Music in the Air

On July 9th I heard my first live music in a year and four months.  What an extraordinary time of separation from what we do and love.  On that Friday night on Chicago's front lawn of Millennium Park, I heard the Grant Park Symphony and chorus perform music of Vivaldi and Barber and Brahms.  And in the following weeks, performances of Hadyn and Beethoven, Sibelius and Tchaikovsky, Schubert, Mendelssohn and Britten, Broadway classics, traditional folk and contemporary Irish music, rising young stars of the Lyric Opera, and Chicago's famed Music of the Baroque.  All free.  Oh, and food and wine.  What a summer!