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Visitors take in the view from the top floor of the since-completed Bank of America tower during Open House Chicago 2021, presented by the Chicago Architecture Center.

Museums for fall 2023: Eclipses at the Adler, ghost tours at Hull-House

May 22, 2026 at 7:50 p.m.

Our section might be called Arts+Entertainment, but great exhibitions aren't mere tonics. They should challenge your way of thinking, and maybe even send you off with a knot in your...

Daniel Barenboim conducts the Chicago Symphony Orchestra during a farewell concert at Symphony Hall on June 1, 2006.

Classical music for fall: Your primer on the big concerts, names and happenings — and, strangely, noses

September 6, 2023 at 10:59 a.m.

I don't know about you, but when it comes to classical music, I'm very happy to put summer 2023 to rest. The conductor John Eliot Gardiner allegedly punched a singer...

The crowd applauds for tenor saxophonist Chico Freeman and his uncle, guitarist George Freeman, on opening night of the Chicago Jazz Festival in Millennium Park.

Review: Chicago Jazz Fest was full of legacies, new discoveries and a huge turnout in Millennium Park

September 4, 2023 at 1:45 p.m.

Funny how, after four days of back-to-back performances, the quietest parts echo the loudest. Every corner of Millennium Park was awash in music last weekend for the Chicago Jazz Festival,...

Jazz trumpeter jaimie branch recorded much of the album at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts in Omaha, Nebraska.

Jazz trumpeter jaimie branch died last year. Her final album, out now, soars onward.

August 23, 2023 at 5:45 a.m.

Jaimie branch isn't the kind of musician you talk about in the past tense. A child of Chicago's boundless improvised music scene, the trumpeter brought a blistering, fearless sound to...

Grant Park Orchestra conductor Carlos Kalmar.

Grant Park Music Fest conductor Carlos Kalmar is cleared by Cleveland Institute of Music investigation

August 10, 2023 at 1:10 p.m.

An investigation into allegations against Grant Park Music Festival artistic director Carlos Kalmar at the Cleveland Institute of Music, where he teaches, concluded that the allegations against the conductor did...

Ayodele Drum & Dance perform in Ravinia at Highland Park on July 14, 2023.

Review: On opening weekend for CSO at Ravinia Festival, towering highs and trenchlike lows

July 16, 2023 at 12:56 p.m.

The season-opening mystique is hard to shake. We want opening nights to be transformative, something matching the magnitude of a change in season and scenery. Friday's kickoff to the Chicago...

Taki Alsop Conducting Fellow Anna Sulkowska-Migon leads Chicago Sinfonietta musicians in an excerpt from Beethoven's Symphony No. 2, with Marin Alsop coaching, on July 31, 2022 in Ravinia's Bennett Gordon Hall.

Ravinia’s Breaking Barriers Festival builds on what Chicago already knows: Women composers reign here

July 16, 2023 at 7:05 a.m.

Let's hope the day comes in our lifetimes when Ravinia's Breaking Barriers Festival, running July 21-23, doesn't need to exist. Maybe, someday, women performing music at the frequency the Chicago...

Conductor Christopher Bell takes the stage dressed in patriotic attire to lead the Grant Park Orchestra in a performance at Jay Pritzker Pavilion on July 5, 2023, in Chicago.

Review: Flash floods couldn’t dampen a July Fourth celebration at Grant Park — if you were lucky enough to hear it

July 6, 2023 at 1:15 p.m.

Memo to event planners everywhere: Don't tempt fate by planning a high-profile gathering in the Loop this week. We all know what happened to the NASCAR street race on Sunday,...

Chicago Symphony Orchestra principal trombonist Jay Friedman plays one of his antique trombones as principal trumpeter Esteban Batallan watches in Friedman's Oak Brook home on June, 24, 2023.

Nothing else sounds like vintage brass: These CSO musicians are avid collectors of age-old instruments

June 29, 2023 at 12:29 p.m.

Few contest that a centuries-old violin will be more coveted than its newer counterparts, assuming it was well-made to begin with. That's how luthiers like Stradivari and Guarneri have become...

Conductor Riccardo Muti leads the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in Brahms' Symphony No. 1 at Symphony Center on May 4, 2017.

Review: A smoky ‘Concert for Chicago’ in Millennium Park closes a Muti-CSO era

June 28, 2023 at 1:15 p.m.

Riccardo Muti's formal tenure as music director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra ended as it began: with a free concert in Millennium Park. That's where Tuesday's similarities with that bucolic...

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