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Friday, May 01, 2009
Nort Johnson 05/01/09 08:40 AM, 0 CommentsNot since the legendary Burl Ives sang and narrated the animated Rankin-Bass television special Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer (1964) has there been such a Christmas phenomenon as Trans-Siberian Orchestra (TSO). A late load-in had the crew scrambling at 11 a.m. at the Allstate Arena in Chicago, and with the doors were opening at 3 p.m. for a matinee show, it was their next-to-last date for TSO’s East tour production for the 2008 season. TSO uses identical systems on both East… View this story
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Monday, November 24, 2008
11/24/08 04:09 PM, 0 CommentsThe world listened as President-elect Barack Obama delivered his historic acceptance speech to nearly a quarter million jubilant supporters at Chicago’s Grant Park. Thanks to a superb sound system design and deployment by CLAIR Chicago, every word was heard clearly via an Electro-Voice X-Line PA and Midas mixing consoles. Prior to receiving its historic weight, the rally at Grant Park proved to be an enormous and challenging event to cover. Ian Hunt, Director of Event Management for CLAIR Chicago, recalls… View this story
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