The opening program of the 2021/22 season includes the CSO’s first performances of the Overture to the 18th-century comic opera L’Amant anonyme (The Anonymous Lover) by Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges, who was born in Guadeloupe to a French father and Senagalese mother. An accomplished composer, conductor and violinist, Bologne lived in Paris and wrote small-ensemble and orchestral works during the Classical period, as well as several operas, including L’Amant anonyme, which is his only surviving opera score still performed today. The program continues with the CSO’s first performance of the Andante moderato written by Black American composer Florence Price, whose Symphony No. 1 received its world premiere performance by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in 1933. Price revisited a movement from her string quartet in G major to create this lyrical work for string orchestra. To complete this program, Muti and the Orchestra perform Beethoven’s Symphony No. 3 (Eroica), as one of several of the composer’s symphonies to be featured in the 2021/22 season.