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Hugitout5 Jun 15 2017 at 4:37 AM |
It was stormy all afternoon and drizzly til 20-30 minutes in but all that did was seed, nourish, & blossom one of the most memorable concert performances I’ve ever seen. I can recognize the melody of many Pat Metheny songs but without a album or cd cover in hand can’t remember the titles live. I do know he did So It May Secretly Begin & Have You Heard the 2nd & 3rd songs of the night and right there my moneys’ worth was covered. Three - or was it 4? - encores including one where PM sat alone center stage and performed an acoustic medley that included Last Train Home and Chris off the Falcon & Snowman record. To say the audience was rapt would be wholly - and woefully - inadequate. I’m a Mays, Wertico, Rodby guy but Pat’s accompanists this time were all simply magnificent - and the man himself ... Well ... what can you say? I was watching a musical artist whom, in my opinion, future generations will rank up there w/ Mozart. Another part of one of the encores was Wichita Lineman that, given Glen Campbell’s Alzheimer’s was touching to the point that it left the audience in silent reverent awe - as moving a musical moment I’ve ever experienced and in my entire life as well. Ravinia is an outdoor venue carved out of woods with a canopied band shell seating perhaps 1000 and that half mooned by a vast meadow for picnic type viewing. It’s simply an idyllic atmosphere - after dark the place becomes almost magical and believe me, tonight its An Evening Pat Metheny was just that. By the last note of the last encore and Pat’s last bow to his admirers, I’m confident in saying everyone in attendance considered what they had just experienced not soon - if ever - to be forgotten. |
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djangocat Jun 26 2017 at 9:53 AM |
I saw Pat there several years ago with Gary Burton and Quartet. It’s a really nice venue!
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patsfan Jun 19 2017 at 11:08 PM |
Thanks ! .... love your description, almost as
if i attended , I haven’t been to Chicago in 40
years, but early in June my wife says we’re
going to stay on the river, gratis, Marina
Towers and do the city. Then I see Ravinia
with Pat is June 14 ... but, no, it eon’t work, I’m
outta luck and disappointed.
So, reading your description was at least a
nice substitute for not being there...
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