The Arts Section 05/08/21

Happy Mother’s Day! On this edition of The Arts Section, host Gary Zidek interviews the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s current Mead Composer In-Residence, the extremely talented Jessie Montgomery. The Dueling Critics, Kerry Reid and Jonathan Abarbanel, join Gary to review the Chicago premiere of a work titled AT THE VANISHING POINT. Later, composer and banjo player extraordinaire Michael J. Miles joins Gary in-studio to talk about an ambitious project that involves a high school student orchestra, choir and the words of Walt Whitman.