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Rachel Barton Pine playing Billy Childs' Violin Concerto No. 2 with the Grant Park Festival Orchestra in Chicago on July 16, 2022.

Violinist Rachel Barton Pine has a new album and back-to-back summers of last-minute concert saves

August 11, 2022 at 5:00 a.m.

For violinist Rachel Barton Pine, it's paid to be prepared. Last summer, soloist Midori fell ill just before her Ravinia performance of Prokofiev's Violin Concerto No. 1, leaving no time...

Grant Park Chorus conductor Christopher Bell takes the stage for the 60th Anniversary Choral Spectacular at Pritzker Pavilion in Millennium Park, Aug. 4, 2022, in Chicago.

Review: Grant Park Festival Chorus celebrates 60th birthday with a light and luminous outdoor concert

August 5, 2022 at 3:36 p.m.

Talk about lighting your birthday candles. Every year, Chicagoland's finest classical singers headline the Grant Park Music Festival for a choir-forward program, under director Christopher Bell. But this year, as...

Un visitante recorre una exhibición en el Museo Nacional de Arte y Cultura Puertorriqueña en Chicago, el 28 de julio de 2022. El museo está recaudando dinero para un museo de arte en Puerto Rico en el quinto aniversario del huracán María al traer a la Orquesta Sinfónica de Puerto Rico al Symphony Center de Chicago el 6 de agosto y la inauguración de la exposición 'Nostalgia por mi isla', el 10 de septiembre. El Museo de Arte de Ponce en Puerto Rico resultó gravemente dañado por el huracán María y los terremotos posteriores que asolaron la isla.

Los desastres naturales devastaran el museo de arte más elogiado de Puerto Rico; un museo de Chicago acude al rescate

August 4, 2022 at 9:27 a.m.

Después del huracán María, más allá del arte que alberga, el edificio del Museo de Arte de Ponce proporcionó un salvavidas aún mayor para los puertorriqueños. Diseñado por el arquitecto...

A visitor tours an exhibit at the National Museum of Puerto Rican Arts and Culture in Chicago on July 28, 2022. The museum is raising money for an art museum in Puerto Rico on the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Maria by bringing the Puerto Rico Symphony Orchestra to Chicago's Symphony Center on Aug. 6 and opening an exhibit, "Nostalgia for My Island," on Sept. 20. The Museo de Arte de Ponce in Puerto Rico was heavily damaged by Hurricane Maria and subsequent earthquakes.

After natural disasters ravaged Puerto Rico’s most vaunted art museum, a Chicago museum comes to the rescue

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

In the aftermath of Hurricane Maria, the Museo de Arte de Ponce's building provided an even greater lifeline for Puerto Ricans than the art within it. Designed by architect Edward...

Flute fighters: Piccinini and Haefliger bring 3 premieres, 35 years of marriage and a kung fu background to Grant Park concerts

August 2, 2022 at 2:20 p.m.

One imagines most couples follow a similar script for their 35th wedding anniversary: a nice dinner and a show, maybe a trip if they're feeling adventurous. Marina Piccinini and Andreas...

Rachel Barton Pine, right, playing Billy Childs' Violin Concerto No. 2 with the Grant Park Festival Orchestra, in Chicago on Saturday.

Two years in the making, pianist Billy Childs’ Grant Park residency was worth the wait

July 18, 2022 at 2:16 p.m.

Cheers to the Grant Park Music Festival for making sweet lemonade from some bitter, bitter lemons. When the festival announced its 2020 season, the lineup's crowning jewels featured a mini-residency...

Review: CSO returns to Ravinia in Highland Park — but normalcy is something that can’t be rushed

July 17, 2022 at 1:03 p.m.

Friday was, in many ways, an ordinary night at Ravinia Park. Concertgoers arrived in hordes, folding chairs hooked over their shoulders and coolers bumping at their waists. Security was no...

A statue of Capt. Walter Dyett stands outside DuSable High School.

Walter Dyett taught Chicago’s musical greats at DuSable High School. Now, just a few of his students are left.

July 13, 2022 at 8:09 p.m.

Edwin Daugherty didn't have to lay eyes on his band teacher to know he was terrified of him. In 1960, Daugherty was a 14-year-old transfer student to DuSable High School....

Chicago Symphony Orchestra conducting apprentice Lina Gonzales-Granados in the box seat level of Symphony Center on June 21, 2022, in Chicago.

She stepped in with a minute’s notice to conduct the CSO and save a concert. Now, the orchestra is clamoring to keep her for another year.

June 30, 2022 at 12:56 p.m.

It's the stuff of classical music legend. A venerable maestro falls ill at the last second, leaving his young assistant — usually an early-career phenom — to cover for him...

Cellist Lia Kohl plays with one of her groups, Honestly Same, as part of Compound Yellow's Side Yard Sounds series in Oak Park on June 24.

Chicago, a cello capital? Meet the local experimentalists reinventing the instrument in concerts

June 28, 2022 at 3:47 p.m.

Ishmael Ali wears many musical hats: composer, guitarist (in the bands Je'raf and Errata) and co-founder of a recording space in North Lawndale. But it's his most recent instrument —...

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