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Chicago pianist Norman Malone works with concertmaster Carin Wiesner Hoffman and conductor Richard Chiarappa during a rehearsal with the West Hartford Symphony Orchestra before a concert at Kingswood Oxford School in West Hartford.

Left-handed Chicago pianist Norman Malone — who was injured in childhood — takes on a new challenge

October 30, 2019 at 11:31 a.m.

What do you do after you've climbed Everest? Where do you find the next impossible challenge? The next dream to chase? For Chicago pianist Norman Malone, those questions emerged three...

Composer Bernard Rands in his Chicago studio: The CSO will play the world premiere of his "DREAM."

Composer Bernard Rands gets set for a CSO world premiere

October 29, 2019 at 8:43 a.m.

About 35 years ago, eminent composer Bernard Rands was whiling away the long hours on a flight from London to Sydney. "Imagine how boring that was," recalls Rands, speaking in...

Guest conductor David Afkham led the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in music of Haydn, Brahms and Strauss in Orchestra Hall on Thursday night.

CSO review: Conductor David Afkham at his best in Brahms

October 25, 2019 at 8:35 a.m.

The most stirring portion of Thursday evening's concert by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra occurred near the end, during Brahms' Symphony No. 3 in F Major. Its third movement is its...

Despite longest strike in its history, CSO’s deficit increased by $200,000 while endowment rose

October 23, 2019 at 3:37 p.m.

After this year's seven-week strike by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the longest in its history, the institution's deficit increased by a modest $200,000 over the previous fiscal year. Total operating...

Students from Plum Grove Junior High School tour the new Karkomi Holocaust exhibition Resistance gallery at the Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center in Skokie on Oct. 22, 2019. The gallery discusses resistance in the ghettos and partisan guerrilla fighters in the forests.

Debunking the myth that Jews did not resist during the Holocaust, a new exhibit in Skokie shows the ways they fought back

May 22, 2026 at 8:07 p.m.

It remains one of the most pernicious myths of the Holocaust: that Jews did not resist. If more than 6 million were killed by Nazis, the reasoning seems to go,...

Dee Alexander will re-launch the Hyde Park Jazz Society's Sunday night series at the Promontory with guitarist John McLean.

Hyde Park Jazz Society swings back into the spotlight

October 22, 2019 at 2:56 p.m.

For roughly a decade, jazz flourished every Sunday night at Room 43, on the city's South Side. But these performances amounted to much more than just another run of jazz...

Ken-David Masur leads the Civic Orchestra of Chicago in Helen Grime's "Near Midnight" in Orchestra Hall.

Review: Ken-David Masur starts a promising new chapter with Civic Orchestra

October 22, 2019 at 9:50 a.m.

Conductor Ken-David Masur is having a rather big year: This season he takes his place as Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra music director and Civic Orchestra of Chicago principal conductor. The latter...

Welz Kauffman, the Ravinia Festival's CEO and president, will leave the organization after next season.

Ravinia CEO Welz Kauffman will leave post after 2020 season

October 19, 2019 at 3:49 p.m.

Welz Kauffman, president and CEO of the Ravinia Festival in Highland Park, will leave the institution after the 2020 season, the festival announced Saturday. When Kauffman steps down, he will...

Thaddeus Tukes performs with the Chicago Jazz Philharmonic during the Chicago Jazz Festival in 2018.

Jazz review: Chicagoan Thaddeus Tukes celebrates ‘Let’s Vibe’ at Green Mill

October 19, 2019 at 9:46 a.m.

There was a celebratory air at the Green Mill Jazz Club on Friday night, and not only because Chicago vibraphonist Thaddeus Tukes was marking the release of his third album,...

Chicago Symphony Orchestra review: The genius of Argentine tango master Astor Piazzolla

October 18, 2019 at 11:21 a.m.

The Chicago Symphony Orchestra doesn't address music of Latin America nearly often enough, so Thursday night's program amounted to a welcome – if brief – corrective. The focal point was...

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