CSO lite

This is regarding “CSO sales have Ravinia thinking about changes” (Arts & Entertainment, Aug. 10). It has baffled me for some time why the Chicago Symphony doesn’t establish a “pops” version of itself for playing lighter fare at Ravinia, which would surely draw an audience. Most famously, the Boston Symphony has the Boston Pops for playing film- and theater-music repertoire; the Cincinnati Symphony has the Cincinnati Pops; the Baltimore Symphony plays pops concerts in its home at the Meyerhoff; the Los Angeles Symphony plays pop concerts of great film music at the Hollywood Bowl.

Is such repertoire beneath the Chicago Symphony? If so, what a shame.