The Score | In the Game

This fall orchestras from the hometowns of the Chicago Cubs and the Cleveland Indians cheered on their teams during the World Series. A week before the series began, Riccardo Muti and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra recorded a spirited “Take Me Out to the Ballgame” and uploaded it to the CSO’s YouTube page. The Cleveland Orchestra also made a “good luck” video (John Williams’s “Superman March” from Superman), and eight Cleveland Orchestra musicians played the National Anthem at the start of the seventh and final game of the series in Cleveland. Elsewhere in orchestras-and-pro-sports news: the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra played the National Anthem and during the halftime show before a crowd of 80,000 at the Green Bay Packers’ October 20 game against the Chicago Bears, at Green Bay’s Lambeau Field, the orchestra’s first time playing there.