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Comedian and podcaster Ron Funches spent his childhood in Chicago.

Bob Odenkirk, Michael Shannon, Beck Bennett, Ron Funches, Lili Trifilio and 19 other Chicago celebrities offer advice, congrats to 2020 high school graduates

May 22, 2020 at 12:19 p.m.

A pandemic is underway, but that won't stop the class of 2020. As high school seniors across Chicagoland prepare to celebrate under the strangest of circumstances, we asked 24 notable...

Millennium Park at Home music series launches in cyberspace

May 22, 2020 at 10:48 a.m.

The cancellation of Chicago's House Music, Gospel Music and Blues Festivals in Millennium Park – due to the coronavirus – has prompted an online alternative. The city's Department of Cultural...

Chicago Opera Theater music director Lidiya Yankovskaya will conduct two of next season's three productions.

Chicago Opera Theater season announcement for 2020-21

May 22, 2020 at 10:50 a.m.

While making accommodations for social distancing, Chicago Opera Theater will push forward with its 2020-21 season. The company unveiled the lineup Wednesday evening. Three Chicago premieres are on the schedule,...

Louis Armstrong: A jazz progenitor who survived the pandemic of 1918-19.

What if Louis Armstrong had succumbed to the last pandemic?

May 20, 2020 at 1:25 a.m.

As we continue to confront the coronavirus pandemic, it's worth remembering that roughly a century ago an influenza pandemic similarly wreaked havoc around the world and swept through the city...

Remembering the passion of Alto Madness creator Richie Cole

May 18, 2020 at 10:26 a.m.

If I had to crystallize alto saxophonist Richie Cole's art in a single word, it would be "exuberance." Or maybe "ebullience." Or perhaps "exhilaration." For when Cole hit the stage,...

Conductor Mei-Ann Chen will continue to lead the Chicago Sinfonietta.

Chicago Sinfonietta extends music director Mei-Ann Chen’s contract

May 18, 2020 at 3:05 a.m.

The Chicago Sinfonietta has extended music director Mei-Ann Chen's contract through the 2023-24 season, the institution announced Monday. Chen, who took the helm in 2011, has been widely applauded for...

Riccardo Muti leads the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in May 2019: He believes the orchestra will be able to resume concerts in some form in September.

CSO chief Riccardo Muti, colleagues contemplate season of silence and surprising ways they could resume

May 13, 2020 at 8:36 a.m.

What happens when one of the world's great orchestras stops rehearsing and performing for six months? Or more? What happens to the musicians' sonic brilliance, their technical synchronicity, their unanimity...

Terence Blanchard poses for a portrait at the 91st Academy Awards Nominees Luncheon at The Beverly Hilton Hotel on Monday, Feb. 4, 2019, in Beverly Hills, Calif. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP)

‘Up From the Streets’ documentary streaming at Siskel Film Center spotlights New Orleans music

May 12, 2020 at 9:54 a.m.

In the absence of concerts, we crave music wherever we can find it – livestreams, YouTube, downloads, radio, recordings. But music also can flourish on film, as it does in...

CSO cancels remainder of 2020 season

May 8, 2020 at 12:33 p.m.

The remainder of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra's 2019-20 season has been canceled due to the coronavirus. The Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association, which manages the institution, announced on Friday that all...

Chicago Sinfonietta announces new CEO

May 7, 2020 at 12:06 p.m.

Blake-Anthony Johnson has been appointed chief executive officer of the Chicago Sinfonietta effective June 1. He'll take a position held since 2004 by Jim Hirsch, who will step down on...

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