Alan G. Artner

What sort of logic begins nine days dedicated to Beethoven with a single massive work by Bach? And decides that Bach's "St. John Passion" needs dressing up with a fashion...

The final concert in Baroque Band's season of "programs inspired by classic movies" took place Friday night at the Augustana Lutheran Church in Hyde Park, a more intimate space than...

Alice Sara Ott, the lively young German-Japanese pianist, made her Chicago debut Sunday afternoon at Orchestra Hall in a short program that showed an unruffled virtuoso sprinting. She dispatched a...

It's not every day that a veteran of new music in Manhattan premieres a substantial evening-long work in Chicago, but that is what David Lang did Thursday night at the...

Monday night at the Harris Theater for Music and Dance Jane Glover ended her 10th anniversary season as head of Music of the Baroque much as it started - with...

Cinco de Mayo commemorates a victory of Mexico over France. On Sunday afternoon at Orchestra Hall, a coincidental celebration expanded the field, as Mexican-born pianist Jorge Federico Osorio triumphed not...

Claude Debussy's two books of piano Preludes take off from those written by Frederic Chopin, but have titles that carry them away from musical abstraction to inspirations from art, literature...

Anne-Sophie Mutter's violin recital Sunday afternoon at Orchestra Hall was one of those events that intermittently had everything Daring, passion, detail, repose – all were there. And in moments when...