Howard Reich

Tears, laughter and a great deal of splendid — particularly from the female leads — launched Lyric Opera of Chicago’s 64th season on Saturday evening. Puccini’s “La Boheme” was the...

You know it’s a big weekend when Lyric Opera is opening its season, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra is presenting its Symphony Ball and two piano-jazz masters — MacArthur Fellow Reginald...

He was as famous for his wit and his chemical dependencies as he was for his music, which is too bad for anyone who admires one of the greatest concert...

Music always resonates in Hyde Park, but over the weekend it was practically ubiquitous. The 12th annual Hyde Park Jazz Festival was the reason, musicians performing in far-flung venues, from...

On paper, the composers that Riccardo Muti and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra featured Thursday night could be considered diametric opposites. For the leanness and classical proportions of Mozart’s Overture to...

For jazz lovers, it’s one of the most eagerly anticipated weekends of the year: the Hyde Park Jazz Festival. As always, the historic neighborhood will come alive with the music,...

Immigrants built this country, and if you don’t believe it, you weren’t at the opening of the Chicago Sinfonietta’s 31st season Monday night in Orchestra Hall. This intrepid organization ,...

Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 13, “Babi Yar,” looms large in the orchestral repertory of the 20th century and in the art of Chicago Symphony Orchestra music director Riccardo Muti. He first...

Chicagoans justly take pride in the virtuosity of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and the prodigiousness of its training ensemble, the Civic Orchestra of Chicago. But until Thursday evening, the full...