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Oh, how the mighty have fallen. What used to be a twenty-four-hour music event sponsored by Chicago’s own Marshall Field’s has been scaled back to one-third of its original conception, a mere eight hours of music sponsored by that non-Chicago department store that bought out Field’s. The good news is that what is left is still free, including a chance to here this week’s Chicago Symphony subscription concert for free this one time only (2pm, see separate preview). Other highlights include Chicago post-rock band Tortoise creating their own live soundtrack to the first and best Dracula film ever made, F. W. Murnau’s silent 1922 “Nosferatu” (8pm), a Johnny Frigo Tribute celebrating the music and songs of the legendary jazz violinist (who passed away over the summer) that features his longtime accompanist Joe Vito (8:30pm Buntruck Hall), the traditional Middle Eastern music ensemble Hisar (6:15pm Grainger Ballroom), the Chicago mariachi band Perla de Mexico complete with costumes and dancers (3:45pm outdoors) and a sing-along with the Civic Orchestra, the training orchestra of the CSO (5pm), which will include the finale to the Beethoven Ninth Symphony and choruses from Handel’s “Messiah” with local high-school choruses on hand. (Dennis Polkow)
Saturday, October 13 at Symphony Center
