This past Friday at the Chicago Symphony we experienced Music Director Designate Klaus Mäkelä conducting the Sibelius 7th Symphony and the Shostakovich 4th Symphony. Mäkelä, a Finn, conducted the music by his fellow Finn without score. The 7th Symphony, from 1923-24, and the tone poem Tapiola are the last orchestral Continue Reading
Music
The Charm of the Grift: River City and Prof. Harold Hill
“The Music Man.” It opened on Broadway in 1957 and closed three years later after 1,375 performances. It won 5 Tony awards, including Best Musical, beating out “West Side Story” and “Most Happy Fella.” Its original cast album “won the first Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album and spent Continue Reading
A Musical Interlude: The Chicago Symphony plays Liszt, Wagner and Brahms/Schoenberg
Yes, this blog is about lots of different things. Sometimes it will be about music, usually a review of a concert or other musical event. This one is about the Thursday, June 6, 2019 Chicago Symphony concert at Orchestra Hall. Last night at the Chicago Symphony concert we saw guest Continue Reading