Hannah Edgar

A gamechanger on the city scene when it launched in 1994, Symphony Center's esteemed jazz series celebrates its 30th season this year. Its opening headliner, last Friday? She turns 24...

When did "fun" become such a dirty word in classical music? "Fun" attaches itself to kids' or pops concerts, or a slapstick opera staging, long before it would get pinned...

While booting up Zoom to talk to actor John Malkovich and classical-music humorist Aleksey Igudesman about "The Music Critic," a musical-theatrical sendup of scowling, grumbling ink slingers everywhere, I was,...

The leaves haven't even changed, and the Chicago Symphony has already given us one of its can't-miss billings of the season. On paper, this weekend's cycle has two big draws....

The Chicago Symphony is off to Italy. Musically, that is. Physically, the orchestra doesn't travel to the homeland of its former music director, Riccardo Muti, until January, the grand finale...

Had it not been the first day of the 17th annual Hyde Park Jazz Festival, Sept. 23 still would have been a big day for jazz fans. During his set...

Poor Anatoly Lyadov. If you're thinking "Who?," that's about right. The Russian composer was the Ballets Russes' first choice to write music for a choreographic retelling of the Firebird, a...

The opening bars of Wagner's "The Flying Dutchman" are as visceral as they come in opera: the icy zing of tremolo strings, then a full-chested, loping brass chorale. For hearing...

Hope you've rested up from Chicago Jazz Fest, because that was just the beginning. From the Englewood Jazz Fest, just around the corner, to Kurt Rosenwinkel at the Jazz Showcase,...