Jaap van Zweden in Chicago

October 28-29, 2010

Dutch conductor Jaap van Zweden and the Chicago Symphony will deliver the first of three renditions of the twelve-minute tone poem Dark Waves composed by John Luther Adams. As Marc Geelhoed observes, Chicago has effectively become JLA City. You can hear all of Dark Waves via the Listen to This Audio Guide. The program also includes a selection of Mahler songs, with Measha Brueggergosman, and Shostakovich's Eighth Symphony.

Jaap van Zweden has worked with many prestigious orchestras across the globe. In addition, opera plays an important part in his career. He has conducted La traviata and Fidelio with the Nationale Reisopera, Madame Butterfly at the Netherlands Opera, and concert performances of Verdi’s Otello, Barber’s Vanessa, and Wagner’s Die Meistersinger and Lohengrin at the Concertgebouw with the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic.