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Portrait of tenor Lawrence Brownlee at the Civic Opera House in Chicago on Friday, February 16, 2018.

Lyric Opera starts ‘fighting systemic racism’ with Lawrence Brownlee virtual concert

July 21, 2020 at 4:38 p.m.

When Lyric Opera was forced to cancel all its performances for the rest of the year due to the pandemic, it seemingly lost one of its greatest outreach opportunities: The...

Rogers Park Social sells cocktails and beer to-go from a carryout window July 20, 2020.

Chicago bars won’t be able to serve customers alcohol indoors starting Friday, Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s administration announces

July 22, 2020 at 2:27 p.m.

Chicago bars that don't sell food will no longer be allowed to serve alcohol indoors starting this Friday as part of a new effort to curb the spread of the...

Ushers gathering at Symphony Center. Can live music return there in the fall?

Column: 7 ideas for bringing live music back to Symphony Center

July 20, 2020 at 9:24 a.m.

There were glimmers of hope in a statement the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association released last week, when it announced cancellation of all scheduled programs through Dec. 23. For the CSOA...

Music of the Baroque postpones 50th season

July 18, 2020 at 3:23 p.m.

Music of the Baroque has postponed the start of its 50th season until January 2021, due to the pandemic, according to an announcement from the company. "You will have complete...

CSO music director Riccardo Muti (left) with concertmaster Robert Chen and the orchestra in 2017.

Chicago Symphony Orchestra cancels 2020 performances

July 16, 2020 at 10:17 a.m.

The Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association has canceled all its programs scheduled for Sept. 17 through Dec. 23 due to the coronavirus, according to an announcement Thursday morning. These include CSO...

Conductor Miguel E. Rosario-Vega leads members of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and the Lyric Opera Orchestra outdoors in Oak Park: Intimate music-making.

Music in a pandemic: The return of intimacy and the unique joy it brings

November 5, 2021 at 11:49 a.m.

No one knows when we'll begin listening to live music again in the ways we did before the pandemic. You know, with sprawling classical and jazz orchestras playing grand venues...

Guitarist Andy Brown performing at Andy's Jazz Club, which is now open Wednesdays through Sundays.

Chicago’s jazz clubs at the cutting edge of city’s reopening

July 13, 2020 at 1:02 p.m.

Last month, when Illinois moved to phase four of its reopening plan, some Chicago jazz clubs leapt at the opportunity to return to a semblance of normal. To date, Andy's...

Banjo master Michael Miles unveils his ‘Mississippi River Suite’

July 9, 2020 at 10:21 a.m.

About seven years ago, Chicago banjoist and troubadour Michael Miles was playing the Quad Cities at night and appearing in schools there during the day. His busy itinerary also took...

Wynton Marsalis with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra: An important new recording of Wayne Shorter's music.

The best jazz recordings of 2020 to date: From Wynton Marsalis to Adam Palma

July 7, 2020 at 2:25 a.m.

With live musical performances still in extremely short supply, recordings help us make it through the night. Following are some of the best jazz releases of the year so far:...

Members of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and the Lyric Opera Orchestra are among a group of musicians performing during a 4th of July-themed concert on the front lawns of a couple houses on Elmwood Ave. in Oak Park on Thursday, July 2, 2020.

Eager to return to concert halls, CSO and Lyric musicians perform from Oak Park front yards

July 3, 2020 at 9:41 a.m.

It was like being in a Norman Rockwell painting. On a balmy summer's evening, more than two dozen musicians played John Philip Sousa marches and Louis Armstrong classics in the...

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