Uploaded October 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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“I’m madly in love with Berlioz and his incredible music,” says Zell Music Director Designate Klaus Mäkelä, who leads the CSO in an all-Berlioz program later this month. Listen as he describes his particular fondness for Symphonie fantastique and Harold in Italy, the two works he will conduct on October 16-18, with the latter featuring violist Antoine Tamestit.

Get tickets at cso.org/ps/25110

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