On January 26, 2025, we celebrate the eightieth birthday of the remarkable English cellist Jacqueline du Pré (1945–1987), who performed and recorded with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in 1969 and 1970. According to her husband—and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s ninth music director from 1991 until 2006—Daniel Barenboim in his autobiography A Life in Music: “Jacqueline’s way of […]
