CSO Chamber Music at the University of Chicago
Sunday, February 2, 2025 | 3:00pm
Mandel Hall

Robert Chen, violin
Qing Hou, violin
Lawrence Neuman, viola
John Sharp, cello
Stephen Williamson, clarinet
Umi Garrett, piano

In a program investigating how artists respond to catastrophe, musicians from the Chicago Symphony Orchestra perform Mozart’s Quintet for Clarinet and Strings in A Major – a masterful work that features a wistful larghetto movement as its crown jewel – and Messiaen’s haunting Quartet for the End of Time, written and premiered while the composer was in a German prisoner-of-war camp.

Supported by the Office of the Provost and UChicago Arts.