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	<title>Sayonara Amerika, Sayonara Nippon &#187; Classical</title>
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		<title>Janáček and Schoenberg, too</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Dec 2010 17:37:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We went to Symphony Center last night to see Pierre Boulez conduct an exhilarating program with the Chicago Symphony. It was the kind of performance that leaves you with goosebumps, even the morning after. The evening opened with the orchestral version of Schoenberg&#8217;s 1899 composition, &#8220;Transfigured Night.&#8221; I know this primarily in its original format, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Whirlwind</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Dec 2010 00:01:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last night we attend my daughter&#8217;s high school winter concert here in Chicago. She sings in the choir, but we also enjoyed sets by the school orchestra, chamber ensemble, band and jazz ensemble. The band played a very striking piece I&#8217;d never heard before: &#8220;Whirlwind,&#8221; composed by Jodie Blackshaw. The worktakes a number of important [...]]]></description>
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		<title>This and That</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Nov 2010 00:47:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been a jumbled week, with little time for arranging thoughts into anything so orderly as sentences. A week ago Thursday, I made my first visit of the season to Symphony Center to see Jaap van Zweden lead the local favorites in a very fine program of Mahler, Shostakovich, and John Luther Adams. Both Andrew [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sakamoto Ryuichi at the Vic</title>
		<link>http://bourdaghs.com/blog/2010/10/26/sakamoto-ryuichi-at-the-vic/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Oct 2010 04:28:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sakamoto Ryuichi played a stunningly beautiful one-man show earlier tonight at the Vic here in Chicago. It was mostly solo piano, although he used a number of electronic effects to add layers of complexity to the music. The evening opened with an atmospheric number in which Sakamoto strummed directly on the strings inside the piano [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Autumn Concert Season</title>
		<link>http://bourdaghs.com/blog/2010/08/12/the-autumn-concert-season/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Aug 2010 09:17:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, our upcoming fall concert-going season is pretty well set, and I&#8217;m looking forward to some exciting live music. Here are the events we&#8217;re planning to attend. How about you? September 4-5: Chicago Jazz Festival (one of the nation&#8217;s premiere jazz events, and it&#8217;s all free!) September 19: Aimee Mann (Old Town School of Folk [...]]]></description>
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		<title>This and That</title>
		<link>http://bourdaghs.com/blog/2010/07/14/this-and-that-16/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2010 15:36:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It must be summer, cuz you&#8217;re never around (a good line stolen from the Fountains of Wayne). But I protest: I really am around. You just wouldn&#8217;t know it from the paucity of blog updates lately. I&#8217;m juggling a large number of rather rather bulky and wobbly projects these days. I did manage to catch [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Woodwinds Rule!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jun 2010 14:18:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bernard Haitink is stepping down later this month as principal conductor of the Chicago Symphony, and he&#8217;s going out with a bang: he&#8217;s leading the orchestra through the full cycle of Beethoven symphonies in a special series of concerts this summer. Satoko and I headed downtown to Symphony Center last night to catch the penultimate [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In the Dark and in the Light</title>
		<link>http://bourdaghs.com/blog/2010/04/23/in-the-dark-and-in-the-light/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Apr 2010 14:17:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mark Swed of the LA Times writes of an interesting recent experiment in classical music performance: a string quartet performed in a pitch black space. Composer Georg Friedrich Haas&#8217; Third String Quartet instructs the performers to play in utter darkness, and the JACK Quartet did its best to comply this past Monday, mobilizing ushers with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Symphony, Sumo, Symphony</title>
		<link>http://bourdaghs.com/blog/2010/01/24/symphony-sumo-symphony/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jan 2010 15:47:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The weekend began Friday afternoon at Symphony Center for a matinee performance, Pierre Boulez leading the Chicago Symphony as part of the celebrations for his 85th birthday. I&#8217;d never seen the great man conduct before and was struck with his economy of motion: no over-emoting for him. Whatever the style, it worked: the orchestra played [...]]]></description>
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		<title>LA versus Chicago</title>
		<link>http://bourdaghs.com/blog/2010/01/11/la-versus-chicago/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2010 14:48:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It turns out I&#8217;m not the only person who has had to make the Los Angeles vs. Chicago decision in recent years. Flutist Matheiu Dufour has switched from the Chicago Symphony to the Los Angeles Philharmonic and back again, and now there&#8217;s a bit of a kerfuffle in the press about what it all means. [...]]]></description>
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