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Chicago Symphony Chorus

Chicago Symphony Chorus is credited on 662 releases across 116 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1962–2025 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.

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662

Pressings credited

116

Albums

7

Decades active

8

In collections

Biography

The Chicago Symphony Chorus began on September 22, 1957, when the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (CSO) announced that Margaret Hillis would organize and train a symphony chorus. The music director Fritz Reiner's original intent was to utilize the chorus for the two weeks of subscription concerts that season, performing George Frideric Handel's Messiah in December and Giuseppe Verdi's Requiem in April. When Bruno Walter informed the orchestra's management that his March 1958 appearances would be his last in Chicago, the board president, Eric Oldberg, insisted that Walter conduct Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Requiem utilizing the new chorus. During that first season, it was logistically impossible for Hillis to audition and prepare a new Chorus for three major works within less than four months. As an interim fix, the Apollo Chorus of Chicago was used for the Christmas Messiah concerts.

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Credited work

662 releases · 116 albums · active 1962–2025

  • Other credits · 746
  • Performance · 1

Studios: Orchestra Hall, Chicago · Medinah Temple · Krannert Center For The Performing Arts · Sofiensaal

Discography

Records they worked on — most-collected first.

Frequent collaborators

  • Various
  • Beethoven
  • Verdi
  • Anton Bruckner
  • Brahms
  • Bach
  • Handel
  • Gustav Mahler

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