Chicago Symphony Orchestra

The Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s last performance in DC, nearly 13 years ago, featured Daniel Barenboim conducting Mahler’s monumental Symphony No. 9. The renowned ensemble—now helmed by Riccardo Muti—is finally returning, but with decidedly lighter fare: Brahms’s good-natured Second Symphony and the overture to Verdi’s I Vespri Siciliani, along with a piece from 32-year-old CSO composer-in-residence Samuel Adams.