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Petrillo made music a job // Passion for professionalism Series: CHICAGO STYLE
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You may think labor unions are the work of the devil. You may think
they are God's gift to hardworking women and men.
But any Chicagoan with the faintest iconoclastic streak must
relish the idea - if not the person and actions - of James Caesar
Petrillo.
For 40 years, from 1922 to 1962, Petrillo ran the Chicago local
of the American Federation of Musicians. A union boss of the
iron-fisted school, he controlled every note of live music Chicagoans
heard as surely as Fritz Reiner c...
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Rites of passage Hail and farewell! The Grant Park Music Festival waves goodbye to the Petrillo Music Shell and prepares to move into its first permanent home in almost 70 years.
Chicago Sun-Times
; It's a normal morning at the Grant Park Music Festival. The Grant Park Symphony and music director Carlos Kalmar are rehearsing Mahler's mighty Symphony No. 7, sending bits and pieces of Romantic- era triumph and angst into the downtown lakefront sky. A lone listener sits in a sunlit sea of white
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Grant Park Festival a classic series
Chicago Sun-Times
; 'Music Everywhere" is the title of this year's city-sponsored summertime extravaganza. But it truly applies this weekend when two stars of Chicago's musical firmament, the Grant Park Music Festival and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, find themselves performing within a few blocks of each other.
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Grant Park Orchestra
Chicago Sun-Times
; GRANT PARK ORCHESTRA AT THE PETRILLO MUSIC SHELL With artistic seasons breaking out of their traditional fall-to- spring and summer distinctions, the presentations of indoor operas and the opening of new theaters in June seem no more incongruous than reports from the NBA Finals cropping up in the
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The Musical Bounty of Grant Park // 60th Anniversary Of Series Celebrates Chicago Tradition
Chicago Sun-Times
; Grant Park Music Festival 60th anniversary season Opening night, 8 p.m. Saturday Petrillo Music Shell Free (312) 819-0614 Boston has Tanglewood, Cleveland has Blossom, Philadelphia has Saratoga, Chicago has Ravinia. Like their better-heeled patrons, most major symphony orchestras high-tail it out
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Grant Park finishes in style
Chicago Sun-Times
; The Grant Park Music Festival, which has had its share of rainy and oppressively hot weather this summer, caught several breaks over the weekend for the final program of its 1999 season. Clear skies and cool breezes Friday night attracted large crowds to the lawn and seating area of the Petrillo
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