Howard Reich

Some artists' lives may be too big to be contained by a single documentary film. Their contributions are too significant, their innovations too influential, their flaws too profound, their complexities...

When the Chicago Symphony Orchestra's MusicNOW series launches its 22nd season on Oct. 7, the ensemble's fabled brass musicians will step into spotlight. But not precisely in the way listeners...

The world will be celebrating Beethoven's 250th birthday next year, but Chicago got started on Thursday night. Before a large audience in Orchestra Hall, with even the terrace seating behind...

Riccardo Muti launched his 10th season as music director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra on Thursday evening with a program rich in contemplation and brightened with brilliant orchestral color. Just...

More than two decades after Matthew Shepard was murdered, his story still resonates. For to revisit the plight of a 21-year-old gay student attacked in his native Wyoming, then abandoned,...