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Jazz guitarist Mike Allemana at the Green Mill on May 10, 2022 in Chicago. His latest album "Vonology" honors late tenor sax player Von Freeman.

Vonski and the New Apartment Lounge are gone. But Mike Allemana’s ‘Vonology’ declares his spirit is here to stay

May 23, 2022 at 5:00 a.m.

On Tuesday nights, the New Apartment Lounge was Chicago's people-watching capital. There was Eloise "Wheezy" Rhynes, the no-nonsense bartender who sorted out performers' tips at the end of the night....

Cecile McLorin Salvant performs at the 41st annual Chicago Jazz Festival at Millennium Park's Pritzker Pavilion on Aug. 31, 2019. In June she's at Symphony Center.

Top 10 in Chicago jazz for summer: From Armstrong to Z Fest, and of course Jazz Fest

May 20, 2022 at 5:00 a.m.

It's shaping up to be a very Chicago summer as usual — touring acts are back, capacity restrictions are mostly moot and festivals are returning to their regularly scheduled length....

Flowers bloom near the entrance gate at Ravinia Festival Friday, July 23, 2021, in Highland Park. (John J. Kim/baiduhai)

Top 10 for classical music: Grant Park Music Fest, Ravinia, Haymarket and ‘Black Panther’ in concert. Summer’s too short for them all.

May 18, 2022 at 5:00 a.m.

Summer classical music in Chicago is much more than just Grant Park and Ravinia (although those giants never slouch). Carve out a spot on your summer gig calendar for these...

Designer Carley Brandeaux explains the logistics of a dress she is making for a performance by violinist Melissa White with the Chicago Sinfonietta at her home on May 9, 2022, in Chicago. White will reveal the cocoon-to-butterfly dress section by section during her May 14 and May 16 performances.

Can fashion be part of classical music? At the Chicago Sinfonietta concert, a violinist’s dress will transform onstage

May 12, 2022 at 5:00 a.m.

Melissa White has lost count of how many times she's performed with the Chicago Sinfonietta. Founder Paul Freeman took her under his wing when she was a precocious preteen violinist,...

Jessie Montgomery, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Mead composer-in-residence, attends a discussion panel before members of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra perform Florence Price's Symphony No. 3.

Review: ‘Muti Conducts Beethoven, Still and Price’ at the CSO — the orchestra made history when it performed a Florence Price symphony in 1933. Now her music is finally back home.

May 10, 2022 at 12:30 p.m.

Until Thursday, it had been nearly 90 years after Florence B. Price became the first Black woman to have a symphonic work performed by a major orchestra: the Chicago Symphony...

Ravinia Festival entrance gate on July 23, 2021, in Highland Park.

Tickets on sale now for Ravinia 2022: Sting to Common to ‘Don Giovanni,’ this will be the biggest Ravinia summer in years

May 4, 2022 at 1:00 p.m.

Music returned to the Highland Park grounds of the Ravinia Festival last summer. But this summer might more accurately be called its grand return. All the festival buildings and food...

Donald Peck, principal flute and ‘the voice of the wind section’ for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, dies at 92

May 1, 2022 at 2:10 p.m.

Donald Peck, the principal flutist of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra from 1958 to 1999, died on Friday at his home in Chicago. He was 92. His death was announced by...

Riccardo Muti, right, reacts to Alex Hanna while performing Johann Baptist Vanhal's Double Bass Concerto with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at Symphony Center in Chicago April 28, 2022.

Review: Muti Conducts Montgomery & Beethoven Pastoral at the CSO — you can expect that ‘Hymn for Everyone’ to stay in your head

April 29, 2022 at 2:50 p.m.

When we speak of musical "earworms," we read between the lines. It is not a kind word, calling to mind something unwanted, pestilential, even haunting. Hector Berlioz rightly called the...

Dos Santos, who play Schubas Tavern April 23. Their album "City of Mirrors" came out last October on International Anthem Records. From left, Peter "Maestro" Vale, Jaime Garza Rodriguez, Alex Chavez, Nathan Karagianis and Daniel Villarreal-Carrillo.

Rockers Dos Santos tour ‘City of Mirrors,’ the ‘prophetic’ album they wrapped in 2020. They play Schubas this weekend.

April 21, 2022 at 3:15 p.m.

"Sing something." When producer Elliot Bergman issued that directive to Dos Santos frontman Alex Chávez during a recording session some two years ago, it was much easier said than done....

David Douglass and Ellen Hargis, the longtime husband-wife team behind the Newberry Consort, step down as directors of the organization in concerts April 23-24.

Before passing the torch, husband-wife team behind Newberry Consort has one more trick up its sleeve

April 20, 2022 at 5:00 a.m.

When David Douglass and Ellen Hargis first set upon their life's passion — historically informed performances of Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque music — they walked a lonely road. But for...

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