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CSO musicians and administrators take pay cuts due to pandemic

April 9, 2020 at 4:31 p.m.

Chicago Symphony Orchestra artistic and administrative personnel will take pay cuts in response to financial pressures caused by the coronavirus pandemic. CSO music director Riccardo Muti and Chicago Symphony Orchestra...

Greg Fishman and Judy Roberts in 2018: They're still practicing together at home.

Chicago jazz singer Judy Roberts battles rare cancer with the help of her husband

April 8, 2020 at 11:37 a.m.

About six months ago, Chicago singer-pianist Judy Roberts was feeling tired and weak and didn't know why. Roberts, who divides her year between residencies in her hometown and in the...

Tribune critic Howard Reich, center, and his mother, Sonia, appear with their Warsaw cousin Leon Slominski in the documentary 'Prisoner of Her Past.'

‘Prisoner of Her Past’: Celebrating an 89th birthday amid a pandemic

April 7, 2020 at 11:40 a.m.

What a difference a month makes. Back then, Gordon Quinn, co-founder of Chicago's Kartemquin Films and director of the documentary "Prisoner of Her Past," was not yet hospitalized with the...

Ellis Marsalis onstage at Lincoln Center in New York in 2011. Behind him are sons Delfeayo (from left), Branford and Wynton.

Ellis Marsalis appreciation: A pianist who nobly upheld jazz standards

April 6, 2020 at 3:53 p.m.

In 1991, pianist Ellis Marsalis sent me a letter that I've held onto ever since. In fact, I framed it, so that I would see it every day, to remind...

Monsignor Kenneth Velo at the Shirley Ryan Ability Lab, where he conducted a Mass via telecast for hospital patients.

For religious leaders, the pandemic doesn’t negate faith but points to its importance. ‘What we are trying to do is offer people hope’

April 7, 2020 at 11:04 a.m.

In this season of Easter, Ramadan and Passover, it's important to note the outsize role religion has played in the arts. The church has given us Gregorian chant and the...

Conductor Riccardo Muti leads the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at Orchestra Hall on May 2, 2019.

‘Maestros Choice’: Chicago Symphony Orchestra launches series on WFMT

April 3, 2020 at 10:37 a.m.

Listeners who miss Chicago Symphony Orchestra concerts, which have been on hiatus during the coronavirus pandemic, will have a new way to hear them. The Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association and...

A woman wearing a mask walks near the Lyric Opera in Chicago's Loop on a quiet Monday morning, March 30, 2020.

Lyric Opera postpones remainder of 2019-20 season

April 2, 2020 at 11:56 a.m.

Lyric Opera of Chicago will postpone the rest of its current season because of the coronavirus pandemic, the company announced Thursday. The musical "42nd Street," which was to have run...

Portrait of jazz singer Frieda Lee in the lobby of The Breakers, the independent living place where she lives in Chicago on Monday, March 30, 2020.

Chicago’s elder jazz musicians are playing not just for money but for time and yearn to return to the stage

April 1, 2020 at 2:00 a.m.

In jazz, it's all about the gig. Getting it, getting ready for it, playing it, taking a bow, doing it again tomorrow night. That all ended in mid-March, when Gov....

Frank Sinatra: There was nothing quite like hearing him live in concert.

Commentary: Why we yearn to return to concerts, when the time is right

March 31, 2020 at 10:53 a.m.

For the first time in half a century, I can't seek balm in the place where I've always been able to find it: the listening room. By that I mean...

Ken-David Masur leads the Civic Orchestra of Chicago in Helen Grime's "Near Midnight" Monday, Oct. 21, 2019, at Symphony Center in Chicago.

Virtual virtuosity: Civic Orchestra celebrates centennial with online concert

March 30, 2020 at 9:20 a.m.

On March 29, 1920, Chicago Symphony Orchestra music director Frederick Stock stood onstage in Orchestra Hall to conduct the inaugural concert of the Civic Orchestra of Chicago. Exactly 100 years...

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