CSO Helps You Celebrate Whatever With Free Download

By Alexander Hough in Arts & Entertainment on Dec 15, 2010 5:40PM

Riccardo Muti and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra perform to a packed Millennium Park. Photo by Todd Rosenberg

The Chicago Symphony Orchestra is giving you an early Christmas present, or maybe a belated something-something for Hanukkah, or a right-on-time Zamenhof Day gift. But whether you hang ornaments, light a menorah, or do whatever it is Esperantists do, you can help yourself to a free download of the recording of the CSO's live performance of the Overture to Giuseppe Verdi’s "La Forza del Destino" from Riccardo Muti's debut concert in Millennium Park.

To download the eight-minute track, go here anytime between today and December 27. As an added bonus, the CSO will probably also send you a bunch of marketing e-mails.