Some of us chorus types went to two outdoor performances this weekend. The first, at Ravinia Park in Highland Park, was a Chicago Symphony Orchestra performance of Mark Knopfler's score for The Princess Bride:
Then last night, many of the same people went to the Pritzker Pavilion at Millennium Park to hear the Grant Park Symphony and a lot of other musicians perform Mahler's 8th Symphony:
The only problem? Rain. At both performances, we got rained on. The rains ended early, fortunately, and at Ravinia we managed to get last-minute pavilion seats. The Pritzker Pavilion doesn't have a roof, though, so we just sat in the rain for a few minutes and covered our glasses.
But hey, how often does one get to hear Mahler's 8th live?