Alan G. Artner

Alice Pike Barney, the heiress who maintained a legendary salon at the start of the 20th Century in Paris, once said she was grateful for having lived at a time...

Midway through "Beethoven Festival: Revolution 2012," the nine-day celebration at the National Pastime Theater in Uptown, programming showed unusual imagination and freshness of delivery. The first came from a well-balanced...

For the final program of the 78th season of the Grant Park Music Festival, artistic director and principal conductor Carlos Kalmar chose a single work, the rarely heard cantata by...

Programming at the Grant Park Music Festival is generally so far from routine that only occasionally we have to forgive lapses into a pattern common everywhere else. It's the chestnut-for-rarity...

The time travel that marks most programs of classical music was focused remarkably well at Wednesday night's concert by the Grant Park Orchestra. Listeners at the Jay Pritzker Pavilion heard...

This season's celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Grant Park Chorus brings a number of special programs, none more imaginative than the one heard Friday night at the Jay...

During a curtain call at Orchestra Hall Friday afternoon, Riccardo Muti told about working with pianist Sviatoslav Richter, who insisted that the strong accents in Beethoven's Third Concerto be interpreted...

Ludwig van Beethoven's "Emperor" Concerto was the centerpiece meant to transform Thursday's normal subscription concert into an entry in the Chicago Symphony Orchestra's "Keys to the City" piano festival, but...

Everyone who attended "The Party" Saturday night at the Logan Square/Avondale Arts Center was told right on the cover of the program: "This is not a concert. This is an...

Cellist Yo Yo Ma's role as creative consultant of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra has in the last two months showed his prowess in late-Romantic, modern and contemporary chamber music as...