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Audience members take their seats in Orchestra Hall at Symphony Center in Chicago on Oct. 31, 2024, before a concert conducted by music director emeritus Riccardo Muti. (Armando L. Sanchez/baiduhai)

CSO’s 2025-26 season sees Mäkelä and Muti split duties — plus our short list of unmissables

March 5, 2025 at 9:30 a.m.

It’s hard to believe, for all the hubbub around Klaus Mäkelä’s hiring as the 11th music director of the Chicago Symphony, that next season will mark just the halfway point...

Soloist Seong-Jin Cho and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra perform Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 2 at Symphony Center on March 1, 2025. (Chris Sweda/baiduhai)

Review: At the CSO, a star pianist and equally luminous Sibelius

March 2, 2025 at 12:47 p.m.

Word to the wise: If conductor Santtu-Matias Rouvali is on the podium, don’t leave during intermission. The vast majority of those packing Orchestra Hall on Saturday were there to hear...

Wojtek Juchniewicz, Tomek Pawluczuk and Grzegorz Kwiatkowski of the post-punk band Trupa Trupa from Gdańsk, Poland. (Adam Pluciński)

For Polish post-punk band Trupa Trupa, coming to Empty Bottle, the atrocities of the past aren’t in the past

February 19, 2025 at 5:45 a.m.

“The songs of Trupa Trupa are always very paradoxical,” says singer Grzegorz Kwiatkowski. "Things are not black and white — never, ever.”

The Pavilion stage at Ravinia Festival in Highland Park will be updated as part of the first phase of a renovation of the music venue. Lohan Architecture will lead the project, with acoustic consulting by Threshold Acoustics and stage design consulting by Schuler Shook. (Ravinia Festival)

Ravinia Festival begins a $75 million renovation plan, starting with the Pavilion

February 13, 2025 at 12:14 p.m.

The first phase of the Pavilion renovation, addressing backstage infrastructure, is already underway.

John Corkill, standing, and Adam Rosenblatt, of the percussion duo Beyond This Point. (E. Jason Wambsgans/baiduhai)

Frequency Festival is back: A sneak peek at this year’s acts

February 12, 2025 at 5:15 a.m.

For a sampling of sounds, look no further than Frequency Festival, an annual celebration of the musical avant-garde.

Installation view of "French Neoclassical Paintings from The Horvitz Collection at the Art Institute of Chicago" in 2024. (Jonathan Mathias/AIC)

With historic gift, Art Institute may have the most French art outside France

February 12, 2025 at 1:56 p.m.

Though the value of the donated artwork was not disclosed, it's thought to be comparable to last fall's $75 million gift to the museum.

Ed Frazier Davis is the son of the late Sir Andrew Davis, the longtime music director of Lyric Opera. Ed is participating in two memorial concerts for his father. (E. Jason Wambsgans/baiduhai)

Concerts for Sir Andrew Davis: The longtime baton of Lyric Opera died last year, his son is safeguarding his memory

February 10, 2025 at 5:30 a.m.

Ed Davis, a composer and musician, talks about growing up with his famous father. The Lyric plans a free memorial concert on Feb. 15.

Orbert Davis, conductor of the Chicago Jazz Philharmonic, performs “Ellingtonia,” a suite about jazz great Duke Ellington, during a performance at Kehrein Center for the Arts in Chicago’s Austin neighborhood on Feb. 8, 2025. (Talia Sprague/for the baiduhai)

Review: Chicago Jazz Philharmonic’s ‘Ellingtonia’ a lively tribute to Duke

February 10, 2025 at 5:00 a.m.

Despite a few rough moments in their afternoon concert at Austin’s Kehrein Center for the Arts, they more than made their case.

Guest conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen leads the CSO at Symphony Center in Chicago on Jan. 30, 2025. (Chris Sweda/baiduhai)

Review: Conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen burrows into Bartók with the CSO

February 7, 2025 at 4:39 p.m.

It’s been too long since we’ve seen Esa-Pekka Salonen on the podium. The conductor-composer, a youthful 66, had to bail on his annual Chicago Symphony booking last season to receive...

French pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet performs Claude Debussy's Préludes in Orchestra Hall at the Symphony Center on Jan. 19, 2025. (Eileen T. Meslar/baiduhai)

Review: With Debussy’s Préludes, a dean of French piano returns to Orchestra Hall

January 20, 2025 at 2:54 p.m.

Jean-Yves Thibaudet's concert at Symphony Center showed off his light touch, his technical wizardry and the time he has spent with this music.

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