CSO Experience: Laurie Lieberman Proud to be a Third-Generation CSO Subscriber

Like many of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s longtime audience members, Laurie Frank Lieberman first encountered the ensemble through its concerts for children; she attended them on Saturday afternoons with her siblings and mother, who was an opera singer. “It was always an exciting time,” Lieberman recalled in a recent interview. “I always loved the music.”

After Lieberman got married in 1959, her grandmother and mother invited her to join them in attending Friday matinee subscription concerts. During the years when she was raising children, these performances were a “respite” — “my Friday afternoons of calm and relaxation,” she said.