Chicago entertainment jounalist, Terry Armour, featured Music Director, James Conlon, in his Chicago Tribune Sunday entertainment feature (7.9.2006). Describing Conlon's new haircut, Armour says "You may notice that James Conlon's once long locks are much shorter." He explains the surprise hairstyle: "Filmmaker Kenneth Branagh asked Conlon to cut his hair for his walk-on part as a soldier in Branagh's adaptation of Mozart's The Magic Flute." Conlon was recently on location in England, where he conducted the movie's score.On Wednesday, June 28, Maestro Conlon participated in an online chat hosted by Chicago Classical Music, the online classical music forum hosted by the Arts and Business Council of Chicago. He discussed in detail his "Breaking the Silence" series, a multiyear series of concerts that feature music suppressed by the Third Reich, and Shostakovich's Symphonies. Visit www.chicagoclassicalmusic.org to view a transcript of the chat.
-Justin Brown, Communications Associate
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