Coming to retailers worldwide in summer 2023, Contemporary American Composers is the Orchestra’s highly anticipated next installment on its award-winning CSO Resound label. The release showcases captivating works by living composers, including Jessie Montgomery’s meditation for orchestra, Hymn for Everyone; Max Raimi’s Three Lisel Mueller Settings, featuring mezzo-soprano Elizabeth DeShong, and Philip Glass’ electrifying Eleventh Symphony.
The sound of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra today. Find the most recent recordings of the CSO on CSO Resound, including Grammy® Award-winning performances led by Riccardo Muti and Bernard Haitink.
Conductor, airplane pilot, educator, activist — Margaret Hillis was a pioneer in American choral music. The first woman to regularly conduct a major symphony orchestra, she was the founder of the Chicago Symphony Chorus and served for 37 years as its first director. Now, for the first time, Margaret Hillis’ extraordinary life and trailblazing career can be explored by readers worldwide in Margaret Hillis: Unsung Pioneer, written by Chicago Symphony Chorus associate director Cheryl Frazes Hill.
