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Conductor Kirill Petrenko leads the Berliner Philharmoniker in a performance of Bruckner's Fifth Symphony in Orchestra Hall in Chicago. (Robv Davidson Media)

Review: Berlin Philharmonic makes another sublime stand at Symphony Center

November 29, 2024 at 7:36 a.m.

Concluding its U.S. tour in Chicago, the orchestra attracted a classical music who's-who to Tuesday night's concert in Orchestra Hall.

Violinist Daniel Bernard Roumain performs with members of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Conductor Kendrick Armstrong in the CSO MusicNOW series featuring Daniel Bernard Roumain (DBR): Voices of Migration & Innovation at the Chicago Symphony Center on Nov. 24, 2024. (Armando L. Sanchez/baiduhai)

Review: Daniel Bernard Roumain outshone by colleagues in first MusicNOW of CSO season

November 26, 2024 at 8:59 a.m.

In a matter of days, composer and violinist Daniel Bernard Roumain is going to walk the same tightrope as many of us over the holiday season. Roumain, 53, was born...

Daniil Trifonov, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s artist-in-residence, plays a recital of Tchaikovsky, Chopin and Barber on Nov. 17, 2024, at Symphony Center. (Brian Cassella/baiduhai)

Artist-in-reticence: How a pianist of few words became the CSO’s newest ambassador

November 20, 2024 at 5:45 a.m.

Russian pianist Daniil Trifonov is the orchestra's new artist-in-residence. A well-attended recital this last weekend and a masterclass with music students on Monday were both windows into his kind of...

Music director emeritus Riccardo Muti and pianist Mitsuko Uchida take a bow before performing with members of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at Symphony Center on Oct. 31, 2024, in Chicago. (Armando L. Sanchez/baiduhai)

Review: At the CSO, two programs alike only in their headliner: Riccardo Muti

November 9, 2024 at 9:15 p.m.

He conducted Beethoven’s Symphony No. 3, "Eroica,” with pianist Mitsuko Uchida, then returned this weekend with a premiere of Osvaldo Golijov’s suite from the Francis Ford Coppola film “Megalopolis,” with...

Poet and novelist Sandra Cisneros is collaborating with composer Derek Bermel on an opera-adaptation of “The House on Mango Street.” Photographed before an event at National Museum of Puerto Rican Arts and Culture on Oct. 23, 2024. (E. Jason Wambsgans/baiduhai)

‘House on Mango Street’ is becoming an opera, with Sandra Cisneros’ help

November 5, 2024 at 7:23 p.m.

In a rare case of an author adapting her own work for the stage, the author is the librettist of a bilingual opera now taking shape in Michigan.

A Maison Félix silk dress from 1885 is displayed in The Dressed in History exhibition at the Chicago History Museum. (Eileen T. Meslar/baiduhai)

‘Dressed in History: A Costume Collection Retrospective’ at the Chicago History Museum weaves a wearable story

October 31, 2024 at 5:45 a.m.

The oldest garment on display in “Dressed in History: A Costume Collection Retrospective” dates from the 1770s, while the most recent dates to last year.

Blake-Anthony Johnson, Chicago Sinfonietta president and CEO, in December 2022. (E. Jason Wambsgans/baiduhai)

Chicago Sinfonietta president Blake-Anthony Johnson will depart in 2025

October 28, 2024 at 12:37 p.m.

He will be the new CEO of the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Foundation, following a transformative few seasons leading the Sinfonietta.

Saxophonist Charles Lloyd leads his quartet during the Jazz Series at Symphony Center in Chicago on Friday, Oct. 25, 2024. (Chris Sweda/baiduhai)

Review: Two great saxophonists and their quartets kick off SCP Jazz season, even if only in spirit

October 26, 2024 at 1:49 p.m.

Double bills don’t get much better than this. The season led off with quartets linked to defining saxophonists: Wayne Shorter, who died last year at 89, and Charles Lloyd, who...

Liesl Olson, director of the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum, gives a tour of the "Radical Craft" exhibit to students from the University of Chicago Laboratory School on Oct. 2, 2024. Displayed on the shelves are varying types of ceramic arts created by Mexican migrants, among them Jesús Torres, pictured on wall.(Chris Sweda/baiduhai)

Open now at Hull-House, ‘Radical Craft’ is a tribute — and a corrective

December 11, 2024 at 6:18 p.m.

Taking over most of the museum while it rethinks its permanent installations, a new exhibition foregrounds the settlement’s overlooked history, starting with its residents.

André 3000 performs "New Blue Sun" during the 2024 Roots Picnic on June 2, 2024, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Taylor Hill/Getty)

Ahead of his Salt Shed concert, André 3000 talks about ‘New Blue Sun’ and his jazz music welcome

October 17, 2024 at 5:00 a.m.

The former half of OutKast returns to Chicago on Oct. 21, flute in tow. The city has had a bigger stamp on his sound than most.

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