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June 26, 2005
OGIC: Remotely yours
I'm spending this weekend in Detroit, where spirits seem to be pretty high, considering. Further blogging will have to wait until I get back to Chicago Monday, but in the meantime I want to urge everyone in Chicago and environs to tune in Sunday morning for a very special installment of Chicago Public Radio's weekly arts show "Hello Beautiful!"This week's show was taped last Wednesday evening in front of a live audience that included yours truly. In it, host Edward Lifson and Chicago's Cultural Historian (and how great is it that Chicago even has such a post?) Tim Samuelson discuss the music of architecture, invoking a wide-ranging selection of great Chicago spaces and asking what one hears in their presence: the Goldberg Variations at 860-880 Lake Shore Drive (my favorite buildings), for instance. The amazing modern-ragtime composer and pianist Reginald Robinson accompanies, and the conversation culminates in a tremendously moving story about the last works of two giants in their fields, Louis Sullivan and Scott Joplin, both of whom spent their final years in relative obscurity. Through this whole last segment of the show I had chills, and they weren't from the air conditioning (which was, however, memorably robust) and I wasn't alone. Tune in Sunday morning at 10 (or, if not in Chicago, keep an eye on the Hello Beautiful! web site for an archived version) and catch some of those chills yourself.
Posted June 26, 2005 1:03 AM
