A big finish for this year’s Chicago Latino Music Festival
How fitting that the grand finale of this year’s Chicago Latino Music Festival will be a free concert in more ways than one. For when festival artistic director Elbio Barilari,...
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Reviews: An impassioned ‘Iolanta’ at Chicago Opera Theater; Perlman at DePaul’s new hall
Chicago Opera Theater opened its 46th season in bold fashion Saturday night, presenting what was billed as the Chicago premiere of Tchaikovsky’s “Iolanta,” which bowed in 1892. What’s more, the...
Philip Glass review: World premiere of joyous ‘Perpetulum’
The listeners who packed Francis W. Parker School’s auditorium on Friday evening encountered Philip Glass in three guises: pianist, composer and raconteur. Two of them were quite appealing. Glass, 81,...
CSO review: Muti confronts our violent world with Verdi’s Requiem
On Wednesday night, a lone gunman opened fire in a California bar and grill, murdering 12 people and injuring many more. On Thursday night, conductor Riccardo Muti was set to...
Davenport’s celebrates its 20th with Karen Mason
Small music rooms come and go all the time, the owners’ dreams often shattered by changing tastes, fickle audiences tastes and slender profit margins. So when a cabaret survives to...
Philip Glass and Third Coast Percussion launch a world premiere for Humanities Fest
Come Friday night, Chicago-based Third Coast Percussion will make a bit of music history. For as part of the Chicago Humanities Festival, the unconventional quartet will play the world premiere...
Lyric Opera review: A daring, 21st century ‘Siegfried’
Can a startling production with a mostly charismatic cast succeed when the lead performer doesn’t summon quite the vocal firepower required? Apparently so in the case of “Siegfried,” the third...
CSO review: Daniel Barenboim makes historic, compelling return to Chicago
Twelve years after he stepped down as music director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Daniel Barenboim stepped up to the Orchestra Hall podium on Thursday night and was greeted with...
11-day music fest launches DePaul’s new $98M performance center
When DePaul University’s School of Music unveils its $98 million Holtschneider Performance Center at 2330 N. Halsted St. on Thursday, the school’s students and faculty won’t be the only beneficiaries....
Chicago piano ‘Genius’ Reginald Robinson preps a world premiere
Few events marking this year’s centenary of the end of World War I carry as much promise as the one Chicago pianist Reginald Robinson will present Friday night in Orchestra...