Listen to Andrew Patner’s third and final call-in report to the Sunday Morning Program about the 2007 CSO Florida Tour:
Critical Thinking on Tour
Follow along from home as Andrew Patner and Matt DeStefano report from the road as they travel with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra on their Far East Asia tour and convey the happenings as they occur.
Second phone-in report from Florida
Thursday, February 15, 2007 by Andrew Patner
Listen to Andrew’s second call-in report from Florida on “The Morning Show” with Carl and Lisa. This morning’s show was a special membership drive edition with WFMT V.P. Steve Robinson monitoring the phone room. Andrew’s second phone-in CSO Florida tour report
My Thursday Sun-Times CSO Article
Thursday, February 15, 2007 by Andrew Patner
CSO sparkles in Miami’s sonic gem The Chicago Sun-Times February 15, 2007
Ft. Lauderdale & Miami
Tuesday, February 13, 2007 by Andrew Patner
The sun is out, but the temperature is stil mild and pleasant. We head back down U.S. 1 by foot again and try out the Dominican diner for reakfast/lunch. The proprietess, Carmen, is a bundle of energy, warmthm and humor switching rapidly between English, Spanish, and New York Dominican dialects, as well as between cooking, more…
Ft. Lauderdale (Part 2)
Monday, February 12, 2007 by Andrew Patner
We head into downtown Ft. Lauderdale for dinner and tonight’s concert. After decades of ignoring and undoing downtown areas and zones for pedestrian animation, cities throughout Florida are trying both planned and free-market redevelopment of their former city centers. Don tells us that some areas have been so successful in attracting restaurants and nightlife that more…
Ft. Lauderdale (Part 1)
Monday, February 12, 2007 by Andrew Patner
It’s rainy today, but that’s just fine. I’ve never traveled for weather and I am sure that this is one of the reasons I find visiting Florida somewhat disorienting. We sleep in a bit and then head for a walk in the light rain along Federal Highway/U.S. 1 towards and through Hollywood (Florida, that is!). more…
Ft. Lauderdale
Sunday, February 11, 2007 by Andrew Patner
I’ve had to change my flight from Chicago to Ft. Lauderdale three times today due to a backlog of work including getting my Sun-Times review of Lyric Opera’s “Cosi fan tutte” into proper shape. (The Sunday editor is coming in later than usual today due to Grammy Awards coverage.) My review of “Cosi fan tutte” more…
First phone-in report from Florida
Sunday, February 11, 2007 by Andrew Patner
98.7WFMT Critic-at-Large Andrew Patner is currently in South Florida travelling with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Listen to Andrew’s first call-in report during the Morning Show with Carl and Lisa on Tuesday, February 13 at 8:30 am. The review of the Ft. Lauderdale and Miami concerts will be in Thursday’s Chicago Sun-Times. Andrew’s Florida tour preview more…
CSO Lucerne Tour 2005 – Day 4
Saturday, September 17, 2005 by Andrew Patner
In speaking with the French critic Yannick Millon the other evening he remarked to me that “I will always associate the Seventh Symphony of Mahler with September 11,” for he was here in Lucerne on that day in 2001 and this was the piece that the CSO and Barenboim played that night, once the orchetra more…
CSO Lucerne Tour 2005 – Day 3
Friday, September 16, 2005 by Andrew Patner
With the search process underway for a new CSO music director there has been much discussion about the changing nature of and needs for this position in the current cultural environment. But changes are taking place from the perspective of conductors as well. In talking the other day with German acoustician Eckhard Kahle, we both more…
Andrew’s 2005 interview with Studs Terkel
Studs discusses his book AND THEY ALL SANG: Adventures of an Eclectic Disc Jockey.
"It is the only interview that I know of done with Studs where he discusses in detail his passion for opera and opera singers including Rosa Raisa, Lotte Lehmann, and "his" diva, Claudia Muzio. Studs also talks about his disc jockey days in general and the music editions of The Studs Terkel Program on WFMT. We play opera scenes with Raisa, Lehmann, Muzio, and a song by Woody Guthrie as well." -Andrew
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