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The Chicago Symphony Orchestra performs its "Concert for Chicago," featuring Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 4, in Millennium Park on June 27, 2022.

Review: More than any other, the CSO’s sixth ‘Concert for Chicago’ in Millennium Park lives up to its name

June 28, 2022 at 12:20 p.m.

On Monday night, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra's moniker for its annual free community concert felt like more than lofty branding. Much more. The CSO and music director Riccardo Muti last...

Review: World-class talent at the CSO’s ‘Ballo en maschera,’ but it’s Muti’s show

June 24, 2022 at 5:46 p.m.

There's no two ways about it: A remarkable chapter in the history of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra closes next week. No, not the end of Riccardo Muti's directorship — that's...

Review: Haymarket Opera’s fun ‘L’Amant anonyme’ makes history, with a wink

June 19, 2022 at 11:25 a.m.

It would be poetic that Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges' only surviving opera is called "L'Amant anonyme" ("The Anonymous Lover") if it weren't so tragic. In life, Bologne was nothing...

The good, the bad and the windy as Grant Park Music Festival opens in Millennium Park

June 16, 2022 at 11:40 a.m.

Wednesday was a night for Grant Park Music Festival diehards. First, those present had to brave the 90-plus degree heat, which bit a sizable chunk from opening night crowds in...

Orbert Davis, leading the Chicago Jazz Philarmonic orchestra, during the Chicago Jazz Festival on Aug. 29, 2018. He will appear at the 2022 Hyde Park Jazz Festival.

Hyde Park Jazz Festival announces 2022 lineup featuring Charles McPherson Quintet, Qwanqwa and Hear in Now

June 13, 2022 at 2:08 p.m.

Like other city festivals, the Hyde Park Jazz Festival is looking a whole lot more like its old self. After a hybrid in-person and streamed lineup the past two years,...

A series of portraits in the Paul Cezanne retrospective at the Art Institute of Chicago on May 26, 2022.

‘Cezanne’ just opened at Art Institute, the first big retrospective in decades — why to go see the ‘artist’s artist’ this summer

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

The most poignant detail of "Cezanne," a co-exhibit between the Art Institute and London's Tate Modern, is also one of its tiniest. If you've seen Paul Cezanne's works on display...

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Review: More than any other, the CSO’s sixth ‘Concert for Chicago’ in Millennium Park lives up to its name

Review: World-class talent at the CSO’s ‘Ballo en maschera,’ but it’s Muti’s show

Review: Haymarket Opera’s fun ‘L’Amant anonyme’ makes history, with a wink

The good, the bad and the windy as Grant Park Music Festival opens in Millennium Park

Hyde Park Jazz Festival announces 2022 lineup featuring Charles McPherson Quintet, Qwanqwa and Hear in Now

‘Cezanne’ just opened at Art Institute, the first big retrospective in decades — why to go see the ‘artist’s artist’ this summer

100 years ago, Louis Armstrong arrived in Chicago. What happened next would change jazz forever.

Review: ‘Salonen Conducts Daphnis and Chloe’ at the CSO: Looking forward by glancing backwards

Field Museum’s new ‘Native Truths’ exhibit shifts the narrative where it belongs: straight to Indigenous people

Review: CSO’s MusicNOW season wraps with a riveting ‘Concerto’ program — including an electric guitar concerto