CSO
Friday, March 20th, 2009
Recently, I chatted with someone who saw the Chicago Civic Orchestra earlier this week. The concert included an interesting mix of 20th century music, including Bartok, Schumann and another composer, with whom I was not familiar. According to this person, however, the orchestra acquitted their job quite well. The newer piece was one of these interesting pieces that combines interesting poetry with great orchestration. It was apparently a bit harder to understand, and the singer could have been somewhat clearer in enunciation. But the text could be found in the program, so this isn’t quite such a problem. The other pieces were well done. What was with the Symphony Center, though? The lights flickered and distracted my friend quite a bit.