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Wednesday night there was an all Polish program at the Pritzker Pavilion. The pimary piece being Chopin’s First Piano Concerto that was accompanied by a ‘copter making the rounds over The Taste of Chicago every three minutes. I don’t think Frederick could’ve imagined such an accompanyment. But the notes from pianinst Krzysztof Jablonski rang true.

The first piece on the program, “Krzesany” by Wojciech Kilar was unencumbered by any flying machines and was a very interesting contemporary piece.

Unfortunately the helicopter was so damn annoying, I left before Lutoslawski’s “Concerto for Orchestra”. Somebody ought to tell the TV stations there’s a no-fly-zone over the Prtizker on concert nights.
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Bruce