Music, music, music
I had an appointment last Wednesday to get my teeth cleaned and examined, and since my dentist's office is right across the street from Millennium Park, I decided to go downtown early and enjoy the open rehearsal for that night's Grant Park Symphony concert. How lovely to sit in the sun and listen to Mozart and various Strausses! Conductor Carlos Kalmar was quite relaxed:
It was Austrian week at the Grant Park Symphony, and Thursday evening they performed Franz Schmidt's oratoria, The Book with Seven Seals, a musical setting of Revelations. It was a beautiful night, perfect weather for an outdoor concert. Yesterday evening, I was fortunately at an indoor event, because it was storming off and on. I went to the Cultural Center for a performance of Astor Piazzola and Horacio Ferrer's very surreal and beautiful tango opera, Maria de Buenos Aires.
Best thing? All this music was free.
In other things, there were white peaches at the farmers market on Thursday. I bought half a dozen, and puréed three of them for Bellinis. Yesterday, I went, as I do every year, to the Midwest Buddhist Temple's Ginza Festival, for chicken teriyaki, taiko drumming, crafts and other fun things.
It was Austrian week at the Grant Park Symphony, and Thursday evening they performed Franz Schmidt's oratoria, The Book with Seven Seals, a musical setting of Revelations. It was a beautiful night, perfect weather for an outdoor concert. Yesterday evening, I was fortunately at an indoor event, because it was storming off and on. I went to the Cultural Center for a performance of Astor Piazzola and Horacio Ferrer's very surreal and beautiful tango opera, Maria de Buenos Aires.
Best thing? All this music was free.
In other things, there were white peaches at the farmers market on Thursday. I bought half a dozen, and puréed three of them for Bellinis. Yesterday, I went, as I do every year, to the Midwest Buddhist Temple's Ginza Festival, for chicken teriyaki, taiko drumming, crafts and other fun things.