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Review: A phenomenal sax soloist and a sad farewell at Chicago Sinfonietta’s season opener

September 20, 2022 at 1:00 p.m.

In the 1840s, Adolphe Sax revolutionized music with a new instrument — just not in the way he expected. Somewhere between brass and woodwind, his saxophone was designed for symphonic...

Fall 2022 at Chicago museums: A Greek prince helps reopen the Hellenic Museum, a Grand Garden unveiled in Lisle. Our picks.

May 22, 2026 at 7:54 p.m.

The weather's cooling, the leaves are turning, and that means one thing: It's back to school. No, not for the kids (but mazel to them). I'm talking to you. The...

Review: CAIC’s ‘Song of Chicago’ was a delightful exploration of the city’s musical history

September 12, 2022 at 6:24 p.m.

Don't get me wrong: I'm as Chicago-over-everything as the next person. But even this ride-or-die Chicagoan walked into the Collaborative Art Institute of Chicago's 2022 art song festival, with performances...

Conductor Riccardo Muti leads the Chicago Symphony Orchestra on Thursday, Sept. 23, 2021. Muti steps down as CSO music director in spring 2023.

Classical music for fall 2022: A very collaborative Chicago season ahead, plus the hunt is on for Muti’s successor at CSO

September 9, 2022 at 10:23 a.m.

Don't get me wrong: the list of things I'd rather not reprise from the pandemic lockdown is far longer than any pros that came out of it. One thing I...

Trombone player Steve Berry at the Englewood Jazz Festival at Hamilton Park in 2013. The free music festival runs Sept. 14-17 this year.

Jazz for fall 2022: Fests, experimental work and a composer’s most ambitious work so far — if he does say so himself

September 14, 2022 at 6:44 p.m.

Something funny happens when I talk to folks about the past couple of years. As a journalist, I kind of have to be a stickler about chronology: When did you...

Curator David Hanks talks about the "Capturing Louis Sullivan: What Richard Nickel Saw" exhibition of photos by architecture photographer Richard Nickel, in particular buildings by Louis Sullivan, Aug. 25, 2022, at the Richard H. Driehaus Museum.

‘Capturing Louis Sullivan’ at Driehaus Museum: 50 years after Richard Nickel’s death, his photographs still haunt and inspire

May 22, 2026 at 7:54 p.m.

Richard Nickel was nothing if not a man of his word. "I'm afraid our days of adventuring, salvaging, avoiding the cops, etc. in the cause of Sullivan will soon terminate....

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Review: A phenomenal sax soloist and a sad farewell at Chicago Sinfonietta’s season opener

Fall 2022 at Chicago museums: A Greek prince helps reopen the Hellenic Museum, a Grand Garden unveiled in Lisle. Our picks.

Review: CAIC’s ‘Song of Chicago’ was a delightful exploration of the city’s musical history

Classical music for fall 2022: A very collaborative Chicago season ahead, plus the hunt is on for Muti’s successor at CSO

Jazz for fall 2022: Fests, experimental work and a composer’s most ambitious work so far — if he does say so himself

‘Capturing Louis Sullivan’ at Driehaus Museum: 50 years after Richard Nickel’s death, his photographs still haunt and inspire

Chicago Jazz Fest: Our 22 picks for 2022. Fancy a history lesson with that horn solo?

Review: Grant Park Music Festival closes the summer with all the messiness and magic of Haydn’s ‘Creation’

Review: Kurt Elling at the Green Mill: Old stomping grounds, new vigor with ‘SuperBlue’ band

Review: James Conlon and the CSO capture some of old magic in ‘La Clemenza di Tito’ at Ravinia