–9 p.m.; avoid this area as you travel to the concert to prevent traffic delays and detours.

Music Notes

  • This Midnight Hour  is inspired by poems by Juan Ramón Jiménez and Charles Baudelaire.

  • Neil Diamond’s 1972 song “Song Sung Blue” was based on a theme from the slow movement of Mozart’s concerto. The same movement was featured in the 1967 movie, Elvira Madigan.

  • Anna Clyne’s cello concerto Dance has had over 10 million plays on Spotify.

  • A mistranslation into French from the Russian word meaning “passionate” has stuck. The subtitle should really be “Passionate” or “Emotional” Symphony.

Photo by James Bort