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Grant Park Orchestra conductor Carlos Kalmar and violinist Vadim Gluzman take the stage for a performance of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Violin Concerto No. 3 at Pritzker Pavilion in Millennium Park in Chicago Friday.

Grant Park Music Festival finale closes with a resounding message: We’re better together

August 21, 2021 at 12:06 p.m.

Leave it to Grant Park Music Festival artistic director Carlos Kalmar to make sense of a head-scratcher of a season closer: A sprawling, somewhat obscure military panegyric by Handel. In...

Writer and filmmaker Jamie Bernsein, daughter of Leonard Bernstein, looks over the lobby area of the Music Box with friend Dennis Polkow, a critic and educator, before an opening ceremony Aug. 6.

Music Box is now open at Ravinia Festival, a new space with ‘Bernstein’s Answer’ theater experience

August 8, 2021 at 11:17 a.m.

The Ravinia Festival has seen its fair share of change over the past few seasons. Last year, outgoing CEO and president Welz Kauffman passed the torch to Jeffrey Haydon after...

Chicago Symphony Orchestra associate concertmaster Stephanie Jeong receives applause before a performance at Ravinia Festival July 23 in Highland Park.

Review: Clarinetist Anthony McGill headlines Ravinia in long-awaited CSO debut

July 24, 2021 at 12:15 p.m.

Sometimes, lives are better measured not in years but in genres, playlists, and opus numbers. How else could music wafting from the radio (or a certain Stockholm-born streaming platform) make...

The cast and crew of "Il Segreto di Susanna" rehearse at the Chicago College of Performing Arts.

A new opera company? Introducing the Opera Festival of Chicago, a team of ambitious Italophiles

July 23, 2021 at 2:00 p.m.

Fire has always meant a little more in Chicago than nightmares of lapping flames. Here, it evokes rebirth, reinvention, a certain bootstrap-ism even amid daunting circumstances. How fitting, then, that...

D-Composed is a Chicago-based chamber music ensemble that honors Black composers, part of this year's Ear Taxi Festival.

Ear Taxi Festival is coming back to Chicago, free and bigger and bolder than before

July 20, 2021 at 9:16 a.m.

For six autumn days in 2016, Chicago's preeminent recital venues buzzed not with Beethoven or Brahms but the sounds of the future. The inaugural Ear Taxi Festival, a massive undertaking...

With ‘Redemption,’ filmed at the Harris Theater, Adrian Dunn and his Singers meld choral classical, gospel and hip hop on their own terms

July 7, 2021 at 8:00 a.m.

Adrian Dunn remembers singing inside the Harris Theater for the first time as a fresh-faced member of the Grant Park Festival Chorus. The brand-new space was huge and cavernous, and...

Grant Park Music Festival Principal Conductor Carlos Kalmar leads the Grant Park Orchestra in an Independence Day Salute.

Review: Grant Park Music Festival’s ‘Salute’ brings live music and happy crowds back to Millennium Park — remember chance conversations?

July 4, 2021 at 10:31 a.m.

Remember spontaneous conversations at Grant Park? They're a joy many of us took for granted, until they weren't possible anymore. Which is why the Grant Park Music Festival's Friday night...

Courtney Bryan’s ‘Requiem’ had to wait out the pandemic — now on CSOtv, it’s all the stronger for it. Because we aren’t the same.

June 30, 2021 at 7:00 a.m.

In a strange, cyclical way, the world is much the same as it was the last time Courtney Bryan was in Chicago. In early 2020, the composer, 38, was living...

Julie Nakagawa (from left; DanceWorks artistic director), Julie Tiao Ma (Chinese Fine Arts Society board director), Amy Iwano (UChicago Presents executive director), Mei-Ann Chen (Chicago Sinfonietta music director), and Jennie Oh Brown (Picosa and 2021 Ear Taxi Festival director) on the North Side of Chicago on June 1.

‘I’m going to create my own doors’: In Chicago, Asian women arts heads lead by example

June 25, 2021 at 4:45 p.m.

Last year, University of Chicago Presents executive director Amy Iwano made an all-too-familiar phone call: hashing out the COVID-instigated cancellation of yet another live concert. This one particularly smarted —...

Grammy-winning violinist Hilary Hahn will be the CSO’s first artist-in-residence

June 22, 2021 at 10:00 a.m.

The Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association on Tuesday announced a new artist-in-residence role for the orchestra, and that the inaugural musician will be three-time Grammy Award-winning violinist Hilary Hahn. The appointment...

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