Alan G. Artner

The key to Thursday night's program by the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center – the first in its second series at the Harris Theater for Music and Dance –...

Chicago's first significant observance of the 200th birthday of Richard Wagner this year was Louis Lortie's piano recital Sunday afternoon at Orchestra Hall. That it also proved our last significant...

"Hard Music Hard Liquor" was Friday night's program for the holidays by Ensemble Dal Niente that brought works by nine contemporary and modern composers into the food-and -drinks environment of...

As the world's most famous media personality in classical music, Gustavo Dudamel presides over events that share the atmosphere of rock concerts, and so it was with Sunday afternoon's program...

The Philharmonia Orchestra of London made its Orchestra Hall debut 57 years ago in two long programs under its principal conductor Herbert von Karajan. One had Ludwig van Beethoven's "Pastorale"...

Sunday afternoon at Orchestra Hall pianist Andras Schiff accomplished the paradox of playing Book Two of Johann Sebastian Bach's "The Well-Tempered Clavier" in such a way that got extremely close...

Cellist Alicia Weilerstein made her recital debut at Orchestra Hall Sunday afternoon, and the impression it left was much the same as when she first played with the Chicago Symphony...

Cellist Alisa Weilerstein made her recital debut at Orchestra Hall Sunday afternoon, and the impression it left was much the same as when she first played with the Chicago Symphony...

Thomas Carlyle's six-volume biography of Frederick the Great presents the King of Prussia as a military campaigner who heroically created the moral culture of a nation but also had "a...