Screening: Beyond the Score®—Ravel 'A Portrait'

Calling all AF-Chicago Members: join us for a special event just for you!

This season the Chicago Symphony Orchestra will perform an especially large number of pieces by beloved French composers. Join us for a special screening of the CSO’s Beyond the Score®: Ravel ‘A Portrait’ and learn about the French repertoire and artists featured this year.

The screening will be followed by a reception featuring complimentary French wine.

Doors at 6:00 p.m. Program at 6:30. Please enter via 54 W Chicago Ave. Non-alcoholic options will be available. This event is reserved exclusively for those with an active AF-Chicago membership.

About the Film

Journey into the heart of the music with Beyond the Score®. Live actors, musical examples, and breathtaking projections set the basis for this comprehensive multimedia experience that brings the listener through a lively historic context, revealing illuminating stories, intriguing perspectives and thoughtful insights within a musical score. Beyond the Score®: Ravel ‘A Portrait’ offers a musical and dramatic depiction of this complex, subtle, private, paradoxical and mysterious man who once declared: ‘’My teacher in composition was Edgar Allan Poe… He taught me that true art is a perfect balance between pure intellect and emotion.”

About the CSO

Founded in 1891, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra is consistently hailed as one of the greatest orchestras in the world.\

The Chicago Symphony Orchestra commands a vast repertoire ranging from Baroque to contemporary. Performing in over 150 concerts each year, the CSO’s talented musicians are the driving force behind the ensemble’s famous sound heard on best-selling recordings as well as in performances in Chicago and on tour throughout the United States and around the globe.