Downtown Sound
The City of Chicago’s department of cultural affairs just took a major hit.
Vocalo blogger
Jim DeRogatis broke the news early Thursday that the city terminated 29 DCA employees – including senior programming director Michael Orlove – in an effort to transfer department functions to the non-profit organization the Chicago Tourism Fund.
Orlove is the
highly-lauded organizer behind such popular free summer events such as the World Music Festival and Downtown Sound.
The money allocated for those terminated employees’ salaries has been transferred to the Chicago Tourism Fund so it can make its own hires. Though, it is thought that many former DCA staffers will be considered for those positions.
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By Audrey Leon \ 1 comment
If your Monday evening stroll in downtown’s Millennium Park is interrupted by some raucous noise from the beautiful Jay Pritzker Pavilion, don’t be alarmed.
It’s only the new Downtown Sound: News Music Mondays series, which offers free Monday evening performances from up-and-coming national and local acts. Downtown Sound, a renamed and newly time-slotted version of last year’s Audible Architecture music series, joins Dusk Variations: A Chamber Series and Edible Audible picnic as one of three new music series at Millennium Park’s Jay Pritzker Pavilion this summer. It’s the combination of local and national acts, low key Monday nights and early evening start time that makes Downtown Sound: New Music Mondays so appealing to many Chicago music fans.
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By Richard Giraldi \ 3 comments
