Cast of Characters: The Principal Players in the Story of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra

Introduction: Great Expectations
Prologue

Part One: The Power to Dream, 1889–1942
1. Dinner at Delmonico’s
2. The Dream
3. The Song of the Lark
4. Home
5. Death and Transfiguration
6. The Spirit of Music
7. The Pulse of the Public
8. The Dawn of Modernism
9. Americanism
10. A Changed World
11. A Century of Progress
12. The Place of Music
13. The Isle of the Dead

Part Two: Succession, 1942–69
14. The Executioner
15. Vox Populi
16. Taking Sides
17. The Living Presence
18. Talent Is Power
19. The Turning Point
20. The Bottomless Well of Beauty
21. The European Agenda
22. Götterdämmerung
23. Links in the Chain
24. A Triangle of Power
25. Limits of Authority
26. Testimony
27. The Politics of Courtship

Part Three: Staying Power, 1969–
28. Ovation
29. Riding High
30. Celebrity
31. The Handoff
32. Ambition
33. Absolute Power
34. Intermezzo
35. Beginnings and Endings
36. Maestro

Epilogue: A New Chapter

Acknowledgments
Illustration Credits
Abbreviations Used in the Notes
Notes
Index