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Rapper JPEGMAFIA crowd surfs during his performance at Pitchfork Music Festival in Union Park on July 21, 2019.

Are Lollapalooza, Pitchfork canceled? Everything we know about Chicago’s music festivals so far.

May 6, 2020 at 11:08 a.m.

Update May 6: The Pitchfork Music Festival is canceled. Update May 5: Gov. J.B. Pritzker revealed a five-phase plan to reopen Illinois. The final phase, which would occur when a...

Owner Mike Reed at his club Constellation Monday, May 4, 2020, in Chicago.

Chicago jazz club owners ponder when to reopen, and how

May 6, 2020 at 10:03 a.m.

Even when times are good, Chicago's globally famous jazz clubs operate on razor-thin profit margins. Their small size and limited seating capacity offer some of the most intimate experiences available...

Bobby McFerrin will return to Symphony Center on Feb. 12, 2021.

Symphony Center announces its 2020-21 jazz season: An ‘expression of hope’

May 5, 2020 at 11:00 a.m.

How do you plan a jazz season amid a pandemic? The next Symphony Center Presents Jazz Series, announced on Tuesday afternoon, in fact was conceived before the term "coronavirus" had...

Review: A Ravinia production of Leonard Bernstein’s ‘Mass’ to be broadcast on PBS’ ‘Great Performances’

May 5, 2020 at 8:24 a.m.

Nearly half a century after Leonard Bernstein's "Mass" received its world premiere – to intensely divided and often harsh reviews – the work is enjoying a long-overdue moment in the...

Conductor Carlos Kalmar leads vocal soloists Erin Wall,
Jill Grove, Garrett Sorenson, Alfred Walker and members of the Grant Park Orchestra and Chorus at Pritzker Pavilion Friday, Aug. 21, 2015, in Chicago.

Silent summer: What we’ve lost with Ravinia and Grant Park cancellations

May 5, 2020 at 12:12 p.m.

The tragic irony of the Ravinia and Grant Park Music Festivals canceling their entire seasons, due to the coronavirus pandemic, is that it robs us of music at the very...

Lee Konitz performing in 2013 in Chicago.

Remembering Chicago’s Lee Konitz, who brought new sounds to the saxophone

May 4, 2020 at 2:45 p.m.

The last time I heard saxophonist Lee Konitz, at Constellation in 2015, he was defying expectations, just as he had done throughout his musical life. Sharing the spotlight with a...

Carlos Kalmar conducts the Grant Park Orchestra and the Harmony, Hope & Healing Community Chorus in Gabriel Kahane's "Emergency Shelter Intake Form," last July.

Grant Park Music Festival cancels 2020 summer season

May 4, 2020 at 1:28 p.m.

For the first time since the Grant Park Music Festival was established in 1935, the institution will fall silent. The festival has canceled all its events running June 10 through...

Tony Bennett performs at Ravinia Festival in Highland Park on Saturday, August 13, 2016.

Tony Bennett, CSO musicians and others react to Ravinia canceling its 2020 season

May 1, 2020 at 2:29 p.m.

Artists and administrators expressed disappointment and sadness – but not surprise – that the Ravinia Festival has canceled its entire 2020 season because of the coronavirus pandemic. "It's awfully disappointing,"...

Welz Kauffman, CEO y presidente del Festival Ravinia. (Stacey Wescott/baiduhai)

Ravinia cancela toda la temporada de verano 2020 debido a la pandemia

May 1, 2020 at 10:10 a.m.

Por primera vez desde 1935, el Festival Ravinia en Highland Park, suburbio al norte de Chicago, estará en silencio. Debido a la pandemia de COVID-19, el festival de este verano...

The Ravinia Festival crowd exits the gala celebrating the 80th birthday of Stephen Sondheim with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.

Ravinia cancels entire 2020 summer season due to coronavirus pandemic

May 1, 2020 at 2:06 p.m.

For the first time since 1935, the Ravinia Festival in Highland Park will fall silent. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, this summer's festival has been canceled. "There's not going to...

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