Hannah Edgar

You could say the latter-day Freedom Riders, a band formed at this year’s NYC Winter Jazzfest, is keeping the activists’ memory alive through their name. But, as the Riders stressed...

Pairing Sibelius’s elliptical Symphony No. 7 and Shostakovich’s epic Symphony No. 4 was an inspired move. But the maximalist Mahler No. 9 was less so.

“You know you’re getting old,” saxophonist Joshua Redman told a Rockefeller Chapel crowd on Saturday, “when you’re twice as old as the festivals you play.”

The opening night concert marked Hahn’s first appearance with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra since 2023. Judging by the fervent onstage applause, the reunion was eagerly anticipated by audiences and orchestra...

Also over a memorable weekend in Millennium Park, pianist Robert Glasper, trumpeter Ella Grace and a mayoral proclamation.

Classics, yes, but it was the 21st century works that reigned in a season-capping concert by conductor Giancarlo Guerrero and the Grant Park Orchestra and Chorus in Millennium Park.