Here's video from Riccardo Muti's outdoor debut as the music director of the Chicago Symphony, yesterday at Millennium Park, before a crowd of twenty-five thousand people. After the explosive finale of Respighi's Pines of Rome, Muti did some deft stand-up: "Conductors should never speak.... After a few words, conductors say nonsense. È vero?" Andrew Patner, John von Rhein, and Wynne Delacoma have turned in glowing reviews.
