The CSO on tour: A high point for the Muti-CSO era at La Scala in Milan
The Chicago Symphony Orchestra capped its 2024 with triumphant performances in the birthplace of its music director emeritus Riccardo Muti.
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‘He didn’t run’: A flutist honors his grandfather, a Chicago Defender journalist during the civil rights movement
Flutist Adam Sadberry, 27, never met his grandfather, the pioneering African American journalist L. Alex Wilson.
The CSO on tour: Muti and orchestra are selling out concerts across Europe — with a crowning moment at Musikverein in Vienna
Between Jan. 11 and 29, the CSO played 14 concerts across 11 cities and seven countries — easily its busiest tour in recent history.
Top picks for classical music and jazz for winter 2024: Herbie Hancock, Bernard Rands and a tribute to three great jazz women
With the Chicago Symphony Orchestra away all January for its first European tour since COVID (yay!), the first month of the year, already a sleepy month on this list, could...
Top 10 for museums for winter 2024: Plenty worth leaving the house for
Real Chicagoans know winter is the best season for museum-hopping in this city. New exhibitions spring up everywhere, it's off-season for tourists and best of all, you can kill an...
The biggest women’s jazz festival in the world? It might be in Arlington Heights.
In a directory of jazz venues in the metro area, Hey Nonny is on few fans' shortlist. Heck, it may not even crack their long list. But in two short...
Chicagüense del Año de los Museos: El fundador y presidente saliente de la NMMA, Carlos Tortolero, replanteó lo que podía ser un museo
Carlos Tortolero tiene compañeros de oficina. Diecisiete, en realidad. Antiguo profesor de historia de instituto, Tortolero, de 69 años, "ama(ba) el México antiguo". Si no está en el Museo Nacional...
Chicagoan of the Year for Classical Music: CSO composer-in-residence Jessie Montgomery is new here, but her presence is already felt
When naming its Mead Composer-in-Residence, the Chicago Symphony doesn't expect appointees to take the "in residence" part seriously. Most fly in and out, structuring their visits around MusicNOW concerts —...
Chicagoan of the Year for Jazz: Jahari Stampley, the 24-year-old pianist who wowed Herbie Hancock, is just getting started
Jahari Stampley keeps coming back to one word to describe the past couple months: "crazy." As in, it's crazy that the 24-year-old born and raised in Austin made it into...
Chicagoan of the Year for Museums: NMMA founder and outgoing president Carlos Tortolero rethought what a museum could be
Carlos Tortolero has officemates. Seventeen of them, actually. A former high school history teacher, Tortolero, 69, "love(s) ancient México." If he's not at the National Museum of Mexican Art, which...