'Godfather concert' out of character

'Godfather concert' out of character

Symphony Hall recently featured a Godfather concert highlighting the movie's musical score against projected movie clips of the movie.

Most people would conclude that Chicago's historic Symphony Hall was dedicated to memorialize the music of the world's great composers but not as a venue for Hollywood's commercialism.

Even stranger is the fact that the Godfather's music was the result of the musical annotation early Italians developed and played on the many orchestral instruments they also developed but in this case used to memorialize a fictional Italian-American mobster.

This presentation also went against the memory of all the world's classical composers who all too often lived at the poverty level, dying as paupers, to create the music that lives on today.

One would hope that Symphony Hall will not next give us the great American strip tease music replete with a chorus line of strippers.

Walter Santi

Bloomingdale