One can solely think about what the Viennese viewers thought on April 2, 1800, when the bold younger composer Beethoven, from the distant German metropolis of Bonn, organized a live performance on the Burgtheater subsequent to the Imperial Palace within the coronary heart of Vienna, to supply music of Haydn, Mozart, “and me!” The card that Beethoven needed to play was his First Symphony, and the native newspaper chroniclers didn’t hassle to indicate. One doubts the efficiency sounded as polished and realizing because it did on Thursday night time at Symphony Center, from the fingers of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra beneath the steerage of music director Riccardo Muti. But I’ll guess the Viennese musicians
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Howdy, Things will be busy around here over the next few days - we have Bobby Chintapalli's Queen City Notebook (The next post down is the first installment) for starters, and we'll probably have some similar intel coming from from Toronto in a couple of days, courtesy of your social director, Jackie Roe. I'll be continuing the News of the Day posts here through the rest of the week. Tomorrow I'm going to visit with a tennis nut who also happens to be one of the most controversial figures on the American political landscape, but I'm not telling who. You'll have to come back to find out.I will be out of the office all of next week (Aug. 16th