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as ye sow… HINDEMITH Overture to Neues vom Tage HINDEMITH Trauermusik FRIEDMAN Sacred Heart: Explosion INTERMISSION BERLIOZ Harold in Italy Leonard Slatkin, conductor Pinchas Zukerman, viola All-Access Chamber Series Eugene Izotov, oboe John Bruce Yeh, clarinet Albert Igolnikov, violin Paul Phillips Jr., violin Robert Swan, viola John Sharp, cello Michael Hovnanian, bass Mozart Oboe Quartet Prokofiev Quintet, Op. 39 Brahms Clarinet Quintet Dvorak Slavonic Dance in E Minor, Op. 72, No. 2 Monday off Tuesday 10-12:30 rehearsal 1:30-3:30 Prokofiev quintet rehearsal Wednesday 10-12:30 1:30-3:30 rehearsals Thursday 10-12:30 rehearsal 8 concert Friday 1:30 concert 3:30-6 Prokofiev quintet rehearsal Saturday 2 All-Access Chamber Series concert 8 concert Sunday 3 concert 7:30 Ars Viva Benefit (Week 38 was last week. I’m now on vacation.) After Sunday the orchestra is on vacation until the Ravinia summer season begins in July. Usually we have our main vacation after Ravinia, in August and Septem...

Aversion to talk is something orchestra musicians have inherited from manual laborers. -Theodor Adorno WAGNER Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan and Isolde CHIN Rocaná INTERMISSION BERLIOZ Symphonie fantastique Kent Nagano, conductor Monday off Tuesday 10-12:30 rehearsal Wednesday 10-12:30 1:30-3:30 rehearsals Thursday 10-12:30 rehearsal 8 concert Friday 8 concert Saturday 8 concert Sunday 1 Trout Quintet 7 CBE rehearsal OK, I’m a week behind again. I think the quote from Adorno has something to do with anti intellectualism among musicians, which is apparent enough, but there is also another way to apply it. Nothing wrings a groan from an orchestra with more predictability than when someone emerges from the wings holding a microphone. It makes little difference if it is a manager, trustee, politician, or representative of some women’s auxiliary; all microphone wielders seem to elicit a similar response. The reaction often has little to do with the quality of the remarks on of...