My (radio) guest tonight -- Riccardo Muti

 

Monday 19 January 2009 -- 10 p.m. to 11 p.m. CST

Critical Thinking with Andrew Patner

Riccardo Muti, in his first conversation as music director designate of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, in an exclusive radio interview recorded on January 14 at Chicago's Orchestra Hall just after his first open rehearsals with the CSO and just before the Italian maestro's sold-out-months-ago subscription week concerts of the Verdi Requiem (see my concert review here)

on 98.7WFMT Radio Chicago and streamed (free) on wfmt.com

and subsequently available at 

http://wfmt.com/criticalthinking

for free podcast/streaming.

Thanks to the one and only Opera Chic of Milan both for the wonderful illustration stolen by me above and for the article and translation on her website on and from Muti's interview in Saturday's Corriere della Sera. Between the two of these you should have a fairy good idea of Muti's views of Verdi, the Requiem,  Chicago, and Barack Obama.

And a shout-out to our regular reader and critical colleague Lynn Becker for his post "Muti/Obama, Chicago's Dynamic Duo of Hope" today on his essential weblog, ArchitectureChicago Plus !

See you on the radio!

 

Monday 19 January 2009 -- 10 p.m. to 11 p.m. CST

Critical Thinking with Andrew Patner

Riccardo Muti, in his first conversation as music director designate of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, in an exclusive radio interview recorded on January 14 at Chicago's Orchestra Hall just after his first open rehearsals with the CSO and just before the Italian maestro's sold-out-months-ago subscription week concerts of the Verdi Requiem (see my concert review here)

on 98.7WFMT Radio Chicago and streamed (free) on wfmt.com

and subsequently available at 

http://wfmt.com/criticalthinking

for free podcast/streaming.

Thanks to the one and only Opera Chic of Milan both for the wonderful illustration stolen by me above and for the article and translation on her website on and from Muti's interview in Saturday's Corriere della Sera. Between the two of these you should have a fairy good idea of Muti's views of Verdi, the Requiem,  Chicago, and Barack Obama.

And a shout-out to our regular reader and critical colleague Lynn Becker for his post "Muti/Obama, Chicago's Dynamic Duo of Hope" today on his essential weblog, ArchitectureChicago Plus !

See you on the radio!