Hannah Edgar

In times like these, what's missing from a season preview might say as much as what's on it. For one, this list overrepresents large venues, many of which have planned...

Angel Bat Dawid had one hell of a year. Last month, the composer, clarinetist, pianist, vocalist and DJ was named the artist-in-residence at NYC Winter JazzFest. Before that, Dawid's new...

To date, Dan Nichols has never run a marketing campaign for his multimedia production company, Aphorism Studios. He doesn't have to. Musicians call him. Even before he founded Aphorism in...

If I were a betting person, I wouldn't have thrown down my chips on Hilary Hahn becoming the Chicago Symphony's first artist-in-residence. Other soloists boast more prolific histories with the...

Best-of lists are always loaded, but summing up a year like 2021 feels particularly foolhardy. Ours was a year of formidable uncertainty (sick of that word yet?) and even more...

Makaya McCraven calls himself a beat scientist, and with good reason. There's Makaya behind the kit — hyperkinetic and razor sharp — which has made him an essential fixture of...

The final track off rapper Nas's 1999 album "I Am ..." is a head-spinning odyssey in miniature: A homecoming from Las Vegas to New York City, a fiancée-to-be in flagrante...

I don't always start fights at parties. But one night three years ago, I introduced myself to someone in a way that really mashed his buttons: "I'm an amateur violinist."...

On Monday night, Orchestra Hall was the site of something you had to hear to believe: an uneasy truce between Chicago and New York City. I kid — and so...