Why I adore my city, reason #4,791 (and counting.)

[vulgarweed]

25,000 people came to Millennium Park on Sunday to hear Riccardo Muti's official first concert as music director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.


That's right. 25,000 people. For classical music. And once the music started, there was pin-drop silence from beginning to end of each piece.

And at the end, there were fireworks.

Comments

[celandineb.livejournal.com]

Huzzah!

[vulgarweed.livejournal.com]

It really, really was cool. I think that's the largest crowd I've been in since Obama's inauguration, and the way all 25,000 fell into rapt, silent appreciation was just simply magical.