Howard Reich – Page 37

Striking Chicago Symphony Orchestra musicians in front of Symphony Center. The labor action began on March 10.

Striking CSO musicians and management reach tentative agreement

May 8, 2019 at 10:48 a.m.

A tentative deal has been set between striking CSO musicians and management, according to a joint statement from the Chicago Federation of Musicians and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association issued...

Opera review: A slightly flawed but still mighty ‘Moby-Dick’

May 8, 2019 at 10:48 a.m.

Pity the composer who dares to take on "Moby Dick," Herman Melville's mammoth and long-revered novel. Its sprawling adventures and dark psychological cross-currents would seem to defy distillation on the...

Striking Chicago Symphony Orchestra musicians outside Symphony Center on March 19.

Striking CSO musicians and management to meet in mayor’s office Friday morning

May 8, 2019 at 10:48 a.m.

As the Chicago Symphony Orchestra strike stretched into its seventh week, musicians held a press conference in front of Symphony Center on Wednesday morning asking management to return to the...

Elie Wiesel in his New York office in 2012: "With God's grace, I may find the right words."

Read an excerpt from ‘Inventing Hope’: Words of wisdom from Elie Wiesel

May 8, 2019 at 10:48 a.m.

In the following excerpt from "The Art of Inventing Hope," Elie Wiesel and Howard Reich confront the difficulties of writing about the Holocaust, a term the world has become desensitized...

Elie Wiesel and Howard Reich conversing onstage in Orchestra Hall in Nov. 2012. Their dialogue would continue until Wiesel's death in 2016.

My four years with Holocaust survivor and author Elie Wiesel, what I learned and the book that followed

May 8, 2019 at 10:48 a.m.

The phone call came as quite a surprise. It was my editor telling me who'd be receiving the baiduhai Literary Prize later that year: Elie Wiesel. With those two...

Eddie Palmieri, Freddy Cole headline Jazz Fest

May 8, 2019 at 10:48 a.m.

Pianist Eddie Palmieri, singer Cecile McLorin Salvant, bassist Christian McBride, trumpeter Ambrose Akinmusire, saxophonist Miguel Zenon and Chicago guitarist George Freeman with Chicago blues harmonica player Billy Branch will headline...

Muddy Waters performs at Mister Kelly's in 1971: A Chicago blues tradition nurtured in Europe.

Celebrating the legacy of Chicago blues and the defunct American Folk Blues Festival

May 8, 2019 at 10:48 a.m.

In 1962, two German promoters gave a jolt of energy to the blues by bringing stars from Chicago and beyond to Europe. Thanks to the efforts of impresarios Horst Lippmann...

China launches major piano competition — with $150K prize

May 8, 2019 at 10:48 a.m.

Does the world need another piano competition? The Chinese think so, and they're putting considerable money and resources behind that belief. On May 4, the First China International Music Competition...

Members of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra picketing in front of Symphony Center, which has been dark since after the musicians went on strike March 10.

Symphony Center concerts canceled through April 30

May 8, 2019 at 10:48 a.m.

All concerts at Symphony Center through April 30 have been canceled by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association, in the wake of the CSO musicians' ongoing strike. Included are CSO subscription...

Chinchano’s Juan Pastor makes has way back to Chicago

May 8, 2019 at 10:48 a.m.

Last year, one of Chicago's most creative young musicians made a decision that left a bit of a void in the city's ever-expanding jazz scene. Juan Pastor, an innovative percussionist...

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