Chicago Symphony Orchestra musicians went on strike for 48 hours last September before agreeing to a salary increase of 0.72% in 2012-13, followed by 1.25% and 2.46% in the following two years.

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He will also perform in Chicago, joining Riccardo Muti and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 21 this Thursday through Saturday his first collaboration with that ensemble since a European tour in 2000.

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In concert, Racette has performed with many of the world's leading orchestras, including the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and the San Francisco Symphony, and she recorded Zemlinsky's Der Traumgorge with James Conlon and the Cologne Philharmonic.

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In the spring of 1999, when Lang was sixteen, he went to New York and in a single afternoon auditioned for the Cleveland Orchestra, at Carnegie Hall, and for a manager of the Chicago Symphony.

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