Great expectations for CSO
The outstanding Chicago Symphony Orchestra recently announed the selection of its new president and CEO, Jeff Alexander, the former head of Florida’s Vancouver Symphony Society. His credentials— musical, professional and organizational— are said to be excellent.
Our beloved orchestra, probably the nation’s greatest, merits nothing but the foremost leadership to notch the marvelous talents of its highly acclaimed music director, Riccardo Muti. The two of them should be an ensemble without peer, and our noble city should be the fortunate beneficiary of such an artistic marriage.
We are on the threshold of a new era in our world’s classical music environment. Bravo! Leon J. Hoffman,
Lake View
Still the same problems
The only change that I have experienced during Barack Obama’s presidency has come from a vending machine.
Lee J. Regner, Park Ridge
Did Rauner really say that?
Is he serious? Did Bruce Rauner actually accuse Pat Quinn of trying to buy the election in their debate the other night? Can you think of a more textbook example of the pot calling the kettle black? His own words are helping to bolster the governor’s claim that he is an out of-touch 1 percenter.
Scot Sinclair, Gurnee
Many reasons for a vegan world
It’s long overdue for humanity to eschew meat, pork, poultry and all flesh- foods. These foods derive from extreme cruelty to animals and they are harmful to the environment. Millions of Hindus, Buddhists, Jains and Seventh Day Adventists did and continue to live quality lives as vegetarians. There are compelling moral, spiritual and ecological reasons to abstain from meat and all flesh- foods, especially the reality that grains fed to mistreated “food animals” could be used to feed millions of starving humans.
Brien Comerford, Glenview