Blowing Back Into Town
Morris drove to Chicago, bunked with a friend in Evanston, and took up his CSO gig while deciding if he should kiss it off. In the end, the distance from San Francisco to Herseth’s position looked shorter than the distance from fourth trumpet in Symphony Center. “Bud, through his career, had established [CSO] as a brass players’ mecca. When I won the position there I thought, ‘This is incredible,’” Morris says. “But my true dream was to play principal. Knowing Bud would retire at some point in the not too distant future, the best thing for the long term seemed to be to go to San Francisco and get more principal experience.”
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She’d landed as curator of the photography collection at LaSalle Bank and she wasn’t looking to make a change. LaSalle’s collection–started by Sam Sax in 1967 when the bank was Exchange National and he was its president–is the second oldest corporate collection in the country. It goes back to photography’s earliest days (while the museum’s holdings begin with the late 50s) and is comparable to the museum’s collection in size.
United Airlines is eliminating grapefruit juice and McDonald’s meals on flights as a cost-cutting measure after a brutal quarter, but it will still be underwriting Ravinia’s Gala Benefit Evening July 28. Tickets to the Hapsburg-inspired event–which includes cocktails, pavilion seats for a performance of Viennese music by Kiri Te Kanawa and the CSO, and a postconcert dinner–are $600. Neither Ravinia nor UAL will tell what it costs to throw the party.
