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It's true and I think music does that in a way other art forms do not as much.
I believe you are exactly right.
Ludwig’s 9th, always nice. Well written post, too.
Thank you 🙂
In the early '90's, I used to go watch the Chicago Symphony practice with my girlfriends. It started as a first date with the one, then became a regular thing. Pretty funny, me in my leather jacket and Doc Martins like a punk rocker listening to the symphony.
I can definitely picture that, and to me it’s pretty cool!
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@4playlist_Sugswt Going there, or leaving, I had to say the "I was cured alright" line from A Clockwork Orange. I couldn't resist, and running gags are funny to me.
Nowadays they practice out in the open at the new music shell, the Pritzker Pavilion in Millennium Park. Don't really care for it, it's too hot on a sunny day, not enough trees. The acoustics are good though. I think they do a delay on the little speakers in the grass to keep it in sync. My current GF and I have gone a couple of times when we're Downtown.
Across Michigan Avenue at Orchestra Hall, the acoustics are even better.
@normalisokaytoo In college we used to watch them at Orchestra Hall on Michigan Ave. It's one of Daniel Burnham's buildings. Early '90's Millenium Park hadn't been built yet . Mid day performance/ practice. On my ALT account last year I told the story of the ballerina and my first date, I lost a chess game to her and taking her to the orchestra was my payment for the wager. We had been friends for over a year and a half at that point. We had to hurry to make the performance. The subway is right there.
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What a harmonious combination of art, nature and sound. From your description, it appears to be a multi-sensory experience, filled with both chill and enchanting vibes.
I know the Chicago Blues Festival is held there every year. I would very much like to experience that some day soon. I’ll have to put it on my list of places to visit.
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@electrosexguy
If you lost a wager to me, I promise I would not lock you in a room and force you to listen to Beethoven, lol.
@4playlist_Sugswt Just a little Chicago history. Early '90s when that date I wrote about took place I was working for one of the prominent Chicago Land Surveying firms doing the research when I wasn't in class. (I'm sure my grandpa was rolling over in his grave with me working for one of his competitors)
Montgomery Ward's office building was at 2 N. Michigan Avenue, two blocks north of the Orchestra Hall building. After the Chicago fire and during the rebuilding, Ward started to despise the train yard that was on the east side side of the street and he began his campaign to turn the lakefront into parkland. Daniel Burnham was Ward's favorite architect, and Burnham's Plan for the lake front was Ward's windmill to tilt. Almost everything east of Michigan Avenue is landfill, rubble from the fire. Street level is not the actual grade of the land there either, it's about 2 stories down, the train yard is the natural height of the land. It's sort of like Edinburg Scotland, Chicago is built up. The Blues Brother's car chase through Lower Wacker shows some of it.
Not all of the Burnham's 1909 Plan of Chicago got built. There is a pretty good documentary that WTTW (Chicago PBS formerly channel 11) made on it.
Millenium Park is over the trainyard, you can see the railroad tracks nearby the Art Institute, and Grant Park. If I remember correctly, the parking garages were actually Cold War fallout shelters, they're far bigger than they need to be, and not all parts of them are open to the public. There used to be Nike Missiles at Northerly Island, and South at 95'th street. The Control room for the 95th Street Nike missles was under the Museum of Science and Industry (or was it under the Field Museum, I forget) We got rid of them after SALT during Nixon 1973.
@electrosexguy
I feel like there will be a quiz at some point. And, if I pass, I get the codes to all the missiles that have not been decommissioned, right?
I think of Chicago and of course my mind turns to stories of mobsters, deep dish pizza, the Great Chicago fire, skyscrapers, and the wind, lol. So much more rich history, thank you for sharing.
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