(WBBM Newsradio) -- The Chicago Symphony Orchestra is easing back into live performance later this month at Symphony Center.
“Well, our last public performance was March 7 of 2020. So, it’s been about 14 months,” Jeff Alexander, president of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association, said Tuesday.
The first concert will be Thursday, May 27. The CSO will host health care workers from Rush Medicine.
All-American composers will be featured throughout that weekend’s performances. Each performance will have 22 musicians on stage.
“The next week we expand our forces a bit. We get up to 47. We have the string section and some woodwinds,” Alexander explained.
Among the composers featured that second weekend: Zoltan Kodaly.
That will be followed by a third weekend and yet another program.
Audience capacity will be limited to 398. Orchestra Hall seats about 2,500.