Hannah Edgar

After Friday night's concert, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra announced the formal title it's bestowing upon music director Riccardo Muti beginning next season, when he leads the orchestra's season-opening engagements and...

Thursday was Ramsey Lewis Day in Chicago. At least 8,500 concertgoers likely already thought of it as such when they gathered in Grant Park for a concert tribute to the...

It's not arrivederci just yet. On Friday, the CSO made official what most already knew, or have assumed: Though his tenure as the orchestra's music director formally ends this month,...

It's always something on Grant Park's opening week. Last year, sweltering temperatures and high winds made an obstacle course out of the festival's opening night. In other recent years, monsoon-level...

If there was ever a test of a conductor's mettle, it's Mahler's Ninth Symphony. New York heard such a trial last month, when Gustavo Dudamel led that city's Philharmonic in...

If there was ever a test of a conductor's mettle, it's Mahler's Ninth Symphony. New York heard such a trial last month, when Gustavo Dudamel led that city's Philharmonic in...

I keep hearing the same thing from all musical corners: The last two summers were busy, yes, but summer 2023 is busy-busy. This may be the first festival season since...

Had all gone according to plan three years ago, Chicagoans would have witnessed an unprecedented celestial event at Symphony Center. We're not talking astronomy. April 2020 was to be the...

It's hard to imagine Sergei Rachmaninoff getting the short end of the stick today. The pianist-composer, whose 150th birthday would have been last month, is an assured presence on symphony...