My Tuesday May 24 Chicago Sun-Times story on Lyric Opera of Chicago‘s 2011 annual meeting and 2010-2011 financial reports. Aided by reserve fund, Lyric Opera in the black Raises fundraising goals for 2011-12 BY ANDREW PATNER Lyric Opera of Chicago, internationally renowned among arts organizations for its fiscal solvency, reported a balanced budget for its more…
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Reflections, reviews, and reports from the Chicago-based author, broadcaster, journalist, and arts critic.
Lyric Opera of Chicago taps rainy-day fund for 23rd balanced budget in 24 years
Tuesday, May 24, 2011 by Andrew Patner
My (radio) guest tonight — David Ferry, 2011 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize winner
Monday, May 23, 2011 by Andrew Patner
Tonight from 10 p.m. to 11 p.m. CDT on 98.7WFMT Radio Chicago and via free streaming anywhere in the world at wfmt.com my guest will be the esteemed poet and translator David Ferry, 87, this year’s winner of the $100,000 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize from the Chicago-based Poetry Foundation, publishers of Poetry magazine (founded in more…
CSO: Morlot + Martin = un événement spectaculaire de la trompette française, et aussi . . .
Friday, May 20, 2011 by Andrew Patner
My Saturday May 21 Chicago Sun-Times and suntimes.com review of the Thursday May 19, 2011 Chicago Symphony Orchestra program with guest conductor Ludovic Morlot in music of Dutilleux, Jolivet, Tomasi, and Roussel, with CSO principal trumpet Christopher Martin. Morlot’s an idiomatic hand and Martin’s a trumpet marvel in CSO’s mixed 20th-century French program Solo playing more…
My (radio) guests tonight — Carlos Kalmar and Leigh Levine from Chicago’s Grant Park Music Festival
Monday, May 16, 2011 by Andrew Patner
Tonight from 10 p.m. to 11 p.m. CDT on 98.7WFMT Radio Chicago and via free streaming anywhere in the world at wfmt.com my guests will be Carlos Kalmar, principal conductor, and Leigh Levine, interim executive director, of Chicago’s annual, free, municipally-supported Grant Park Music Festival. Fresh off of a triumph as music director of the more…
CSO’s Chicago Youth in Music Festival wraps up with Muti, Ma, the governor, and the Daley family
Sunday, May 15, 2011 by Andrew Patner
My Monday May 16 Chicago Sun-Times story on the Sunday May 15, 2011 concluding program of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra‘s Chicago Youth in Music Festival. Concert teams Muti, Ma with young talent A bevy of Quinns and Daleys, too BY ANDREW PATNER The combine of Riccardo Muti, Yo-Yo Ma, and the tireless staff and players more…
CSO and Muti: new work from Mason Bates, an early Strauss rarity, and Yo-Yo Ma’s Schumann
Friday, May 13, 2011 by Andrew Patner
My Saturday May 14 Chicago Sun-Times review of the Thursday May 12, 2011 Chicago Symphony Orchestra program with music director Riccardo Muti in music of Mason Bates, Schumann, and Richard Strauss, with ‘cellist Yo-Yo Ma. Riccardo Muti’s youthful leanings emerge Mason Bates première, early Strauss, and Yo-Yo Ma on the bill BY ANDREW PATNER Even more…
Mason Bates takes the stage with CSO/Muti and the floor with MusicNOW at Redmoon this week
Thursday, May 12, 2011 by Andrew Patner
A little preview, with small cuts restored, of Mason Bates’s concerts this week with the CSO and MusicNOW (at Redmoon) that I have in today’s Chicago Sun-Times and suntimes.com. CSO composer Mason Bates a disc jockey by night At home in many musical worlds BY ANDREW PATNER He listens to Poulenc piano pieces and Pink more…
My (radio) guest tonight — the words of writer James Alan McPherson
Monday, May 9, 2011 by Andrew Patner
Tonight from 10 p.m. to 11 p.m. CDT on 98.7WFMT Radio Chicago and via free streaming anywhere in the world at wfmt.com I’ll be doing something a bit different, reading a favorite short story by James Alan McPherson, “A Matter of Vocabulary” from his 1969 collection Hue and Cry. A longtime faculty member at the more…
Chicago Opera Theater’s “He/She”: Schumann and Janáček cycles add up musically, if not visually
Sunday, May 8, 2011 by Andrew Patner
Here is my Monday May 9 suntimes.com and Chicago Sun-Times review of the Saturday May 7, 2011 opening of Chicago Opera Theater‘s new double-bill He/She, comprising song cycles of Schumann and Janáček. 2 recitals add up to a fine program Chicago Opera Theater pairs song cycles to make an effective musical, but mixed visual, experience more…
CSO and Muti: new work from Bernard Rands, new life for Strauss’s “Death” and Prokofiev’s lovers
Friday, May 6, 2011 by Andrew Patner
My Saturday May 7 Chicago Sun-Times review of the Thursday May 5, 2011 Chicago Symphony Orchestra program with music director Riccardo Muti in music of Bernard Rands, Richard Strauss, and Prokofiev. Riccardo Muti and the CSO offer us life and transfiguration in a wide-ranging program Bernard Rands world première, Strauss, and Prokofiev in the mix 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
To download an MP3 file of this interview, right-click on link below (Mac users control-click).
