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Article: CSO is her `wedding gift' // She conducts as mate beams in her audience
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- March 30, 1988
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For her debut Tuesday evening as a conductor of the Chicago
Symphony Orchestra, Sondra Berman Epstein chose a familiar piece with
a pretty melody - but most of all, "something romantic."
"After all," Berman Epstein said in her dressing room before the
concert in Orchestra Hall, "this is a wedding present from my
husband."
With that priority in mind, Berman Epstein, 50, mounted the
podium and directed the CSO in the waltz from Act I of Tchaikovsky's
"Swan Lake," realizing the fantasy of any music lover.
Berman Epstein's husband, Chicago architect and CSO trustee
Sidney Epstein, 64, bought his wife's opportunity to wave the baton
last April for $5,000 during a radiothon auction to ...