Sergio Mims: 'I sincerely hope that the Chicago Sinfonietta will reconsider its decision'

Sergio A. Mims

Sergio A. Mims writes on the Chicago Sinfonietta and the Symphony in E of Florence B. Price:

Here's my response:

This is a sad and quite obviously desperate attempt in the hopes of attracting a younger audience when it will, if fact, have the opposite effect.

People instinctively know when they are being pandered to and, as always, they reject it. Music should be allowed to breathe and exist in its own original form and whenever music is presented in that way will people come.

I sincerely hope that the Chicago Sinfonietta will reconsider it's decision and present Florence Price's remarkable and beautiful music in the way in which it was conceived.

Sergio Mims

WHPK-FM Chicago