Howard Reich

If you're a singer-composer who believes passionately in women's rights and have a mother-in-law named Ruth Bader Ginsburg, it's clear what you need to do: Write and perform a song...

Stravinsky produced the most fireworks, but Mozart yielded the greatest sense of mystery Friday night in Orchestra Hall. In both instances, though, Chicago Symphony Orchestra music director Riccardo Muti reaffirmed...

Though jazz clubs remain the prime arena for innovation in the music, concert halls play a vital role. That has been true since at least 1924, when George Gershwin startled...

What happens when a great orchestra returns to the stage after a painful, costly and bitter seven-week strike? Catharsis. That's what both the music and the audience buzz conveyed Thursday...

For more than seven weeks, Orchestra Hall has been dark and silent, the grand old auditorium stilled by the longest strike in Chicago Symphony Orchestra history. But that difficult period...

Cellist Tomeka Reid ardently believes that string players can bring new sounds to jazz — but don't often get to. Which is why she created the Chicago Jazz String Summit,...

Since its inception more than three decades ago, the Chicago Sinfonietta has been at the forefront of redefining what a symphony orchestra can and should do. The European model of...

The longest strike in Chicago Symphony Orchestra history – which ended Saturday evening – showed the world seven weeks of picket lines, accusations, counter-accusations, dueling press conferences and other forms...

For the past seven weeks, the musicians of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra had been on strike over two issues above all: salary and pension. The musicians voted unanimously Saturday afternoon...