Rodrigo and Rimsky-Korsakov in Grant Park

On Friday evening, we wandered across the Loop in Chicago to go to one of the most enjoyable concerts I can remember. The program -- Stravinsky Fireworks, Rodrigo Concerto de Aranjuez, and Rimsky-Korsakov Scheherazade -- are all standards from the Romantic moving into the Modern. But... the performance and the venue were perfect!! Sharon Isbin's guitar work was superb. The Grant Park Orchestra, and particularly their new concert master, absolutely radiated Scheherazade. I continue to marvel at the acoustics and sound system in the Jay Pritzker Pavilion in Millenium Park. The Frank Gehry designed music pavilion is incredible. It was all too perfect sitting in the grass, with a light rain coming down, and the two of us under an umbrella with a bottle of champagne.

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