Those who follow this blog know that I normally comment on current events and the Cubs/baseball. Today, let me post what may be my first cultural review: on the Beethoven Festival that concluded at the Harris Theater last night.
With 2020 being the 250th anniversary of Ludwig van Beethoven’s birth, there have been Beethoven festivals all over. The Chicago Symphony is playing all nine of Beethoven’s symphonies, plus more, during its 2019-20 season. The Lincoln (Nebraska) Symphony Orchestra has done the same over the last two seasons. But one of the best may have been the Beethoven Festival at the Harris Theater. I am not exactly sure how the Harris Theater did it, but it was just one of three locations that Sir John Eliot Gardiner and the Orchestre Révolutionaire et Romantique are performing all nine symphonies in one week. (The other are Carnegie Hall in New York City {just before Chicago} and London {in May}.)
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