At the Chicago Symphony Center, the repertoire includes newly commissioned pieces from within the band, plus music by John Coltrane.

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He added that the San Francisco musicians, while the third-highest-paid among big U.S. orchestras, after the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Chicago Symphony, faced higher living costs than other cities' musicians.

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Chicago Symphony Orchestra musicians went on strike for 48 hours last September before agreeing to a salary increase of 0.72% in 2012-13, followed by 1.25% and 2.46% in the following two years.

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In the spring of 1999, when Lang was sixteen, he went to New York and in a single afternoon auditioned for the Cleveland Orchestra, at Carnegie Hall, and for a manager of the Chicago Symphony.

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In concert, Racette has performed with many of the world's leading orchestras, including the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and the San Francisco Symphony, and she recorded Zemlinsky's Der Traumgorge with James Conlon and the Cologne Philharmonic.

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