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Upcoming Concert: Opera!

This weekend I'm playing with the Lyric Opera of Chicago at Millennium Park, and I LOVE it. 

We rehearsed this morning, and it's a real testament to the quality of the orchestra that on their first rehearsal back from summer break, in very tough conditions drastically different from their usual environment, they got the job done and just sounded lovely.  It was an honor to play with them. 



Oh, and I got to go to work with my cute husband, which is a rare enough occurrence to remark upon.  


The performance is tomorrow night and will be wonderful.  Details HERE. 
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  1. dimkordSeptember 8, 2014 at 12:09 AM

    OK!! Thanks a million for reminding us about the Grant Park,(that’s how I remember it for years) concert. You know, I had just arrived at the U of Chicago and I attended the FIRST performance of the Lyric after the war: Don Giovanni, with Eleanor Steber as Donna Anna, and Nicola Rossi-Lemeni as Don Giovanni. Last night’s performance was exceptionally pleasing, and it sounded better, without extraneous noises, on the WFMT broadcast. Truly I would ‘ve liked to be there in person.. I ‘ve enjoyed countless performances there over the years.
    I thank you also for your post letting us know of the chamber music performance in Valparaiso. I don’t know if we could ‘ve made it on such short notice. I found Poulenc’s sextet on YuTube. What a delightful romp it is!! It brings one back, in imagination, to Monmarte’s cobbled streets in the 20’s looking at couples dancing in the streets, going in and out of bistros….(Really, I wasn’t there at the time). I got so excited I decided to tape it. Then I remembered I didn’t have to.(Yutube, you know.)
    Congratulations on being there! Allow us a little envy…
    Dimitri

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