In Wednesday’s (10/9) Chicago Tribune, John von Rhein writes about the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus’s performance of Verdi’s Requiem at Symphony Center tonight, “200 years to the day of Verdi’s birth…. Although the concert has been sold out for months, the CSO is making it available for free to people throughout the city and, thanks to satellite and Web technology, around the world. Muti’s performance will be transmitted live via satellite to both the Jay Pritzker Pavilion at Millennium Park in downtown Chicago and the Benito Juarez Community Academy in the Pilsen neighborhood. Millions more will be able to share in the occasion via live Internet streaming, the first ever undertaken by the CSO. The CSO will carry the Muti-led Requiem on its website and also on its Facebook page.… In addition, the performance will be available to Internet users on demand following the actual performance…. ‘The Requiem is a message of hope, pieta (mercy) and misericordia (compassion) for the living—that is what we need at this moment,’ Muti said in a recent interview. ‘Such a message from Chicago to the rest of the world can help a little bit to spread the sense we need of peace and brotherhood.’ ” A report by Agence France Presse states, “The website giuseppeverdi.it said a total of more than 1,000 events in 200 cities worldwide have been held this year to celebrate his bicentenary.”
Posted October 10, 2013
