Howard Reich

Flutist Nicole Mitchell appears on screen accompanied by bassist Tatsu Aoki (right) and the Miyumi Project on Saturday afternoon at the Logan Center.

Reviews: Jazz Institute’s 50th; Grant Park Orchestra’s ‘Missa Solemnis’; ‘Flower of Hawaii’

June 30, 2019 at 9:42 a.m.

How does an intrepid arts organization mark its 50th anniversary? With a world premiere and some richly deserved self-celebration, in the case of the Jazz Institute of Chicago. "We thank...

The cultural challenges of staging a 1931 jazz operetta in 2019

June 27, 2019 at 2:11 p.m.

What does an operetta company do when the historic work it's reviving clashes with contemporary sensibilities? In the case of "The Flower of Hawaii," which will receive its American premiere...

Conductor Carlos Kalmar is seen on the big screen as the Grant Park Orchestra performs at Millennium Park's Pritzker Pavilion in Chicago on Wednesday, June 12, 2019.

Column: Big screens and other distractions keep invading our concert spaces. Can we just focus on the music?

June 26, 2019 at 9:35 a.m.

Give the Grant Park Music Festival this much: It thrives on innovation. Its newly launched Festival Next features world premieres, recitals convening performers and audiences on the Pritzker Pavilion stage...

CSO review: Muti kicks off season’s end with sumptuous ‘Aida’

June 23, 2019 at 8:20 a.m.

Chicago Symphony Orchestra music director Riccardo Muti opened the season's final week of subscription concerts Friday night conducting music for which he holds particular gifts: Verdi opera. By leading a...

With a line of friends wearing ponchos to protect themselves from the rain, Jane Foster of Burr Ridge closes her eyes as she listens to a concert by the Grant Park Orchestra at Millennium Park's Pritzker Pavilion in Chicago on Wednesday.

Grant Park review: Inon Barnatan sublime in Mozart Piano Concerto

June 20, 2019 at 9:28 a.m.

The weather gods have not been kind to the Grant Park Music Festival this season, with most programs so far plagued by rain or cold or, on Wednesday night, both....

Wadada Leo Smith will headline an annual benefit concert for the AACM at the Logan Center on Sunday.

AACM gears up for Wadada Leo Smith — one more time

June 17, 2019 at 11:46 a.m.

It would be impossible to overestimate the influence of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM), a collective that rejuvenated American art music starting in 1965. But it's...

A packed house at Millennium Park for last year's Chicago Jazz Festival, which is programmed by the Jazz Institute of Chicago.

Looking back to Miles Davis and Ella Fitzgerald, Chicago’s Jazz Institute celebrates its 50th anniversary with today’s stars

June 17, 2019 at 10:00 a.m.

Imagine attending a concert featuring pianists Lil Hardin Armstrong, the former wife of jazz icon Louis Armstrong; Art Hodes, a Satchmo protégé; and Muhal Richard Abrams, a co-founder of the...

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