Chandra Greer / GREERChicago

Some of the black bunting that covered Lucerne, a Chicago sister city, where I was with my family on 9/11. The Chicago Symphony Orchestra was scheduled to play at the Lucerne Festival just a few hours later. The orchestra, though obviously distraught and far from home, decided not to cancel the concert; instead, they used it to acknowledge the unthinkable. Music Director Daniel Barenboim spoke to the audience about how music can capture feelings that words cannot, and they opened with the Star Spangled Banner.