“This needs to be the most beautiful piece ever,” Charles Vernon told Jim Stephenson, composer of the CSO-commissioned Bass Trombone Concerto. Hear Charles Vernon and the CSO led by Riccardo Muti in the concerto’s world premiere, June 13-15 at Symphony Center → bit.ly/2Ibu1c7 | Chicago Symphony Orchestra

27K views · 700 reactions | The CSO’s own Charles Vernon and Jennifer Gunn discuss James Stephenson’s Bass Trombone Concerto, as well as Ken Benshoof’s Concerto in Three Movements. Video by Todd Rosenberg. Hear Gunn and Vernon appear as soloists with the CSO led by Riccardo Muti, June 13-15 at Symphony Center → bit.ly/2Ibu1c7 | Chicago Symphony Orchestra | Facebook