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Monthly Archives: February 2009

The most expansive description is always the most accurate

Thursday, February 5, 2009

DecSimp has made the Chicago Tribune‘s list of Best Chicago Blogs in the Arts & Culture category. Chicago Opera Theater honcho Brian Dickie is also there, along with Gapers Block and plenty of people writing about architecture. The tagline for DecSimp reads “Postings about the arts and life from a Chicago Symphony Orchestra guy.” This is [...]

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People of music

Tuesday, February 3, 2009

“Spending time with music people was confusing, and required a more fluid and ultimately a more passive approach than I ever acquired. In the first place time was never of the essence: we would have dinner at nine unless we had it at eleven-thirty; or we could order in later. We would go down to [...]

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C’mon, people, work with me

Monday, February 2, 2009

It took me five (5) clicks to find this $15 concert by the Chicago Composers Forum. Four clicks will get you to a week’s worth of classical and opera concerts at Time Out Chicago that numbers 15 events. (Weeks when the Chicago Symphony Orchestra isn’t touring the Far East have significantly more concerts included.) Recommended events [...]

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