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Chicago Symphony on Tour: Flight snafu resolved, musicians open series in Canary Islands

Jan 10, 2014 – 11:59 am | 3,488 views
The coast of Las Palmas in the Canary Islands, Stop 1 on the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Jan. 2014 tour (© Todd Rosenberg)

Report: Music director Riccardo Muti and the CSO are set to give four performances in the Canary Islands Jan. 10-14. Spain’s idyllic archipelago off the northwest coast of Africa offers architecturally striking concert halls. But the touring musicians were no less subject to travel woes in Chicago’s frigid winter than the rest of us, missing their Madrid connection.