The Driehaus Museum and Chicago Symphony Orchestra (CSO) are proud to announce a partnership on a new three-part chamber concert series in the historic Murphy Auditorium (50 East Erie.) Inspiring audiences to discover connections across disciplines, CSO will curate evening-length concerts that reflect the themes of the Driehaus Museum’s 2025 exhibitions.
The series kicks off with a program in celebration of A Tale of Today: Materialities from 6:30-8:30PM on Tuesday, April 8, 2025, featuring an introduction to the exhibition by its guest curator Dr. Giovanni Aloi. Tickets are $50 and include admission to see A Tale of Today: Materialities during regular museum hours.
The partnership comes on the heels of the restoration and reopening of the Murphy Auditorium as part of the Driehaus Museum campus in 2024. Originally constructed between 1923 and 1926, the recent renovation has transformed the Murphy Auditorium into a world-class performance space.
Driehaus Museum Executive Director Lisa M. Key stated, “With this announcement, we celebrate the union of two Chicago institutions for the benefit of our community. The CSO is ideally suited for the Murphy Auditorium, now an integral part of the Museum’s campus, and the Murphy Auditorium’s opulent and intimate environment is a special place to showcase the CSO’s prodigious talents. By connecting music to our exhibitions, this program series will offer a unique opportunity to broaden our perspectives through the dialogue between music and art.”
“This partnership with the Driehaus Museum offers a unique opportunity for the CSO to explore the profound connections between visual art and music,” said Cristina Rocca, Vice President of Artistic Administration. “We’ve curated programs that resonate with the themes of the Museum’s exhibitions. The intimate setting of the Murphy Auditorium provides a space where these dialogues can flourish, offering audiences an immersive and deeply moving artistic experience.”
In celebration of A Tale of Today: Materialities, musicians from CSO perform Phillip Glass’s Quartet Satz, a contemporary and unique string quartet that was composed for the Kronos Quartet. The program continues with Beethoven’s Serenade for Flute, Violin, and Viola, and concludes with George Chadwick’s String Quartet No. 4 in E Minor. Tickets are available at driehausmuseum.org/programs.
This concert series is generously sponsored by the Zell Family Foundation.
More information: driehausmuseum.org
