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Maestro Riccardo Muti's deeply rewarding artistic collaboration with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra will continue beyond next season. Muti announced on Monday that he will extend his tenure as music director of the CSO through 2020. 
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UPDATE: Stream Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Riccardo Muti's Verdi Bicentennial ConcertUPDATE: The concert is streaming live at www.cso.org/verdi and on the CSO's Facebook page. UPDATE: The concert is streaming live at cso. org/verdi and on the CSO's Facebook page. 
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Veni, Vidi, Verdi: Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Riccardo Muti Celebrate the Composer's BicentennialThis season of notable composer anniversaries continues with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra's tribute to Verdi's 200th anniversary over the next four weeks, starting with their season-opening concert at Symphony Center on Thursday. 
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Five Quickies: Pussy Riot Opera, Florencia Fabris Dies Singing Verdi, Alexandre Desplat Scoring 'Godzilla,' Sly Stone's Albino Band, Resonant Bodies Fest's DatabaseNews gets made fresh everyday. News gets made fresh everyday. And with the world's best musicians, singers, dancers and actors going back to repertory work after their summer stocks, there's more good news happening now than there was, say, back in August. 
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Five Freebies: Muti's Verdi, 'Noye's Fludde,' Beethoven, David Aaron Carpenter, Domingo's VerdiIt's always nice to get something for nothing, especially something as enriching as great music. And outreach projects increasingly mean that there are amazing freebies to be had. We've collated five of the best current and upcoming... 
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UPDATE...AGAIN: BSO Says Christoph Eschenbach Now Out for Tanglewood, but He Might Just be MadWhen it rains in the Berkshires, well, it pours in the Berkshires... When it rains in the Berkshires, well, it just pours in the Berkshires. Andris Nelsons, the Boston Symphony Orchestra's brand new Latvian conductor, remains concussed in Bayreuth. 
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Boston Symphony Orchestra Subs Carlo Montanaro for Andris Nelsons, Eric Owens for Ferruccio Furlanetto in Verdi's 'Requiem' at TanglewoodMaking both his Tanglewood and BSO debut (and putting an end, finally, to all the who-will-take-the-cursed-podium speculation), this Italian protégé of one Zubin Mehta is set to lead this Saturday's performance of Verdi's 'Requiem' 
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