“At Tuesday night’s packed Chicago Symphony Orchestra town meeting, the dominant tone was exceedingly civil — more akin to placid chamber music than a crashing symphony. The gathering at Symphony Center’s Buntrock Hall was called to let the public sound off on the CSO’s search for a new music director to replace Daniel Barenboim after the 2005-06 season. … Many had specific names in mind — Pinchas Zukerman, Erich Kunzel — to fill Barenboim’s podium. One man delivered a prepared paean to National Symphony Orchestra conductor Leonard Slatkin.”